Join us this Saturday for another remarkable workshop!

28 March, 9-11:30 AM, LA-141–“Objectifying Your Poem: So Much Depends Upon Things,” presented by Shawnte Orion, Free Association Host and Poet. 

Shawnte Orion’s first book of poetry The Existentialist Cookbook was published by NYQBooks. His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Gargoyle Magazine, and New York Quarterly. His first chapbook The Infernal Gaze was published by Red Booth Review in 2003 and he was the 2013 Copper State Haiku Slam Champion. He has been invited to read at bookstores, bars, universities, hair salons, museums, and laundromats. He founded the monthly Caffeine Corridor Poetry Series with Jack Evans and he hosts the Free Association monthly readings at Glendale Community College.
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Light refreshments will be served.  Free and open to the public!

Main Campus map (.pdf)

THE CRW Saturday Workshop Series Continues!

“Near and Far: A Discussion on Point of View, Psychic Distance, and Immediacy,” presented by Jeff Baker, GCC CRW/English Faculty Guy.

7 March, 9-11:30 AM, LA-141, Free and Open to the Public!

Light refreshments will be served.

Jeff Baker is a graduate of Arizona State University’s MFA program and earned his BA from the University of Florida. He has published stories in various literary journals; worked as a prose editor for Hayden’s Ferry Review; written scripts and developed environments for online video games; co-wrote crude, independent film shorts about souls and whiffle ball; and once worked as a ghost writer on a novel about heroic cheese mongers in space, but left the project due to creative differences.

Jeff has been teaching for ten years and he has taught creative writing and other English courses for Glendale, Estrella Mountain, and ASU. He is a lover of novels and flash fiction, a student and admirer of creative nonfiction and poetry, a dabbler in stage and screenplays, a backseat driver, only partially organized, an Aquarius, a proponent of long and complicated lists, and a believer that reading can make a person a better writer.

Main Campus map (.pdf)

Greetings GCC Writers,

Following is a Call for Papers from Santa Barbara City College for their literary journal Painted Cave.  Note that the “contest” is free, is run by community college students, and is limited to community college student writers.

In a nutshell, your chances are good.
🙂

I might also point out that the categories are by genre AND word count for all of us that whine about word count…
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I’m Chella Courington, faculty adviser for Painted Cave Literary Journal at Santa Babara City College (CA). The journal is specifically for student writers at community colleges across the nation. We launched our second issue in December 2014 and the third issue comes out in May. I would like to ask your assistance in distributing the call to your students and to your colleagues so they can pass it on to their students.

The link to the journal is <paintedcave.net>.

Painted Cave Literary Magazine <paintedcave.net> is accepting submissions from community college students nationwide for its third issue May 2015.  Painted Cave has rolling submissions (accepted all year long), but April 15 is a good deadline for the May issue (projected publish date is the first or second week of May).

Painted Cave is the online student-run, faculty-guided literary journal of Santa Barbara City College. We publish the work of community college student writers in fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction. Painted Cave reserves First North American Serial Rights. We accept simultaneous submissions, but please notify us immediately if your work is accepted elsewhere.

Paste your submission in the body of the email to <paintedcavesubmissions[at] gmail[dot]com>. Also include a short biography and the community college attending.

In the subject line include the genre of the submission, title(s) and your name (Fiction, “Born Too Late,” Mary Mullins)

We accept the following genres:

Flash Fiction: 1-3 pieces, no more than 750 words each.
Fiction: 1 piece, no more than 5000 words.
Poetry: 3-5 poems, no more then 50 lines each.
Creative Nonfiction: 1 piece, no more than 5000 words.
Flash Creative Nonfiction: 1-3 pieces, no more than 750 words each.

Dr. Chella Courington, Literary Adviser
Santa Barbara City College
couring@sbcc.edu

Midnight Metaphors has taken over the Free Association Open Mic
for Black History Month!

The month of February will bring some familiar faces to the forefront. Longtime member and current president of Midnight Metaphors, Rasheda Poe, and winner of the Traveler poetry competition, Charles D. Threat, Sr., will be taking the stage as the Featured Presenters of this month’s Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series. They will not only be sharing their own works, but they will be reading amazing poetry from many of the inspirational Black poets in history.

TONIGHT, This Wednesday, February 18th from 7pm to 9:30pm., in SU-104

Free and Open to the Public

* Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:45pm outside of Student Union, room 104. Attendees may sign-up throughout the open mic session to present personal poetry, prose, and/or flash fiction.

The Presenters:

My name is Rasheda Poe. To most in the poetry community I am known as Rayven. In my 37 years on this planet, I have developed a passion for all forms of creative writing. In January, I was one of the features in the Women Wielding Words (In The Alley) poetry reading. Most recently, read in the “Art of Love” charity event, benefiting Gina’s Team. I have been a participant in the Free Association Wednesday night open mic and many others in the valley, as well as poetry and creative writing slams, over the past few months. Of course, I’ve always referred not myself as a writer, and not a poet. But I’m finally accepting my place amongst the poetry community as a poetic voice.

My name is Charles D. Threat, Sr. I am 62 years old. I have 8 children and 11 grandchildren. I have completed the requirements for acquiring a Certificate of Creating Writing. I placed 3rd in the poetry section of the 2013 Traveler and 1st place in the 2015 poetry edition of the Traveler. I have been a member of the Midnight Metaphors for 2 years and MC’ed the 2014 Poetry Slam. I also am a participant in the Free Association Wednesday night open mics. I don’t consider myself a poet, but rather an entertainer.

