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omnium gatherum & newsletter 2 0 0 8 - 2 0 0 9 i s s u e 1 3 COMMUNITY OF WRITERS AT SQUAW VALLEY OUR SUPPORTERS OMNIUM GATHERUM & NEWSLETTER TABLE OF 2008-2009,.Issue.13 The.Community.of.Writers.gratefully. acknowledges the financial support that CONTENTS makes our programs possible: Community of Writers at Squaw Valley (In the online A Non-Profit Corporation #629182 University of California version, you can P.O. Box 1416, Nevada City, CA 95959 Depot Bookstore E-mail: [email protected] click on an item LEF Foundation www.squawvalleywriters.org to go there.) San Francisco Foundation Newsletter edited and designed by Anne & Gordon Getty Foundation Maxima Kahn The Bookshelf Bookstores with support and advice from Squaw Valley Institute Brett Hall Jones University of California/ Irvine Academy Foundation of The Academy of Note from the Editor . .4 BOARD OF DIRECTORS Motion Picture Arts & Sciences Announcing Our 2009 Summer Programs . .6 President Max Byrd Hotel Rex Poetry Staff News . .7 Vice President Joanne Meschery National Endowment for the Arts Secretary Eddy Ancinas Squaw Valley Ski Corporation PoetWatch: Poetry Participant News . .8 Financial OfficerBurnett Miller Entrekin Foundation Osvaldo Ancinas Poetry Participant Profile: Rusty Morrision . .18 and our many individual donors and friends, Jan Buscho Summer 2008 Special Thanks and Gallery of Photos . .20 Alan Cheuse as well as Lou DeMattei and Amy Tan for Richard Ford their major contribution to the Community Sounds of Summer 2008: Music Heard in the Office . .22 of Writers Endowment Blair Fuller Screenwriting Participant Profile: Jeffrey Brown . .23 Diana Fuller Barbara Hall Screenwriting Staff News . .24 James D. Houston Edwina Leggett ABOUT OUR ADVERTISERS Screenwriting Participant News . .26 James Naify The ads which appear in this issue represent Hard Times for Writers: Louis B. Jones . .33 Christopher Sindt the work of Community of Writers staff and Published Alumni Reading Series . .36 Kevin Starr participants. These ads help to defray the Amy Tan cost of the newsletter. If you have a recent In Memoriam Oakley Hall . .38 John C. Walker or forthcoming book, please contact us Harold Weaver Writers Workshop Staff News . .41 about advertising in our next annual issue. Nancy Wendt Writers Workshop Participant Profile: Jamie Ford . .46 Al Young Contact Maxima Kahn for a Rate Sheet and more information: (530) 273-3566 Writers Workshop Participant News . .48 THE WORKSHOPS or [email protected] Contributors. .back cover Executive Director Brett Hall Jones or visit: www.squawvalleywriters.org Writers Workshops: Some Magazines to Submit To . back cover Lisa Alvarez Louis B. Jones Michael Carlisle PLEASE NOTE: We are not able to fact-check Poetry Robert Hass the submitted news. We apologize if any Screenwriting Diana Fuller incorrect information is published. ~ ~ A Note from the Editor elcome to the Omnium Send Us Your News! Gatherum & Newsletter! W After two years of publishing “One of the best hotels in San Francisco.” the Omnium as a PDF available on our National Geographic’s “10 Best of Everything, 2008” website only, we have returned to a printed format with the online version also available. Being readers, we For individual reservations, call 800.433.4434 know the love of holding a real object or visit www.thehotelrex.com in our hands. However, the costs of PAST PARTICIPANT OR STAFF? printing and mailing the Omnium are Do you have news you would like us 562 SUTTER STREET, SAN FRANCISCO 94102 substantial. We were able to publish to include in the newsletter? We print this year thanks to a special donation in publishing credits, awards and similar honor of Oakley Hall. If you would like new writing-related achievements, and to help us continue to publish, please also include births. News should consider making a contribution to the be from the past year only. Please Community of Writers or advertise compose it in third person, using with us. All of the advertising dollars complete sentences. Include titles, go towards the costs of producing this periodicals, publisher, and publica- forum that helps keep our community tion dates, as needed. It helps us if members in touch with one another . your news is sent in the correct format. See examples in this issue. In these challenging times we need the Deadline: September 15, 2009 for inspiration and insight of our writers next issue. even more to provide a reflection, a beacon, instigation and relief, to name We dedicate this issue of the only a few of the possible functions Omnium Gatherum & Newsletter of good writing . Staff and former to the memory of co-founder participants have a wealth of wonderful Oakley Hall, founder and tireless new books recently out or coming out advocate soon. I encourage you to check them of our out. It’s up to all of us to keep literature Community thriving, to support the authors and of Writers. publishers in our community. We hope you enjoy this issue. Let us know! —Maxima Kahn [email protected] ~ ~ ~ ~ COMMUNITY 2009 