Posted on October 28, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Check out the details at the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection of Free Expression:
Singer / Songwriter Terri Allard and best-selling author Rita Mae Brown will be among the judges in the fourth annual First Amendment Writes, a poetry and songwriting contest organized by the Music Resource Center, the Thomas Jefferson Center for the Protection [...]
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Posted on October 6, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
From Publishers Lunch:
The National Book Foundation named their new list of “5 Under 35″:
Ceridwen Dovey, Blood Kin
C. E. Morgan, All the Living
Lydia Peelle, Reasons for and Advantages of Breathing
Karen Russell, St. Lucy’s Home for Girls Raised by Wolves
Josh Weil, The New Valley
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Posted on August 5, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
From Jackie at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library:
MISSY CREASY WINS SUMMER READING CONTEST $50 gift certificate to New Dominion Book Shop
The new Adult Summer Reading program at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library was a big success. Region-wide over 500 adults participated in the program from June 8-Aug 1.
Participants who read at least 12 books during this [...]
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Posted on May 29, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
I am so proud of my talented, hard-working writer friends. This week’s Summer Reading issue of The Hook features my friend Christy Strick’s prize-winning story, “Just Like Family.” Whoo, Christy!
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Posted on May 21, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Some people like the beach, yeah, it’s okay, but me — I like a nice air-conditioned library when summer’s hot and the living is humid. New summer programs are revving up at the Jefferson-Madison Regional Library:
New Program: JMRL Grown-Up Summer Reading program will be held at Central, Northside, Gordon Avenue, Crozet, Nelson, and Bookmobile [...]
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Posted on April 24, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Wordplay busts out trivia teasers | Charlottesville Daily Progress
After six rounds of stumpers at Thursday evening’s Wordplay quiz at the Omni Hotel Charlottesville, some 36 teams were faced with the grand finale: What number do you get when you add the number of a spider’s legs to the highest number on Spinal Tap’s dial to [...]
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Posted on March 21, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Here’s how they roll at WriterHouse:
We didn’t sweep the contest, but two out of three isn’t bad!
In late January, WriterHouse issued a challenge to our members: submit a story to the Hook Short Story Contest and make us proud. On March 18, when the Hook announced [...]
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Posted on February 15, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
News from BookBalloon:
The March Reading Club Selection is Olive Kitteridge by Elizabeth Strout. Olive Kitteridge has been named a National Book Critics Circle finalist in fiction.
Discussion begins March 4 in the Forum. Registration is free.
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Posted on February 4, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
News from local author Charles Shields:
Barboursville author Charles J. Shields’s biography for young adults, I Am Scout: the Biography of Harper Lee, has been chosen as a 2009 Best Book for Young Adults by the American Library Association.
Shields is currently writing an adult biography of Kurt Vonnegut (Henry Holt & Co.). They were working together [...]
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Posted on January 16, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
It’s that time of year again! The Hook Short Story contest is underway. John Grisham will be judging again this year. Deadline for entries is February 3, 2009 — that’s not far off!
The grand-prize winner receives $700, second place $200, and third place, $100.
Next comes the fame. The grand prize-winning story will be published in [...]
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Posted on January 13, 2009 by Elizabeth McCullough
Huzzah! It’s Tournament of Books time again!
In the absence of too much alcohol, it never would have occurred to us that we should take 16 of the most celebrated and highly touted novels of the year, seed them in a March Madness-type bracket, conscript them into a “Batttle Royale of Literary Excellence,” and, in honor [...]
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Posted on December 7, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Some news and upcoming events from the WriterHouse member newsletter. If you join WH, you’ll get this kind of cool info every week:
News
»Congratulations to our NaNoWriMo Winning Members! Several of our members took the challenge and wrote 50,000 word novels between November 1 and November 30, at great personal sacrifice, and additional waistline inches for [...]
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Posted on October 15, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
Writer’s Eye 2008
The Writer’s Eye competition invites youth in grades 3–12, University students, and adults to submit original prose and poetry compositions inspired by particular works on view in the Museum. This year a major focus of the program will be the special exhibition El Lissitzky: Futurist Portfolios. Area teachers and writers judge all entries. [...]
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Posted on August 12, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
The 2008 Governor’s Arts Awards were announced last week. I’d like to take special note of two literature-related winners:
Ralph Cohen and Jim Warren of Staunton. They will receive an award for their work with the American Shakespeare Center which they founded in 1988. They are also the [...]
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Posted on June 30, 2008 by Elizabeth McCullough
From VQR:
McFadden’s Hardscrabble Wins Poetry Award
By Kevin Morrissey
June 30th, 2008
Kevin McFadden’s Hardscrabble, one of the inaugural titles in the VQR Poetry Series, published by the University of Georgia Press, has just been awarded 2008 Fellowship of Southern Writers’ New Writing Award for Poetry. The award, which recognizes work by emerging poets living in and writing [...]
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