January 2012 Newsletter
_________________________________________________________________________ Sleuths, Bombers & Mystics: In the World of Genre Fiction, Feb 16 4:00p.m.-5:30p.m.
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Writers Studio Club News:
News About CampusACC Library Announces a Literary Contest for The Fast and The Short! Students, Faculty and Staff of ACC are invited to participate in the ACC Library’s “6 Word Story” Contest! 6 word stories are a tradition dating back to the 1920’s and Ernest Hemingway but now they are all over cyberspace so join the fun! Tell us a creative story in just six words and be entered to win our awesome prizes. Stop in the library or check out our Facebook page for all the details!
ACC Student Courtney Boutwell recently signed on for her first professional writing gig as a reviewer for Go to C Magazine. Go to C Magazine is a local music blog and 'zine that features monthly album reviews and interviews on folk, bluegrass, and Americana music. Check out Courtney's latest review, Strange Americans Folk Rock The Spark Theatre Session. Go, Courtney! ACC (now-ex) Student Kylie Bowen has successfully transferred to Adams State College in Alamosa, Colorado as part of ACCs and ASCs articulation agreement. After a little minor Writers Studio elbow-twisting, Kylie has agreed to share her experiences monthly at Adams State through The Bowen Blog: ACC Faculty Jeff Broome has recently published “Wild Bill Hickok’s 1870 Brawl With Custer’s Troops” in the Journal Wild West History Association, Volume IV, Number 6, December 2011, pp 19-32. He has a total of six articles coming out in 2012 on this subject and is working on a book length manuscript covering the brawl between Wild Bill Hickok and Custer’s troopers in Hays, Kansas in 1870. ACC past Creative Writing Community Ed Student Cindy Charlton was recently interviewed on the radio show Writers Bloc, broadcasted by KFUN out of Las Vegas. Click here to read about Cindy and her motivational speaking and writing. Consequent to her first publication with Chicken Soup for the Soul, Cindy has been contacted by the editors about writing a story for their Chicken Soup for the Survivor's Soul book. ACC Writing Instructor David Ewald had a creative nonfiction piece ("Revisitation Blues: Goodfellas") published in the online journal Eclectica. It can be found here: http://www.eclectica.org/v16n1/ewald.html ACC Writing Instructor Monica Fuglei has a poem pending in The Untidy Season: An Anthology of Nebraska Women Poets, published by The Backwaters Press, an independent, nonprofit press from Nebraska. The poem is titled "For Heidi (Who Hates To Read in Public)." ACC Writing Instructor Tami Reusink announces the opening of her commissioned piece by Count Down to Zero Theatre, Uncle Rooster, in Denver on February 17. Uncle Rooster is a satire on political accountability. Count Down To Zero is a “mysterious collective that will vaporize once it has staged 10 political plays.” Be there before it’s not! Runs: Feb. 17 - March 3. Address: The LIDA Project, 2701 Lawrence Street, Denver. Phone: 720-221-3821 (just leave a message asking for info) ACC Faculty Leah Rogin-Roper has three stories, 'Your Mama's Tupperware," "In the Aftermath of Watermelons," and "Booming Granny" forthcoming from Connotation Press http://connotationpress.com/ in March. Leah's "The Woman in My Closet" will be performed by Buntport Theatre Troupe at the January 21st Stories on Stage. See About Town News below. ACC Faculty Kathryn Winograd won 1st place in the 2011 Chautauqua Poetry contest on War and Peace for her poem, "The Lives of Cells." She wins $1000 and publication in the June 2012 issue of the Chautauqua Literary Journal . Winograd is a featured reader with Marleine Yanish and Laura Wright for First Friday: Mercy. One Word. One Thousand Definitions at Pomegranate Place in Denver (www.pomegranateplace.org) on Friday, February 3rd from 6:00p.m.-7p.m. Art Gallery opening and reception follows. _____________________________________________________________________________________ Fast Forward Press and Stories on Stage by the Buntport Theatre Troupe on January 21st. Buntport theatre troupe will be performing numerous flash fiction pieces published by Fast Forward Press, including work by our own Leah Rogin-Roper, Kona Morris and Nancy Stohlman. Performances will be at 1:30 and 7:30 at Su Teatro Theatre on Santa Fe. Discounted tickets are available for students and faculty. More information can be found here: http://storiesonstage.org/season.aspx National League of American Pen Women Invitation: IF YOU'RE A WRITER in the Denver metro area ...You're invited to present your manuscript/s on Saturday, March 3. You'll receive free professional feedback and publishing suggestions from the Denver members of The National League of American Pen Women, one of the first and most prestigious women's arts organizations in the nation. This annual NLAPW event will be from 10 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. and includes a free lunch. There's a limit of 8 guest presenters, so please respond soon. Your work may be complete or in progress, and can be poetry, a novel, short story, article, etc. Contact Marie Kriss at (303) 433-5266 or amkriss@msn.com for details.* *Note from Writers Studio: last year ACC Student Erika Christiansen took part in the critique session and was quite pleased with the experience: Sharing my work with and getting feedback from such an experienced and diverse group of creative women was encouraging and exhilarating! It was great to hear works of other burgeoning contemporaries at the guest critique. There is certainly literature in Denver! Be a part of it and connect with some great gals. (The chicken salad sandwiches were awesome too!) "Denver Pen Women" are welcoming and worthy of joining.
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Presents
Save the Date: Welcome back to Spring Semester at ACC Writers Studio. Join us this spring for forays into the world of genre fiction, open mics, our 8th annual literary festival, Progenitor Art and Literary Magazine reading and celebration, and our Capstone Reading for graduating students in the Creative Writing program at ACC. 
The Progenitor, ACC’s award-winning art and literary magazine, invites you to submit your poetry, prose and art for our upcoming Spring issue. We accept submissions from students, faculty, and community members. Deadline for this year’s submissions is midnight, February 15. All submissions this year will be accepted electronically. 
Writers Studio 8th Annual Literary Contest: Deadline March 1, midnight 
Writers Studio Club is a club that builds on the classroom relationships with writing and the writing community at ACC. We plan to resume meeting in February. President of our club is past Writers Studio Scholarship winner, Stephanie Alderton. For more information, contact Leah Rogin-Roper at