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2008 Literary Awards
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The Center for Women Writers (CWW) at Salem College provides an opportunity for writers to express their creativity in conversation, in workshops, in community and college courses, and through readings, lectures and other special programs. The Center encourages participation by everyone interested in writing, in various genres of expression, and in the publication process. All readings are free and open to the public with the exception of lunch lectures, where there is a charge for a buffet lunch for those not on the Salem College meal plan. For information, call the Center office at (336) 721-2739 or e-mail cww@salem.edu. Many well known authors have spoken at Salem through the Center for Women Writers. Their fiction, nonfiction, poetry, screenplays and documentaries have won Pulitzer Prizes, National Book Awards, Academy Awards and a host of other accolades. Their works have been translated into dozens of languages and have been featured on both national and international bestseller lists. Over the years, these esteemed women and men have shared their vast writing experiences and expertise with students as well as members from our community. Previous writers include Ellyn Bache, Doris Betts, Janet Burroway, Robert Olen Butler, Ellen Douglas, Rita Dove, Keith Flynn, Kaye Gibbons, Ellen Gilchrist, Marianne Gingher, Gail Godwin, Joy Harjo, Josephine Humphreys, Maxine Kumin, Galway Kinnell, Doug Marlette, Margaret Maron, Demetria Martinez, Jill McCorkle, Sharyn McCrumb, Robert Morgan, Jennifer Niven, Penelope Niven, Naomi Shihab Nye, Joyce Carol Oates, Sena Jeter Naslund, Sonia Sanchez, Elizabeth Spencer and Emily Herring Wilson. Link to: 2008-09 Visiting Writer, Nathan Ross Freeman (sending photo to you)
Nathan Ross Freeman is Salem
College's Visiting Writer for the 2008-09 academic year.
Freeman is the creator of
Author Through the Senses: an intensive creative writing and spoken
word impact communications curriculum: writing, adapting narratives
and poetry into audiovisual spoken word mediums.
He is an award-winning script
writer, filmmaker, creative writing and spoken word educator. He is
the founder of Montage Showcase Ensemble, the Assegai Film Group, Winston-Salem
Youth Arts Institute and Pen & Voice, LLC.
Freeman is the former co-founder
and editor of the Piedmont Pedlar,
a monthly literary sampler; former associate editor of the Crescent
Review literary magazine; and a member of the NC Humanities Speakers
Bureau.
Freeman is the first resident
playwright in the history of the NC Black Repertory Company (1985-1995)
and a Guest Teacher Alum of the NC School of the Arts (1991).
Freeman was awarded 2007 B.E.S.T.
Outstanding Faculty, Department of Dance and Theatre, as a member of
the Intensive Writing Faculty teaching screenwriting/playwriting at
the University of North Carolina at Charlotte. He is a native of Philadelphia,
PA, and a a graduate of St Joseph's University.
Box: Quote from Ginger Hendricks,
Director - there is a photo of her in the Cultural Events brochure,
I'll send to you. Box: Fall 2008 CWW Events The Salem College Center for Women Writers Presents a Series of Cultural Events
September
-December 2008
The Center for Women Writers
(CWW) is proud to present a number of exciting, informative and inspiring
programs during fall 2008. All are free unless otherwise noted, and
will be held on the Salem College campus.
ROSA JOHNSON BUTLER, MAYA ANGELOU: A GLORIOUS CELEBRATION Thursday, September 4 at 7 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall, Salem
Fine Arts Center
Maya Angelou: A Glorious
Celebration is a moving biography, created by the people who know
her best-her longtime friends Marcia Ann Gillespie and Richard Long,
and her niece Rosa Johnson Butler. Part tribute, part scrapbook, capturing
Angelou at home, at work and in the public eye, it features more than
150 portraits, family photographs and letters from the life of one of
the world's most admired artists, Maya Angelou. Johnson Butler, a
2000 graduate of Salem and the archivist of Angelou, will address the
writing process employed by Angelou as well as the development of this
personal, illustrated portrait of the renowned poet, author, playwright
and humanitarian. BOOKMARKS 2008, FESTIVAL OF BOOKS Saturday, September 13 from 9:30 a.m. - 5 p.m.
Historic Bethabara Park, 2147
Bethabara Road, Winston-Salem, NC
BOOKMARKS brings writers
and readers of all ages together as authors, illustrators, musical groups,
storytellers and chefs share their work and insights through readings,
presentations, panel discussions, workshops and book signings. The festival
will partner with community organizations, exhibitors and a variety
of food vendors, as well as present creative and interactive activities
for children and teens. The 2007 festival drew approximately 7,500 participants.
