Connecticut River Review submission period

Hi Poets,

CRR, the journal of the Connecticut Poetry Society, is in open submissions now until the end of April. If you would like to see some of the work we have published, click here:

http://ct-poetry-society.org/publications.htm

You might recognize a name or two...

Hope you'll consider sending me some poetry!
Lisa

Online Contract Writing Job

If you're interested, contact:

Maureen Casey Gernert
Director Career Development Center
Western Connecticut State University
Phone: (203) 837-8266
e-mail: Gernertm@wcsu.edu

Subject
Online Copywriter Contract position open

ITech Consulting Partners, LLC
jodi@itechcp.com
Title: Online Copywriter
Location: White Plains, NY
Duration: 6 months++
Rate: up to $55/hr C2C or LLC; $48/hr. W-2
Description:
Our client, a Fortune 500 company with global presence, is looking for an online copy writer with experience in writing Advertising/Marketing pieces to work on concepting and copy for web sites and on-line advertising.
This person will work closely with the Interactive copy department head and Interactive CD in the development of compelling concepts and the delivery of effective promotional and marketing copy. The consultant will work in conjunction with the interactive creative group, project managers and account coordinators in the creation of dynamic interactive marketing and web sites for 10 world class brands.

Required Skills and Experience
• Promotional and site writing samples or URL’s required with resume submission.
• 3-5 years experience writing promotional and/or advertising copy
• BA/BS degree
• Ability to adapt writing to a variety of different brands
• Strong conceptual ability and excellent writing skills
• Good oral communication skills
• Understanding of interactive space
• High creative standards and a desire to do great work
• Positive attitude towards projects and co-workers
• Able to work in a fast paced, deadline driven environment
ITech Consulting Partners has successfully assisted Fortune 500 clients on their project needs as well as staffing augmentation. Our numerous placements cover a wide range of technologies and skill levels.
Visit our website at www.itechcp.com for more information about our company and a list of our hot jobs.

Don Snyder in WSJ

An excerpt from Don Snyder's forthcoming book, Goodbye Jack, will appear in tomorrow's (Saturday's) Wall Street Journal. Look for "Golfer's Journal."

Enrichment Presentations

MFAers,

Please let me know now if you plan to present your enrichment project at the January residency. As of now, I have Don Lowe and Lisa Smith-Overton down for presentations. Also let me know your media needs for your presentation (that includes you, Lisa and Don).

bc

Check it Out!

Two recent publications of mine:

http://www.newstimes.com/kent/ci_7458300

and

http://mirandamagazine.com/joomla/index.php?option=com_content&task=view&id=189&Itemid=27

Internship/Practicum and Mentors

For those of you who will be in the internship/practicum (third) semester in the spring: you may request a mentor as you usually would do for any other course. You will also need to arrange for an on-site mentor, who will vouch for your participation in the internship/practicum and will write an evaluation of your performance at the end of the semester. Your MFA mentor will work with you over the semester to reflect on the internship experience and to delve into wider issues that surround the particular internship (current publishing practices if you were working for a publisher, or issues in reading education if you were teaching reading to 2nd graders, for example). Prior to assignment of your MFA mentor I will advise you on internship issues, so let me know if you have any questions.

bc

Internships

Fairness.com, quite pleased with the work Marc Fitch did in his recent internship, has sent these two links in hopes of appealing to some of you who are doing internships this winter. Check out the links, talk to Marc if you have some questions about what he did there, and email Dan Doernberg, the publisher of fairness.com, at dan@fairness.com if you have questions.

bc


http://www.fairness.com/internships/newsdesk/
http://www.fairness.com/internships/editing_intern_2

"The Game Is a Tribute" in HOUSE UNAUTHORIZED

House Unauthorized, the latest in the Smart Pop series of books, is out and contains my essay "The Game Is a Tribute", in which I compare Dr. Gregory House to Sherlock Holmes.

Why do we love Holmes, while we love to hate House? I suggest that the difference is one of narrative voice: Watson exists as both a sounding board and an apologist for Holmes, while House — the same imperious figure — is trapped in an egalitarian, postmodern culture with nothing but the gaze of the camera with which to plead his case. Check it out.

Bad News: Norman Mailer Passed Away this Morning

Breaking News Alert
The New York Times
Saturday, November 10, 2007 -- 8:06 AM ET-----

Norman Mailer Is Dead at Age 84

Norman Mailer, the two-time Pulitzer Prize winner who was amajor presence in American literature for over seven decades,died of renal failure early Saturday, his literary executor said. He was 84.
Mailer died at Mount Sinai Hospital, said J. Michael Lennon,who is also the author's official biographer.

Screenwriting Workshop with Leslie Dallas

November 12 and 19, 7:30 p.m. (each session will last 2 hours)

This course provides students with a basic working knowledge of the screenwriting process. It takes students from developing an idea to working up a treatment, developing a step-outline, and writing the first 15 pages of a script. Discussion of plot, character, conflict, dialogue and structure will enhance the writing workshop and provide critical skills. The emphasis will be on learning to write for the Hollywood market. This intensive workshop is for individuals who want to learn the craft of dramatic writing.

