A Night at the Victrola: CWW AWP 2014 Reading, Seattle

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CWW-VictrolaFriday February 28, 2014
8:30-10:00pm
Victrola Coffee & Art
411 15th Ave E, Seattle, WA 98112

The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop presents “A Night at the Victrola,” an AWP 2014 Reading, featuring the talents of Peter Mountford, Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Pattabi Seshadri, Nancy Jooyoun Kim, Kevin Skiena, Jessica Day, Anca Szilágyi, Talia Shalev, Carrie Kahler, Dena Rash Guzman, Leah Umansky, Susan Parr, & Johnny Horton.  Join us as we celebrate some of Seattle, New York, & Boston’s best writers, and graduates from the University of Washington MFA program.

2014 AWP Featured Book Signing – Feb 28 (10-11:30am) – Diana Norma Szokolyai

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normaDiana Norma Szokolyai will be a featured author at the 2014 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Seattle.  She will be signing her book, Parallel Sparrows (Finishing Line Press) on Friday February 28 from 10:00-11:30am at the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop table (BB29) in the AWP Bookfair.  Diana Norma Szokolyai’s writing has also been published in Lyre Lyre, the front page of The Boston Globe, Dr. Hurley’s Snake Oil Cure, Teachers as Writers, Polarity, Up the Staircase, Belltower & the Beach, Human Rights News, and Area Zinc Art Magazine, among others. 

AWP 2014 Featured Book Signing – Feb 28 (10-11:30am) – Rita Banerjee

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ritaRita Banerjee will be a featured author at the 2014 Association of Writers & Writing Programs Conference in Seattle.  She will be signing her book, Cracklers at Night (Finishing Line Press) on Friday February 28 from 10:00-11:30am at the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop table (BB29) in the AWP Bookfair.  Rita Banerjee’s writing has been published in Poets for Living Waters, The New Renaissance, The Fiction Project, Jaggery: A DesiLit Arts and Literature Journal, Catamaran, The Crab Creek Review, Amethyst Arsenic, The Dudley Review, Objet d’Art, Vox Populi, Dr. Hurley’s Snake-Oil Cure, and Chrysanthemum among other journals.  Her first collection of poems, Cracklers at Night, was published by Finishing Line Press received First Honorable Mention for Best Poetry Book of 2011-2012 at the Los Angeles Book Festival.

CREDO Anthology: Call for Submissions

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CREDO-FINALThe Cambridge Writers’ Workshop invites writers of all stripes (Poets! Fictioneers! Memoirists! Journalists!  Essayists!  Dramatists!  Genre-benders!) to submit to CREDO: An Anthology of Manifestos and Sourcebook for Creative Writing.  Writers are invited to submit their personal aesthetic philosophies and manifestos for the anthology, writing exercises and prompts that have helped to kick-start their imagination, and short essays on the art of writing, reading, and being creative.

CWW 2014 Summer Yoga & Writing Retreat at the Château de Verderonne, France!

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CWW-Verderonne2014The Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Annual Yoga & Writing Retreat will be held from August 7 -20, 2014 at the Château de Verderonne in Picardy, France, located approximately 50 miles north of Paris. The conference features workshops in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction, as well as craft of writing seminars, art classes, free time to write, and daily yoga and meditation classes.  Writers of all genres and levels are welcome.  Yoga practitioners of all levels are also welcomed (we have experience adapting the yoga sequences to meet the level of beginner-advanced participants).  Participants are encouraged, but not required, to bring their own long-term projects to work on.  Whether writers are beginners or advanced, CWW workshops have a history of success in generating new writing.

Optional excursions to Paris and Chantilly are also available to participants.  The faculty includes Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Elissa Lewis, and Jessica Reidy. The cost of the conference is $3,200, which includes lodging, meals, writing workshops, yoga classes and transportation to and from the airport.

CWW Table (BB29) at the 2014 AWP Bookfair

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BookfairOverviewCome stop by the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop table at the 2014 AWP Bookfair.  We’re at table BB29.  Stop by to find out information about our 2014 Summer Yoga & Writing Retreat at the Chateau de Verderonne, our CREDO Anthology of Manifestos & Sourcebook for  Creative Writing, Manuscript Revision Workshop, Literary Internships, and A Night at the Victrola AWP Reading on Feb 28 in Seattle!

Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Version 3.0 feat. Vogon Poetry

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Welcome poets, writers, dreamers, artists, travelers, & word-weavers to the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop website Version 3.0.  We hope this new web platform will inspire you to create, encounter new writers & treats, and most of all write many, many wonderful things!  So sit back, relax, and join us for the ride.  We promise we’ll have some of the best literary events found this side of the Milky Way & the best Vogon poetry of this galaxy and the next!  Just remember to bring your blanket & don’t panic!

Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Pre-Thanksgiving Yoga & Creative Writing Cleanse

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tumblr_mveyk4T1ZD1ris3y8o1_500Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Elissa Lewis, and Jonah Kruvant will be teaching at the Cambridge Writer’s Workshop Pre-Thanksgiving Creative Writing & Yoga Cleanse on at the Ashtanga Yoga Studio Manhattan’s East Village.  The creative writing & yoga weekend will take place on Saturday November 23 and Sunday November 24 from 2-4pm at the Ashtanga Yoga Shala (295 E 8th Street & Avenue B, New York, NY 1009).  Rita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szokolyai, and Jonah Kruvant will teach on playing with odradeks, developing creative writing manifestos, and will feature a variety of in-class writing exercises while Elissa Lewis will teach two hours of intensive introductory and advanced yoga to participants. So before reuniting with family and letting the holidays get underway, treat yourself to a weekend of creativity, yoga, writing, and raw juice cleanses, and transform your mind, body, and page! Registration is now open at: cww.submittable.com

Emergency INDEX: Documenting Performance Annually, V.2

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index2012-coverRita Banerjee, Diana Norma Szkolyai, Gregory Crosby, and Leah Umansky are featured in the new issue of Emergency INDEX: Documenting Performance Annually, for their 2012 Performance of the Cambridge Writers’ Workshop Literary Cabaret.  Emergency INDEX, Vol. 2 includes contributions from artists, poets, scholars, activists, advertisers, computer scientists, theater ensembles and filmmakers presenting more than 300 performances made around the world in 2012.  Vol. 2 Editors: Yelena Gluzman, Sophia Cleary; Associate Editors: Andrew Ross, Michael Newton.

This is a bible of performance art activity. And if you are, like I am, a believer in performance art and the value of this ephemeral art activity to change the hearts and minds and consciousness of people, then you need to have this bible in your life. The end. —Martha Wilson

Emergency INDEX, Volume 2 is now available for order.