Tag: festivals

Writing festival to bring Kansas poets laureate, singer-songwriter to Pittsburg State

High school, public, and university students will have the opportunity to learn from the masters at WritersFest, a literary festival planned by Pittsburg State University’s Creative Writing Program in March, with workshops and readings by noted authors. The festival honors writer Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg, Kansas Poet Laureate Emeritus, and celebrates her many and varied contributions to […]

Playing it forward: San Diego Central Library exhibit an artistic game of telephone

For the exhibit “Lost in Translation,” San Diego artist Jackie Dunn Smith created a painting, right, purely from the words written by local writer Patrick Coleman, left. “What’s that saying: ‘there are a thousand words in a picture?’” So asks Chi Essary, a local curator, and arts advocate, when describing “Lost in Translation: A Game […]

Writers Jalen Eutsey and Ashley Hand share the power in the mundane

Jalen Eutsey (above, right) and Ashley Hand (left) laughed as they answered audience questions during a Q&A at the first Stegner Fellow Reading of the year. The two writers recited poetry and fiction revolving around their memories and connections to home. Home is a sensation. It’s the places where you’ve laughed and cried, where old […]

Inaugural Tremont Writers Conference accepting applications for creative retreat in Great Smoky Mountains National Park

Great Smoky Mountains National Park Tremont Writers Conference faculty Small-group morning workshops in fiction, nonfiction, and poetry will take place at Tremont’s campus inside Great Smoky Mountains National Park. The conference invites writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry to apply now through April 30 for a spot at the five-day event, held Oct. 25–29, in […]

Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference is Accepting Scholarship and Master Class Applications for it’s 2023 Conference

Mendocino Coast Writers’ Conference invites Scholarship and Master Class applications through February 15, 2023 for its in-person annual summer conference. The 2023 conference includes morning workshops in 10 genres plus a juried Master Class, as well as afternoon seminars . Scholarships to be awarded to applicants of all levels and backgrounds and may include tuition […]