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Write Group New Year’s Update

pam — Wed, 11 Jan 2012 16:54:48 +0000

The Write Group is a Montclair-based group of writers who hold regular workshops, readings, and events. Among their upcoming and regularly-scheduled get-togethers are:

– “Critiques for Novelists” Group – EVERY THURSDAY MORNING: 10 am -1 pm, Montclair Library Conf. Room. Critiques for novelists and would-be novelists. To add your name to the waiting list, please contact Eveline Speedie at espeedie@msn.com.

– “Free-For-All (FFA) for Writers” - EVERY THURSDAY NIGHT: 7-8:45 pm, Montclair Library Conference Room.

— 1/12 - Poetry & Poetic Prose – Led by Mirela Trofin & Howard Gardner. It was suggested at our last meeting in December that we try the following prompt: “Locks.” Please bring 6 copies of a poem using the prompt, or of any poem you would like to share and receive comments.

— 1/19 – Young Adult (YA) & Middle Grade (MG) – Mackenzie Reide looks at the strange & fascinating worlds of YA and MG: what are they, where are they going, & opportunities both genres present to today’s writer.

— 1/26 – Getting organized! – Carl Selinger will lead a workshop about getting better organized for your writing … and organizing your life as well. We’ll share challenges & tips to get your act together so you can focus on the hard stuff: writing!

— 2/2 - All-genre Critique Group – Led by Harriet Halpern. Bring 6 copies of whatever piece you're working on and we'll share constructive feedback.

-- “Free Write” Workshop - EVERY SATURDAY MORNING: 10:15 am–noon - this week at Harriet Halpern’s place (5 Roosevelt Place, Apt. 4P). Last week 7 of us—Joe, Carl, Mirela, Candi, Steve, Danyelle and Jeanne—wrote to prompts: An afternoon of stupidity; Weight allowance; and Back in the fray. Free Writes are held at participant’s homes; contact Carl if you will need a ride or can give a ride.

- – Penny University – 3^RD MONDAY OF EVERY MONTH: next on Monday, 1/16, MLK holiday, 10-noon – Joe DelPriore lead a “Free Writing Workshop” as we’ll write to various “prompts.” At the Fine Grind Coffee Bar, 101 Route 23, Little Falls, south of Willowbrook Mall, www.thefinegrindcoffeebar.com.

- – Support Group - EVERY TUESDAY MORNING: 10:15-11+ am, Montclair Library Conference Room. Share your progress in writing and discuss writing topics.

- – Write Group Open Mic! - EVERY MONTH: Tuesday, 1/17, 6:45-8:30 pm, Montclair Library Auditorium – Sign-up starts at 6:30 pm. Read a polished piece up to 8 minutes long … or just listen! Info from emcee Jeanne Margolskee at jpmar@usa.net.

-- Memoir Group - EVERY TWO WEEKS: Wednesday, 1/18, 10am-noon, Montclair Library Conference Room. No “drop ins” are allowed. New members are asked to make a several-month commitment to participate. Contact Marie Shukaitis at marie.shukaitis@gmail.com if you wish to “observe.”

– Reading Like a Writer, EVERY six weeks or so, next meeting Sunday, 1/22, 7 pm, at Harriet’s apt. – The selection is “Mrs. Manstey’s View” by Edith Wharton. Download at www.classicreader.com/book/1972/1. Note: Reading Like a Writer is full; to get on wait list, contact Harriet at surewhynot4p@yahoo.com.

– “High Noon” Short Story Group - EVERY MONTH: next Tuesday, 1/24, noon-2 pm, at Harriet’s apt. Email Harriet at surewhynot4p@yahoo.com if details are needed.

– NEW GROUP!!! Script Writing Group – every other Wednesday, starting 1/25, 10-noon, Montclair Library Conference Room - First meeting to discuss screenwriting, playwriting, dialogue, etc. Join Katinka Neuhof, Joe DelPriore and others to share writings and critique and plan for the group’s future activities. Bring something to read.

–Write Group web pages hosted at scribbulations.com. Go to www.scribbulations.com and click the Write Group logo, or go straight to www.scribbulations.com/The_Write_Group.htm. Any WG member who has a website and would like a link on the LINKS page, send the details to Ed.

