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Out of Silence: Readings from the Afghan Women's Writing Project

  

University of Salford English professor, Antony Rowland, has triumphed in a major poetry competition which attracted over 1,500 entries to snatch a £10,000 prize.

 

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A reader at the 2010 EMU Creative Writing Spring Showcase.

Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

Heavy notes in heavy

boats of sound

 

Movement, both too much

and too little

too rocky too brittle

singing just a little

 

All trains no stops

just voices no boasting

 

Strange requests

too forceful

too exciting

too much shaking

I am jittery

Nothing more to

Say but “Ok let’s

do it”

 

Shaking in the past

Now settling slowly

and suddenly dropping

and drifting and

drifting through

sand and air

stuck without a stick

 

Now more now

more sullen oh

depth of perplexity

oh vast specters of

width and shrill

with painful contortion

who sings but the

singer and who

writes but him who

sounds the notes that

all sing together

and all alone

 

Why the sound

why the movement

yet stillness and

quiet inside and out

all around

 

Continuously producing

not products but value

I am the valuation

I am the sign and I

speak both too much

and too little and

the lines are short

because the pages

are narrow and beauty

beauty is hollow and

I rest inside of it

sitting leaning cleaning

myself as I watch

how it all happens

 

It all happens so

slowly but quick

nevertheless and I

am lost in the

sound of time

with the timeless

pulse of language

stringing words together

intimately words with

words and you with

me and others and

I with others deeply

but hollow sharing

sounds and kindness

 

Now fast and vast

the nasty chime of

broken worn-out strings

and worn-out and

warm hearts

 

May I sit there

or should I stand

and will you kneel

for me that is

the question is vast

and perturbing and

what I want as

I sway and shake

and tremble

trembling will you

tremble with me

or will I tremble for

you and you will

tremble for me

by yourself but not

for yourself and

why was that the

wrong response yet

it continues so loudly

and proudly how

do I partake

how do I participate

 

And why so much

more and more and

the tracks are being

rolled out further as

if they didn’t want to end

at all but had to

eventually like a note

that sounds but knows

it will come to rest

with the rest in the

heart why lover and

child can’t you hear

how sad this all is

sad and beautiful do you

want it would you

say “Let’s do it!”

Sing with me before

I die and we die

and I must sing and

cry because singing

is not enough

 

And the words flow

as the music unfolds

folds contracts and

folds into the contours

of your face the

face of God the

savior where we

wait and rest and

will you kneel for

me and do I want

you to do I really

really want it even

if it perturbs me

and makes me feel

ashamed

The 2012 Davenport Awards. Writing faculty Robin Metz and students speak before the award ceremony.

A group of faculty and students "marched" from the steps of Old Main to the Sandburg Birthplace historical site, where the faculty shared readings as everyone gathered near Rememberance Rock on Thursday, April 27, 2023.

The On Edge Reading Series with Phinder Dulai and Colin Browne @ Emily Carr University - Nov. 21, 2013

 

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Wish You Were Here was an English PEN pilot project in partnership with Islington Word2012 festival. Letters were sent from students in a London school to young people of similar ages in a school in Freetown, Sierra Leone. We commissioned photographs of the letters once they’d arrived in the hands of their recipients. The project celebrated global citizenship through creative writing, encouraging an exchange of ideas through literature.

 

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A fake catapult!!! This thing was the coolest thing in the world. Too bad I had a short dress on, otherwise I would have totally climbed into it.

Presentation of 2012 Davenport Awards. Playwriting judge Tim Lord with student Casey Samoore.

Knox College students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course went on a mile-long "pilgrimage" from the Carl Sandburg statue on the Public Square, to Old Main, and then to the Sandburg Birthplace historic site; at the Sandburg site, students walking on stepping stones with Sandburg quotes. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing

Ferdia Mac Anna and creative writers from Ballymun, Cabra and Kevin Street at Cabra library during third and final class

 

on Friday 6 June as part of Dublin City Public Libraries' Bealtaine programme.

 

Feed-back mentioned how writers felt energised motivated and inspired by Ferdia and the chance to link in with other writers from the other libraries.

 

Knox College students in the Senior Writing Portfolio course went on a mile-long "pilgrimage" from the Carl Sandburg statue on the Public Square, to Old Main, and then to the Sandburg Birthplace historic site; at the Sandburg site, walking past a bust of Sandburg by sculptor Lonnie Stewart. More on writing at Knox: www.knox.edu/academics/majors-and-minors/creative-writing

Andrew Chesham, the publisher of emerge 2013, thanks the Writer's Studio students who were involved in the project.

 

emerge is SFU Continuing Studies' annual creative writing anthology. This year's work launched on October 17 at our Vancouver campus.

