Join the Writers Guild for an early Halloween celebration!
First Sunday Prose Reading Series
Sunday, October 6, 2024
4pm to 5:30pm
Juniper Art Gallery and Cafe
Featured Readers will be Rebekah Spivey and James Dorr, with an open mic to follow.
Please no outside food or drink!
Please note the new start time of 4pm!
Rebekah Spivey studied creative writing and sociology at Indiana University. She has lived and worked on the Isle of Mull in Scotland. She is a lifelong writer and lover of words who has co-created and led a group called Poetry Detectives, an informal group that discusses poetry in a non-academic way in order to make the genre more approachable. She has a seventeen-year association with Women Writing for (a) Change, Bloomington, a group that supports giving every person a voice through writing. Rebekah has been a certified facilitator with Women Writing since 2013 and currently facilitates a semester-long virtual class. She has coordinated a Women Writing for (a) Change retreat on the Isle of Iona off the west coast of Scotland. And facilitates winter writing retreats for Women Writing.
Rebekah retired in 2012 from the Indiana Daily Student newspaper at IU after seventeen years as part of the professional staff.
She has been a part-time senior editor for a self-publishing company since 2019. And is an editor for private clients.
Rebekah retired in 2012 from the Indiana Daily Student newspaper at IU after seventeen years as part of the professional staff.
Rebekah’s first novel, Marigolds in Boxes, was released in September 2024.
A short fiction writer and sometime poet, James Dorr currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht. An Indiana resident, Dorr invites readers to visit his blog at http://jamesdorrwriter.wordpress.com
Writers Guild Spoken Word Series
Featuring poets
April Ridge and A.S. Coomer (KY)
Music by Boy Dirt Car Open mic to follow
Thursday, October 10 6pm EST
Backspace Gallery inside Bonne Fête
112 West 6th Street on the square in Bloomington IN
APRIL RIDGE scrawls messages in the night on the clouds that dreams are made of. She whispers sweet nothings to the muses of time and revels in the chance to swim in the deep nothingness of silence, if only to shout ‘Echo’ in it. April prides herself on finding the perfect outfit in which to adorn the skeleton of the soul. She hopes to highlight the needs of poems in danger, on the run, escaping from the need to fit into one form or another, on their way to the freedom of epiphany. You can find her on Facebook, Instagram, a few anthologies and magazines, and other echoing canyons of the internet poetry landscape. “April Ridge can take a Disney movie and weaponize it against an audience. For real, it’s like she has crafted an intricate web that’s just sparkling with jewels.” –Jonathan S Baker, Pure Sleeze Press, publisher of April’s debut chapbook MONSTROUS.
A.S. COOMER is a writer & musician. Books include BIRTH OF A MONSTER, THE FLOCK UNSEEN, MEMORABILIA, THE FETISHISTS, & many others. He runs Lost, Long Gone, Forgotten Records, a “record label” for poetry.
Outlaws, Outsiders, and Artifacts have played a part of BOY DIRT CAR from its inception in 1981, along with the nightmarish chaos and improvisation that has exposed evidence of a decaying culture in 1980’s abandoned soundscapes. These sounds have now been replaced with an artifact that echoes the final vision of destruction of the western world. “An American analogue to Einstürzende Neubauten.” –Gapers Block
Sponsored in part by the Indiana Arts Commission, Bloomington Arts Commission, and the Bloomington Urban Enterprise Association
Constellation Stage & Screen presents
The True Story of the Three Little Pigs!
on stage October 25 – November 10 at the Waldron Auditorium
A musical “tail” that will bring the house down! There are two sides to every story, and when the Big Bad Wolf takes the stand in Piggsylvania’s Trial of the Century, he finally gets his say. But whether he’ll get a fair trial in a corrupt piggy court is anyone’s guess. Will the pigs’ splashy show make a puppet out of justice, or is the wolf’s song and dance about a sneeze gone wrong all razzle-dazzle? Enter the jury box and help decide the fate of Big ‘n’ Bad in this musical adaptation of the hit children’s book.
Fun for all ages! Featuring a Sensory-Friendly performance on Sun, November 10 at 4:00pm (tickets to this performance are Pay What You Will).
For showtimes, tickets, and more information, visit https://seeconstellation.org/kids/three-little-pigs/
Join Off Night Pr
oductions for In Her Words: A Celebration of Female Playwrights, a play-reading festival running October 27-29 at the Constellation Playhouse.
Four plays written by women will be presented by four local, women-led theater companies.
2:00 PM on Sunday afternoon, Oct. 27: A Selection of Scenes from Resilience: Indiana’s Untold Stories by Gladys Devane in collaboration with Danielle Bruce will be presented by Resilience Productions.
7:00 PM on Sunday evening, Oct. 27: By ASYLUM or Madness & the Whole Thing by Patricia Kranke, presented by Monroe County Civic Theatre.
7:00 PM on Monday, Oct. 28: The Babel Theater Project will present a reading of Ana Carneiro’s Babel.
7:00 PM on Tuesday, Oct. 29: Off Night Productions will close out the festival with the hilarious and poignant Five Times In One Night by Chiara Atik.
Don’t miss this celebration of female voices in theater! Learn more and purchase tickets at www.offnightproductions.org
The Writers Guild at Bloomington presents
Last Sunday Poetry
Featuring James Dorr and Hysteria
Morgenstern’s Bookstore & Café, 849 S. Auto Mall Rd., Bloomington IN 47401
Sunday, October 27, 2024
7-8:30pm
JAMES DORR‘s Avoid Seeing a Mouse and Other Tales of the Real and Surreal is a January 2024 release from Alien Buddha Press. Other books include his 2013 Bram Stoker Award nominee for Fiction Collection, The Tears of Isis, Tombs: A Chronicle of Latter-Day Times of Earth, and his all-poetry Vamps (A Retrospective). Specializing in dark fantasy/horror with forays into mystery and science fiction, Dorr has been a technical writer, an editor for a regional magazine, a full-time nonfiction freelancer, and a semi-professional musician. He currently harbors a Goth cat named Triana, and counts among his major influences Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, Allen Ginsberg, and Bertolt Brecht.
Purchase his books at:
https://www.amazon.com/stores/author/B004XWCVUS
HYSTERIA is a poet and performance artist who mixes costume, theater, and music into many of her sets. She dances around a few different topics in her writing, such as trauma, feminism, and mental health. Leaning heavily into morbid beauty as well, her first chapbook, Nature and the Amygdala (Pure Sleeze Press, September 2024), takes you deep into the woods, straight to the heart of the creatures that dwell there, and to the part of the brain that holds the fear of the unknown.
This is the Halloween edition of LSP, so feel free to attend in costume!
Emerging poets who need a supportive audience, and established poets who want to promote published works: Sign up for open mic! Your words are precious. (2-3 min. per open mic participant)
Come 20-40 min. before the 7pm program start time so you can:
– Sign up for open mic
– Meet and greet featured poets, and each other
– Purchase the store’s books and gift items
– Donate to the Writers Guild via cash
The Writers Guild at Bloomington is committed to diversity, equity, and inclusivity.
https://writersguildbloomington.com/
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