VLP Poetry Slam Nov. 19; VLP Writing Group Nov. 16

November 14, 2009 by English

Two upcoming Vermillion Literary Project activities:

• VLP Reading & Poetry Slam – Join us Thursday, November 19, 7 p.m. at the Coffee Shop Gallery (24 W. Main Street), Vermillion, for the VLP Reading & Poetry Slam. Our featured reader this month will be Ed Allen. Allen has published two novels: Straight Through the Night, and Mustang Sally, which was made into a film, Easy Six (retitled in a Showtime DVD release as Easy Sex).  He is also the author of The Hands-On Fiction Workbook. His fiction and poetry have appeared in The New Yorker, GQ, Story, Prairie Schooner, The Indiana Review, and River Styx. His collection of short stories, Ate it Anyway, won the 2002 Flannery O’Connor Award for Short Fiction. His first collection of poetry, the sonnet sequence 67 Mixed Messages was published by Ahsahta Press in 2006. He has been a contestant on Jeopardy and was once on the same Delta flight as Tiny Tim. He currently teaches in the creative writing program at USD.
• Join an exciting new writing community, EXORCISE YOUR WRITES! on Monday, November 16, 7 p.m. at the Washington Street Arts Center, 202 N Washington, Vermillion. Exorcise Your Writes is a community writers group that brings area writers together on the third Monday of every month to free themselves from the usual “anti-writing” spirits: The evil voice of the inner ear (self-censoring), the mind eraser (writer’s block), the blinding blank page, the floating fingers that lure writers to the web, and the spring in the chair that causes writers to pop up and make coffee. EVERYONE is welcome! Whether a published writer or just starting out, come to this supportive, inspiring, creative group to exorcise (and exercise) your writing, to share and receive feedback from your peers, and to listen to other creative spirits.  Bring your poems, scribbles, chapters, scenes, sketches, drafts, characters – or just come and listen! For more information, contact group organizer Sandra Kern Mollman at Sandra.Mollman-AT-usd-DOT-edu. Sponsored by the Vermillion Literary Project (VLP) http://orgs.usd.edu/projlit.
  

 

Join the Vermillion Literary Project!

August 20, 2009 by English

Students--undergraduate or graduate, of any major--are welcome to join the Vermillion Literary Project, a very cool organization that publishes a literary magazine and hosts a number of literary events for the USD community and the general public. Some of the benefits are

• membership in the U's only student creative-writing & literary organization;
• membership in a consistently award-winning organization;
• hands-on experience organizing and hosting monthly poetry slams;
• hands-on publishing experience with creating the annual VLP magazine (editing, design, etc.);
• experience dreaming up, organizing, and hosting literary events throughout the school year;
• being part of a community of students who share your interest in all things literary!

For more information, contact Marcella Remund at mremund-AT-usd.edu.

 

Register for VLP Short Story Contest--$200 1st Place Prize

October 13, 2007 by English

Do you like writing fiction? Or have you always wanted to
try? Write a short story in three hours at the VLP Short Story Contest
Oct. 20 and you might win $200 as well as getting published!

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