 

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An asteroid stays

In my right eye, dazzling me

As the July sun.

 

(Haiku by SiRiChandra)

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This made our day:

 

B.C. Bookworld called The Writer's Studio "the hotbed on the rise." They also said Janie Chang, one of our grads, is "making a splash" with her debut novel, Three Souls.

 

Congratulations, Janie!

 

Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

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"Me, stealing socks? Why telling such a lie?

And why for teeth, I wonder, think of it…

I am the keeper of the washer’s quay.

I preside on the washing: I do not cheat.

 

When you can’t find the second sock, take care

And blame your laundry habits: ‘ cause they shrink

The socks you think you’re missing. Don’t you dare

To accuse me once again. I’ll make you sink.

 

The shrinking makes them disappear. I swear

That if you magnify the washer’s drum

You’ll see the tiny socks swim in thin air

In sizes shrunk to fit an infant’s thumb.

 

And now – you will excuse me – I have important matters:

The drum is throbbing hard. What makes its steel teeth chatter?"

 

(Sonnet by SiRiChandra)

 

Original Material Type: Booklet

 

Title: Student Prints 1933-1934

 

Authors: Various authors, students of Burlingame High School creative writing class

 

Publication Info: Burlingame High School, 1934

 

Description: Paperback printed book of poetry and short stories.

 

Subject Keywords: Burlingame; Burlingame High School; Burlingame--Schools; Creative Writing; Poetry

 

Collection: Burlingame Local History Pamphlet File--Burlingame--High Schools

On 3 July 2018, participants of English PEN's Brave New Voices programme came together for a special celebration event. The evening marked the launch of latest anthology The Future House with readings from the book.

 

Brave New Voices is English PEN's ongoing creative writing outreach programme for young people from refugee and asylum-seeker backgrounds.

 

Photo: Suzi Corker

Students from the Converse College MFA in Creative Writing Low Residency Program

Natalie Diaz reading from her poetry.

 

The ASU Department of English celebrated our 2017-2018 graduates and award-winners! Our featured speaker was assistant professor Natalie Diaz, who performed a reading from her poetry.

 

Diaz was born and raised in the Fort Mojave Indian Village in Needles, California, on the banks of the Colorado River. She is Mojave and an enrolled member of the Gila River Indian Tribe. Her first poetry collection, When My Brother Was an Aztec, was published by Copper Canyon Press. She is a Lannan Literary Fellow and a Native Arts Council Foundation Artist Fellow. She was awarded a Bread Loaf Fellowship, the Holmes National Poetry Prize, a Hodder Fellowship, and a PEN/Civitella Ranieri Foundation Residency, as well as being awarded a US Artists Ford Fellowship. Diaz teaches at the Arizona State University Creative Writing MFA program. She splits her time between the east coast and Mohave Valley, Arizona, where she works to revitalize the Mojave language.

 

May 8th, 2018

ASU Tempe campus

 

A reading by students of creative writing at Barnard College.

Graciously blending science and emotions, her writing was particularly moving.

Annie Geissinger , M.A. has taught African Drumming, Creative Writing workshops, and a series of personal growth groups called "Awakening our Dreams" at Artreach.

 

Check out her website at www.hawkdance.com.

 

Annie is an expressive arts therapist, teacher, editor and musician, with degrees in Music and in Expressive Arts Therapies. Her backgrounds in movement and in drumming in a variety of cultural settings have supported her experience of community in creative and spiritual relationship, and are significant to the design of these teachings.

 

Annie studied West African drumming for over 20 years, primarily in the US, also traveling to Senegal and Mali. Her main drumming teachers are Abdoul Doumbia, Seydou Coulibaly and Issa Coulibaly.

Creative Writing Professor Christine Hume kicked off an all-faculty edition of the BathHouse reading series at Eastern Michigan University on September 29, 2010.

Sunday March 25th 2018.

Members of the University of Oxford Masters in Creative Writing Course 2018. Pictured at The Department for Continuing Education, Rewley House, Wellington Square, Oxford.

For Gail Anderson, Head of Communications and Marketing, Continuing Education.

Picture By Jon Lewis.

I plan on doing another motivational poster using this picture. Keep on the lookout for it!

Renee Sarojini Saklikar, a local writer and a graduate of The Writer's Studio at SFU Continuing Studies, introduces Lunch Poems @SFU on October 17, 2012.

 

Lunch Poems @SFU takes place on the third Wednesday of every month from noon to 1 pm in the Teck Gallery at SFU Vancouver. The event is free and open to the public. We hope you'll join us.

  

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German Pizza: Because no Italian would put corn on their pizza, yet it's so good! :)

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