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Delta Literary Arts Society launches first poetry contest – Peace Arch News

Local writers are encouraged to sharpen their pencils and enter the Delta Literary Arts Society’s inaugural poetry contest. Through April 1, DLAS is accepting submissions from literary novices and seasoned professionals, with cash prizes up for grabs. “We are delighted to provide a forum for local writers to share their …

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Delta Literary Arts Society Launches First Poetry Competition – Surrey Now-Leader

Local writers are encouraged to sharpen their pencils and enter the Delta Literary Arts Society’s inaugural poetry contest. Through April 1, DLAS is accepting submissions from literary novices and seasoned professionals, with cash prizes up for grabs. “We are delighted to provide a forum for local writers to share their …

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Literary Arts Announces 2022 Oregon Book Award Finalists

On Monday, March 7, Literary Arts has announced the finalists for the 2022 Oregon Book Awards. Out-of-state judges highlighted 35 titles (two by Portland YA author April Henry), including alumni books Portland Monthly contributors Omar El Akkad, Sarah Mirk and Jessica (Tyner) Mehta. Topics range from trans magic …

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Delta Literary Arts Society Launches Poetry Contest

The Delta Literary Arts Society (DLAS) is launching its first poetry contest where everyone from literary novices to professionals is invited to throw their hats into the ring. “We are thrilled to provide a forum for local writers to share their work,” said Diana Calliou, DLAS Treasurer and author of …

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Beyond Baroque Literary Arts Center launches 2022 prize awarding $10,000 in competitions and scholarships to young poets of color

VENICE, Calif. /California Newswire/ – Beyond Baroque, one of the nation’s leading literary arts centers, announced that the Amanda Gorman Future Voices Poetry Prize is now actively accepting nominations. The award, created in honor of Beyond Baroque alumnus and U.S. presidential inaugural poet Amanda Gorman, will accept nominations through May …

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Literary Arts Fair | The Bucks County Herald

The Bucks County Arts and Culture Council presents a LITERARY ARTS FAIR February 17, 2022 at 7:00 p.m. at Freeman Hall, 181 East Court Street, Doylestown, featuring 2021 Bucks County Poet Laureate Nicole Steinberg; Lynn Levin, winner of the 2021 Bucks County Short Fiction Award; Steve Nolan, writer and poet; …

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Chautauqua Literary Arts partners with the JHS class to present “Holidays in Poetry”

WRFA Jason sample speak with Sony Ton Aime, Michael I. Rudell Director of Literary Arts at Chautauqua Institution, and Betsy Rowe-Baehr, English teacher at Jamestown High School. The two share details about Holidays in poetry – a new community project combining poetry and the holidays. Part of the project involved …

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Delta Literary Arts Society Hosts Family Holiday Show to Support Deltassist – Surrey Now-Leader

The Delta Literary Arts Society is hosting a holiday themed event to raise money for the Deltassist Emergency Food Cabinet. On Saturday December 18, DLAS presents two screenings of Suki’s Reindeer Wish at the North Delta Arts Center. The family event will feature reindeer crafts, winter-themed family portraits, and an …

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Delta Literary Arts Society hosts family vacation show to support Deltassist – Peace Arch News

The Delta Literary Arts Society is hosting a holiday themed event to raise money for the Deltassist Emergency Food Cabinet. On Saturday December 18, DLAS presents two screenings of Suki’s Reindeer Wish at the North Delta Arts Center. The family event will feature reindeer crafts, winter-themed family portraits, and an …

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Delta Literary Arts Society Hosts Family Vacation Show to Support Deltassist – North Delta Reporter

The Delta Literary Arts Society is hosting a holiday themed event to raise money for the Deltassist Emergency Food Cabinet. On Saturday December 18, DLAS presents two screenings of Suki’s Reindeer Wish at the North Delta Arts Center. The family event will feature reindeer crafts, winter-themed family portraits, and an …

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Delta Literary Arts Society Hosts Family Holiday Show Supporting Deltassist – Surrey Now-Leader

The Delta Literary Arts Society is hosting a holiday-themed event to raise funds for the Deltasist emergency food cabinet. On Saturday December 18, DLAS presents two screenings of Suki’s Reindeer Wish at the North Delta Arts Center. The family event will include reindeer crafts, winter-themed family portraits and an all-ages …

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Mini Book Fair will feature locally written and produced books | Arts and culture