The fourth festival will feature more than 50 authors of local, regional
and national renown, including Nikki Giovanni, Carmen Agra Deedy and
Marissa de Los Santos. D. G. Martin, host of UNC-TV's NC Bookwatch,
is honorary chair. The Center is pleased to sponsor two writing workshops,
one featuring Salem Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing
Amy Knox Brown, who will discuss the possibilities and pitfalls of the
short-short story, and the second spotlighting Salem Visiting Writer
Nathan Ross Freeman, who will discuss characterization in film, theatre
and the spoken word as viewed through the layers of self. Please
visit www.bookmarksbookfestival.org for more information. ANNA RUBINO, QUEEN OF THE OIL CLUB: THE INTREPID WANDA JABLONSKI AND THE POWER OF INFORMATION Monday, September 15 at 7 p.m. Shirley Recital Hall, Salem Fine Arts Center Anna Rubino will speak about her new biography of the trailblazing investigative reporter, Wanda Jablonski. From the Saudi king's harem to the boardrooms of Big Oil, Jablonski defied the prevailing view in the 1950s that a woman reporting on business had no credibility as she unveiled secrets of the world's most lucrative trade. Critics have called the story "galvanizing in its revelations" and "intimate but also sweeping, capturing the myopia of both business and government as America's addiction to foreign oil set in over four decades." Rubino, a journalist and historian with a Ph.D. from Yale University, has covered oil and business news from New York and Brussels. Rubino is now an investigative reporter for Off The Record Research, a San Francisco-based investment news service, and lives in Winston-Salem. RECENT MEDIA BY FRANCESCA TALENTI: "BEYOND THE RECTANGLE" Monday, October 6 at 7 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall, Salem
Fine Arts Center
Francesca Talenti is a filmmaker
and animator who has exhibited her work from Sundance to PBS National. She
has won a number of audience and "best of" awards, and has received
grants from the Independent Television Service, Latino Public Broadcasting
and the Kauffman Foundation, among others. Talenti will show several
of her pieces including Rain, Dreams of Liquid Memories
(excerpt), Genesis: Mishaps in the Kitchen (excerpts) and
Full Fathom Five (excerpt). Talenti teaches media production at
the University of North Carolina at Chapel Hill.
Sponsored by the
Revolve Film and Music Festival and the
Center for Women Writers AMY KNOX BROWN, A POETRY READING Tuesday, October 21 at 7 p.m.
The Saal, Single Sisters House
Come celebrate the release
of Amy Knox Brown's poetry chapbook, Advice from Household Gods.
This collection, written by Salem's Director of the Creative Writing
Program and Assistant Professor of English and Creative Writing, features
poems on danger, love, what passes for love and how where we are from
shapes our lives. Brown also wrote the short story collection Three
Versions of the Truth. WRITE PLACE, WRITE TIME: A WRITING WORKSHOP FOR YOUNG WOMEN Saturday, October 25 from 1 - 3:30 p.m.
Single Sisters House
Young women enrolled in grades
nine through 12 are invited for an afternoon writing experience. "Write
Place, Write Time" will offer lectures on the elements of craft, followed
by invention exercises and small group workshops. Publishing opportunities
for young writers will also be discussed. Both poetry and fiction classes
will be offered. These writing workshops will be taught by the Salem
College creative writing faculty: Amy Knox Brown, assistant professor
of English and creative writing; Nathan Ross Freeman, visiting writer,
and Ginger Hendricks C'00, director of the Center for Women Writers.
This workshop is free. To register, e-mail cww@salem.edu or call (336)
721-2739. Please specify your preference for additional study:
fiction or poetry. LUIS RODRIGUEZ, "HEARTS AND HANDS: CREATING COMMUNITY" Wednesday, November 5 at 7 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall, Salem
Fine Arts Center
Writer and activist, Luis Rodriguez
has interacted with audiences all around the world for more than 20
years to explore the issues of youth, gangs, violence, education, poverty,
the housing crisis and more. His message is that imaginative and healing
regenerative power lies in a truly aware, attentive, cohesive and caring
community. Rodriguez has helped start many prominent organizations including
Chicago's Guild
Complex, one of
the largest literary arts organizations in the Midwest. He is the author
of Hearts and Hands: Creating Community
in Violent Times;
Always Running: La Vida Loca, Gang Days in L.A.; and Music of the Mill. Rodriguez is also the author of several
poetry collections and books for children including My Nature is Hunger: New and
Selected Poems 1989-2004
and America Is Her Name. His honors include a Lila Wallace-Reader's
Digest Writers' Award, a Lannan Fellowship for Poetry, a Hispanic
Heritage Award for Literature and a Carl Sandburg Literary Award. He
was one of 50 leaders worldwide named as "Unsung Heroes of Compassion,"
an honor that was presented by the Dalai Lama. A FILM SCREENING: JACK TAYLOR OF BEVERLY HILLS Saturday, December 6 at 7 p.m.
Shirley Recital Hall, Salem
Fine Arts Center
In a special partnership, the
Revolve Film and Music Festival and the Salem College Center for Women
Writers are proud to present this film about Old Hollywood glamour.
In today's prêt-a-porter world, tailors like Jack Taylor teeter
on the verge of extinction. For more than 60 years, this American icon
has swathed Hollywood in sartorial splendor. Cary Grant, Sid Caesar
and Elvis Presley all wore his custom-made suits; during the Rat Pack
era in particular, Taylor all but defined men's fashion for the A-list.
Director Cecile Leroy Beaulieu features candid interviews with avid
customers and with Taylor himself as he speaks of his life as a fashion
pioneer. Admission by ticket only. Tickets available online only
from revolvefestival.com. Tickets sold online until 3 p.m. day of show.
Price $8 in advance (plus 2.5 % service charge), $10 day of
show. Current Salem Academy and College students, faculty and staff
are eligible for free admission. Please show your Salem ID at the door
for entry. JOHN HUTTON, CHRISTMAS MAUS, A HOLIDAY CELEBRATION Sunday, December 7 at 3:30 p.m. Shirley Recital Hall, Salem Fine Arts Center Celebrate the holiday season with the entire family when you join us for the book launch of John Hutton's Christmas Maus, based on beloved Salem Moravian traditions. Your heart will be warmed with a reading of the story and an art lesson with Hutton, whose watercolor illustrations perfectly capture the perspective of a tiny mouse. John Hutton, a professor of art at Salem, is also the author and illustrator of Sister Maus: A Small Tale of Sisters House in Salem, among others. Christmas Maus, a tale that begins and ends with cookies, will delight us all! |