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For the past decade the Community of Writers has published Omnium
Gatherum & Newsletter, which chronicles the publishing and other
successes of its participants and staff.
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Past-Participant or Staff?
Let your friends and fellow writers, agents & editors know about your latest accomplishments by sending us your news for the upcoming Omnium Gatherum & Newsletter.
Don't be left out!
We
print publishing credits, awards and similar writing-related
achievements, and also include births. News should be from the past year only and not previously included in the last issue. Please compose it in third person, and use complete sentences.
Please see below for examples.
The deadline to submit news is September 15, 2008
but the sooner the better.
Our next issue will be published in January, 2008
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Past participant or staff? Do you have news you would like us to include in the newsletter? We print
publishing credits, awards and similar writing-related achievements,
and also include births. News should be from the past year only. Please
compose it in third person, using
complete sentences. Include titles, periodicals, publisher, and
publication dates, as needed.
See examples below.
Deadline: Submit news by
September 15, 2008 for for the January 2009 issue.
Email Maxima Kahn:
maxima "at" squawvalleywriters "dot" org
Put NEWSLETTER in the subject line.
Examples:
POETRY PARTICIPANTS
Bruce Bond (‘97): His collection, Cinder, published by Etuscan Press in 2003, was a finalist for the TIL Best Book of Poetry Prize. His sixth book, Blind Rain, is forthcoming from LSU Press. His book, The Anteroom of Paradise, has just been reissued in a revised edition.
Jennifer Swanton Brown (‘89,‘99,‘01): Poems published or forthcoming in Sand Hill Review, Disquieting Muses, Convergence, Tangents, Tundra and the Waverley Writers Anniversary Anthology.
Jay Laton Carter (‘96,‘98): Carter’s first collection of poems, Leaving (University
of Chicago Press), was published in 2004 and won the 2005 Stafford-Hall
Oregon Book Award, selected by Mark Doty. Poems are forthcoming in Notre Dame Review, Burnside Review, and Faultline.
WRITERS WORKSHOPS
Anita Amirrezvani (‘01): Her novel, The Blood of Flowers, will be published by Little, Brown & Co. in June 2007; it has also been sold to publishers in 18 other countries.
Colin Dickey (‘06): His work has appeared in TriQuarterly, The Journal of Aesthetics and Protest, Santa Monica Review, and the anthology Northwest Edge.
Francis Dinkelspiel (‘03,‘04): Her first non-fiction book, Towers of Gold: Isaias Hellman and the Creation of California, is forthcoming from St. Martin’s Press in Spring 2008. Her blog, “Ghost Word,” can be found at www.francesdinkelspiel.blogspot.com
SCREENWRITING WORKSHOPS
Jason Boyce (‘05): His film, Barry Johnson, won 2nd place in the Iron Filmmaker Contest, part of the California Independent Film Festival.
Deepa Donda (‘03): With Dwayne Humeyestewa she wrote and produced the 2004 short film Echoes from Juniper Canyon. Their new production company, Red Elephant, has just completed its first feature film, California Indian, written by Timothy Ramos.
Lisa Ginsberg (‘06): Her short film, Joystick Blues, had wide festival showing and Girltalk was picked up for distribution.
Updated March 2008
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