Third Sunday Write!

Our writing workshop is back! Stretch your writing muscles with prompts, exercises and activities.

This is open to all Writers Guild members. Not a Writers Guild member yet? No problem, just click on JOIN at the toP of our website.

TO REGISTER FOR THE WRITING WORKSHOP: SEND YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS TO: thirdsundaywrite@writersguildbloomington.com

The workshop is facilitated by volunteer Writer Guild members. The facilitators are Shana Ritter, Molly Gleeson, Tonia Matthew. The will rotate hosting the workshop.

Meet in room 214.

JOIN US FOR THIS FUN, FREE-FLOWING, GENERATIVE WRITING TIME.

This workshop is Free!

Reader’s Radar Hits the Airwaves

PROGRAM PREMIERE
Wednesday, July 18
indianapublicmedia.org
New Episodes posted bi-monthly

Longtime Writers Guild Member and current Guild Secretary Shayne Laughter is onto something exciting — a podcast created at WFIU Public Radio. READER’S RADAR will be a half-hour journey into new short fiction coming from literary journals published in Indiana.

Laughter is an Arts Reporter at WFIU, and produces the web-only podcast, “Kinsey Confidential,” for WFIU and the IU School of Public Health. She has been a reader of stories and novels for the WFHB show, “Books Unbound,” and a voice actor with the Burroughs Century audio theater troupe, plus is often heard reading her original fiction at the Writers Guild live spoken word events.

Laughter began developing READER’S RADAR when she realized that radio, TV and podcast shows about literature and reading commonly focus on full-length books and book authors — and none paid any attention to literary journals, even though these substantial magazines are plentiful on bookstore shelves and writers compete hard to get published there.

Literary journals are where writers in all genres — fiction, poetry, essay and memoir — get their start, where they build their audiences and keep their skills fresh.It’s also where young editors and publishing professionals get their start, because most journals come out of colleges and universities. Indiana alone boasts 15 publications in print and online. 11 of them from academic programs around the state. Three are world-renowned, and most journals publish writers from all over the world.

READER’S RADAR premieres online at indianapublicmedia.org on July 18, and will post new episodes twice a month. Each half-hour program will start with a brief interview with the featured journal’s Editor, and then Laughter will read a story from the journal’s current or recent issue. Each story has been chosen by the Editor as the one they are most excited for podcast listeners to hear — a tale that has an extra special something.

A story that needs to be on your Radar.

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See the Herald-Times article at https://www.heraldtimesonline.com/entertainment/new-radio-programs-explore-songs-stories-and-more/article_09cebb7b-8c75-584f-8cfb-baf13420c869.html

WG Potluck Social & Open Mic

Lower Cascades Park
Waterfall Shelter (the smaller one … with a waterfall)

Bring a dish to share and some writing to read in the Open Mic.

Enjoy meeting other WG members at this casual event and celebrate our writing community.

If you are interested in volunteering, especially for the upcoming SPOKEN WORD STAGE at the 4th Street Festival in September, this will be an excellent opportunity to meet the people who will put it all together!

Life Writing: Vignettes, Dialogue and Scenes

A Partnership with the Writers Guild at Bloomington.

Think of writing your life story as a quilt with many parts: it does not matter where you begin as long as you keep working and create space for everything. We will practice using vignettes and reconstructed dialogue to stir memories and build structure.

All levels welcome.

Led by Doris Lynch.

First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

With guest readers Denise Breeden-Ost and PDNVCH.

Open Mic follows the guest readers.

Players Pub Spoken Word Series
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

Featuring Gilbert Ndahayo (poetry), Hiromi Yoshida (poetry), T.K. Williams (poetry)
with music by Sitar Outreach Ministry (psychedelic sitar)

$5

There will also be an open mic.