BRATTLEBORO – A mini holiday book fair will be held at the Atrium of Brooks House in downtown Brattleboro on Saturday Holly Days from noon to 4 p.m. The books will be sold and signed by their authors. In addition to books by local authors, two Brattleboro history books will …

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Scotiabank announces increased support for Canadian literary arts through Little Free Library and Scotiabank Giller Prize collaboration

TORONTO –News Direct– Scotiabank TORONTO, November 2, 2021 / 3BL Media / – Scotiabank announced a new collaboration with Little Free Library, the world’s largest book-sharing movement, to place thousands of copies of the novels shortlisted for the Scotiabank Prize Giller in Little Free Libraries across Canada. Today, Canadians can …

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Scotiabank announces additional support for Canadian literary arts in collaboration with Little Free Library and the Scotiabank Giller Prize

TORONTO, 25 October 2021 / CNW / – Scotiabank today announced a new collaboration with Small free library, the world’s largest book-sharing movement, to place thousands of copies of the novels shortlisted for the Scotiabank Giller Prize in small free libraries across Canada. Scotiabank is giving Little Free Library stewards …

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Scotiabank Announces Additional Support for Canadian Literary Arts with Little Free Library and Scotiabank Giller Prize

Today, Canadians can now find “book bundles” containing the 5 shortlisted novels in hundreds of small free libraries across the country. This collaboration is an important part of Scotiabank’s support of Canadian literary arts and will allow more Canadians to access the novels shortlisted for the prize and promote the …

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Delta Literary Arts Society features spooky Halloween-themed poetry and short story reading

“Killer Verse: A Night of Literary Terror” will make you tremble in your seat Just a month after its inception, the Delta Literary Arts Society (DLAS) is determined to scare Delta with its next spooky read at the North Delta Center for the Arts. The group will feature spooky poems …

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Delta Literary Arts Society Launches With Halloween-Themed Show – North Delta Reporter

The newly launched Delta Literary Arts Society (DLAS) is wasting no time in bringing its first event to North Delta audiences. On Saturday, October 23, the company is hosting Killer Verse: A Night of Literary Terror, a multi-faceted production featuring “undead” costumed actors and ushers, at the new North Delta …

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Utah Festival of the Arts 2021: Literary Arts Program, now in its 27th year, adds new features including BIPOC Literary Program, student writer readings, three-stage performances

EDITOR’S NOTE: For more on some highlights from this year’s Utah Festival of the Arts literary arts program, check out articles on BIPOC’s literary program here, AM Luzzader and Chadd VanZanten here, Danielle Susi and the student writers from the SLCC here and the independent and team poems slams here. …

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Oregon Literary Scholarship Guidelines 2022

The Oregon Literary Fellowships are intended to assist writers in Oregon to initiate, develop or complete literary projects in the fields of poetry, fiction, literary non-fiction, theater (including scripts for television and film) and literature for young readers. For 2022, Literary Arts will accept applications online only. Application deadline: September …

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Winchester’s 1455 Literary Arts Summer Festival practically returns this week

The 1455 Literary Arts Summer Festival kicked off in 2019 in person in Winchester, Virginia, before switching to virtual panels last year due to the COVID-19 pandemic. This week, the festival virtually returns with more than 70 free events from Thursday to Saturday. OMCP’s Jason Fraley gives an overview of …

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Toyota Supports Detroit Students With “InsideOut Literary Arts” Oral Creation

Photo provided Detroit, MI – InsideOut Literary Arts, an award-winning organization headquartered in Detroit, has announced the winners of its 2021 performance troupe supported by Toyota Motor North America. The performance troupe is part of the organization’s Citywide Poets after-school program, which provides teens with weekly creative writing workshops, publications, …

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Literary Arts Tent is looking for authors, illustrators and poets in Norwich, NY

The Colorscape Board is busy planning the return of the Colorscape Chenango Arts Festival, scheduled for the weekend after Labor Day, September 11-12. The festival attracts around 10,000 to 12,000 attendees each year and all the favorite things to do will be back for 2021. There will be multiple stages …

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Twelve beginnings in literary arts “In search of the earth”

In spring 2020, Gray-Kontar invited 20 young people from Cleveland connected to Twelve Literary Arts to share their poems at an open-mic Zoom conference. Wallace, who lived near Washington, DC at the time, listened to the call in an effort to select a range of poems depicting a myriad of …

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Las Positas College organizes its first Literary Arts Festival | New

Las Positas College is hosting its first all-day literary arts festival on Saturday May 8, a free virtual event that will feature nationally and internationally renowned authors including bestselling memoirs, Hollywood screenwriter, award-winning poets and more Again. “This event is really special because it allows LPC to showcase the amazing …

