The Writers Guild at Bloomington is an association of writers committed to mutual support and the professional development of their craft. Its mission is to foster interaction among writers as well as other artists, educators, and the Monroe County public, thereby enhancing the vibrancy of the arts and the writing community in the greater Bloomington area.

Events Calendar

Feb
9
Sun
Rachel Berenson Perry discusses her new book @ Monroe County Public Library
Feb 9 @ 2:00 pm – 3:00 pm

Rachel Berenson Perry discusses her new book

Author and art historian Rachel Berenson Perry discusses her new biography of Felrath Hines which chronicles the life of an exceptional artist and art conservator who overcame numerous obstacles throughout his career, refusing to be pigeonholed by his race. Perry explores Hine’s life in Indianapolis and then in New York City in the 1950s and 60s where he created a close friendship with jazz musician Billy Strayhorn and participated in the African American Spiral Group of New York and the equal rights movement.

This is a Coffee with Friends event at the Monroe County Public Library.

In program room 2B.

Free.

Age 12 and up.

Feb
16
Sun
The Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic @ Monroe County Convention Center
Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

The Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Please note new TIME and DATE

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
With guest poets Charles Culp and PDVNCH
Followed by an Open Mic
Free parking in the back.
This event is free and open to the public.
Charles Culp was born and raised in a town called Vincennes. After receiving his degree in Education from Indiana University in 2008, he joined Americorps. Since then he has been an advocate for non-profits and community education in Colorado, Tennessee, and now in his home state of Indiana. He is passionate about making a lasting connection with readers, and he believes every person has an opportunity to grow and thrive as they discover their passions through the never-ending, formative years of our lives.

PDVNCH

 

PDVNCH [Pee-dove-inch]   is a dramatic prophetic poetic storyteller, who uses rainbows, painting pictures, creating vivid images, with words, from multiple perspectives, giving voice to the unheard, with vocal tones, that are rhythmic.

As an inventor/originator, most known, globally, for his original iconic hair designs ‘Beads by PDVNCH’, fabulous frames and his phenomenal passion for fashion.

A Bloomingtonian, and Director Of Creative-Arts Productions for GHETT-HEALTHY productions @ GHp Stewdios.  Through collaboration, his desire is to Inspire inspiration, and “Always be on Purpose”!

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Changes coming to Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic!
The Monroe County Convention Center graciously hosts our Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic event, and we are very grateful for their support and generosity!  They have requested a change in time and some dates, and we are happy to comply.
The convention center has requested we meet at an earlier time to accommodate their staffing. Also, due to some mega bookings that take up the entire convention center, this year we need to change 3 dates (it will be much easier when the new convention center extension is built !).
We will also change the name slightly to avoid confusion.
New Name:     The Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic
 
New TIME:                1:00 pm to 2:30 pm
 
Dates: 2020
Jan 26 
Feb 16  (one week earlier)
March 29
April 19  (one week earlier)
May 31
Sept  20  (one week earlier)
Oct 25
 
If you’d like to get a quick and easy reminder for each Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic, please send your name and email to: prahn**@indiana.edu  (remove asterix).
Third Sunday Write! @ Monroe County Public Library room 214
Feb 16 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

Third 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!

 

Feb
22
Sat
Writers Guilde Monthly Business Meeting @ Monroe County Public Library
Feb 22 @ 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.

 

Mar
1
Sun
First Sunday Prose Reading & Open Mic @ Bear's Place
Mar 1 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild

 

The featured readers are:   Zilia Balkansky-Selles and  Joan Hawkins

 

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

 

 

Zilia Balkansky-Sellés is a Bloomington-based writer, and occasional dancer and actor. She earned a master’s in information science degree from the University of Michigan and a Ph.D. in folkloristics from  the Department of Folklore and Ethnomusicology at Indiana University. She has worked as an academic advisor for the Groups Scholars Program at Indiana University and currently works as the Extracurricular Coordinator for the Hutton Honors College at Indiana University. Her poetry has appeared in Comparative Woman, from Louisiana State University. She has written for Wild Swan Theater, which produces plays for Michigan schools and libraries.

 

 

Joan Hawkins is the Chair of the Writers Guild and an Associate Professor in Cinema and Media Studies at Indiana University.

She works mainly in creative memoir and Spoken Word; her creative work has appeared in Sand, Avalanches in Poetry, n+1,and Performing Arts Journal. Her most recent book, a critical anthology on the writer William S. Burroughs, has been nominated for an Indiana Author Award and a Modern Language Association Award.

