Master Classes 2015

2.07: Mitchell Jackson 4.24: Vievee Francis 5.09: Anne Waldman

MASTER CLASS: Mitchell Jackson
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 on Feb. 7th in conjunction with Mitchell’s Feb. 6 reading. Click here for the show and read on for information on how to submit for the workshop.

Submit a short story or excerpt of 15 pages, double-space for consideration to be discussed in the workshop. Space is limited. Manuscripts sent in earlier will be given priority for consideration. Follow the link below to submit. Payment will be due upon acceptance.

Mitchell S. Jackson is a 2014 Lannan Foundation Fellow and winner of the Ernest Gaines prize for fiction. He 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.

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What: MASTER CLASS: Vievee Francis
When: Friday, April 24, 6:00PM – 8:00
Where: TBA
Fee: $40

WordSpace is proud to offer a master class with Vievee Francis on April 24th in conjunction with her April 23th reading. Click here for the show and read on for information on how to submit for the workshop.

Submit three poems for consideration to this workshop. Vievee will 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.

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ANNE WALDMAN: Master Class
When: Saturday, May 9, 6:00PM – 8:00
Where: Lucky Dog Books, 633 W. Davis St.
Fee: $60

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.

We will pass along the best 2 pages of manuscripts to Anne Waldman for this poetics performance workshop. Space is limited. Manuscripts sent in earlier will be given priority for consideration. Follow the link below to submit.

The Legendary ANNE WALDMAN–Don’t miss it! A prominent figure in the beat poetry generation, Anne grew up on MacDougal Street in New York City. From 1966 until 1978 she ran the St. Mark’s Poetry Project. With Allen Ginsberg, she founded the Jack Kerouac School of Disembodied Poetics at the Naropa Institute in Boulder, Colorado, which featured many beat writers as faculty-William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Robert Creeley, Garry Snyder, Joanne Kyger, Bobbie Louise Hawkins, Peter Matthiessen, Abbie Hoffman, Ken Kesey, Normal Mailer and many more.

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 and Chancellor of American Academy of Poets.