Three Things
I won the 2007 Greer Foundation Fellowship for Creative Writing from the Bloomington Area Arts Council!
More about the foundation and fellowship here.
Basically it's a monetary award to further my mid-career artistic endeavors. I'm planning to use it to attend a workshop/retreat in 2008 to finalize and polish a chapbook manuscript I've been working on since around early 2006, then submit the ms. for publication, especially to publishers holding chapbook contests.
This fellowship has been on my radar for a looooong time (seriously, since about the 2nd Ceilidh), but it's only offered every other year and, like a lot of other awards/contests/important-to-me writerly things, I kept missing the deadline.
Let's hear it for persistence and patience!
I'm playing Irish music with violi and a couple of blokes from the Encore-->Bakehouse-->Spoon session this weekend.
Bloomingfoods Grand Opening
(ribbon-cutting ceremony at 1p, after the Farmers' Market)
Saturday, September 15
featuring a bunch of other people, plus
trad. Irish tunes at 3:30p
by....
Actually we're having some difficulty settling on a name. Currently, Bog Heather is the front-runner. I'm warming up to it. Suggestions?
Runcible Spoon Poetry Series
Friday, September 21 at 7p
"Beginnings and Changes"
Poetry, Storytelling, and Irish Music with
Barb Schwegman
Pamela Grenfell-Smith
Tony Brewer
and music by....
some yet-to-be-named people
playing deedle-di