June 2003 E-Calendar

Regional Literary Event

***EVENTS, CLASSES & WORKSHOPS

June 5, 12, 19 and 26, Chequamegon Bay Word Affiliate. Every Thursday at 7:05 p.m. Black Cat Coffeehouse; Ashland, WI. Bring your work to share.

June 11, 6:30 p.m. Author Appearance and Booksigning

Joe Kelly, founder and Executive Director of the national organization “Dads & Daughters,” will discuss and sign his recently released book Dads & Daughters:How to Inspire, Understand, and Support Your Daughter. J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee, 394-2665.

June 12, 6:30 p.m. Author Appearance & Booksigning. Author Lee Andresen will discuss and sign her book "Battle Note", on music of the Vietnam era. J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee, 394-2665.

June 20, 11 pm -1 am - Harry Potter midnight party. Held at the Lake Superior Railroad Museum at the Depot. $2 admission. Sign up early for a 20% discount on Harry Potter #5 - "Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix." Games, Harry Potter characters, and trains. Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 722-5267.

June 26, 6:30 p.m. Poetry reading & Booksigning. Award-winning poet and Hibbing native Diane Sher Lutovich will read from and sign her new collection of poetry, “What I Stole.” J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee, 394-2665.

June 26, 7 p.m., The Running Water Poetry Slam @ The Acoustic Cafe, 505 S. Barstow St., Eau Claire, WI 54703. Contact Mike Paulus at eauclaireslam@hotmail.com (The Acoustic Cafe holds a slam on the last Thursday of every month.)

June 28, 1-2 pm, Patrick McGanley will sign his heart-wrenching story of immigrants on Minnesota's Mesabi Iron Range called "To Bless or to Blame." Northern Lights Books & Gifts, 722-5267.

July 8, 6:30-8 p.m. Tell Me About You is an inter generational writing workshop for kids and a special adult in their life (parent, aunt/uncle, neighbor, grandparent). It's led by Linda Glaser and it's for kids--3rd grade and up who like to write. Duluth Public Library. Free.

July 11 and 12, 7 p.m. "Project Lulu" will perform a narrated dance to live drumming called The Shell Game at Dances on the Lakewalk. Lisa McKhann choreographed the piece and will provide spoken-word during the show, which also features special guests, Duluth's Hillside Flyers.

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***LSW MEMBER KUDOS!

BRUCE HENDRICKSEN has an article, "Area Women in the Military" in the current issue of The Woman Today.

LISA MCKHANN's "Project Lulu" will perform a narrated dance to live drumming called The Shell Game, first at Lake Harriet in south Minneapolis, Saturday, June 28, 7 p.m.; then for Dances on the Lakewalk, Friday and Saturday, July 11 and 12, 7 p.m. McKhann choreographed the piece and will provide spoken-word during the show, which also features special guests, Duluth's Hillside Flyers.

SHEILA PACKA's poetry manuscript "In the Lake Country" was selected as a finalist for the John Ciardi Prize for Poetry, sponsored by BkMk Press.

DIANA RANDOLPH, Drummond, WI was a judge for the high school poetry category for the writing contest sponsored by The Lake Superior Sounder, Chequamegon Bay Word Affiliate, and other businesses of the Chequamegon Bay area; she also received an acceptance from the 2004 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar.

MARIE ZHUIKOV and her communications team earned a bronze award for publishing the University of Minnesota Sea Grant's Lake Superior-oriented newsletter, "Seiche," in 2002 from the Agricultural Communicators in Education (ACE) Critique and Awards Program. The award will be presented at the ACE group's international meeting in Kansas City in June.

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LSW WRITING GROUPS

***OPEN, GENRE-BASED, WRITING GROUPS

Several LSW writing groups are open to all members. Expect a different number of people at each session and lively contributions from a variety of viewpoints.

June 2, 6 pm, Lake Superior Writers Meeting Room (next to Marshall School), 1301 Rice Lake Road. This meeting will include a writing session, with the idea that each of us will be working towards preparing something we may want to submit to the upcoming LSW writing contest: "Sinners & Saints." Call Gail Trowbridge, 728 1354 to RSVP.

June 3, (First Tuesday) 5:15 pm, Beecroft Writer's, Poetry and Short Stories. J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee. 394-2665.

June 5, 12, 19 and 26, 7 - 9 p.m, Thursdays at Browsers N'etc, the Circular Muse Collective. All genres. Bring something to share. Contact Bob or Rachel at 391 4869.

June 15, (Third Sunday of the Month), 3 pm, LSW Memoir Group. Back room of At Sara's Table, 1902 East 8th Street. All are welcome. Contact Mara at 728-1253.

