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2013-2014 Issue 18 omnium gatherum & newsletter ~ i~ COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY GOT NEWS? Do you have news you would OMNIUM GATHERUM & NEWSLETTER 2013-14, Issue 18 like us to include in the next newsletter? The Omnium is published once a year. We print Community of Writers at Squaw Valley publishing credits, awards and similar new A Non-Profit Corporation #629182 writing-related achievements, and also include P.O. Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 births. News should be from the past year only. E-mail: [email protected] Visit www.squawvalleywriters.org for more www.squawvalleywriters.org information and deadlines. Please note: We are not able to fact-check the BOARD OF DIRECTORS submitted news. We apologize if any incorrect President James Naify information is published. Vice President Joanne Meschery Secretary Jan Buscho NOTABLE ALUMNI: Visit our Notable Alumni Financial OfficerBurnett Miller pages and learn how to nominate yourself or Eddy Ancinas a friend: René Ancinas http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Ruth Blank NotableAlumniScreen.html Jan Buscho http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Max Byrd NotableAlumniWriters.html Alan Cheuse http://squawvalleywriters.org/ Nancy Cushing NotableAlumniPoets.html Diana Fuller Michelle Latiolais ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS The ads which ap- Edwina Leggett pear in this issue represent the work of Com- Lester Graves Lennon munity of Writers staff and participants. These Carlin Naify ads help to defray the cost of the newsletter. Jason Roberts If you have a recent or forthcoming book, Christopher Sindt please contact us about advertising in our next Amy Tan annual issue. Contact Laura Cerruti for a rate John C. Walker sheet and more information: (415) 221-6901 Harold Weaver or [email protected] or visit: Al Young www.squawvalleywriters.org THE WORKSHOPS SUPPORT THE COMMUNITY The Community of Executive Director Brett Hall Jones Writers is a 501(c)3 nonprofit corporation and Development Director Laura Cerruti depends on the generosity of friends, former Writers Workshops: participants and staff to fund the scholarship Lisa Alvarez and tuition waivers we grant to our talented Michael Carlisle participants. Donations of any amount are Louis B. Jones appreciated. Send a check made out to: Squaw Poetry Robert Hass Valley Community of Writers Screenwriting Diana Fuller PO Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 or donate securely online from our website: http://www.squawvalleywriters.org/donations.html Table of Contents Announcing Our 2014 Summer Programs . .. 2 Letter from the Editor . 3 Molly Fisk on Craft . 4 Poetry Workshop Faculty News . 5 Paco Marquez Participant Profile . 6 Poetry Workshop Participant News . 7 Poetry Benefit Reading 2013 . 8 The Lucille Clifton Scholarships . .. 9 Veterans Poetry Scholarship . 11 The Community of Writers at Litcrawl 2013 . 13 Summer 2013 Special Thanks . 16 The Sounds of Summer 2013: Music Heard in the Office . 18 Screenwriting Workshop Faculty News . 19 Nancy Kelly: Participant Profile . 20 Screenwriting Workshop Participant News . 21 Nonfiction Evening 2013: “Witnessing Life” . 22 Screenwriting Scholarship Fund . 25 Jane Vandenburgh on Craft . 28 Writers Workshop Faculty News . 29 Announcing Our 2014 Published Alumni Readers . 31 Ramona Ausubel: Participant Profile . 32 Writers Workshop Participant News . 33 You Might Want to Consider: Magazines and Literary Presses… . 34 Published Alumni Reading 2013 . 36 The “Y” Scholarship . 40 Our Supporters 2012-2013 . 46 Contributors to this Issue . 49 Every summer for nearly five decades, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley has brought together poets, prose writers, and screenwriters for separate weeks of workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings, and discussions of the craft and the business of writing. Our aim is to assist writers to improve their craft, thus helping them achieve their goals. COMMUNITY OF WRITERS POETRY WORKSHOPS: June 2i -28 Robert Hass 8 Cathy Park Hong 8 Harryette Mullen C.D. Wright 8 Matthew Zapruder Squaw Valley WRITERS WORKSHOPS: July 7-i4 Steve Almond 8 Tom Barbash California Michael Carlisle 8 Ron Carlson 8 Mark Childress Leslie Daniels 8 Gill Dennis 8 Glen David Gold Sands Hall 8 Gerald Haslam 8 Michael Jaime-Becerra Louis B. Jones 8 Joanne Meschery 8 Jason Roberts Robin Romm 8 Ellen Sussman 8 Christian Kiefer SUMMER Edan Lepucki 8 Christina Meldrum 8 Ismet Prcic Julia Flynn Siler 8 Andrew Tonkovich WRITING Josh Weil 8 Al Young Literary Agents - Book & Literary Magazine Editors WORKSHOPS and more PUBLISHED ALUMNI: Kevin Allardice 8 Eileen Cronin Peggy Hesketh 8 Monica Wesolowska Financial Aid available PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS: Application Deadline: Janet Fitch 8 Rhoda Huffey 8 Michelle Latiolais April 2, 2014 Amy Tan 8 Hector Tobar SCREENWRITING: July 7-i4 Production commitments will determine the [email protected] availability of