Residency Workshop Preparation Reminder

Please check the Workshop Preferences document at the MFA page (http://www.wcsu.edu/writing/mfa) for prep instructions for each of your workshops. You may have received additional prep instructions by email, but you still need to check the Workshop Preferences doc.

August Residency Schedule

The schedule for the August residency is available at the program web page--http://www.wcsu.edu/writing/mfa. As you see on the schedule, you will have a session with Francine Prose on Friday afternoon. I encourage you to read some of her work and take advantage of the time with her by having questions and comments at the ready.

We also have scheduled a panel on Writing News for Online Media, featuring Jason Leopold from truthout.org. Check out the site and take a look at Jason's memoir, News Junkie, which will be available at the residency.

Most of our activity, including our dorm (Pinney Hall), will be on the Westside campus this time. The evening readings will be at Midtown or off-campus. We have reserved the pub in the new Westside Campus Center for an after-hours (10-midnight) cash bar, so you don't have to worry about driving off-campus (or driving back to campus after visiting bars). The pub will also be equipped with a mic and reading stand, and students are invited to take advantage of this time/space for readings.

Check out the schedule and let me or Laurel know if you have any questions.

See you soon!
bc

Let Google Help You Promote Your Book

So, I am sure you know by now that I am a fan of the Google products and I suggest anyone who doesn't have a Gmail account and all it offers, please let me know. As for something different, there is a new Book Promotion aspect to Google that might interest people who have or may eventually have a book to sell. The link below will take you to the screen to get some more information.

Hope it helps - I didn't have time to get into all of it - so if someone wants to write a review or tell me how it works - that would be faboulous.

See you all in two weeks. Is that a score of days? Almost.



This is the Link. Click me.






https://books.google.com/partner/?hl=en_US&sourceid=gp&subid=US-HA-google_bookspartner&utm_campaign=google_bookspartner-us&utm_term=book%20promotion&utm_source=adwords&utm_medium=cpc

I will be sending fall mentor lists to students today via email, with the exception of those of you in the thesis semester--you all got your thesis advisors as requested.

bc

Sunken Garden Alternative Podcast

What will spring up
to fill the void left
by the disappearance
of the Sunken Garden Poetry Festival?


Find out today on the Colin McEnroe show.
4:10 p.m. segment.

Afternoons With Colin McEnroe
Listen Live @

http://www.wtic1080.com/

The Afternoon Drive broadcast weekdays from 3 to 6 p.m. from the glittering shores of Lake Salhany, located within the boundaries of the Off-World Colony, a lush and verdant brownfields reclamation site bristling with mutant wildlife.

PODCAST POSTED:

Elizabeth Thomas
Drive-By Interview;
Shout-Out
For New
Wally Lamb Book
&
Bonnie Foreshaw,
Friends In Enfield,
Iyaba Mandingo ...


Colin McEnroe with Andy Thibault
Detective Andy Thibault joins Colin to talk about having a poetry reading here at the Off World Colony.

Podcast of the segment

Colin's WTIC page

WTIC link

Elizabeth Thomas

Iyaba Mandingo

I'll Fly Away

Colin's Blog

Recent Enfield Blast

Fashion Writing Opportunity--

An "outfit" in Danbury, fashionavenue.com, is looking for writers to do fashion stories, interviews with designers, news pieces, etc.

If you have any interest in learning more, take a look at the website and let me know if you want to get in touch with the contact.

bc

MONEY!

I got this information in an e-mail. Thought I'd share...


Edward C. & Ann T. Roberts Foundation

FUNDING ALERT

· To commission an artist to create new work
· For an artist residency resulting in new work

Grant Amount: $12,500 max
Deadline: September 4, 2007

Eligibility (This is a summary--see web site for details!):
· Artists may not apply directly
· Commissions or residencies resulting in new work beginning after January 1, 2008; up to a year to complete the project
· Artists and sponsoring arts organizations based in the Hartford area
· Work must be presented to the public (organizations may apply later for presentation funding)
· Organizations may apply for both a Creation of New Work grant and a grant under our regular grant program in the same year

Criteria for award: Artistic excellence and potential of the project to advance the artist’s work; quality of the collaboration; potential impact on and benefit to the community

FULL DETAILS & GUIDELINES for the Creation of New Work Intitiative at
www.foundationcenter.org/grantmaker/e&aroberts

To discuss a potential project, call Elizabeth Normen, executive director, at (860) 233-0228.

Francine Prose at WestConn Literary Festival

I will be distributing full schedules for the residency next week, but wanted to give everyone a heads up that Francine Prose will be meeting with you all in the afternoon and giving a reading in the evening of Friday, August 3. First-semester students will be reading Ms. Prose's Reading Like a Writer in the Online Multigenre Workshop this semester. I encourage you all to read that book in advance of the residency week.

bc

August Residency Workshop Preferences

All students attending the August residency: Please follow the link below to find descriptions of your workshop options, then complete the form and return it to the MFA office as soon as you can. The sooner we get everyone's preferences, the more time everyone will have to do the prep work.

http://www.wcsu.edu/writing/mfa//Workshop%20Descriptions.htm