Archive for January 22nd, 2015
Anne Waldman Master Class @ The MAC
What: Master Classes with Anne Waldman
When: Saturday, May 9, 11 a.m.-1 p.m.
Where: The MAC
Master Class Fee: $75, includes Friday night performance
One on One Interview: $200 (Max 10 poems/ Max 2 slots 2-3 pm, 3:30-4:30 pm)
*Includes Performance plus 11-1 pm Master Class
10 % MAC/WS Members Discounts through March 1. 214-838-3554
Workspace is proud to offer a master class with Anne Waldman on May 9th in conjunction with her Dallas performance May 8th @ The Mac. Click here for the show and read on for information on how to submit.
Focus will be on performance and live reading. Space is limited. Manuscripts sent in earlier will be given priority for consideration. Follow the link below to submit.
A prominent figure in the beat poetry generation, Anne Waldman, was born in Millville, New Jersey, on April 2, 1945, and grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. She received her BA from Bennington College in 1966. From 1966 until 1978 she ran the St. Mark’s Poetry Project, reading with fellow poets such as Allen Ginsberg and Gregory Corso. Immediately following her departure from St. Mark’s, she and Ginsberg founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado.
She is the author of over 40 books and small press editions of poetry and poetics, including, most recently, Gossamurmur(Penguin, 2013); The Iovis Trilogy: Colors in the Mechanism of Concealment (Coffee House Press, 2011), a 700-page epic poem 30 years in the making. She is the Distinguished Professor of Poetics at Naropa University
The Legendary ANNE WALDMAN–Don’t miss it!
Master Class with Vievee Francis
What: Master Class with Vievee Francis
When: Saturday, April 24, 6:00PM – 8:00
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St.
Fee: $40
WordSpace is proud to offer a master class with Vievee Francis on April 24th in conjunction with his Dallas performance April 23th @ SDCC. Click here for the show and read on for information on how to submit.
We invite you to submit three poems for consideration for our workshop. We will pass along the best manuscripts for consideration to Vievee Francis; she will choose which ones to discuss in class. Space is limited. Manuscripts sent in earlier will be given priority for consideration. Follow the link below to submit.
Vievee Francis is the author of Horse in the Dark (Northwestern University Press, 2012), which won the Cave Canem Northwestern University Press Poetry Prize for a second collection, and Blue-Tail Fly (Wayne State University, 2006). Her third book, Forest Primeval, is slated for release in 2015 (Northwestern University Press). Her work has appeared in numerous print and online journals, textbooks, and anthologies including Poetry, Best American Poetry, Cura, Waxwing and Angles of Ascent: A Norton Anthology of Contemporary African American Poetry (W.W. Norton 2012). She has also been a Poet in Residence for the Alice Lloyd Scholars Program at the University of Michigan. In 2009 she received a Rona Jaffe Writer’s Award and in 2010, a Kresge Fellowship. She is currently an Associate Editor for Callaloo, and a Visiting Professor of Creative Writing (Undergraduate Creative Writing Program) at Warren Wilson College in Asheville, NC.
Master Class with Mitchell S. Jackson
What: Mitchell S. Jackson MASTER CLASS
When: Saturday, February 7th, 3-4:30 pm
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St.
Fee: $40
WordSpace is proud to offer a master class with Mitchell S. Jackson on Feb. 7th in conjunction with his Dallas performance Feb. 6 @ SDCC. Click here for the show and read on for information on how to submit.
We invite you to submit a short story or excerpt of 15 pages, double-space for consideration to be discussed in the workshop.
We will pass along the best manuscripts for consideration to Jackson and he will choose which ones to discuss in class. Space is limited. Manuscripts sent in earlier will be given priority for consideration. Follow the link below to submit.
Mitchell S. Jackson is a Portland, Oregon native who lives in Brooklyn, New York. He is a 2014 Lannan Foundation Fellow and winner of the Ernest Gaines prize for fiction and has been the recipient of fellowships from Urban Artist Initiative and The Center For Fiction and the Hurston Wright Foundation’s award. Jackson teaches writing at New York University. His novel The Residue Years was praised by publications such as The New York Times, The Times of London, and O, the Oprah Magazine. The novel was a finalist for the Center For Fiction’s Flaherty-Dunnan First novel prize, the PEN/ Hemingway award for first fiction, The Hurston / Wright Legacy Award for best fiction by a writer of African descent; it was long-listed for the William Saroyan International Prize for writing.
We will notify you by Feb. 5th if accepted. Payment will be due immediately.
