The Cape Cod Haiku Group will hold its first meeting on Sat., Nov. 3, from 10 a.m. to noon at the Mashpee Public Library, 64 Steeple Street, Mashpee.
For the first session, bring three original haiku to share, read and critique.
We will be meeting the first Saturday morning of the month from then on.
For questions or registering, call Christina Laurie – 508-540-0762 and leave your name and number, or email her at PreacherPoet@comcast.net.
We at the Cape Cod W
riters Center are happy to announce a tuition-free program designed to enhance the literary skills of Cape Cod students in grades 7 through 12. Entitled “Tomorrow’s Writers Today,” the program is an outgrowth of our 27-year-old summer Young Writers Program held during our annual summer conference.
Like that program, Tomorrow’s Writers Today provides students with an opportunity to attend Saturday workshops with published authors and journalists who will oversee their work, share concepts and provide insights into the realities of professional writing, literature, journalism, sports writing and communications. Our March and May sessions were very successful. Our next one is scheduled for Saturday, November 3, 2012, from 9:30 AM to 3:30 PM at the Barnstable Intermediate School in 
Hyannis. Critically-acclaimed novelist Heidi Jon Schmidt will teach fiction writing, and former Cape Cod Times Reporter and teacher at Cape Cod Community College, Jim Kershner, will teach non-fiction writing.
For more information call 508-420-0200 or email writers@capecodwriterscenter.org.
Here is the application: TWT Application for November 3, 2012
Tomorrows Writers Today is funded in part by the Arts Foundation of Cape Cod, Cape Cod Five Cents Savings Bank Charitable Foundation Trust, Edward Bangs Kelley and Elza Kelley Foundation, and the Massachusetts Cultural Council.
A new critique group is being formed in West Falmouth for members writing adult fiction who would like meet every other week to provide feedback to fellow writers and receive feedback on their own work. For more information on this group please see the Falmouth Fiction Writers listing at http://capecodwriterscenter.org/writers-groups/ or contact Tom Smith at tewrdsmith@gmail.com.
Sunday, October 14th, 3 to 5 PM, Open Mike Sign-up, 2:45 PM,
$5 suggested donation to fund the poets’ stipend.
Featuring:
Jennifer Barber’s new collection of poems, Given Away, was published by Kore Press in June of 2012. Jenny is also the author of Rigging the Wind (2003), which received the Kore Press First Book Award. Her poems have appeared in The New Yorker, The Gettysburg Review, Harvard Review, Bellevue Literary Review, among other journals. Jenny has been the recipient of a Pushcart Prize, the Anna Davidson Rosenberg Award, and a St. Botolph Grant. She is the founding and current editor of Salamander, now it its 20th year. She teaches English Literature and Creative Writing at Suffolk University.
Valerie Duff’s first book, To the New World (Salmon Poetry) was shortlisted for the 2011 Seamus Heaney Poetry Prize. Valerie’s poems have appeared in Ploughshares, AGNI, Harvard Review, Verse, The Antioch Review, Poetry Daily and other journals. Valerie has received grants from the Massachusetts Cultural Council and the St. Botolph Foundation. She is the poetry editor of Salamander and has taught writing at Boston College, Boston University and Grub Street Workshops. Valerie studied poetry at Boston University and Trinity College, Dublin.
Fred Marchant is the author of The Looking House (Graywolf Press, 2009) Tipping Point, winner of the 1993 Washington Prize in poetry and Full Moon Boat (Graywolf Press, 2000). His new and selected volume, House on Water, House in Air, was published by Dedalus Press (2002). He has co-translated (with Nguyen Ba Chung) From a Corner of My Yard, poetry by the Vietnamese poet Tran Dang Khoa. He is also the editor of Another World Instead: The Early Poems of William Stafford, 1937-1947 (Graywolf Press, 2008). Professor of English and Director of the Creative Wring Program, and The Poetry Center at Suffolk University, Fred is a longtime teaching affiliate of The William Joiner Center for the Study of War and Social Consequences at the University of Massachusetts-Boston, and was himself a conscientious objector within the military during the Viet Nam War. In 2009, he was co-winner (with Afaa Michael Weaver) of the May Sarton Award from the New England Poetry Club, given to poets whose “work is an inspiration to other poets.”
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.
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).
Mark your calendars!
By popular demand, the Cape Cod Writers Center will host the 51st conference at the Resort and Conference Center of Hyannis, August 4-9, 2013.
Details will follow in late 2012 and early 2013.
Bruce is interviewed about this book Extra Innings on Amazon’s CreateSpace Community:
Congratulations, Bruce!