POETRY WORKSHOPS: July 18 - 25 POETRY Cornelius Eady · Robert Hass · Brenda Hillman OF WRITERS Sharon Olds · Evie Shockley and special guest Galway Kinnell STAFF NEWS WRITERS WORKSHOPS: August 1 - 8 Dorothy Allison · Bill Barich · Max Byrd Michael Carlisle · Ron Carlson · Alan Cheuse Jimmy Santiago Baca: Sunbelt Sharon Olds: Her new collection, One. Mark Childress · Leslie Daniels · Gill Dennis Publications published his collection Secret Thing, was published by Knopf in Rita.and.Julia in September 2008. Grove September, 2008. Carol Edgarian · Janet Fitch · Karen Joy Fowler Press will release his new novel, A. Glass. Gerald Stern: His most recent collection Lynn Freed · Dagoberto Gilb · Molly Giles Of. Water, in fall 2009. Heinemann is of poems, Save the Last Dance, was Glen David Gold · Sands Hall · James D. Houston publishing Metamorphosis: Stories about published in May 2008. Squaw Valley Michael Jaime-Becerra · Louis B. Jones Learning,. Loving,. and. Living in 2009, C. D. Wright: Her most recent collection Joanne Meschery · Jason Roberts and New Directions is coming out with a of poems, Rising, Falling, Hovering, was California Sandra Scofield · Gregory Spatz comprehensive collection of his work in published by Copper Canyon Press in April Andrew Tonkovich · Rick Wartzman · Al Young Spanish . 2008 . Literary Agents Lucille Clifton: Her newest collection of Dean Young: His most recent collection SUMMER Book & Literary Magazine Editors poems, Voices,.was published in November of poems, Primitive.Mentor, was published 2008 . by the University of Pittsburgh Press in PUBLISHED ALUMNI: Robert Hass: His collection Time. and. January 2008. His collection of poems WRITING Materials was awarded the Pulitzer Embryoyo (Believer Books/McSweeney’s) David Bajo · Frances Dinkelspiel · Jamie Ford Prize, the National Book Award, and the was nominated for a Northern California WORKSHOPS Vicki Forman · Tanya Egan Gibson Northern California Book Award. Book Award in 2008. Brenda Hillman: Her newest collection, Kevin Young: His most recent collection Financial Aid available PLUS SPECIAL GUESTS: Practical. Water, is forthcoming from of poems, Dear Darkness, was published Rhoda Huffey · Diane Johnson · Malcolm Margolin Wesleyan University Press in 2009. by Knopf in September 2008. The paperback edition of his book. For. the. Application Deadlines in Amy Tan · Kem Nunn · Jeanne Wakatsuki Houston Galway Kinnell: Mariner Books published Confederate Dead was also published by April and May Jane Vandenburgh the paperback edition of his recent Knopf in September . (See each program) collection, Strong Is Your Hold, in 2008 . SCREENWRITING: August 1 - 8 Yusef Komunyakaa: His most recent [email protected] Production commitments will determine the collection, Warhorses, was published by availability of staff members and guests. Farrar, Straus and Giroux in September (530) 470-8440 Eugene Corr · Pamela Gray · Michael Lehmann 2008 . Toney Merritt · Christopher Monger · Judith Rascoe Li-Young Lee: His collection of poems Tom Rickman · Lisa Rosenberg · Camille Thomasson www.squawvalleywriters.org Behind. My. Eyes (with audio CD) was Tom Schlesinger · Michael Urban published by W. W. Norton in 2008. ~ ~ ~ ~ Gretl Claggett (05): Gretl has just signed Ann Fisher-Wirth (00,92): Her third on with Kuhn Projects to represent her book of poems, Carta. Marina, will be POETWATCH corporate memoir Do This, Get That. Her published by Wings Press in April 2009. poem “The Net” appeared in Submerged: With Laura Gray Street she is coediting an Tales. from. the. Basin and has been international anthology of contemporary nominated for a Pushcart Prize. ecopoetry in English, Earth’s Body. During POETRY Catharine Clark-Sayles (03 Writing the past year she was a finalist for the PARTICIPANTS the Medical Experience): Her first Mississippi Review Poetry Prize. Her poems book of poetry, One.Breath, has just been have appeared or are forthcoming in The. published by Tebot Bach Press. Several Connecticut Review, Sentence, Poetry International, Prairie Schooner, The Kazim Ali (98): He has two new books Cynthia Broshi (05,01): Two poems of the poems were written at Squaw Oxford. American,. 32. Poems, and other forthcoming in 2009: a novel, The. (one of them begun at Squaw) were Valley’s “Writing the Medical Experience” journals, and in the anthologies White. Disappearance of Seth, from Etruscan published this fall in Portland.Review . workshop. Ink: Poems on Mothers and Motherhood, Press, and a book of lyric essays, Bright. Kevin Conder (05): He has two poems Elizabeth Chapman (07,04,01): She was Letters to the World, Bear Flag Republic, Felon, from Wesleyan University Press. coming out in the Summer 2009 issue awarded the Robert McGovern Publication and Artifice and Marrow . His most recent of book of poetry is The. Prize for Poetry. Ashland Poetry Press of Quiddity . He will also be reading Fortieth Day, published in 2008 by BOA (Ashland University, Ohio) will publish her his poems on the journal’s companion Molly Fisk (04,99,95,92): In November Editions .