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This Wednesday: Slam at GCC!!

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November 18th at 7PM. In GCC Main’s SU 104E

November is the month for GCC’s annual Poetry and Prose Slam.  The prize is Cold Hard Cash! This year, the slam will take place on GCC’s main campus in SU 104E. It begins at 7:00 p.m on November 18th.

Things to Know:

  • Registration forms must be submitted by the day and time of the event
  • Registration forms can be found at the English Department lobby in the 05 building on GCC Main, in 05-122, or via email at david.nelson@gccaz.edu
  • Enter short stories, poetry, drama, essay, song lyrics, non-fiction, or other types of creative writing
  • Arrive five to ten minutes early to sign up to read
  • Three minute time limit to read/perform each piece
  • Contestants may read/perform up to three pieces (once per round)
  • Each piece will be judged on the quality of writing/performance
  • There will be prizes for first, second, and third place
  • All decisions of the judges are judicious, righteous, and final

Questions?  Please email kimberly.mathes@gccaz.edu.

Next Week: Free Association Open Mic Poetry & Prose Series

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On October 21st, this month’s open mic will feature the 2014 contributors to Glendale Community College’s literary arts magazine, The Traveler, and will also feature past Traveler contributor Dan Ramirez reading from his new book Flashes from the Molcajete.

Open mic begins at 7:00 p.m. with Traveler readers and Dan Ramirez to follow.

This event is open for GCC faculty, staff, students, and also community members.

Location:  GCC’s main campus, SU 104-A/B/C

Saturday Workshop: Creating Believable Characters

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Please join us for our first Saturday morning workshop.

Workshops are also open to community members.  Bring a friend! 
They are free!  (And they come with juice and breakfast goodies.  For this workshop only, bring your own coffee.) 
 Mark, head shotDate: September 12
Time: 9:00-11:30 a.m.
Where: LA 141
 
Description:
  Creating Believable Characters
Are you tired of dull lifeless characters?  Do you want people to read your characters and be able to relate to them? Do you want to have fun writing dynamic characters?  Join GCC’s Saturday Creative Writing workshop series September 12. 
 
Screenwriter Mark Viquesney will give some helpful tips on breathing life into your characters no matter what genre you write in.
Please contact Kimberly Mathes for more information at Kimberly.Mathes@gccaz.edu.

Special Summer Edition of Glendale Community College’s Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series Wednesday, July 15th!

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Special Summer Edition of Glendale Community College’s Free Association open mic poetry and prose series!

Jessica Standifird was a founding member of the West Valley’s Rorschach Poets Collective and the person who started the Free Association readings at GCC. She will be returning from Portland on Wednesday, July 15th with writers from her Northwest troupe, Blue Skirt Productions.

Blue Skirt Productions

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

hosted by Shawnte Orion

Glendale Community College
(in Student Union room 104)
6000 W. Olive Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85302

Blue Skirt Productions mission is to promote the work of creatives – writers, musicians, artists, etc., by presenting their works in a variety of outlets, including a website, publications, and live performances, and to offer support to artists through services such as editing, mentoring, coaching, lessons, and workshop opportunities. We encourage diversity, hard-hitting works and a strong sense of community.

Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series This Wednesday, 25 March, 7 PM, SU-104!

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Featuring Four Chambers Press

Wednesday, March 25th, SU-104
at Glendale Community College

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

Four Chambers (founded June 2013) is an independent community literary magazine based in Phoenix, AZ whose mission is to give greater visibility to the literary arts and encourage their larger participation in the cultural scene. We don’t have a specific aesthetic or agenda. We publish work from authors who are established, emerging, unknown, simply uninterested, or don’t even think of themselves as authors in the first place. We are vague in our descriptions. We like doing things. We organize relatively non-traditional events and readings that help bring people together, collaborate with other artistic disciplines and work towards the creation of a meaningful and relevant public art.

4C home page

http://fourchamberspress.com/

Hosted by Shawnte Orion and the Glendale Community College English Department.

Main Campus map (.pdf)

Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series Tonight, Wednesday, 7 PM, SU-104!

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Free Association Open Mic Poetry Series
featuring Neil Gearns & Heather Smith-Gearns

Wednesday, January 21st, SU-104
at Glendale Community College

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

hosted by Shawnte Orion and the Glendale Community College English Department

Glendale Community College (in Student Union room 104)
6000 W. Olive Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85302

For more information, contact Laura White, CRW Coordinator at 623.845.4197 or laura.white@gccaz.edu.

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

FREE ASSOCIATION OPEN MIC POETRY AND PROSE SERIES January 21st, 7 PM, SU 104!

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Free Association Open Mic Poetry Series
featuring Neil Gearns & Heather Smith-Gearns

Wednesday, January 21st
at Glendale Community College

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

hosted by Shawnte Orion and the Glendale Community College English Department

Glendale Community College (in Student Union room 104)
6000 W. Olive Ave.
Glendale, AZ 85302

For more information, contact Laura White, CRW Coordinator at 623.845.4197 or laura.white@gccaz.edu.

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

Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series, 15 October, 7:00 p.m.!

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Free Association Open Mic Poetry and Prose Series
                                      Wednesday, October 15th 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