Glendale Community College (in Student Union room 104)

6000 W. Olive Ave.

Glendale, AZ 85302

Campus Map for where to PARK and where to find the Student Union:

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/2016/freemap.jpg

Midnight Metaphors has taken over the Free Association Open Mic

for Black History Month!

The month of February will bring some familiar faces to the forefront. Longtime member and current president of Midnight Metaphors, Rasheda Poe, and winner of the Traveler poetry competition, Charles D. Threat, Sr., will be taking the stage as the Featured Presenters of this month’s Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series. They will not only be sharing their own works, but they will be reading amazing poetry from many of the inspirational Black poets in history.

This Wednesday, February 18^th from 7pm to 9:30pm., in SU-104

Free and Open to the Public

* Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:45pm outside of Student Union, room 104. Attendees may sign-up throughout the open mic session to present personal poetry, prose, and/or flash fiction.

 The Presenters:

My name is Rasheda Poe. To most in the poetry community I am known as Rayven. In my 37 years on this planet, I have developed a passion for all forms of creative writing. In January, I was one of the features in the Women Wielding Words (In The Alley) poetry reading. Most recently, read in the “Art of Love” charity event, benefiting Gina’s Team. I have been a participant in the Free Association Wednesday night open mic and many others in the valley, as well as poetry and creative writing slams, over the past few months. Of course, I’ve always referred not myself as a writer, and not a poet. But I’m finally accepting my place amongst the poetry community as a poetic voice.

My name is Charles D. Threat, Sr. I am 62 years old. I have 8 children and 11 grandchildren. I have completed the requirements for acquiring a Certificate of Creating Writing. I placed 3rd in the poetry section of the 2013 Traveler and 1st place in the 2015 poetry edition of the Traveler. I have been a member of the Midnight Metaphors for 2 years and MC’ed the 2014 Poetry Slam. I also am a participant in the Free Association Wednesday night open mics. I don’t consider myself a poet, but rather an entertainer.

Glendale Community College (in Student Union room 104)

6000 W. Olive Ave.

Glendale, AZ 85302

Campus Map for where to PARK and where to find the Student Union:

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/2016/freemap.jpg

Midnight Metaphors has taken over the Free Association Open Mic  for Black History Month!

The month of February will bring some familiar faces to the forefront. Longtime member and current president of Midnight Metaphors, Rasheda Poe, and winner of the Traveler poetry competition, Charles D. Threat, Sr., will be taking the stage as the Featured Presenters of this month’s Black History Month Midnight Metaphors. They will not only be sharing their own works, but they will be reading amazing poetry from many of the inspirational Black poets in history.

This Wednesday, February 18^th from 7pm to 9:30pm., in SU-104

Free and Open to the Public

* Sign up for the open mic begins at 6:45pm outside of Student Union, room 104. Attendees may sign-up through out the evening to present personal poetry, prose, and/or flash fiction.

The Presenters:

My name is Rasheda Poe. To most in the poetry community I am known as Rayven. In my 37 years on this planet, I have developed a passion for all forms of creative writing. In January, I was one of the features in the Women Wielding Words (In The Alley) poetry reading. Most recently, read in the “Art of Love” charity event, benefiting Gina’s Team. I have been a participant in the Free Association Wednesday night open mic and many others in the valley, as well as poetry and creative writing slams, over the past few months. Of course, I’ve always referred not myself as a writer, and not a poet. But I’m finally accepting my place amongst the poetry community as a poetic voice.

My name is Charles D. Threat, Sr. I am 62 years old. I have 8 children and 11 grandchildren. I have completed the requirements for acquiring a Certificate of Creating Writing. I placed 3rd in the poetry section of the 2013 Traveler and 1st place in the 2015 poetry edition of the Traveler. I have been a member of the Midnight Metaphors for 2 years and MC’ed the 2014 Poetry Slam. I also am a participant in the Free Association Wednesday night open mics. I don’t consider myself a poet, but rather an entertainer.

Glendale Community College (in Student Union room 104)

6000 W. Olive Ave.

Glendale, AZ 85302

Campus Map for where to PARK and where to find the Student Union:

http://img825.imageshack.us/img825/2016/freemap.jpg

THE CRW Saturday Workshop Series Continues

7 February, 9-11:30 AM, B-202, Free and Open to the Public!

“Ink, Inspiration and Image—Using Drawing Prompts to Generate Ideas for Writing,” featuring Johnnie Clemens May, GCC CRW/English Faculty and Poet, and Dorothy Stewart, Visual Artist and Poet.

When: Saturday, 7 February, 9:00-11:30 AM

Where: GCC’s B-202

Free and Open to the Public

Light refreshments will be served!

Main Campus map (.pdf)

Johnnie Clemens May has a B.A. and an M.A. from Indiana University and an M.F.A. in poetry from Pacific University. She has helped build and was the one of the first coordinators for the creative writing certificate program at Glendale Community College and teaches creative writing courses, including personal and exploratory writing, an introduction to poetry, intermediate poetry and an introduction to creative writing. She also teaches composition and literature classes. Along with having published her poetry in several literary magazines, Johnnie has hosted a poetry series at a local coffeehouse, has delivered lectures and poetry readings to community organizations, has been a poetry judge in local competitions and has studied with nationally recognized poets Ellen Bass, Marie Howe and Dorianne Laux, among others.

Dorothy Stewart, Poet, Painter and Potter, has a BA in Comparative Literature and an MLS from the University of California, Berkeley. She has taught graphic arts at Maricopa Community Colleges. Dorothy has been writing poetry for 25 years and has enjoyed drawing and painting since she was six.