Mar
4
Wed
First Wed Spoken Word Series @ Bears Place
Mar 4 @ 6:00 pm – 9:00 pm

Writers Guild Spoken Word Series

Sponsored by Writers Guild at Bloomington & Indiana Arts Commission
featuring storytellers Nell Weatherwax and Mary Armstrong-Smith
stand-up comedy with Shanda Sung
music by Trillium (structured improv)
+ an open mic
$5 suggested donation
TRILLIUM is a perennial herb with three bracts and three petals which grows from a rhizome. The band Trillium is a collaborative musical project featuring Kyle Quass, Norbert Herber and Julian Douglas. The trio, like the perennial, grows from the rhizome:  non-hierarchical with no beginning or end; always in the middle, between things, interbeing, intermezzo. Each piece is a character study in which ideas transform and develop, new ideas emerge and recede, form dissolves and re-emerges, a multiplicity in which each idea can and must be connected to any other.
Mar
15
Sun
CANCELLED Third Sunday Write! @ Monroe County Public Library room 214
Mar 15 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

See you next month. Stay Healthy!

Third 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!   It’s free!
To register send name and email address to thirdsundaywrite@writersguildbloomington.com
 For more info please contact
Tonia Matthew (antonia.matthew@gmail.com)
Shana Ritter (shana747@gmail.com)
or PDVNCH (ghett.healthy.productions@gmail.com)

 

Mar
22
Sun
CANCELLED Nancy Chen Long Book Launch @ New Wings
Mar 22 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

This event has been CANCELLED.

 

Join Guild member Nancy Chen Long on March 22 as she celebrates the release of her second book

Wider than the Sky

published by Diode Editions.

See the Event page at https://ncl-launch.eventbrite.com for more information and to RSVP.

Also reading will be Doris Jean Lynch, Mary Pat Lynch, Eric Rensberger and Beth Lodge-Rigal.  
Mar
27
Fri
CANCELLED Writers Guild sponsors talk and film at IU Cinema @ IU Cinema
Mar 27 @ 4:00 pm – 8:30 pm

WE WILL RE-BOOK THIS FOR A LATER DATE.

Stay Healthy Everyone!

Writers Guild sponsors a talk and film at IU Cinema  

The Writers Guild was awarded a creative collaboration grant, and is sponsoring “Neither Memory Nor Magic,” a film about the Hungarian Poet Miklós Radnóti, who died in the Holocaust (the Shoah). 

Of special interest will be Mr. Perez’s talk on Friday March 27,  4 p.m.  IU Cinema

The Film “Neither Memory Nor Magic” Friday March 27,  7 p.m.
Tickets for the film are available at the IU Auditorium box office.


Parking in the Jordan Lot is free on weekends, unless there’s a MAC extravaganza.  There is also parking in the Wells Library Parking Lot.  https://cinema.indiana.edu/about/visiting-guests/visitor/hugo-perez .

Also see the essay about Miklós Radnóti, Hugo Perez and the film in the current issue of The Ryder.

Mar
29
Sun
CANCELLED The Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic @ Monroe County Convention Center
Mar 29 @ 1:00 pm – 2:30 pm

CANCELLED THIS MONTH.

WE WILL HAVE OUR TWO GUEST READERS AT A LATER DATE.

STAY HEALTHY EVERYONE

The Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington
With guest poets from out of town:  Karen George and JL Kato
Followed by an Open Mic
Free parking in the back.
This event is free and open to the public.

Karen George is author of five chapbooks, most recently an ekphrastic collaborative chapbook, Frame and Mount the Sky (Finishing Line Press, 2017), and two poetry collections from Dos Madres Press, Swim Your Way Back (2014) and A Map and One Year (2018). Her work has appeared or is forthcoming in Valparaiso Poetry Review, Adirondack Review, Louisville Review, Naugatuck River Review, Sliver of Stone, and Still: The Journal. She received grants from Kentucky Foundation for Women and Kentucky Arts Council, and holds an MFA in Writing from Spalding University. She reviews poetry at Poetry Matters blog:  http://readwritepoetry.blogspot.com/, and is co-founder and fiction editor of the online journal, Waypoints:  http://www.waypointsmag.com/. She retired from computer programming to write full-time. She lives in Florence, Kentucky, and enjoys photography and visiting museums, historic river towns, mountains, parks, and gardens.

JL Kato is a former newspaper copy editor and former poetry editor of Flying Island. The Indiana Center for the Book designated his first book, Shadows Set in Concrete, as 2011’s Best Book of Indiana for poetry. He once accidentally plowed into Dan Quayle’s midsection. Kato lives in Beech Grove.

 

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