June 16, (Third Monday of the Month), 6:30 pm, LSW Children's Writers. Designed for both published and unpublished writers of fiction or nonfiction children's materials. J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee, 394-2665.

June 17, (Third Tuesday) 5:15 pm, Beecroft Writer's, Poetry and Short Stories. J.W. Beecroft Books & Coffee. 394-2665.

June 18, (mid-month Wednesday) Open Fiction and Poetry group. 6 - 8 pm, Pepper McGregor's Coffeehouse & Cafe, 4721 E. Superior St. Contact Jill Hinners at 525 1463. Note: on July 16 we will use a writing prompt from 5:30 pm - 6 pm before the meeting. Come to write!

Lacey Louwagie would like to start a group for people interested in science fiction and fantasy writing. Contact the_real_sedeara@yahoo.com

***SMALL WRITING GROUPS

Writing is an extremely personal activity and often times a small group works best for giving support and critique. Several LSW groups meet regularly. When established groups have openings, we will list the contact people in this space. Call to arrange a meeting with the contact person to see if your work and style will be a good fit.

A Creative Prose group may have an opening. Contact Sheila Packa, 279-3549, spacka@juno.com. A Fiction group may have an opening. Contact Kathy Leino, kayemhills@netscape.net, 724-4822

***ABOUT FACILITATING A GROUP If you wish to start your own group, contact Mara Hart at mhart2@d.umn.edu for guidelines and help. Do you like to write non-fiction? Plays? Journals? Would you like to discuss your work with other others writing in the same genre? LSW is looking for one or two people to facilitate a non-fiction/essay/ or scriptwriting group. Interested? Contact Mara Hart at mhart2@d.umn.edu

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RETREATS

JENTEL ARTIST Residency Program, Banner, WY. One month residency in rural ranch setting for artists and writers. Includes private room, studio, and $400 stipend. September 15, 2003 deadline for January 15-May 13, 2004. Check www.jentelarts.org or contact jentel@jentelarts.org to request information and application.Norcroft-A writing retreat for women in Lutsen, Minnesota is at: http://www.norcroft.org/ . Applications for residency for the 2004 season must be postmarked by October 1, 2003.

***NEWS/CONTESTS/SUBMISSIONS

duluthpoetry duluthpoetry duluthpoetry A reasonably reliable source for under and above ground twin ports poetry events and information. When it comes to poetry, they've got their hands on the pulse. To subscribe: e-mail duluthpoetry@hotmail.com.

SEVEN DEADLY SINS - Lake Superior Writers is collaborating with the Duluth Superior Symphony Orchestra in a unique competition that seeks prose works and poetry to explore the intersection of "music and morality" in a series of DSSO concerts based on the Seven Deadly Sins and their more positive counterparts. In seven performances, beginning in September, each concert will feature orchestra performances based on a specific sin and virtue. Selected writers will receive a $300 honorarium and publication in the DSSO program. Deadline: postmark July 1, 2003. For more information and an entry form write LSW Contest, PO BOX 3025, Duluth, MN 55803, call 218-722-3094 or see http://www.lakesuperiorwriters.org

INVOCATION OF THE MUSES - Circular Muse, in collaboration with Poetry Harbor, is interested in your personal muses — the writers and artists who inspire you. We are seeking previously unpublished poems about specific writers and artists who you admire. One poem per contestant is free, up to two pages. $3 per additional poem. No name on manuscript. Specify writer or artist your writing explores. Send to Circular Muse Contest 315 N Lake Ave. #226, Duluth, MN 55802. Postmark deadline September 1, 2003. Winners will be published in the weekly newspaper, The Ripsaw News. The three poets whose work is selected will share a one-hour, live, Public Access Television show. The three poets will also be the featured readers at an event at the Norshor Theatre in Duluth in October, 2003. All poets who submitted work to the contest will be invited to read following the featured readers at an event at the Norshor Theatre in Duluth in October, 2003. For more information and an entry form For information contact 218-391-4869, duluthpoetry@yahoo.com or see http://www.lakesuperiorwriters.org/musecontest.html

FLUXUS: The Tweed Museum of Art is sponsoring a retrospective of the works in many media of the Fluxus publisher and artist and impresario Dick Higgins, in September and October, 2003. His Something Else Press made the publication of many adventurous text and image works possible, and his own output, for which he coined the term "intermedia" was various, prodigious, and interesting. A panel discussion and a week of performances will center around the idea of the score. Fluxus scores are instructions for producing an artwork. The score is not the work of art, but using it one produces or performs the work of art. See: http://www.ucpress.edu/books/pages/9359.html http://www.nutscape.com/fluxus/homepage/ http://www.bookandpaper.org/exhibitions2000/dickhiggins.html Your score can be anything from a typescript to a jotting on a napkin to a print or painting or drawing or sculpture--as long as it exists primarily to create a behavior or instant or act or thought on the part of its "reader" that is the work of art. Contact Ann Klefstad, 393-9149, klefkal@cpinternet.com or aklefsta@d.umn.edu Send scores, an SASE to: Ann Klefstad, 5913 London Road, Duluth MN 55804. Deadline is August 1.

