Writers Guild Business Meeting

Virtual via Zoom

Saturday, September 19

3-4:30

For the ZOOM LINK please contact Joan Hawkins (jchawkin93@yahoo.com).

Writers Guild Business Meeting

Virtual via Zoom

For Zoom link, please contact:

Joan Hawkins (jchawkin93@yahoo.com)

Tony Brewer (beatnik_a_go_go@yahoo.com)

Kyle Quass (kylequass@gmail.com)

You can now watch the OCTOBER

Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

With guest poets Doris Lynch and Shana Ritter

followed by an open mic

It is available on:

Writers Guild You Tube page
Writers Guild Face Book page.

To watch it on You Tube click HERE.

Doris Lynch has recent work in Tipton Poetry Journal, Flying Island, Frogpond, Modern Haiku, Contemporary Haibun Online and in the anthologies: Cowboys & Cocktails: Poetry from the True Grit Saloon, Brick Street Poetry Inc., 2019, and in the Red River book of Haibun, Red River Press, New Delhi, Indiana, 2019. She has lived in places as diverse as arctic Alaska, Yogyakarta, Indonesia, Berkeley, CA, New Orleans, LA, Philly, Pa, and, of course, Bloomington, IN.

Shana Ritter’s poetry and short stories have appeared in various journals and magazines including Lilith, Fifth Wednesday and Georgetown Review. Her poetry chapbook, Stairs of Separation was published by Finishing Line Press. In the Time of Leaving a novel of exile and resilience, set in late 15th century Spain was published in 2019.  A Pushcart prize nominee she has been awarded the Indiana Individual Artist Grant on multiple occasions.  More info and her occasional blog can be found at  shana-ritter.com

See you then!

Creative collaboration with IU Cinema

Neither Memory Nor Magic and Hugo Perez visit

Virtual screening of Hugo Perez’s film Neither Memory nor Magic

Tuesday Oct 27,  7-8:10 p.m.  Hugo Perez will be present.

The screening is free and accessible from your computer or mobile device, but you need to register

https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_AG5iEiOwTjqqpaUFrHumQQ

Friday Oct 30,  there will be a virtual discussion and Q&A with the director Hugo Perez

This is free and accessible from your computer or mobile device but you need to register

https://iu.zoom.us/webinar/register/WN_10sCk-GeRb2r4mRSzxjbsw

In the spring of 1946, a mass grave was unearthed in the Hungarian village of Abda. One of the 22 decayed bodies found was that of the poet Miklós Radnóti, shot into the grave by Hungarian fascists 18 months earlier. Found in his coat was a small notebook. When examined, the notebook—later named the Bor Notebook—revealed the poet’s last poems. The poems told the story of the last six months of his life, months spent first as slave labor in a Nazi labor camp in Bor, Serbia, and then on a three-month forced march from Serbia to the small village of Abda, where he was killed when he was too weak to continue. Radnóti’s final poems serve as the backbone of Neither Memory Nor Magic, revealing the story of a poet who continued to write even as he faced certain death—a story almost entirely unknown outside of Hungary. Contains mature content.

For more information, contact Joan Hawkins jchawkin@indiana.edu

Coffee with Friends

with poet Ross Gay

presented by the

Friends of the Library

Join us via Zoom for a discussion with Ross Gay. Ross will read from his latest three books, and have time for your questions.

Gay is the author of four books of poetry: Against Which; Bringing the Shovel Down; Be Holding; and Catalog of Unabashed Gratitude, winner of the 2015 National Book Critics Circle Award and the 2016 Kingsley Tufts Poetry Award. His collection of essays, The Book of Delights, was released by Algonquin Books in 2019. Gay received the 2020 Eugene and Marilyn Glick Indiana Authors Award for NonFiction for this book, and it has been on the New York Times Best Seller list. His latest book, Be Holding, was recently released from the University of Pittsburgh Press in September of 2020.

Writers Guild Business Meeting

Virtual via Zoom

For Zoom link, or to make a nomination, please contact:

Joan Hawkins (jchawkin93@yahoo.com)

Tony Brewer (beatnik_a_go_go@yahoo.com)

Kyle Quass (kylequass@gmail.com)

Nominations are open for the Board of Directors (Due Nov 30; Election to take place at a virtual meeting Dec. 5)

 Please note all positions are unpaid.

FYI, all members of the current Board are in their 2nd term (have served 2 years), so they are eligible to serve again.

Article 5. Board of Directors.
a) The Board of Directors of the Writers Guild consists of three members elected annually. They are the Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. Their responsibilities are:
b) Chair: Calls and presides over Board meetings, business meetings, membership meetings, and elections. Coordinates the committees and calendar for Writers Guild produced events and co-produced events. Leads any fundraising efforts. Has signatory power on checks. The Chair may make temporary appointments for an assistant for specific tasks and projects.
c) Treasurer: Collects and banks income, keeps books, prepares annual financial report, and submits tax reports. Has signatory power on checks.
d) Secretary: Keeps minutes of Board meetings and makes them available to the membership. Keeps administrative, meeting, and membership records.
e)  Terms & Limits:  Board Members will serve until the end of December of the year they were voted into their position. Board Members will serve one-year terms, and may serve five (5) consecutive terms.  Additional terms in the same position may be served after a one-year absence from the Board position.
f)  Board members are required to attend at least sixty percent of all business meetings. Any Board member who cannot make this commitment will not be eligible for election the following year.

The Writers Guild at Bloomington

will hold its annual end of year meeting on

Saturday December 5

from 2 to 4

Please join us to vote for next year’s board members, and hear our end of year reports.

This is a Virtual Event.

For the Zoom link, or to make a nomination, please contact one of our board members:

Joan Hawkins (jchawkin93@yahoo.com)

Tony Brewer (beatnik_a_go_go@yahoo.com)

Kyle Quass (kylequass@gmail.com)

Nominations are open for the Board of Directors

Due Nov 30.  Election to take place at a virtual meeting Dec. 5.

Please note all positions are unpaid.

FYI, all members of the current Board are in their 2nd term (have served 2 years), so they are eligible to serve again. 

Article 5. Board of Directors.
a) The Board of Directors of the Writers Guild consists of three members elected annually. They are the Chair, Secretary, and Treasurer. Their responsibilities are:
b) Chair: Calls and presides over Board meetings, business meetings, membership meetings, and elections. Coordinates the committees and calendar for Writers Guild produced events and co-produced events. Leads any fundraising efforts. Has signatory power on checks. The Chair may make temporary appointments for an assistant for specific tasks and projects.
c) Treasurer: Collects and banks income, keeps books, prepares annual financial report, and submits tax reports. Has signatory power on checks.
d) Secretary: Keeps minutes of Board meetings and makes them available to the membership. Keeps administrative, meeting, and membership records.
e)  Terms & Limits:  Board Members will serve until the end of December of the year they were voted into their position. Board Members will serve one-year terms, and may serve five (5) consecutive terms.  Additional terms in the same position may be served after a one-year absence from the Board position.
f)  Board members are required to attend at least sixty percent of all business meetings. Any Board member who cannot make this commitment will not be eligible for election the following year.