Events Calendar

Playwriting and Screenwriting Workshop @ Bloomingfoods Community Room

https://jsbrink1111.wixsite.com

Sep 15 @ 3:00 pm – Nov 3 @ 6:00 pm

Playwriting and Screenwriting Workshop

J.S. Brinkley Class

This eight week course is being offered to both playwrights and screenwriters on Sundays from Sept 15 through Nov 3.

The class will focus on the core elements of each discipline such as structure, character development and dialogue. The intention is to clarify the varying components of stage versus film and to work toward solidifying the writer’s voice in either medium. Over the course of the workshop, class participants will create a one act play or short film script, as well as the beginning of a full-length project—premise, outline and opening scene—depending on their artistic interest.

Please contact us at BrinkleyClass@gmail.com for an application. All applicants will be asked to submit a writing sample

Fri

Audio Verse Awards – Voting

Oct 11 @ 8:30 pm – Oct 31 @ 12:00 pm

The Writers Guild at Bloomington’s FRANKENSTEIN radio play from Frankenfest 2018 has been nominated in several categories for the 2019 Audio Verse Awards.

Please vote!

Vote Here! – https://audioverseawards.net/vote/

Voting is open through Thursday, October 31st at 11:59 PM Pacific Time.

Third Sunday Write! @ Monroe County Public Library room 214

Oct 20 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Third Second Sunday Write

At this writing group, you can stretch your writing muscles with prompts and exercises.

It’s open to all WG members. Not a member yet? No problem, just click on JOIN at the top of the website.

This generative workshop is led by local writers. They take it in turns and are Shana Ritter, Tonia Matthew and PDVNCH.

Hope to see you!

To register send name and email address to thirdsundaywrite@writersguildbloomington.com

It’s free!

Sat

Writers Guilde Monthly Business Meeting @ Monroe County Public Library

Oct 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Writers Guild Monthly Business Meeting

Join us for our monthly business meeting to discuss what we are doing and what we are doing next. Bring you ideas! Bring your voice to add to the discussion.

We meet at the Monroe County Public Library in room 214.

Writers Guilde Monthly Business Meeting @ Monroe County Public Library

Oct 26 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Writers Guild Monthly Business Meeting

Join us for our monthly business meeting to discuss what we are doing and what we are doing next. Bring you ideas! Bring your voice to add to the discussion.

We meet at the Monroe County Public Library in room 214.

Last Sunday Poetry Reading and Open Mic @ Monroe Country Convention Center, Rogers room

Oct 27 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

With guest poets: Ashley Taylor and Daniel Olsson

Followed by an Open Mic.

Free parking in the back!

Ashley Taylor is a Louisville Ky poet who curates, promotes, and designs inclusive programming of creative writing and performance arts for

emerging and student writers. She is an early education teacher at Jewish Community Center and MFA candidate at Spalding University. She holds a Master of Arts in English from the University of Louisville, where she served as graduate editor of Miracle Monocle and writing instructor of College Composition and Introduction to Creative Writing. She is the founder of Louisville reading series River City Revue, author of the chaplet Metamorphosis of Narcissus (Damaged Goods Press, 2019), and current facilitator of Uof L’s LGBTQ Creative Writing Group.

Daniel Olsson is an IT Support Technician for Indiana University where he has worked full-time for the past two years. He has been writing poetry since he was fifteen; however he has only been sharing his poetry with other people for the past year and a half. He enjoys writing poetry about current events. He reads about the news and the way the world is changing for better or worse and uses writing as a

way to express what he is reading, hearing, seeing, and feeling. Topics range from current local events to events happening half way across the world. If a new reporter writes about it and he reads it, poetry will be made.

Nov

The Ryser Scholarship

Nov 3 2019 @ 9:15 am – Mar 31 2020 @ 11:27 am

The Writers Guild at Bloomington is pleased to announce:

THE RYSER SCHOLARSHIP

Annual support for a writer from South Central Indiana to pursue excellence

by attending a formal workshop or conference in the craft of writing.

The scholarship rotates yearly between a high school junior or senior, a Language Arts Teacher, and a Writer’s Guild member of any experience level. Our 2019 Ryser Scholarship recipient, Jan Tilley, is a Guild Member whose tuition to the 2019 IU Writers’ Conference was paid by the scholarship.

The 2020 Ryser Scholarship will be awarded to a High School junior or senior student in Monroe County, Brown County,

Lawrence County or Owen County.

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Joan Ryser taught American and European literature, creative writing, grammar and composition at Bloomington High School South for 44 years, where she was a beloved mentor for budding writers and avid readers.

When Joan passed away in 2017, she left instructions with her family that instead of flowers, memorial contributions be made to a local organization that promotes writing and literacy. The Writers Guild at Bloomington received the resulting donations and established the Guild’s first scholarship award. The Writers Guild has set up a continuing plan for the award, committing 5% of all membership fees and event proceeds in order to create ongoing support for writers to build their craft.

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The Ryser Scholarship provides $350 towards of a formal workshop or conference in the craft of writing. Events in Indiana include:

IU Writers Conference — Bloomington
Indiana Writers’ Center, A Gathering of Writers — Indianapolis
Midwest Writers Workshop – Ball State University, Muncie
Writing for Your Life Spiritual Writers’ Conference — Indianapolis
Women Writing for (a) Change workshops – Bloomington

The deadline for submissions is March 31, 2020.