NORTH COAST: Submit poetry to the North Coast Review. Poets residing in MN, WI, NP and the UP, send 3 - 6 pages with SASE and brief bio to Poetry Harbor, P.O. Box 103, Duluth, MN 55801. (Name and address on all pages) Always reading, 218-525-1854.

MN LIT: Minnesota Literature wants essays, up to 900 words, that express opinions on literary issues and questions, or profile interesting events or personalities. Payment $50. Minnesota Literature, 1387 Berkeley Avenue, St. Paul, MN 55105, 651-698-3059; or mnlit@aol.com. Minnesota Literature is a statewide, monthly newsletter ($10/10 issues) that provides the literary community with information about workshops, residencies, new publications, grants, awards, contests, and a monthly calendar of readings.

POETRY MOTEL is seeking poetry submissions for its magazine and Wallpaper, a broadside series. Send 3-6 pages, sase, brief bio. No deadline. Prefer work under one page. For a copy of the latest Poetry Motel include $7.95. Submit to Poetry Motel, P.O. Box 103, Duluth, MN 55801.

KUMQUAT Meringue is a strange acorn of poetry dedicated to the memory of Richard Brautigan. Send your quirky minutiae of love, sex, syrup, life, and death. If there's a connection to Richard Brautigan, so much the better. Sample: $6. Three issue subscription: $12. P.O. Box 736, Pine Island, MN 55963.

FIRST SERIES AWARD FOR CREATIVE NONFICTION -- Each First Series Award includes publication and an advance against royalties. ($1,000 for the novel, short fiction, and creative nonfiction; $500 for poetry). Manuscripts may be submitted for the First Series Award for Creative Nonfiction. Postmarked by July 1. Mid-List Press, First Series Awards, 4324-12th Avenue South, Minneapolis, MN 55407-3218 Details: http://www.midlist.org/firstseriesguidelines.cfm

THE TALKING STICK is a literary journal offering artwork, poetry, essays and short stories by northern Minnesota writers. The Talking Stick is published by the writers group. Jackpine Writers' Bloc. The deadline for submission for TS Issue 12 is June 15. Submit up to four poems and prose of up to 1000 words. See http://www.geocities.com/jpinewb//Sub.html for more info. Sharon Harris, TS SUBMISSIONS, 13320 149th Ave, Menahga MN 56464

League of Minnesota Poets: 19th Annual Contest. Deadline: postmark July 31. Work will be judged by a nationally known judge. 18 categories. brochure: Mary Larkin, LOMP Contest Chair, P.O. Box 1173, Brainerd, MN 56401.

POETIC MAYHEM: Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine's Poetry Contest judged by RC Hildebrandt, the award-winning, internationally published poet. Deadline: September 30, 2003. Previously published poems and simultaneously submitted poems are accepted. All lengths, all styles. Prizes: $100, $20, $10. First poem submitted is free; $1 for each additional poem. Make checks payable to Futures Mysterious Anthology Magazine, 3039 38th Ave. S. Mpls. MN 55406. Website: http://www.futuresforstorylovers.com, E-mail: babs@fmam.biz

MOTHERS-IN-LAW & Daughters-in-law. Do you have a funny, inspiring, problem solved or loving story to tell? Send SASE for guidelines: Donna Bond, 265 Lake Valley Rd., Hendersonville, TN 37075.

SEEKING submissions (any genre, 5,000 words or less) dealing with the loss of a child. All entries considered. Proceeds to benefit organization of families of lost children. Send to Anthology, 1771 N. Bluff Rd., Coupeville, WA 98239.

SMILE STORIES for anthology: Nationally acclaimed editor seeks personal stories, reminiscences, and short essays on the experience and impact of smiling. All ages and perspectives welcome. Length: Approximately 2,000 words or less. Guidelines available. SASE required for response. Contact: Wendy Maltz/Smiling, 1849 Willamette St. #28, Eugene, OR 97401 or smilestories@continet.com

LUDLOW PRESS, a New York based independent, non-corporate publisher is actively seeking novel submissions! We are primarily interested in lively, smart, relatively compact novels, under 40,000 words; books with an 'edge.' For full guidelines log on: www.ludlowpress.com, click on 'submit.' Or E-mail: editor@ludlowpress.com

PUDDING HOUSE wants mystical, wild, and wonderful chapbook manuscripts: poems, flash fiction, short shorts, entertaining, educational, strangely, otherly, painterly, weird, but with magic doors to meaning or being in the work. Make us want you. No E-mail submissions. Guidelines at www.puddinghouse.com Jennifer Bosveld, Pudding House Publications, 60 N. Main St., Johnstown, Ohio 43031.