Write Group organizer Carl Selinger can be contacted at: Phone/cell: 973-953-0937 selinger99@aol.com www.carlselinger.com

Meet Students in Innovative Writing Program, 1/14

admin — Sun, 08 Jan 2012 22:05:48 +0000

For many, writing and publishing a book is a distant dream. Those dreams are becoming a reality for a group of students in our area by participating in the Books & Beyond Project: A Service-Learning Program.

Books & Beyond is a cross-cultural literacy exchange for students and teachers from TEAM Schools in Newark, Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center, and the Kabwende Primary Center (KPS) in Kinigi, Rwanda. The writing cross-cultures project focuses on developing critical literacy skills while addressing a Rwandan book famine. There are no books at the Kabwende Primary Center. The books the US and Rwandan students author are the only books the 2,000 students at Kabwende Center own. This year the students are writing volume four of The World Is Our Home. The series is used as a tool to teach English. Books & Beyond also seeks to foster global citizenship by promoting communication and understanding among students from diverse backgrounds in the United States and Rwanda.

Please join us at the Cedar Grove Public Library, located at One Municipal Plaza in Cedar Grove, NJ on Saturday, January 14th from 2-3:30 pm to support this skill building empowerment project. Meet a few of the students and hear from them how this global school partnership has personally impacted them. This is an opportunity to understand more about the power these partnerships can have on our youth who are enriched by learning through service.

For more information about this project, connect with us on the web: http://www.indiana.edu/~booksb/ or on Facebook at:facebook.com/BooksnBeyond

http://new.evite.com/#view_invite:eid=0271AARBSZ35RYIKCEPBFAQXU6MGJI

Dottie Frank at Watchung Books Tonight, 7/26

pam — Tue, 26 Jul 2011 13:51:12 +0000

MEWSie and New York Times bestselling novelist Dottie Frank will be at Watchung Booksellers tonight, Tuesday July 26, at 7 pm to talk about her new book, Folly Beach.

Tayari Jones to Read and Sign at Watchung Booksellers, May 26th

admin — Mon, 23 May 2011 01:34:21 +0000

Tayari Jones, author of Leaving Atlanta, The Untelling and Silver Sparrow, just published by Algonquin Books, will read and sign books at Watchung Booksellers, 7 PM on Thursday, May 26th.

The Village Voice wrote that “Tayari Jones is fast defining black middle class Atlanta the way that Cheever did for Westchester.”

Tayari Jones is a graduate of Spelman College, The University of Iowa, and Arizona State University. She has taught at Prairie View A&M University, East Tennessee State University, The University of Illinois and George Washington University. Currently, she is an Associate Professor in the MFA program at Rutgers-Newark University. She was named as the 2008 Collins Fellow by the United States Artists Foundation. She will spend the 2011-12 academic year at Harvard University as a Radcliffe Institute Fellow,

Author Event at the Bloomfield Public Library, 12/29

admin — Fri, 17 Dec 2010 19:56:47 +0000

The Bloomfield Public Library is pleased to present another in our Meet the Author series, introducing the work of local authors. Our next guest will be Children’s book author, Antoinette Gelin, author of Dream Princess, The Secret behind a Dream. She will discuss her work at 7:00 PM on Wednesday, December 29, 2010 in the Conference Room.

We invite local authors who would like to present their work at a Meet the Author event to send a cover letter and press packet, including reviews, to Lisa Cohn, Bloomfield Public Library, 90 Broad Street, Bloomfield, NJ 07003 or email lcohn@bplnj.org.
Admission to all Meet the Author events is free and all are welcome to attend. Registrations and Walk-ins welcome. To register, call 973-566-6200×502 or email reference@bplnj.org. For information on upcoming events, visit us online, Like us on Facebook, Follow us on Twitter or join our googlegroup, accessible from our home page.

MEWS Member Brad Parks First Author to Win Two Prestigious Mystery Awards for Same Book

admin — Mon, 13 Dec 2010 19:13:19 +0000

MEWSie BRAD PARKS, who won the Shamus Award in October and just received the Nero Award last weekend, has become the first author to garner both honors for the same book in the combined 60-year history of the Nero and the Shamus. That book, Parks’s debut mystery, Faces of the Gone, features the exploits of investigative reporter Carter Ross.

