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
Writers Guild Spoken Word Series
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.
CANCELLED THIS MONTH.
WE WILL HAVE OUR TWO GUEST READERS AT A LATER DATE.
STAY HEALTHY EVERYONE
The Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic
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.
Third Sunday Write Virtual— Sunday April 19, 2020
IU presents online via Zoom:
Community Conversation Hour | The “Chinese Virus”: COVID-19 + Anti-Asian Racism
Click HERE to register
Zoom log-in information and meeting password will be sent via email upon registration.
How is this association connected to a long history of “yellow peril” fears in American culture and beyond? What can we do, both individually and collectively, to create solidarity and communal uplift in a time of anti-Asian hostility and other widening social divisions? Please join the College Office of Diversity and Inclusion and the Asian American Studies Program to explore these questions and their far-reaching impacts.
Our conversation will feature a reading by poet Lisa Kwong and selected works from the Asian American Studies Program Physical Distancing Creativity Showcase.
May First Weds Spoken Word Series goes virtual
Guest Readers: LuAnne Holliday, Tim Heerdink and Eric Rensberger.
Music by Jason Fickel.
We will live stream the event to the Writers Guild Facebook page.
If you don’t use Facebook, contact Tony Brewer for a direct
Zoom link. beatnik_a_go_go@yahoo.com
Thanks to Tony and to Kyle Quass for working out the technology,
and to the performers for being willing to work with this format.