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RASP, theRedmond Association of Spokenwordis pleased to announce the resumption of its monthly reading series. Every month, we will host a featured reader and offer an open mic opportunity for writers to read their work in a comfortable, welcoming environment. Please join us … |
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At the Old Redmond Schoolhouse Community Center (ORSCC) at 16600 NE 80th Street, Redmond, WA 98052—Click for directions to ORSCC
Discuss and improve your poetry & prose! Bring your poem or story to our Poetry & Prose Circle. We'll gather to share our writing, then offer ideas for improvement. Take away a new perspective on your creative work.
February is National Haiku Writing Month (NaHaiWriMo)!
Tim Elhajj is the author of Dopefiend: A Father's Journey from Addiction to Redemption. His nonfiction essays and articles have appeared in The New York Times, Brevity, Guernica, Sweet, The Yalobusha Review, Together, and Relief. He edits Junk, a journal that features literary memoir about addiction, obsession, and unrequited needs, both real and imagined. His website is http://telhajj.com/.
February's emcee: Mike Meredith
Bonny Becker is the bestselling author of the Bear and Mouse picture books, including A Visitor for Bear, winner of the E. B. White Read Aloud Award, Amazon's 2008 Picture Book of the Year, and an Oprah Children's Book Club selection. Her latest Mouse and Bear book, The Sniffles for Bear, will be released in the fall of 2011. Her most recent middle-grade novel, The Magical Ms. Plum, is a Junior Literary Guild selection and won the 2010 Washington State Children's Book Award. In all, she's published 12 books for children. Bonny lives in Seattle with her husband and bounces between Hawaii and New York to visit her two daughters. Her website is www.bonnybecker.com.
March's emcee: TBA
Discuss and improve your poetry & prose! Bring your poem or story to our Poetry & Prose Circle. We'll gather to share our writing, then offer ideas for improvement. Take away a new perspective on your creative work.
Don't forget, April is National Poetry Month!
Erin Fristad survived fifteen years as a deckhand on commercial fishing and research vessels. She chased herring in Togiak, Alaska; crab off the Columbia River; salmon more places than she can remember; and for five years collected scientific data in Puget Sound. Eventually, the tide brought her to Port Townsend, Washington, where she continues to write, teach, and work as campus director of Goddard College. Erin was a subject in the documentary film, Fisher Poets. Her poems and essays have been published in numerous anthologies and journals including Rosebud, Americas Review, Blue Collar Review, Hanging Loose, Seattle Review, Working the Woods, Word the Sea, New Poets of the American West, and Hooked! True Stories of Obsession, Love and Death from Alaska's Commercial Fishermen and Women.
April's emcee: Michael Heavener
Brenda Peterson is the author of seventeen books, which range from her first popular memoir, Build Me an Ark: A Life with Animals, chosen as a "Best Spiritual Book of the Year," to three novels, one of which, Duck and Cover, was selected by The New York Times as a "Notable Book of the Year." Her new memoir, I Want To Be Left Behind: Finding Rapture Here on Earth, was chosen as an Indie Next "Best Top Read" and among the "Top Ten Best Non-Fiction Books of 2010." Critically acclaimed, I Want to Be Left Behind was hailed by Booklist as "unusually affecting and radiant … a witty, enrapturing account of a spiritual journey of great relevance to us all." Brenda's first children's book, Leopard and Silkie: One Boy's Quest to Save Seal Pups, is due out in April 2012. Take a look at www.amazon.com/Leopard-Silkie-Boys-Quest-Save/dp/080509167X. For more audio/video and back-story on Brenda's new memoir, please visit www.IWantToBeLeftBehind.com.
May's emcee: TBA
Discuss and improve your poetry & prose! Bring your poem or story to our Poetry & Prose Circle. We'll gather to share our writing, then offer ideas for improvement. Take away a new perspective on your creative work.
Discuss and improve your poetry & prose! Bring your poem or story to our Poetry & Prose Circle. We'll gather to share our writing, then offer ideas for improvement. Take away a new perspective on your creative work.
RASP's Open Mic gives you the opportunity to share your work with a receptive audience. More information is explained at the Open Mic page
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