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Pamplin Media Group – Bits & Pieces: Literary Arts Virtualandia Features Young Poets

Other elements include the New Avenues for Youth mural, the Laurelhurst Club, the Ansel Adams and Lois Greenfield exhibit. Adams’ photos on display The Portland Art Museum has reopened and will bring the “Ansel Adams in Our Time” exhibit to members beginning Wednesday, April 28 and to the general public …

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Literary Arts Announces 2021 Oregon Book Prize Finalists

Literary Arts announced the finalists for the 2021 Oregon Book Awards on Monday. A panel of selected non-Oregon writers 35 titles from all over the state be finalists in the Fiction, Poetry, Non-Fiction, Non-Fictional Creation, Children’s Literature, YA and Theater categories. This year’s tomes range from a deep historical dive …

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FSU Literary Arts Center to host bestselling author Russell Shorto’s virtual reading | Community

FROSTBURG – As part of its Spring Reading Series, the Literary Arts Center at Frostburg State University will be hosting a virtual reading by writer Russell Shorto on April 1 at 7:30 p.m. This semester, the readings will be streamed live on YouTube and then be available on the CLA …

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NEA Big Read Celebrates Indigenous Literary Arts and Culture

March 2, 2021 ASU Piper Center kicked off a series of events with a discussion on “The Round House” by Louise Erdrich It has been almost a decade since Louise Erdrich’s novel “The Round House” first told the story of Joe Coutts, a 13-year-old boy living on an Ojibwe reservation …

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Ursula K. Le Guin to feature on upcoming USPS Literary Arts stamp

After the US Postal Service essentially saved democracy, the least you can do is hang stamps. But maybe you need that soft local angle. We understood! And so, apparently, does the USPS. The Postal Service announced a new range of stamps on Friday, one of which includes Ursula K. Le …

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Literary Arts Festival spotlights local and guest artists of color

When author Sarah Rafael García’s LibroMobile started taking up space in an alleyway in Santa Ana next to 4th and Spurgeon streets, the goal was to cultivate diversity through books. The past year has been all about how to occupy online space to survive. LibroMobile Literary Arts Festival will go …

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Noepe Center for the Literary Arts announces writing workshops

The Noepe Center for the Literary Arts in Featherstone recently announced their writing workshops for winter and spring 2021. The year begins with Shira Erlichman, with her “Nothing for Granted” poetry workshop. The five-day virtual course will run from February 15 to 19, from 4:30 p.m. to 6 p.m. “In …

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Artistic organizations create an “Emergency fund for literary arts”

NEW YORK (AP) – Thanks to a grant from the Andrew W. Mellon Foundation, three major literary arts nonprofits have teamed up to administer $ 3.5 million to struggling organizations during the coronavirus pandemic. Along with the Mellon Foundation, the Academy of American Poets, the Community of Literary Magazines and …

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Neukom Institute Announces Shortlist of 2020 Literary Arts Awards

The Neukom Institute for Computational Science at Dartmouth College has announced the shortlist of books for its 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, and that this year’s guest judge will be Sam J. Miller, author of black fish town, Destroy all monstersand the next The blade enters. The awards were …

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The Neukom Institute announces the list of finalists for the Literary Arts Awards 2020

Dartmouth College’s Neukom Institute for Computational Science has announced the shortlist of books shortlisted for its 2020 Neukom Institute Literary Arts Awards, and this year’s guest judge will be Sam J. Miller, author of Blackfish Town, Destroy all monsters, and the next one The blade enters. The awards were first …

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An Open Letter from New York City Literary Arts Organizations to Members of the New York City Council

To New York City Council Members Van Bramer, Gjonaj, Moya, Cumbo and Borelli We write to you as literary arts organizations in New York City committed to fostering the well-being of the city’s community of writers and other literary professionals struggling with the COVID outbreak. -19. We ask that you …

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Why teaching literary arts on the zoom doesn’t quite work

I skipped the Departmental Literary Arts meeting on Monday March 9 and I shouldn’t have. Item seven of our agenda, “COVID-19 “, suddenly became item # 1, and the result, as I soon learned, was that we, the professors of creative writing at Brown University, now had to begin the …

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Alvernia students win international honors for literary arts

Literary arts magazine Zephyrus wins second place in the Sigma Tau Delta competition For the second consecutive yearAlvernia students have been honored by the English International Honor Society, Sigma Tau Deltafor their literary and artistic work in Zephyrus, the university’s literary arts journal. “I am delighted that our students have …

