GCC Creative Writing

Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series
                                      Wednesday, October 15^th at Glendale Community College (Student Union Room 104)  Featuring our talented GCC student writers!

Along with the open mic portion at 7:00 p.m., the evening will celebrate student writers whose work will appear in the 2013-2014 Traveler, GCC’s award-winning arts and literary journal.

The Traveler is a student creative arts magazine produced annually since 1968 by the English and Art Departments of Glendale Community College.

The event is FREE, uncensored, and open to the public.  Open mic starts at 7:00 p.m. Light refreshments will be served.

The English Department at GCC is sponsoring the event as part of its continuing series Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose.

The event will be hosted by Shawnte Orion, Free Association Host and Poet, and John Ventola, GCC CRW/English Faculty, GCC Coordinator for Traveler, and Poet.

For more information, contact Laura White at laura.white@gccaz.edu.

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 Art of Telling,” presented by Mark Viquesney, Faculty and Screenwriter.

Have you ever been told to “Show, don’t tell?”  Frustrated by seeing that all the time?  This workshop will explore the Art of Telling so that you will be better at showing, and not telling.  Join the fun and learn that the best way to tell a story is to show the reader what is happening.

Saturday, October 11, 9:00-11:30 a.m. in LA 141.

Free and open to the public.

Light refreshments provided.

Mark Viquesney is a screenwriter who received his MFA in Screenwriting at Arizona State University.  He has been hired by small production companies to write many feature length films as well as novel adaptations, television pilots, music, and commercials.  He has been teaching screenwriting for Phoenix College and Glendale Community College since 2005.  He also is a script consultant for numerous films as well as editor/story consultant for novels and short stories.

September 17 — Free Association Open Mic Poetry Series

Featuring Jenna Duncan & Shawnte Orion

Wednesday September 17th
at Glendale Community College

FREE and open to the public
open mic starts at 7pm

Jenna Duncan is a poet, essayist, reporter and filmmaker based in Phoenix, Arizona. Her poetry and prose have appeared on Seattle’s city buses, in self-published ‘zines and in Cream City Review (University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee). Her video artwork and documentaries have screened at FilmBar and Eye Lounge Collective in Phoenix, The New School in New York City, and Z-Bar in Berlin, Germany. She has completed a Bachelors degree in Journalism from the University of Arizona (2001), a Master of Fine Arts degree in Creative Writing at Goddard College (2007), and a Master of Arts in Media Studies from The New School (2010). She currently serves as Associate Editor for JAVA Magazine, based in Phoenix.

Shawnte Orion has hosted the Free Association readings at GCC for the past five years, but this time he will read from his new book The Existentialist Cookbook which was just published by NYQBooks (copies will be available). His poems have appeared or are forthcoming in The Threepenny Review, Barrelhouse, Gargoyle Magazine, and New York Quarterly. He has been invited to read at bookstores, bars, universities, hair salons, museums, and laundromats.
All the details and sample poems from his new book can be found at:
http://books.nyq.org/title/theexistentialistcookbook

hosted by Jared Duran

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:

September 13 — Saturday Workshop Series

Gary Lawrence, GCC CRW/English Faculty, says, “Size Matters: Flash Fiction Rules!” — and he says he can prove it! Come and judge for yourself Saturday, Sept. 13 in LA 141 from 9:00 – 11:30 am. You’ll define “flash fiction” (short stories 1000 words or less), talk about the “rules” of flash fiction, then read and analyze at least three of Gary’s favorite flash fiction pieces — and apply what you learn to your own writing.

Free and open to the public.

Light refreshments provided.

Gary Lawrence has taught at GCC as an adjunct English instructor since 2011. He has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts (VCFA). In previous lives, he taught management courses at Cardinal Stritch University, played a wicked first base, managed a technical publications and training department in a Fortune 100 company, and built pole barns (ask some Midwestern farmer what THOSE are). He grew up (well, got older, anyway) in Rockford, IL, the setting of most of the stories in his 2013 collection, Baffled — a copy of which is in the GCC library. His last appearance in the GCC CRW Second Saturday Series dealt with “Managing Time in Fiction.” Gary teaches CRW170/270, Introduction to Fiction/Intermediate Fiction Writing, and composition courses at GCC.