GILBERT NDAHAYO is an African Movie Academy Award® nominated film director and two-times winner of the Best Documentary Feature at Silicon Valley African Film Festival for “The Rwandan Night” (2013) and “Rwanda: Beyond the Deadly Pit” (2010). His 32-minutes first fiction film “Scars of my Days” – a morality tale and visceral cinematic experience of “Sin City” set in Africa – aired on French television TV5 Monde and premiered at the 2007 New York’s TriBeCa Film Festival film in the presence of the former US President Bill Clinton. Ndahayo was born in 1975 in the Mishahi forest, a traditional village of Astrida (Southern Province), and raised into an Abatsobe family – the royal ritualist – as one of the last great grand-sons of Umwami (King) of Rwanda. With the outbreak of the Tutsi genocide, Ndahayo alongside with other twenty-seven young boys were hiding at CND’s bunker, guarded by the Inkotanyi’s Rukaga – six hundred soldiers of the RPF’s third battalion. His parents, grandparents and fifty-two members of his immediate family were massacred. Ndahayo’s debut Kinyarwanda poetry collections “Vida and Me-n”, “Ndabaga – the Archangel-e” and “Slayers and the Bird” were performed in the Spring of 2005 before an audience of eleven thousand people at Amahoro stadium in the capital city of Rwanda. Ndahayo holds Master’s degree in Fine Arts in Film from Columbia University in New York City and currently lives in Bloomington working on his first novel.

HIROMI YOSHIDA is a winner of multiple Indiana University Writers’ Conference awards. Her poems have been published in a variety of literary magazines and journals that include Indiana Voice Journal, Flying Island, The Asian American Literary Review, and The Rain, Party, & Disaster Society. An active member of the Beat Generation and Daily Haiku Facebook Groups, Hiromi’s status updates frequently assume haiku form.

From and made of parts unknown, TK WILLIAMS graduated from the University of Evansville with a BFA in poetry in 2008. Their work has been published in the journals Outrageous Fortune, Bad Pony and Inflection: A Collection of New Poetry, as well as several poetry zines and, soon, a Carly Rae Jepsen fanbook. TK’s work as of late has focused on exploring transgender and disabled identities, with the occasional dip into professional wrestling as an expression of love. Don’t tell their professors that last part.

In the hazy basements of local analog havens, an audio experience has been blooming at a remarkably organic rate. SITAR OUTREACH MINISTRY, comprised of a sitar, electric guitar, and numerous unique instruments, has been planting the seeds of meditative grooves for many years in the Bloomington scene and impact listeners new and old.

Third Sunday Write!

Our writing workshop is back! Stretch your writing muscles with prompts, exercises and activities.

This is open to all Writers Guild members. Not a Writers Guild member yet? No problem, just click on JOIN at the toP of our website.

TO REGISTER FOR THE WRITING WORKSHOP: SEND YOUR NAME AND EMAIL ADDRESS TO: thirdsundaywrite@writersguildbloomington.com

The workshop is facilitated by volunteer Writer Guild members. The facilitators are Shana Ritter, Molly Gleeson, Tonia Matthew. The will rotate hosting the workshop.

Meet in room 214.

JOIN US FOR THIS FUN, FREE-FLOWING, GENERATIVE WRITING TIME.

This workshop is Free!

WG Monthly Business Meeting

Saturday, August 25
3-4:30 pm
Monroe County Public Library, room 214
303 E Kirkwood Ave

Catch all the latest news with the movers and shakers at the Writers Guild!

Last Sunday Poetry Reading and Open Mic
Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

With guest readers Lisa Kwong and PDVNCH

Followed by an Open Mic
It’s all free!
Free parking in the back too.

Lisa Kwong is an AppalAsian writer in the Midwest, where she currently teaches courses in Asian American Studies and English at Indiana University. She is a distinguished creative writing alumna of Appalachian State University and earned an MFA in poetry from Indiana University. Her poems and essays are forthcoming or have appeared in A Literary Field Guide to Southern Appalachia, Anthology of Appalachian Writers, Best New Poets 2014, the minnesota review, Banango Street, Still: The Journal, Naugatuck River Review, Appalachian Heritage, Pluck!, and other journals. She has received poetry scholarships and fellowships from Indiana University, The Frost Place, and Sundress Academy for the Arts, where she was the 2017 Appalachian Writer-in-Residence. She has also been a featured artist for the Urban Appalachian Community Coalition Literary Salon in Cincinnati, Ohio. In addition to creative writing and Asian American studies, Lisa is also passionate about superheroes and ‘90s music, especially Batman and Mariah Carey, and moonlights as an aspiring fashion stylist with a penchant for pattern mixing and all shades of pink.