For the first meeting, please bring in three ideas for a screenplay (typed).

All students must sign up with the MFA office in order to participate. Call 203-837-9976 or 203-837-8878 or email Dr. Clements at clementsb@wcsu.edu or Laurel Richards at richardsl@wcsu.edu. Students who sign up will be provided with workshop location.

Leslie Dallas is a screenwriter and story editor. She has been awarded the Samuel Goldwyn Writing Award, the Disney Fellowship, and the Jack Nicholson Prize in Screenwriting. Her work has been staged at the Newport Beach Film Festival and the Austin Heart of Film Festival. She is a graduate of the prestigious UCLA MFA program in Screenwriting, and has worked on numerous projects in television and for the studios. After living several lifetimes in Los Angeles, she was recently reincarnated in Connecticut.


Two-Day Workshop Outline

1. Openings
2. Three act screenplay and format.
3. Workshop: Discuss students’ three ideas for screenplays.
4. Class will decide which idea the student will develop into a script.
5. Discussion of treatments (two–page, double-spaced) vs outlines. Step outline of current film for structural review.
6. Character “bios.” Workshop with others.
7. Lecture on FIRST ACTS
8. Pitch first act ideas to class
9. Lecture: Scene construction; elements of a scene
10. Workshop: Scene activity; share with group
11. Lecture: Dialogue: Real dialogue for reel characters
12. Lecture: Movie themes—the deeper issues of storytelling.
13. What’s your movie REALLY about.
14. Discuss where you are as a writer.
15. INDUSTRY QUESTIONS: All the things you’ve wanted to ask but I kept putting off. Agents, submissions, how to break in, who to trust, etc.
16. The first 15 pages of your script

MFA Get-together and Interview

Hey Everybody,

My partner and I are looking to interview writers, published and unpublished, about their experiences in the writing/publishing industry. We will be having pizza and drinks in room 213 of the West Side Campus Center on thurs Nov. 8th at 7PM. Please email me to let me know if you plan to attend at marcfitch@comcast.net. I think it will be nice reason to get together part way through the semester and a chance to vent about our frustrations with publishers and editors and also, hopefully, share some success stories. All students and proffessors are welcome to attend. The more the better.

Hope to see you there!

-Marc E. Fitch

CT Review Contests

Info below on poetry, essay, and fiction contests.

CSU/Connecticut Review LESLIE LEEDS POETRY CONTEST&
LEO CONNELLAN POETRY CONTEST

DEADLINE: Postmarked by December 7, 2007

Poems submitted will be considered for both contests. An individual poem can win only one contest and the winning poems will be published in the Spring/ 2008 Connecticut Review.
To enter the contests, you must be currently enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate student at SCSU, ECSU, WCSU or CCSU.
1. Submit two typed copies of up to five poems. The poems will be judged individually and not as a group.
2. Each poem can have no more than 34 lines (excluding title, but including stanza break). Line count must be on the top of both copies of each poem to have it considered.
3. One copy of each poem should have name, address, e-mail, phone number, school and current ACADEMIC STATUS. One copy should have no name or information. It will be sent to the national judge.
6. Include a cover letter with a brief biography that can be used for the Contributor's Notes if you win.
7. Your work will not be returned. Include a sase for results.
Send work to: Connecticut Review/ Leeds & Connellan Contests
Attention: Lisa Siedlarz, Managing Editor
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, Ct. 06515
Tony Morris, poet and professor at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Editor of Southern Poetry Review and President of the Georgia Poetry Society will judge both contests. He's published two books of poetry as well as articles and stories in national journals. He has a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University.

CSU/Connecticut Review ESSAY CONTEST & FICTION CONTEST

DEADLINE: Postmarked by December 7, 2007

An ESSAY and a SHORT STORY will be published in the Spring/ 2008 Connecticut Review. To enter one or both of the contests, you must currently be enrolled as a graduate or undergraduate at ECSU, CCSU, SCSU, or WCSU.
1. These are two separate contests. You can send an entry to both.
2. The essay can be creative non-fiction, scholarly or personal.
3. Submit contest entries in different envelopes- label with type.
1. Do not exceed 2500 words or your entry will not be considered. Word count must be on each copy.
2. For each contest, submit two typed copies of the work. Both copies should have the name of the contest. (Fiction or Essay) One copy should have your name, address, phone number, e-mail, name of school and current academic status. One copy should have no name or information. It will be sent to the national judge. Staple the named copy and the anonymous copy separately.
3. Include a cover letter with a brief biography that can be used for the Contributor's Notes if you win.
4. Your work will not be returned. Include a sase for results.
Send work to: Connecticut Review Essay Contest (or) Fiction Contest
Attention: Lisa Siedlarz, Managing Editor
Southern Connecticut State University
501 Crescent Street
New Haven, Ct. 06515
Tony Morris, poet and professor at Armstrong Atlantic State University, Editor of Southern Poetry Review and President of the Georgia Poetry Society will judge both contests. He's published two books of poetry as well as articles and stories in national journals. He has a PhD in creative writing from Florida State University.