E-Calendar January 2007
LSW Activities and Events | LSW Kudos | Area Events | News/Contest/Submissions | Lake Superior Writers Information | About the LSW Calendar | Writing Groups | Resources |
Compiled by LAKE SUPERIOR WRITERS

PUBLISHING SEND-OFF PARTY
Sat. Jan. 27, 3-7 pm, LSW Conference Room ,1215 Rice Lake Rd. Resolved to send out your work to get published this new year? Stop by at the LSW's Send-Off Party. We'll have publishing guides, a photocopier, a computer or two, and, most importantly, a creative and supportive environment. All you need to bring are your pieces for submission, envelopes and stamps (and a snack to share if you're able). Need info? Contact John McCormick, mccormie@yahoo.com.

LSW WRITERS’ SQUARE TABLE
Jan. 18, 11:30 am, The next Writers' Square Table will meet in the annex room at Sara's Table. Topic: Setting Writing Goals for 2007. All are welcome. Questions? Call Mara at 728-1253.

WRITING LIFE STORIES
LSW member Donna Schilling will facilitate a free 6-week Monday memoir class,
Writing Life Stories, Jan 8 through Feb 12, 9-10:30 a.m. at Portman Square. “Writing Our Life Stories,” is a community outreach program designed to offer beginning writers assistance in writing their memoirs. Donna expects the class participants to mostly include seniors. After the pilot program, she hopes to expand it and offer it at other community centers in the city and assisted living facilities and/or nursing homes. If you’re interested in attending or helping Donna launch this program, please contact her at 525-1012. She is looking for writers who would be interested in facilitating future classes or assisting in overseeing writing groups that may wish to continue to work together after completion of the classes.

WINTER READING
Feb 11, Sun, 2 pm, Lake Superior Writers reading at Barnes & Noble Bookstore: Gary Boelhower, John McCormick, & Hollis Norman. Cello music by Kathy McTavis at 1:45. Refreshments will be served. From 9 am – 9 pm a bookfair fundraiser for Lake Superior Writers will be held. Vouchers will be available at Barnes & Noble. A percentage of purchases will be donated to Lake Superior Writers. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth,. For info contact: Contact: Jill Lyman 218-786-0710, crm2098@bn.com

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LISA POJE ANGELOS: has a poem "Letter to Self Before Birth in 1964" accepted for publication in the 2007 Bemidji State University “Dust and Fire” anthology.

BERYL SINGLETON BISSELL author of The Scent of God, will be reading and speaking at Barnes & Noble (Miller Hill Mall) "Educator Appreciation Breakfast," on January 20 at 9 am.

LSW Members JIM FREEMAN, KARI JACOBSON, JOHN MCCORMICK, and SUE SOJOURNER of the Lake Superior Writer's Fiction and Poetry Group read their poetry in Studio 501, in the Washington Studios Artist Cooperative on December 28. The poets read the work of people who inspired them and then read their own work. Jill Hinners also was part of the program.

JESS LOUREY, the author of a comic caper murder mystery series set in Battle Lake, Minn., will be signing copies of “May Day,” the first in the series, and “June Bug,” the second in the series this spring at Northern Lights on Saturday, 3/31/07 from 12-1 and at Barnes & Noble on Sunday, 4/1/07, from noon-2.

LIZ MINETTE will read her poetry Saturday, January 13 at the Art Shanties at Medicine Lake - http://www.artshantyprojects.org - She will be reading along with other poets who have been published in the "What Light" Poem of the Week on mnartists.org site. This event is a part of the "What Light" publication and reading series sponsored by mnartists.org and Magers & Quinn Booksellers.

SHEILA PACKA, poet, and Kathy McTavish, cellist have collaborated on “Dear Bird,” a music & poetry CD and chapbook, with cover art designed by visual artist Marcie Wood.

MARY ELLEN RYALL, member of St. Croix Writers' Group, published the articles “Senior outing promotes fun and gardening” in November and “Organic foods, herbs, and wild game make a feast” in October in “Senior Focus.” Ryall has also been published about in the “Washburn County Register.” She has a web site, Happy Tonics, which promotes senior activities, organic gardening, and sanctuary for the monarch butterfly: http://www.happytonics.org/

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Jan 8 through Feb 12, Mondays, 9-10:30 am Writing Life Stories, at Portman Square. (See above.)