$3,000 PLUS publication in New Millennium Writings and at www.WritingAwards.com in our 16th consecutive New Millennium Writing Awards contest. Best poem: $1,000. Fiction: $1,000. Nonfiction: $1,000. You receive the next issue, featuring winners and selected runners-up. Guidelines: No restrictions on content or style. Send before Tuesday, June 17 with a $17 check payable to NMW for each story or nonfiction (6,000 words maximum) or set of three poems (five pages maximum). Multiple & simultaneous submissions welcome. Include name, phone, address, E-mail and category entered on page one. SASE for results. To: NMW, Room A, P.O. Box 2463, Knoxville, TN, 37901. Web site: www.mach2.com

BARROW STREET Press Book Contest for the best manuscript of poetry in English. Prize: $1,000 and publication. Judge: to be announced. Deadline: July 1. Fee: $25. For guidelines, send SASE to Barrow Street, P.O. Box 2017, Old Chelsea Station, New York, NY 10113-2017, or visit www.barrowstreet.org

CHERRY GROVE Poetry Prize: $1,000 and publication. Reading fee: $20. Deadline: June 15. Submit minimum 48-page manuscript and SASE to Cherry Grove Collections, P.O. Box 541106, Cincinnati, OH 45254-1106. Guidelines: www.cherry-grove.com

ICARUS International announces award of $1,000 to the winning entry in its tenth annual poetry competition on the beauties and mysteries of flight. 2003 theme for the centennial of flight is 'The view from 100." Judge will select the winning entry and finalists for inclusion in the 2003 Icarus literary journal. Entry fee: $10 total for one to three unpublished poems or prose poems. Limit 100 lines total. Entrants receive copy of journal. Deadline: July 2 postmark. Submit 2 copies of entries (one with/one without name and address), bio, and SASE to Icarus, P.O. Box 1232, Kill Devil Hills, NC 27948. Phone: (252) 441-6584. Web site: www.icarusinternational.com

NIGHT TRAIN'S Fifty-Fifty Fiction Award Competition! We guarantee that half the reading fees ($5 per story) collected will go back to the Top 5 winners, who receive cash awards and publication in Night Train. First prize: $150. Deadline June 30. Visit www.nighttrainmagazine.com/50.html for guidelines and further details.

A PEACE of Mind, Chapbook Expedition. First place: $125 and 25 books. Second and third: $25 and 15 books. Send 20-25 pages of your poetry. Include name, address, telephone number, and brief bio by July 1. Reading fee: $12 (payable to A.K. Flanagan). Partial proceeds benefit peace charities. Winners announced in October. Manuscripts not returned. For further info send SASE. P.O. Box 1379, Southampton, PA 18966. E-mail: AKFlanagan@aol.com

WOMEN BEHAVING BADLY, Flash Fiction Contest, Deadline: June 2. 50 writers will be published and receive one copy of the book. Writers may purchase additional books at a discounted price. Rights to stories will revert back to authors on publication. $10 for one entry $30 for unlimited entries. Original, previously unpublished fiction must be fewer than 1,000 words, follow the theme of "Women Behaving Badly". The Paper Journey Press, WBB Submission, P.O. Box 1575,  Wake Forest, NC 27588. 919-570-0728, email Wanda G. Wade at Wanda@thepaperjourney.com

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***LSW NEWS!

WRITE IN THE LSW OFFICE ---The board of Lake Superior Writers is seeking applications by members who need a room of their own in which to write. For a nominal fee, you would be able to use our quiet, well-furnished office space. Please call 722-3094.

THE LSW ANTHOLOGY, "Between Stone and Flesh," contains twenty LSW poetry and prose writers. To purchase this book, which is available to LSW members for $8, or to find out more about our contest, contact Jim at 724 1653.

We have two e-mail addresses: writers@lakesuperiorwriters.org
and a special e-mail for this calendar at calendar@lakesuperiorwriters.org

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***ABOUT THE LSW CALENDAR

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We are a non-profit organization dedicated to supporting the literary arts. We welcome information from you regarding events, classes, kudos or announcements to be included in upcoming calendars.We reserve the right to edit all submissions.

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LSW MISSION: to foster writing communities, to provide an audience for literature, and to further the artistic development of writers through workshops, readings, and publications.