Authors Kathryn Kay, David Litwack, and Kevin Symmons were the guests for Breakfast with the Authors last Friday morning at the Wianno Club. Each one spoke about their books along with a reading, followed by questions and book signings.
Kathryn Kay, author of The Gilder
David Litwack, author of There comes a Prophet
Kevin Symmons, author of Rite of Passage
The Authors
The Cape Cod Writers Center proudly announces that our member, Virginia Young, has been offered a contract by Mainly Murder Press for 2013 publication of I Call Your Name, a romantic suspense novel set in Martha’s Vineyard against a backdrop of violence, family complications and love.
Congratulations Virginia! You are the seventh CCWC author to be offered a traditional publishing contract this year!
Congratulations to CCWC member Eva Schegulla, whose play, “The Effie Effect,” was accepted in the Play With Your Food series at the Tilden Arts Center at Cape Cod Community College at 6:30 PM on Friday, September 28th.
“The Effie Effect” is a comic nod to noir. Detective Donald Light and his trusty “gal-Friday,” Sylvia, weave their way in and out of a handful of mysteries and mayhems. Along the way, Sylvia is confronted with her true feelings for her boss, and unravels the clues to her own happiness
The Play with your Food series features local playwrights’ original scripts for staged, workshop readings in the Studio Theater of the Tilden Arts Center.
A light-fare dinner menu is available for purchase to enjoy during the show, provided by the College’s Zammer Hospitality Institute. Each evening concludes with a talk-back session with the author.
Doors open at the at 6:30pm, with the performance at 7:00 PM. Admission is by suggested donation of a non-perishable food item to benefit local food pantries. Dinners are available for $5.00, beginning at 6:30pm.
For additional information, contact Vana Trudeau at vtrudeau@capecod.edu.
(Falmouth, MA) — Ever wonder how to create sparkling dialogue that enhances character and drives the plot? Or how to create integrated settings that don’t sound like info dumps or travelogues? Or long to play in different genres? You can experience all of this in a trio of workshops taught by Cape-based author Devon Ellington this fall at Falmouth Community School.
The Dialogue Workshop, meeting on three Wednesday evenings in September and October, focuses on using dialogue to reveal character, drive the plot, and how what characters leave unsaid is just as important as what they say and how they say it. Participants will create fresh material to specific exercise guidelines, exploring different uses of dialogue to enhance different story elements. Workshop starts on September 19, from 6:30 – 8:30 PM, and meets on the 26, and then again on October 10, for $59. There is no class on Oct. 3.
Setting as Character, a half day workshop on Saturday, October 13, focuses on actively integrating setting/environmental information in a way that enhances the purpose of the scene without “setting it up” at the top of the page or scene, or sounding like a travelogue within it. Participants will have the chance to create fresh material and also use material from works-in-progress. Workshop meets from 9:30 AM – 1:30 PM, also $59.
One Story, Many Voices is an eight-session workshop, giving participants the chance to play with genre expectations. Starting with a short contemporary literary fiction short story, written to specifications for the class, participants spend the following sessions moving it from genre to genre, exploring how genre protocols affect character, plot, and environment. At the end of the month, dedicated participants will have a handful of short stories close to submission-ready across a variety of genres, and the confidence to work in genres they may not have otherwise tried. Fresh material is created for this class; no previously written work allowed. The class meets on Monday and Thursday afternoons from 1-3 PM for four consecutive weeks, starting on October 15, and is $79.
For more information and registration, contact Falmouth Community school at www.falmouth.k12.ma.us or at 508-548-5739. Sign up for one or all three — and be prepared to WRITE!
Instructor Devon Ellington is a full-time writer who publishes under a half a dozen names in fiction and non-fiction in several genres. She washed ashore in late 2010 after many years in New York, which included working backstage on Broadway and in film and television production. Her romantic suspense novel, ASSUMPTION OF RIGHT (as Annabel Aidan) was named a “hot book for cold Cape Cod nights” by the Cape Cod Times. HEX BREAKER, the first Jain Lazarus Adventure, released in summer of 2012, with the second book in the series, OLD-FASHIONED DETECTIVE WORK, set to release next year. Her plays are produced in New York, London, Edinburgh, and Australia. She’s published hundreds of articles and short stories over the years, and has an active freelance writing business doing manuscript critique, editing, brochure and newsletter copy, event scripting, speechwriting, press releases, and more. She teaches online and in person all over the world, and students who complete her classes tend to have a high publication rate. Visit her website www.devonellingtonwork.com.
Falmouth Community School has offered Falmouth residents affordable enrichment courses and programs for more than forty years. Visit them on the web at http://www.falmouth.k12.ma.us/index.php/home/programs-departments/falmouth-community-night-school
