Cape Cod Writers Center

Judges from the Cape Cod Writers Center recently awarded Matthew Mann a scholarship to the 2013 summer conference for his nonfiction short story ” The Werewolf and the Old Lady.”

Matthew is a student at the Cape Cod Community College whose recently returned to Falmouth to pursue  his interests as a craftsman and a writer.  This Cape Codder has a passion for writing with a concentraiton on short fiction, screenplays and creative nonfiction.  Congratulations Michael!

A member of our 2013 Conference Faculty, Linda McCullough Moore, requested we post this as an opportunity for CCWC members to submit their work for consideration at Thornapple Books, the literary fiction imprint of Levellers Press. Thornapple Books publishes engaging, distinctive and emotionally resonant work, and is dedicated to publishing a small number of novels and story collections that exemplify extraordinary writing.

Please click on the link below for submission guidelines:

http://www.levellerspress.com/thornapplebooks.html

Levellers Press is a publishing house founded by the worker-owners of Collective Copies in Amherst and Florence, Massachusetts.

The deadline for the 2013-2014 Competition Season is approaching. Works in progress must be submitted May 1, 2013, in order to be considered as a participating play. Writers have till January 1, 2014 to complete their work. Please see information below.

Congratulations to James Dalglish and Lynda Sturner the 6^th Annual New Playwrights, New Plays Competition winners with their play ‘A TalentedWoman’ which was stage read on the historic Gertrude Lawrence stage in Dennis, MA, on March 22 and March 23, 2013.

The New Playwrights, New Plays Competition encourages and stimulates the writing and production of new full-length plays by Cape and Island writers. The Competition is sponsored by Eventide Arts, a Cape Cod non-profit organization devoted to producing stimulating theatre for the purpose of inspiring thought and debate, and showcasing the work of local artists.

The Competition is open to full-length plays written by both new and experienced playwrights who live on Cape Cod, Martha’s Vineyard or Nantucket. One play will be selected by the judges and presented as a staged reading on the historic Gertrude Lawrence stage as part of Eventide Arts’ 2013-2014 Season of plays, concerts and workshops. The winning Competition entry will be awarded the $1,000 Kaplan Foundation Prize.

The New Playwrights, New Plays Competitions made possible in part by the generous support from the following: THE JEREMIAH KAPLAN FOUNDATION and THE ARTS FOUNDATION OF CAPE COD

The 2012/2013 short list of finalists were:

Good Friday                           Rick Leidenfrost-Wilson

Harriman-Baines                  Colin Crowley

Sit on my Facebook               Steve Martin

The Final Say                          Meryl Cohn

7th ANNUAL NEW PLAYWRIGHTS, NEW PLAYS COMPETITION & $1000 KAPLAN PRIZE

The 2007 winner ~ Meridian Summer, by Candace Perry

The 2008 winner ~ Sequel, by David Kucher

The 2009 winner ~ Eucatastrophe, by Andy Reynolds

The 2010 winner ~ This Verse Business by A.M. Dolan

The 2011 winner ~ To Be in the Game by Tom Gotsill

The 2013 winner ~ A Talented Woman by Lynda Sturner and Jim Dalglish

For more information go to http://www.eventidearts.org/kaplan.html or email JMLoring at jmljake@capecod.net

Sunday, April 21^st, 3 to 5 PM, at the West Falmouth Library

Open Mike Sign-up, 2:45 PM

$5 suggested donation to fund the poets’ stipend.

Featuring:

Susan Donnelly’s  latest poetry collection is Capture the Flag.  She is the author of two other collections: Morse Prize winner Eve Names the Animals and Transit, as well as three chapbooks.  Her poetry has appeared in The New Yorker, The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, The Sun, Poetry Ireland Review, Poetry and many other journals, textbooks and anthologies.  It has been featured several times on Garrison Keillor’s Writers Almanac and on Poetry Daily.  Susan lives, writes and teaches poetry in Cambridge, Massachusetts.

Mary Maxwell is the author of three volumes of poetry, An Imaginary Hellas, Emporia, and Cultural Tourism.  Her poems have appeared in AGNI, The New Republic, Paris Review, Southern Review and many other journals.  A winner of the “Discovery”/The Nation Award, Mary has been the recipient of a fellowship from the Carnargo Foundation in Cassis, France and has also been a visiting artist and scholar at the American Academy in Rome.  She is also the author of a monograph about the painter Serena Rothstein, Discourse in Paint.  Mary lives in Truro, Massachusetts.

Dan Memmolo’ s book Fist City won the 2011 Holland Prize from Logan House Press in 2012. He is also the author of the chapbook, Beat Surrender (Main Street Rag) and his poems have appeared in numerous magazines, including, The Atlanta Review, Gargoyle, New York Quarterly and Southern Poetry Review. Dan holds an MFA in Creative Writing from Virginia Commonwealth University and lives in Barrington, Rhode Island.

Directions:  From Bourne Bridge.  Rt. 28 south to Thomas Landers Road exit, right off ramp to Rt. 28A south (left), about 1 1/2 miles.  Just past Old Dock Rd., on right, West Falmouth Library is on the left, with parking.  Note:  Bourne Bridge is under repair for April & May.  Allow more travel time.

From Woods Hole.  Woods Hole Rd. to Palmer Ave. to Rt. 28 north to Brick Kiln Rd. exit, left off the ramp to Rt. 28A (stop sign).  Take a right, and go less than I mile.  West Falmouth Library is on the right, with parking (before the library, across from the Quaker Meeting House).

www.calliopepoetryseries.com  or email: calliopepoetryreadings@verizon.net or 508-566-1090

Calliope’s next reading:  Sunday, May 12^th 3 to 5 PM, Open Mike Sign-Up, 2:45 PM.

Featuring—Marjorie Block, Charles Coe, Joyce Wilson. Book-signing reception, with refreshments.