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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
 
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  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.

2015 Short Story America Prize

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from T.D. Johnson

The 2015 Short Story America Prize is open for entries through September 1st. Open to all short story/essay genres.  Word limit: 500-12000 words.

First Prize: $500 and publication in Short Story America, Volume Five. Runnerup: $250 and publication in Volume Five. Third Prize: $125 and publication in Volume Five.

Finalists will be notified on September 20th. Winners will be announced at the Short Story America Festival and Conference, September 25-26 in Beaufort, South Carolina.

$15 reading fee per entry.  For more details on Short Story America, the print anthologies (Volumes I-III), the Festival ($45 all-event pass), and/or to enter your story or stories, go to www.shortstoryamerica.com.  The site also has a good online “classics” library of short stories and essays.

P.S.  Short Story America was first to publish Gary Lawrence’s “Why I’m Here,” which appears in SSA’s 2012 print anthology, Volume II.  A second story of Gary’s, “Garage Sale,” is in SSA’s 2013 anthology, Volume III.  SSA also helped him publish his short story collection Baffled.  Gary teaches composition and CRW170/270 (introduction to, and intermediate fiction) online at GCC, and will be presenting (again!) at this year’s “Second Saturday” creative writing workshop series (November 14, 9-11 am, GCC, short story sequences).

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