For further information please contact: ryseraward@writersguildbloomington.com

First Sunday Prose @ Bear's Place

Nov 3 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

The featured readers are: James Dorr and Andrew Hubbard

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

James Dorr’s most recent book is a novel-in-stories from Elder Signs Press, TOMBS, A CHRONICLE OF LATTER-DAY TIMES OF EARTH. Working mostly in dark fantasy/horror with some forays into science fiction and mystery, his THE TEARS OF ISIS was a 2013 Bram Stoker Award® finalist for Superior Achievement in a Fiction Collection, while other books include STRANGE MISTRESSES: TALES OF WONDER AND ROMANCE, DARKER LOVES: TALES OF MYSTERY AND REGRET, and his all-poetry VAMPS (A RETROSPECTIVE). He has also been a technical writer, an editor on a regional magazine, a full time non-fiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician, and currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana. He invites those interested to stop by his blog, http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com

Andrew Hubbard was born and raised in a coastal Maine fishing village. He earned degrees in English and Creative Writing from Dartmouth College and Columbia University, respectively. For most of his career he has worked as Director of Training for major financial institutions, creating and delivering Sales, Management, and Technical training for user groups of up to 4,000.

He has had four prose books published, and his most recent books, collections of poetry, were published in 2014, 2016, and 2018.He is a casual student of cooking and wine, a former martial arts instructor and competitive weight lifter, a collector of edged weapons, and a licensed handgun instructor. He lives in rural Indiana with his son, his wife, a giant, black German Shepard, and a gaggle of semi-tame deer.

contact Joan Hawkins (jchawkin93@yahoo.com)

Nov

Wed

Spoken Word Series @ Bears Place

Nov 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

Writers Guild Spoken Word Series

Featuring: poets Roger Pfingston and Tom Hastings, Richard Fish (reading Ernie Pyle) and a Russ McGee ensemble performing scenes from an upcoming Ernie Pyle Podcast.

Music by Gabriel Hartley

Open mic

Suggested Donation $5

Born and raised in Evansville, Indiana, ROGER PFINGSTON is a retired teacher of English and photography. He is also the recipient of a Creative Writing Fellowship from the National Endowment for the Arts and two PEN Syndicated Fiction Awards as well as the author of Something Iridescent, a collection of poetry and fiction. Five chapbooks have appeared since 2003: Nesting, Earthbound, Singing to the Garden, A Day Marked for Telling, and What’s Given, the latter recently published by Kattywompus Press. His poems have appeared in a wide range of publications, including I-70 Review, U.S. 1 Worksheets, Poet Lore, American Journal of Poetry, Innisfree Poetry Journal, and Ted Kooser’s column, American Life in Poetry. About Pfingston’s new chapbook, What’s Given, Sammy Greenspan, editor of Kattywompus Press, writes, “Follow the gaze of poet Roger Pfingston, as he takes in the passage of seemingly ordinary days in apparently unremarkable places, and watch the world quiet down, deepen, and ripple out.”

TOM HASTINGS taught language arts and Jungian psychology at Harmony High School here in Bloomington for 36 years before retiring in 2014. He received a BA in Mythogenics from Antioch in 1973 and has taken graduate classes at the California Institute of Asian Studies, the C. G. Jung Institute in Switzerland, and classes toward a Masters in Counseling at Indiana University. He’s been a Royal Scottish Arts Council Poet in the Schools in Edinburgh, Scotland and for the Indiana Arts Commission in Zionsville and Bloomington. He created the Indianapolis Broadsheet, cofounded the Indiana Writers Center and was poetry editor of its publication, Inprint. His poems have appeared in numerous small press publications and he is the author of a dozen chapbooks. His new and collected poems, Crop Circle Secrets, were published by Muse Rules Press in 2004. He fronted the poetry performance band, Coup Coup Daddy, for over a decade and he was the foreign correspondent for on-line Zoo & Logical Times. Since 2015, he’s been teaching theatrical magic classes for the Ivy Tech Center for Lifelong Learning as well as demonstrating and performing at Rich Hill’s Magic and Fun Emporium in Nashville, Indiana.

RICHARD FISH is an actor, writer, and musician who has worked in audio theatre since 1970, becoming a producer, director, teacher, engineer, Foley artist, journalist, and publisher along the way. Richard has worked with the leading ﬁgures in audio theatre from coast to coast, including the legendary American grand master of the art, Norman Corwin. A founder of the National Audio Theatre Festivals organization, and WFHB Community Radio in his hometown of Bloomington, Indiana, Richard has won awards for radio advertising, broadcast journalism, and acting, including a Mark Time Award for “carrying on the traditions of The Firesign Theatre.” He is heard weekly over WFHB as host of “The Firehouse Theatre,” presenting old and new audio theatre; as writer and presenter of “Better Beware,” a weekly news feature on scams and swindles; and in “The Firehouse Follies,” a live variety show offered four times a year. All these broadcasts are streamed and archived on the station’s website, www.wfhb.org. Richard will be reading from the works of Hoosier war correspondent Ernie Pyle.

In July, singer, songwriter, and multi-instrumentalist GABRIEL HARLEY released his fifth full-length album, Beat of a Broken Heart, a collection of personal, acoustic-guitar-driven songs inspired by love, friendship, and life in the wake of his own open-heart surgery in 2013 and the obstacles and complications that lingered for months and even years after. Recorded at Gabriel’s own Perfect Mix Studios, Beat of a Broken Heart’s sound is deeply rooted in the music he grew up on–namely singer-songwriters of the 1970s like Cat Stevens, Jim Croce, and James Taylor.

Nov

Sat

The Power of Words Author Event with Margaret MacMullan @ Buskirk Chumley Theater