Jan 14 - Feb 11, Sundays, [5 weeks], Duluth Art Institute's Lincoln Center. Arts Intersect Workshop. Different art forms share common aspects of composition and process. Learn through crossing boundaries: play with words, images, movement and sound. No skills or experience required. Classes begin with simple exercises and guided improv, free-writing, doodling. Explore self-expression and ways to claim and sculpt space. Inspirational for artists of all methods and mediums--inspiration to see beyond the creative walls.
Lisa McKhann, founder of Project Lulu, has created mixed-art performances like "Full Moon, Arise," and "Sounding Duluth." She's also taught workshops thru the Loft and LSW, and teaches adult Modern dance thru Minnesota Ballet.
$70-$84. Info: 733-7560, http://www.duluthartinstitute.org, lulu@cpinternet.com.
Jan. 18, Thurs, 11:30 am, Writers' Square Table , annex room at Sara's Table. (See above)

Jan 21, Sun., 7 pm, Amazing Grace Bakery, A performance by Sheila Packa, poet, and Kathy McTavish, cellist, celebrating a music & poetry CD and chapbook, “Dear Bird,” CDs and chapbooks for sale.

Jan. 25, Thurs. Noon and 7 pm, Lake Superior College. A Lake Superior College Writers' Series workshop: Writing and Illustrating for Children with Kelly Rauzi and Mila Horak will be offered from noon-1 pm, in E2154, Lake Superior College, 2101 Trinity Road, Duluth. Learn successful processes and surprising insights into how to publish a children's book from Kelly and Mila, fresh from publishing “Fearless John: The Legend of John Beargrease.” To register, contact Steve Dalager, 218-733-5948 or s.dalager@lsc.edu. At 7 pm a reading and discussion will be held in the Minnesota Room. Open to the public. Reception follows.

Sat. Jan. 27, 3-7 pm, LSW Conference Room ,1215 Rice Lake Rd. Send-Off Party. (See above)

Jan 28, Sun., 9 and 11 am, at the Unitarian Universalist Church at 145 W. Winona Street, Duluth. Café Au Lake: The artist collaborative performance group will present "As the Spirit Moves Us," an energizing celebration of the creative spirit is arranged and directed by Marilyn Mayry and features music by Mary Lou Williams, Dave Winchester, Kathy McTavish, poetry by Ellie Schoenfeld and Sheila Packa, choreography by Lisa McKhann, and visual art by Marcie Wood.

Feb. 2, Fri., 7:30 pm, Somers Hall, College of St. Scholastica. Thomas Lux will give a reading as part of this year's Poets on Poetry event at the College of St. Scholastica. Author of 17 collections of poems, Tom Lux has been hailed as “one of the poets on whom the future of the genre depends.” Tom’s been a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award in Poetry, has received three National Endowment for the Arts grants, a Guggenheim Fellowship and the $50,000 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award for his sixth collection, “Split Horizons.” Tom currently holds the Bourne chair in poetry at the Georgia Institute of Technology. Free and open to the public. Refreshments will be provided.

Feb 11, Sun. noon to 1:30 pm, Book Signing with Connie Wanek , “To Sing Along the Way: Minnesota Women Poets From Pre-Territorial Days to the Present.”
Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710.

Feb 11, Sun, 2 pm, Lake Superior Writers reading, 9 am – 9 pm bookfair fundraiser. Barnes & Noble Booksellers, 1600 Miller Trunk Highway, Duluth, 218-786-0710. (See above.)

(Mondays) Open Mics Mondays at Amazing Grace Bakery & Cafe, 9-11 pm, Dewitt-Seitz Bldg. Wednesdays at Beaner's Central, 7-10 pm, Info: 624-5957.

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NEWS / CONFERENCES / SUBMISSIONS/ OPPORTUNITIES back to top

See next issue.

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Lake Superior Writers prohibits discrimination in its programs, membership, and board of directors participation on the basis of race, color, national origin, gender, religion, age, disability, beliefs, sexual orientation, marital status or family status.

ABOUT THE LSW BOARD OF DIRECTORS AND THE LSW MEMBERSHIP Member Involvement: We value our membership and encourage your involvement in LSW. An annual meeting for LSW members is held in the spring. All members are invited to participate. Financial reports and a summary of the year's activities are presented to the membership at the annual meeting for review. The LSW board meets monthly throughout the year. Members are invited to attend board meetings, review minutes, and look over financial statements.

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Your editor for this issue of the e-calendar was LSW member and volunteer Cheryl Reitan.