PDVNCH  [Pee-dove-inch]

An African-American, “who’s been Black all of his life”, a native Indian,born as a Bloomingtonian, raised as an Ellettsvillian.  A product of the ‘80s, and shaped by the ‘90s.  He’s listened to all genres of music!  A certified Cinephile.  He loves domestic touring and international travel, and breakfast is his favorite mealtime.  Some of his influences include; Dr. Martin Luther King Jr., Dr. Cornell West, Dr. Michael Eric Dyson, Dick Gregory, Richard Pryor, Paul Mooney, and Sinbad.  A spiritual individual, with an optimistic Intro-extrovert personality, who is serious about being hilarious, and, thus, loves to laugh hysterically.  On Staff at Indiana University’s Bloomington campus, a humble member of the Bloomington Writers Guild, supporter of the arts, and advocate in the local artists community.  He recited his first freestyle rap at age 5 years old.  Then later would be inspired by the works of Shakespeare.  Now, Director of Creative-Arts Production at GHETT-HEALTHY productions, a nonprofit Creative-Arts organization, founded in 2001, writing the soundtrack to his life.  As an author, his body of work contains, 1,000+ songs, poems, comedy sketches, and fictional/non-fictional writings.  As a visual soryteller, verbal illustrator, and conceptualists; he believes there is no metaphorical box that fits him.  One of his school-mates observed and commented, “You don’t fit in, yet you mix in”.  As an inventor/originator, most known, globally, for his original iconic hair designs (Beads by DVNCH), fabulous frames and his phenomenal passion for fashion.  His desire, is to Inspire inspiration, his proclivity for creativity, is infused in his illusive exclusivity.  He is an enthusiasm enthusiast, who refuses to complain, and maintains that, excuses are useless, so he chooses to lose excuses, and find solutions.

Spoken Word Stage at 4th Street Arts Festival

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
Supported in part by the Bloomington Arts Commission

Labor Day Weekend
Saturday, September 1: 10am – 6pm
Sunday, September 2: 10am – 5pm
Intersection of Dunn and Fourth Streets
Fourth Street Festival of the Arts and Crafts
www.4thstreet.org

Save the Date!

Now in its 8th year, the Spoken Word Stage at the 4th Street Arts Festival is one of the largest literary performance events in the Midwest, featuring storytelling, poetry, fiction, non-fiction, live radio theatre, and other unique collaborations.

And of course, the ever-popular Poetry on Demand table will be staffed with a fleet of poets armed with typewriters ready to deliver!

SCHEDULE SUBJECT TO CHANGE!
CHECK BACK FOR UPDATES!

SATURDAY SEP 1
10:30 . 5 Women Poets (poetry)
11:00 . Patsy Rahn (poetry)
11:30 . Merry MAC Players (theatre)
12:30 . Shana Ritter (poetry)
1:00 . Maria Hamilton Abegunde (poetry)
1:30 . Fig Tree Fellowship Radio Players (audio theatre)
2:30 . Mary Pat Lynch (fiction)
3:00 . Juliana Ramos Crespo (fiction)
3:30 . James Dorr (horror fiction)
4:00 . Shakespeare’s Monkey (poetry band)
4:30 . Erin Livingston (poetry)
5:00 . Butch D’Ambrosio (sonnets)
5:30 . Stephen Vincent Giles (storytelling)

SUNDAY SEP 2
10:00 . Eric Rensberger (poetry)
10:30 . New Leaf-New Life (poetry and fiction)
11:00 . Adam Henze (poetry)
11:30 . Monroe County Civic Theater
12:00 . Joan Hawkins (fiction)
12:30 . Lisa Kwong (poetry)
1:00 . Jasper Wirtshafter (poetry)
1:30 . Arbutus Cunningham (storytelling)
2:00 . Richard Hague (poetry)
2:30 . Cricket’s Bone Caravan (audio theatre)
3:30 . Michael Brockley (poetry)
4:00 . Jeffrey Pearson (poetry)
4:30 . Bloomington Storytellers Guild