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Sept 2009 Newsletter: Welcome Back to Writers Studio!

• Writers Studio Fall Events
• WS Club News
• News About Campus and Town

Writers Studio Fall Events

Writers Studio Showcase: September 9, 4:00-5:00 p.m.

Please join Writers Studio for an afternoon of prose and poetry with featured writers Kathryn Winograd, Chris Ransick, and Chris Blake.

Chris Blake, ACC instructor, is a historical novelist and children's book writer. Her books include, Woman Redeemed (Outskirts Press), an historical novel about Mary Magdalene, and children's story collection, Signs, Signs, Everywhere Signs (Outskirts Press). Chris Ransick, ACC faculty and Denver Poet Laureate, is a poet and fiction writer. His books include Never Summer (Ghost Road Press), co-winner of the Colorado Book Award in 2003 for poetry and A Return to Emptiness (Ghost Road Press), finalist for the 2005 Colorado Book Award in fiction.Kathryn Winograd, ACC Faculty and Writers Studio director, is a poet and essayist. Her books include Air into Breath (Ashland Poetry Press), co-winner of the Colorado Book Award in 2003 for poetry, and Stepping Into Poetry Sideways (Scholastic Inc).

Student Lounge, Second Floor, Main Building at ACC Campus. Free event with refreshments.

Annual Columbine Poetry Festival, September 19, 11:00-5:00 p.m.

Advanced RSVPs required by September 14.

Join Writers Studio and the Columbine Poets of Colorado for a celebratory day of open readings, poetry awards, poetry workshops, and featured readings. Nationally-known poet and teacher, Veronica Patterson, will present a workshop on "Lifting the poem out of the ordinary." Patterson will be joined by Katherine West (Poet/Publisher of Green Fuse books) for the featured reading. Everyone in the community is invited to take part in the festivities and workshop.

ACC registered students, including community ed students, and all ACC faculty and staff can participate free of charge. Columbine Poets Members Admission: $15 (includes box lunch). Non-members: $ 25 (includes box lunch).

Veronica Patterson is a graduate of Cornell University, the University of Michigan, the University of Northern Colorado, and the Warren Wilson College MFA program. Her poetry collections are How to Make a Terrarium (Cleveland State University, 1987), Swan, What Shores? (New York University Press, 2000), which was a finalist for the Academy of American Poets' 2000 James Laughlin Award and won poetry awards from both the Colorado Center for the Book and Women Writing the West, and Thresh & Hold, which won the Gell Poetry Prize and will be published in November 2009. She has received numerous honors, awards and grants state-wide and nationally.

To register as ACC students, faculty, and staff, contact Dr. Kathryn Winograd at writerstudio@arapahoe.edu. Otherwise, register with Columbine Poets at Anitajg5@aol.com.

Writers Studio Club News

Congratulations to ACC student and Writers Studio Scholarship Winner, Oliver Brainerd, the new president of the Writers Studio Club. Many thanks to Angela Wissmueller, our past president and founder, for all her work last year getting the club up and going.

Presently the club features a monthly critique group, called "the Vikings" and expects to expand to another monthly meeting for workshops and presentations by writers, publishers, and literary community members. It is also considering joining ACC Great Books in attending Denver-community events such as Stories on Stage at the Denver Center and other community writing events.

If you are interested, please attend the information session on the club right before the Writers Studio Showcase on September 9 or contact Oliver Brainerd at iaimtomisbehave57@yahoo.com

The next meeting for the Viking critique group is September 16, 6:30 in the Student Lounge. Anyone interested in sharing work is welcome to attend, free of charge.

News About Campus and Town

Kudos to the Writers, Student and Faculty, of Writers Studio and ACC!

Mark Rosen, ACC Writers Studio student, is under contract with the Ringling brothers circus Museum in Sarasota Florida to write on a collection of life sized human dwarfs from the 18th century.

Greg Hobbs, ACC Community Ed student, has recently published the Citizen's Guide to Colorado Water Law, Third Edition (Colorado Foundation for Water Education 2009), Colorado, Centennial State at the Headwaters (Colorado Municipalities, August 2009), Enduring Sense of American Selves and 17 other poems (University of Denver Law Review 2008), and the Seal of a Faithful Heart and 5 other poems (University of Baltimore Law Review 2008).

Carol Sullivan, ACC Community Ed student, has recently published A Clattering of Bones, and the Story of Our Final Journey Comes to Life, in Prime Time for Seniors Newspaper, July 2009, and The Cyclops and My Mercy Makeover, Denver Post online edition 07/12/09.

Jeff Broome, ACC faculty, edited and wrote the foreword chapter for a new book coming out later this fall with University Press of America, by John O. Nelson, Hume's New Scene of Thought and The Many faces of David Hume in the Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.

Chris Ransick, ACC and Writers Studio faculty, next collection of poetry, Asleep Beneath the Hill of Dreams, is forthcoming in November 2009 from Ghost Road Press.

Kathryn Winograd, ACC and Writers Studio faculty, has an essay, Bathing, forthcoming in the literary journal, Fourth Genre,and an essay, Guns, Knives and the Amazon Warrior Princess forthcoming in the literary journal, Hotel Amerika. She will participate in two panels accepted for the upcoming Associated Writing Programs conference in April 2010: Ashland Poetry Press: More Than 40 Years Anniversary and The Soul and The Machine: Teaching Creative Writing Through Technology.

If you have any publishing news, please let us know for our next newsletter.

Invitation from Chris Ransick: Denver Poet Laureate: Colorado Authors Day at Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic

WS students are invited to volunteer as readers for Colorado Authors Day at Recording for the Blind & Dyslexic on Oct. 28. I am serving as honorary chair for the fourth year running. Any and all are welcome to join the effort, which involves spending just an hour or so recording books by Colorado authors for the tens of thousands of students in Colorado with print disabilities. There will also be workshops conducted at the recording studio by noted Colorado authors, and anyone interested in reading (or participating in a workshop) should contact Marie Liddiard at 303-757-0708 or at marierfbd@qwestoffice.net.