On March 4, 2013, VIDA: Women in Literary Arts published the 2012 VIDA COUNT which cataloged the number of women writers being published in the nation’s top literary, journalistic, and academic periodicals. You can read more about their findings and assessments by Amy King here: http://www.vidaweb.org/vida-count-2012-mic-check-redux
Also in VIDA news this week, writers Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai are featured guests on HER KIND, a blog powered by VIDA: Women in Literary Arts. Check out their interview, “Community as Cathartic: A Conversation with Rita Banerjee and Diana Norma Szokolyai,” which was moderated by Rosebud Ben-Oni.
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Check out the Cam
bridge Writers’ Workshop & Armchair/Shotgun perform “Roy Rogers: The Missing Atomic Scientist” Radioplay in Digital Americana:
Spring & Summer 2013
This double issue includes much more content than 99¢ should allow—moving from the intimacy of boiling bones to a mother’s honey, to a series of visual poems from the prolifically avant-garde Richard Kostelanetz, and much more.
Included in this is also the second installment of our author self-interview series (made possible by the lovely and gracious novelist, Ashley Warlick), as a well as a Consumed series of original illustrations from contemporary Seattle artist, Levi Hastings. And we’re also proud to have published a new piece of multimedia: the audio to a full-length radio drama featuring American icon, Roy Rogers (which was performed brilliantly by a full ensemble cast).
We also continue our investigation into the convergence of literature and media with an interview with the winner of the 2013 Transmedia Project of the Year. And after seeing what this type of multimedia future holds, we can assure you that there will definitely be no shortage of things to consume or create—only the further blurring of the lines that separate the things we consume from the things that consume us.
Radio Drama Credits: Gregory Crosby, John Cusick, Cayla Buettner, Diana Norma Szokolyai, Jonah Kruvant, Max March Steinman, J.E. Reich, Dennis Shafer, Eck Sierra, Jake Rudin, Cambridge Writers’ Workshop, Armchair/Shotgun
Fiction by: Erin Lynn Cook, Becca Rose Hall, Pippa Anais Gaubert, Ali Eteraz, Rob McClure Smith, Michelle Drumheller, Gina Lujan Boubion, Robert Boucheron
Nonfiction by: Ashley Warlick, Steven Edwards, Eva Saulitis
Poetry by: Jason Braun, Glen Armstrong, Richard Kostelanetz, Donald Illich, Manny Blacksher, Dawn Corrigan, Truth Thomas, Lucian Mattison, Gabriel Welsch, Dan Pinkerton, Sandra Kolankiewicz
Review(s) of: Inferno, The Ocean at the End of the Lane, NOS4A2, Joyland.
Art: Levi Hastings, Kate Protage
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Rita 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.
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