staff members and guests. Eugene Corr · Jacob Forman (530) 470-8440 Patricia K. Meyer Christopher Monger Judith Rascoe · Tom Rickman Camille Thomasson · Michael Urban www.squawvalleywriters.org ~ 2~ Letter from the Editor elcome to the Omnium Thanks to Tracy Hall for beautifully Gatherum & Newsletter, documenting the summer workshops 2013-2014! in pictures. Unless otherwise noted, W most photographs in this issue are We have moved newsletter publication back to fall/winter, so it’s been just hers. Did you snap a photo or two six months since our last issue. Our during the workshops? Please consider newsletter is only slightly thinner than sharing them in the alumni groups on usual, still packed with a substantial Facebook. We would love to see them. amount of alumni and faculty writing In this issue, we also wanted to high- achievements and news. light our financial aid offer- In this issue, we are pleased ings. As the cost to host writ- to feature several notable ers in Squaw Valley continue past-participants. Ramona to rise, we want to make sure Ausubel, who appeared that talented writers are not in our Published Alumni dissuaded from applying. Reading series several years Please pass along this infor- ago, returns to our pages mation to others who might with a new book and a new be considering attending. writing challenge: mother- photo by Kelly Hiatt Note that two of the featured hood. Screenwriting Workshop alum scholarships require additional Nancy Kelly reminds us of the power essays, so those eligible should start of storytelling and point of view. And their applications early. poet Paco Marquez proves that poetry Many thanks to Brett Hall Jones, our can be everywhere, including the side Executive Director, and all those who of a building. make the Community of Writers hap- Our events, in Squaw Valley and be- pen—our staff, faculty, volunteers, yond, included two poetry readings, a participants, alumni, donors, and ad- cross-disciplinary nonfiction night, and vertisers all play an important role in our ongoing Published Alumni reading helping us support writers. series, all featured in these pages. We Laura Cerruti also continue the craft conversation Editor, Omnium Gatherum here, with advice from writer-teachers Director of Development, Molly Fisk and Jane Vandenburgh. Community of Writers at Squaw Valley Notes: Alumni of more than one program have their news brief listed in the program for which it is most relevant, with cross-references from the the other programs’ pages. Unless otherwise dated, publications in magazines, newspapers, journals, and online took place in 2013. Key to abbreviations: “WTME” = Writing the Medical Experience, “AOW”=Art of the Wild Errata: In Issue 17 of the Omnium Gatherum & Newsletter. We mistakenly listed Dean Young as the author of The Grey Album: On the Blackness of Blackness on p. 5. Kevin Young is actually the author of that book. ~ 3~ Molly Fisk on Craft REVISION - TO SEE YOUR POEM AGAIN olly Fisk is an NEA fellow, and things to look at. Are your verbs in- the author of several books of po- teresting and active? Are you using so Metry and essays. many adverbs and adjectives that it’s Her weekly radio commen- hard to follow your train of thought? tary is heard in Colorado, Are you wedded to a certain kind Wisconsin, Illinois, and of sentence? Are your words more California. She teaches Italianate or more Anglo-Saxon: sinu- extensively, in person and ous or bleak? And is that serving the on-line. Blow-Drying poem or fighting its intentions? Are a Chicken, a book of your metaphors helping the poem be essays on writing and life, understood, or just showing off? Do appeared in 2013. they all go in the same direction or do Generating poems, especially when they undercut each other? Do your you first start doing it, is very com- lines look the same, or are they varied? pelling: you get that great feeling of And then, there’s the opposite prob- being able to say something you’ve lem. You can kill a poem by revising been wanting to say, you get surprised it too much. Which is why we always by your own ideas and language, and need to save our first couple of drafts, sometimes the poem seems to flow and as we revise, move away from the out of your pen as if it were meant to material for a while and then come be. It’s a little like falling in love. It’s back to it fresh, to see if we’ve re- hard to imagine changing something tained what was alive and interesting in that seems so natural and fluid a pro- the poem from the beginning. cess. Many poets don’t revise their work for this very reason, and that’s a Everyone has different revision styles. shame, because a good poem can al- Robert Hass told me once that when most always be made better and some- he revises, some of the words change, times even great, with revision. and some of the order, and punctua- tion gets moved around, but the over- Revision: literally to see your poem all scaffolding of the original poem again (after some time has gone by tends to be intact in the final draft.
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