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February 2008 Newsletter

Community Open Mic February 21 at 4:00 p.m.open mic

Please join Writers Studio for an Open Mic for all students and community members. Share your poetry, fiction, essays, screenplays, dramatic plays, and experience the thrills and chills of public reading to an appreciative audience. Or just come to listen, applaud, and share some free goodies. See you in the 2nd floor student lounge, Main ACC Building. Sign up sheet available at the Open Mic.

Read ACC student Lisa Hardman's account of her first Open Mic with Writers Studio: Writers Studio Presents . . .Me?

March 1, 2008: Last Day to Win a Mil--graphic of money spinning

Got your attention! March 1st deadline for Writer Studio Literary Contest in Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. Please click on the Writers Studio Literary Contest Link for details.

 

Save the Date: Writers Studio Literary Festival, Saturday, April 26

Come to our annual "Spring Resuscitation"--an all day event of workshops, readings, and awards for the Winter Weary Writer. Workshops in Fiction, Creative Nonfiction, Poetry, and Young Adult Literature with award-winning writers, William Hayward Henderson, Shari Caudron, Aaron Anstett, and Laura Resau. Details upcoming in the March Newsletter.

William Hayward Henderson Shari CaudronAaron AnstettLaura Resau

Around TownCuster into the West

Jeff BroomePhilosophy Professor Rocks the Literary World--Again: Jeff Broome, ACC Philosophy Professor, author of Dog Soldier Justice, is pleased to announce the upcoming publication of his second book, Custer into the West, by Upton and Sons, Publishers. The book covers Custer's first Indian campaign in the west (1867), following the Civil War. Using unpublished maps and military reports from the National Archives, Broome narrates Custer's 704 mile, 42 day expedition from Kansas, into Nebraska and Colorado, and back to Kansas, a campaign that included the suicide of Custer's second-in-command, and the desertion of 60 men, one who later is awarded a Medal of Honor and shortly after that is killed in a drunken brawl in Hays, Kansas against Wild Bill Hickok. Advanced orders are being taken now at www.uptonbooks.com. Jeff will be a featured speaker at the upcoming March Symposium on the Indian Wars of the American West, presented by Upton and Sons. Kudos, Jeff, from Writers Studio!

A Slammer In Student Affairs or "A Poet In Every Corner": Angela Rothermel, a Diversity ProgramAngela Rothermel Assistant for ACC Student Affairs, is a life-long poet who began honing her performance skills at 16 at a little coffee shop called Muddy's. She then began performing her work at The Mercury Café's Open Mic and Sunday Slams. Freeform verse with a natural rhyme, her works range in content from love and passion to family life and politics. Open Mic February 21st, Angela?

 

Unknown Writers' Contest: Denver Woman's Press Club presents the Unknown Writers' Contest: Deadline February 23. For writers, male or female, who have never been commercially published.Short Story, Poetry, Nonfiction. Click www.dwpconline.org for rules and entry form. Not being published has never been so good!