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Remembering Seattle poet and teacher Judith Roche, who led the Bumbershoot Literary Arts Program

Life on Judith Roche has lived her life fascinated and immersed in the power of the written word. As a long-time poet, she has published several collections of works, including “Wisdom of the Body,” which won an American Book Award in 2007. As long-time director of Bumbershoot’s literary arts program …

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A museum to showcase the literary arts

The Laguna Art Museum and Laguna Beach Literary Laureate Lojo Simon recently announced the opening on January 18 of a special exhibition at the museum titled “Word & Image in Dialogue”, showcasing created works of art and literature. by local artists and writers. The exhibition will run until January 25. …

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St. George Literary Arts Festival kicks off with Terry Tempest Williams book launch – St George News

Stock image, St. George News ST. GEORGE – The St. George Literary Arts Festival begins this week and continues through Saturday, with an array of world-renowned authors and presenters in a multitude of literary art forms. The festival kicks off Tuesday with the launch of his latest book by Terry …

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Beyond a Bookstore: Literary Arts for All Ages at the Open Book | Lifestyles

Opened in March of this year, The Open Book in Old Town Warrenton has already become for many one of their favorite spots on Main Street. The bookstore caters to the needs of avid readers, curious browsers, and those who enjoy attending special events. Evidenced by the popularity and success …

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The Porch presents three literary arts awards | Books

Last week, local literary arts association The Porch announced the winners of its first annual The Porch Award. The Porch received over 200 submissions in the categories of fiction, poetry, and creative non-fiction. Winners received $500 each and publication in the Nashville Review, the literary journal edited by students in …

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The Archive Project – The Poets of Literary Arts on Broadway

Shayla Lawson (left), Stephanie Adams-Santos (center) and Jane Wong (right) Photos by: Erica J. Mitchell (left), Stephanie Adams-Santos (center), UW Bothell (right) Three contemporary poets, Shayla Lawson, Stephanie Adams-Santos and Jane Wong, share their poetry and discuss their work and inspirations. In 2018, Literary Arts hosted a free reading series …

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Grossmont College Literary Arts Festival is packed with book and poetry readings, presentations – open to the public

Courtesy photo. Zine editor and producer Margaret Nee speaks at the 2018 Grossmont College Literary Arts Festival. An April 22 presentation by a trio of local writers on the modern era of agentless self-publishing, and later in the evening, student readings and performances of original works kick off the 23rd …

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Word: A podcast on the literary arts in Arizona and the region

welcome to Word, a podcast hosted by Tom Maxedon of KJZZ on literature in Arizona and the region. S6 E5 | November 11, 2021 Explore the human condition in the past, present and future with a historical fiction writer, poet from Phoenix and video game enthusiast from Valley. S6 E4 …

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The Memphis Literary Arts Festival takes place June 15-16

The inaugural Memphis Literary Arts Festival will draw fiction and cuisine writers, poets and essayists from New York to New Orleans, Columbus to Atlanta, as well as writers and artists from the host city and region. The event is scheduled for Friday and Saturday in the Edge neighborhood of downtown. …

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It’s an all-female literary arts lineup for Seattle Arts & Lectures in 2018-19, and other book news.

Seattle Arts & Lectures’ literary arts series at Benaroya Hall will, for the first time, be composed entirely of women writers, from Doris Kearns Goodwin to Valeria Luiselli to Alice Walker; SAL is also launching a series on journalism. And how successful was this year’s Seattle Independent Bookstore Day? Life …

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Why is the spirit of experimentation absent from the literary arts?

At Phonica: One, Sue Rainsford dunked the pages she read and the notebooks she kept to her evolving novel in water, emphasizing fluidity of process and content; James King fused sound poetry and physical performance involving a typewriter at Phonica: Two; the highlight of Phonica: Four saw Santiago-born, Paris-based poet …

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Gifts That Celebrate Rochester’s Literary Arts

If you’re looking for holiday gifts that celebrate both Rochester and the literary arts, you don’t need to look far. Here are two books and a calendar that showcase Flour City in all its glory and beauty. Add them to your shopping lists as they are must-haves for the bibliophile …

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4 things to look forward to in the new Literary Arts section

Christine Green | Democrat and Chronic My writing career started many years ago when I was growing up. In fourth grade, I wrote a little book and imagined myself as a future novelist. I’ve always found time to write silly little stories and draw pencil and crayon illustrations. But over …

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