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December 2007 Newsletter

Winter/Spring 2008 Writers Studio Courses available through Community Education for Non-Credit

Once again, Writers Studio is offering community members who are not Arapahoe Community College (ACC) registered students to take creative writing workshops through Community Education. The following workshops are offered by ACC faculty and published writers, Chris Ransick and Kathryn Winograd:

 

WRIT 1010 W01 Creative Nonfiction Workshop 6:00 p.m.-8:45 p.m. Mondays

WRIT 1011 W01 Poetry Workshop 6:00 p.m.-8:45 p.m. Wednesdays

WRIT 1012 W01 Creative Writing II 7:00 p.m.-9:45p.m. Mondays

For Course descriptions and faculty information, please go to our Writers Studio website.

To register as a non-credit student for these courses, contact Community Education

4th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest

Writers Studio is happy to announce three categories in this year's literary contest: Poetry, Fiction, and Creative Nonfiction. The winner of each category wins $250 and will be Writers Studio's special guest for its Annual Literary Festival in April 2008. The winning entries will be published in ACCs literary magazine, Progenitor.

This year's final judges, who will also serve as faculty for our April Literary Festival, are:

Fiction: William Haywood Henderson, author of Augusta Locke (Viking 2006, Penguin 2007), named best novel of 2007 by Westword.

Poetry: Aaron Anstett, author of No Accident, winner of the 2004 Backwaters Press Prize, the 2006 Nebraska Book Award and the Balcones Poetry Prize.

Creative Nonfiction: Shari Caudron is the author of WHAT REALLY HAPPENED and WHO ARE YOUPEOPLE?, named one of the Best Books of the Year by the Rocky Mountain News, chosen for Entertainment Weekly's MUST List, and winner of this year's Colorado Book Award.

Submissions will be accepted January 1, 2008-March 1, 2008. For submission guidelines and the winning entries from last year's contest, please go to our Writers Studio website.

Around Town

Anushka Anastasia Solomon, last year's Writers Studio guest at Writers on War, announces the publication of her chapbook, Please, God, Don't Let Me Write Like A Woman, by Finishing Press. Solomon is a Malaysian born former Denver Post Compass columnist and Evergreen, Colorado, poet/columnist -in- exile. One of the poems from the chapbook, which she read at Writers on War, "Raped, Draped and Relegated," was selected by Amnesty International and read at the August 2007 Edinburgh International Book Festival in the Womens' Voices, imprisoned writers at risk and in exile series.

To order the book online, go to http://www.finishinglinepress.com/

Crested Butte Writers are pleased to announce the return of their writing contest for unpublished authors, The Sandy, in multiple genres. FMI: entry form, rules and sample score sheets, go to www.thesandy.com. Questions, contact e-mail contest coordinator, Theresa Rizzo Theresa@theresarizzo.com

Writers Studio thanks those who have supported our Fall 2007 events. We will return in January for ACCs Spring Semester and a new line-up of events for students and community.