The next book in the series, Eyes of the Innocent, releases in February, and Parks will be at Watchung Booksellers on Saturday February 12th to discuss the book.

With the dual win, Parks joins a select list of crime fiction authors who have won the Nero and the Shamus over the course of their entire careers: Michael Connelly, Dennis Lehane, Laura Lippman, Walter Mosley and S.J. Rozan.

The Nero Award recognizes the “Best American Mystery” of the year and is named after Nero Wolfe, the protagonist of 72 books and novellas written by Rex Stout. The award is given annually at the Black Orchid Banquet by the Wolfe Pack, a literary society that venerates all things Nero Wolfe, who has been likened to the American Sherlock Holmes.

“Winning this award is really a crowning achievement in my young career,” Parks said during his acceptance speech for the Nero. “I am deeply honored and grateful to the Stout family and the Wolfe Pack for this recognition.”

The Nero Award is determined in a two-step judging process. According to Wolfe Pack awards chair Jane K. Cleland, each publishing house is allowed to submit up to three works for consideration. A panel of six readers sends a shortlist of finalists to a second panel of four readers, which then selects the winner.

“We have very rarely given this award to a debut novelist,” Cleland said during the banquet. “But our readers loved this book.”

Parks, 36, is a former reporter for The Star-Ledger and The Washington Post. A graduate of Dartmouth College, he is now a full-time novelist. More about his writing can be found at www.BradParksBooks.com.

Poetry Reading 11/18

admin — Wed, 10 Nov 2010 21:48:11 +0000

Caldwell College students host Montclair poets Jessica Dekoninck and Laura Freedgood
Thursday November 18 7:00 pm
The Caldwell Public Library
268 Bloomfield Avenue
Caldwell, NJ 07006

Free refreshments served
Contact: 973- 226-2837

Jessica DeKoninck and Anthony Buccino poetry reading

admin — Mon, 27 Sep 2010 01:33:58 +0000

Jessica de Koninck and Anthony Buccino
8 pm, Tuesday, Oct. 19, 2010

Jessica de Koninck will read from her book Repairs and other work.

Anthony Buccino will read from his book CANNED Booted bumped, down-sized, and other poetry.

Kuran Arts Center, Watson Road, Fanwood, NJ

Open Reading after Feature – free

http://carriagehousepoetryseries.blogspot.com/

http://anthonybuccino.blogspot.com/

The Arts Center faces Watson Road in Fanwood, NJ; however, it is part of the Fanwood Borough Hall property and the actual address is 75 North Martine Avenue, Fanwood, NJ 07023 (which you might need for MapQuest or navigation systems). Just be sure to go to Watson Road from Martine Avenue.

Mark Rotella book signing at Watchung Booksellers

admin — Fri, 17 Sep 2010 16:58:44 +0000

Please join Mark Rotella, Publishers Weekly senior editor and author of “Stolen Figs: And Other Adventures in Calabria,” as he reads from his new book “Amore: The Story of Italian American Song.”

Tuesday, September 28
Watchung Booksellers
From 7pm-8pm

http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/event/mark-rotella-amore-story-italian-american-song

“Mark Rotella has produced a book that is bighearted and flat-out beautiful.”
— Wil Haygood, author of “In Black and White: The Life of Sammy Davis Jr.”

“It’s a love song in its own right, and it’s beautifully sung.”
— Rebecca Skloot, author of “The Immortal Life of Henrietta Lacks”

Nancy Toomey to read at KGB Bar, September 25th

admin — Sun, 12 Sep 2010 00:33:41 +0000

Nancy Toomey, MEWSIE author and second year student in the Rutgers Newark MFA in Creative Writing Program will read along with two other MFA students, JJ Koczan (fiction) and Rimas Uzgiris (poetry) on Saturday, September 25 from 7 to 8 PM at KGB Bar, 85 E 4th Street, NYC (East Village between 2nd and The Bowery).
KGB Bar, considered one of the preeminent literary scenes in NYC since 1993, has been host to Pulitzer Prize winners and MFA students alike, all sharing a common passion for writing. KGB Bar hosts readings nearly every night of the week and also runs its own literary magazine and radio program. Please check out their website for more info and a calendar of events: http://kgbbar.com/.