OPEN WRITING WORKSHOPS |
Fiction Workshop:
DATE: Saturday, April 12, 2008
Poetry Workshop:
DATE: Saturday, April 12, 2008
MATT McBRIDE is winner of the 2007 Wick Poetry Prize, sponsored by Kent State University. His chapbook, The Space between Stars, appeared last March with Kent State University Press. His poems have been published widely in magazines such as Toledo City Paper, Heartlands, Poet Lore, Phoebe, The Chiron Review, and many others. His book reviews have also appeared in literary formats such as Ragarou, The Cream City Review, and Mid-American Review. He has recently given readings at Northern Illinois University and the Chicago Academy of the Arts, a high school for artistically gifted students.
WENDELL MAYO is recipient of an NEA Creative Writing Fellowship, a Fulbright to Lithuania, an Ohio Arts Council Fellowship, and Master Fellowship from the Indiana Arts Commission. He is author of a story collection, Centaur of the North (Arte Público Press), winner of the Aztlán Prize; B. Horror and Other Stories (Livingston Press); and a novel-in-stories, In Lithuanian Wood (White Pine Press). Over eighty of his short stories have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Yale Review, Harvard Review, Manoa, Missouri Review, Threepenny Review, Indiana Review, and Chicago Review.
Each fiction or poetry manuscript must be accompanied by a $50 check ($35 for BGSU students and alumni), payable to "Bowling Green State University." Please include your address and telephone number on your manuscript. Send your check and TWO COPIES of your manuscript to: Michele Nagel, Creative Writing Program, Department of English, Bowling Green State University, Bowling Green, OH 43403. Deadline: postmarked by Monday, March 31, 2008. Since space is limited, please register early. If workshops are full, your payment will be refunded. Questions? Contact Michele Nagel, tel. 419-372-8370; e-mail, mnagel@bgsu.edu.
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The Open Writing Workshops are designed for fiction writers and poets of all levels of experience and working in a variety of genres. Writers in the workshops share their work in a professional studio setting and receive commentary on works in progress from published writers and editors.
TIME: 9:30 a.m. to 11:30 a.m.
PLACE: BGSU Campus
MANUSCRIPT: One short story or novel chapter, not to exceed 15 typed, double-spaced pages.
TIME: 1 p.m. to 3 p.m.
PLACE: BGSU Campus
MANUSCRIPT: Three poems, typed, not to exceed 100 lines for all three.