Events Calendar

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

Sep 29 @ 3:00 pm – 4:30 pm

Last Sunday Poetry Reading & Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

With guest poets:
Michael Luis Dauro and Rachel Ronquillo Gray

Followed by an Open Mic.

Free parking in the back!

Michael Luis Dauro is a poet, tarot-slinger, and beekeeper living in Bloomington, Indiana. He is a Millay Colony Resident Artist,

Ruth Lilly Poetry Fellowship finalist, Pushcart Prize nominee, and a CantoMundo fellow. His work has appeared in As/Us, StoryScape, At Length, Phantom Drift, Rattle, Sonora Review, and others. Michael is currently working on his speculative epic, Sierra Amnezia. He’s also totally non-ironically into spaghetti westerns and pro wrestling.

Born and raised in rural Nevada, Rachel Ronquillo Gray is a Kundiman, Pink Door, and VONA fellow. Her work is forthcoming or appears in Tinderbox Poetry, Hyphen Magazine, Tahoma Literary Review, Digging Through the Fat, Radar Poetry, and other places. She currently lives, writes, and makes food in Bloomington, Indiana.

Wed

Spoken Word Series @ Bears Place

Oct 2 @ 6:30 pm – 9:00 pm

Writers Guild Spoken Word Series

featuring former Indiana Poet Laureate Norbert Krapf, Jon Koker – Author Page, Zilia Balkansky-Sellés

Music by Richard Layton

6:30-9 pm NOTE LATER START TIME

$5 suggested donation

There will also be an open mic.

PLEASE NOTE: Due to scheduling we’re starting a little later this time.

Former Indiana Poet Laureate NORBERT KRAPF was born in Jasper, Indiana in 1943 and has lived in Indianapolis since 2004. For 34 years he taught at Long Island University, where he directed the C.W. Post Poetry Center for 18 years. He has published twelve poetry collections, including The Return of Sunshine, about his Colombian-German American grandson, Somewhere in Southern Indiana, Blue-Eyed Grass: Poems of Germany, Bittersweet Along the Expressway: Poems of Long Island, Bloodroot: Indiana Poems, The Country I Come From, Looking for God’s Country, and Catholic Boy Blues, which he adapted into a play of the same title performed at the Indy Eleven Theatre of IndyFringe. His new book, Indiana Hill Country, is out now from Dos Madres Press.

JON KOKER is the author of Son and four other collections of poetry. He is also a musician and SON of his Heavenly Father, whose desire is to be a small spark in the darkest of nights for those who have lost their way. Jon Koker resides in Newburgh, Indiana.

ZILIA BALKANSKY-SELLÉS is a Bloomington-based writer, and occasional dancer and actor. She has a Ph.D. in Folklore from Indiana University and an M.I.S. from The University of Michigan. Zilia has written for Wild Swan Theater, which produces plays for Michigan schools and libraries. She does freelance work as an English language editor and developmental editor. She was one of the co-hosts for Eco Report on WFHB Community Radio. She works as an academic advisor for the Groups Scholars Program at Indiana University. Zilia also gardens and cares for her rescued animal family.

RICHARD LAYTON is a Californian, a songwriter, and a guitar player. He lives in Terre Haute, where he teaches at Rose-Hulman Institute of Technology. When not otherwise working or opening and closing doors for cats, he can often be found at a local coffee house, or anywhere else he can borrow a guitar, singing and rousing the rabble.

First Sunday Prose @ Bear's Place

Oct 6 @ 3:00 pm – 5:00 pm

First Sunday Prose Reading and Open Mic

Presented by the Writers Guild at Bloomington

The featured readers are: Wendy Teller and Anya Peterson Royce

Come early to sign up for Open Mic!

Wendy Teller, a retired systems and software engineer, writes fiction, memoir, and history. Her stories have appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul, The Naperville Sun, and Rivulets. Her story Dusting the Towels received the Richard Eastman Prose Award. Wendy’s debut novel, Becoming Mia, takes place in the 1960s in Cambridge, Massachusetts, and Berkeley, California. Her work in progress, The Sorrows of Sex, takes place in Hungary in 1905. She’s made important discoveries researching this novel, including several books by her grandfather – all in Hungarian – how to use Google translate, and a kissing cousin. Wendy lives on a cliff in the woods near Bloomington, Indiana, with her husband.

Anya Peterson Royce is Chancellor’s Professor of Anthropology and Comparative Literature at Indiana University. She is also an Adjunct Professor at the University of Limerick, from which she received an Honorary Doctorate. Her research and publications focus on the arts and humanities, especially the performing arts. Her performing career in the Russian ballet underpins much of her scholarship of the dance. She is equally well-known for her long-term work with the Isthmus Zapotec of Juchitán, Mexico, most recently on the role of artists mentoring the next generations and promoting the arts to global audiences. In addition to her scholarly writing, she is also a poet, a writer of blogs, a biographer/gatherer of people’s stories, and a writer of historical fiction.

For more information, contact Joan Hawkins (jchawkin93@yahoo.com)

Ekphrasis Poetry at the Venue Gallery @ The Venue Gallery

Oct 6 @ 6:00 pm – 8:30 pm

The Venue Art Gallery holds it’s 4th annual Ekphrasis Poetry Event

Sunday, Oct 6
and
Sunday, Oct 20

start time 6 pm

114 S. Grant Street.

Poets write and read a poem inspired by on of the paintings on exhibit. The painter, poet and audience then get a chance to talk about the works and the interconnections.

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