Discover our area's own authors when Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group members take center stage at the next Firehouse Fridays Writers Soiree. Call
for Submissions!
You'll hear published and unpublished work read by the authors themselves, who will also be available to sign books, mingle over wine and hors d'oeuvre, and take questions from the audience. Find out more about the writing life as they answer your questions, from how nonfiction writers research a story to how a poet decides where to break lines to how a novelist finds the time and self-discipline to churn out and revise the hundreds of pages that will eventually become a published book. Bring your love of the written word and an open ear! For more information, visit http://www.touchstone.org and click on Firehouse Fridays.
Open Mike Continues!
The Writer's Soiree will host a short Open Mike following our featured readers. Bring 1-2 pages of poetry or prose and try your hand at reading before a live audience. A limited number of reading slots are available; sign up at the Writer's Soiree or the next GLVWG meeting.
The New Season Approaches...
Submissions
are being accepted for the 2007/2008 Writer's Soirees. Themes include poetry, drama, fiction, non-fiction and humor. Submit work, along with a one-paragraph bio, to Karen Rose.
2008 Dates
The Greater Lehigh Valley Writers Group is pleased to announce the line up of writers reading at Touchstone Theatre's Firehouse Friday series.
The March 7 Writers Soiree will feature two poets: Lisa DeVuono and Elizabeth Bodien. Please plan to join us for this evening of poetry reading and open mike following intermission.
Lisa DeVuono, relatively new to the Lehigh Valley, has worked in health-related fields for over 18 years. She has also been a life and creativity coach through the Artist Conference Network, a nationwide coaching community. She is the founding member of a women's poetry performance group "It Ain't Pretty" and has conducted numerous workshops at conferences, retreats and workplace settings. She was the recipient of an honorable mention in the annual Allen Ginsberg Awards Contest, and is published in The Patterson Literary Review, Schuylkill Valley Journal, and Mad Poets Review. She also
co-facilitates workshops and performances with her husband Michael London for the CD entitled "The Soul Wakes: Rumi in Song."
Elizabeth Bodien, Kempton, PA, retired, taught at Northampton Community College in Bethlehem. Her poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Ruah, Lilliput Review, Bear Creek Haiku, red lights, Bogg, The Litchfield Review, The Lehigh Valley Literary Review and Across the Long Bridge: An Anthology of Award-Winning Poems. Her poems have won First Prize at the Pennsylvania Writers Conference and the Heart Poetry Award in 2008. Her chapbook, Plumb Lines, is scheduled for Spring 2008 publication by Plan B. Press.
The May 16 Writers Soiree will feature a one-act play by William Marley, part of his Mis'sippi Medley trilogy addressing different forms of civil rights involving his birth town of Jackson, Mississippi. "The Perfect Place" is the second act of the trilogy;
several of you have seen "In Sepia Tone" and "Black Jesus" at previous Writers Soirees.
The author of over 40 plays, William Marley has studied playwriting with Jeffrey Sweet in New York City, Kate Aspengren at the University of Iowa and has taught the Craft of Playwriting at Northampton Community College, Bethlehem. His plays, many award
winners, have been produced in New York City; Brooklyn, NY; Louisville, KY; Wilmington, DE; and in Pennsylvania by Lafayette College and all of the community theatres in the Lehigh Valley. Marley's play, "Crossing Paths" was the Grand Prize winner of the Lamia Ink! International Playwriting Competition in 1999. His one-act play, "Commitments," was a finalist in the 2007 Raymond J. Flores Short Play Series and received a equity staged-reading in New York City. He is a member of the Dramatists Guild of America, Inc.
Call
for Submissions
Manuscripts
are still being accepted for Firehouse Fridays Writers' Soirees
at Touchstone
Theatre and will continue to be accepted on an ongoing basis
throughout the year. GLVWG members interested in reading up to 20
minutes of prose, poetry, fiction or drama should submit their work(s)
in a text or Word attachment to Karen Rose. More details on how to submit are here.
Please include a short bio along with your submission. A second,
formal call for Firehouse Fridays submissions will also be announced
in January.
Touchstone Theatre
is located at 321 East Fourth St. in South Bethlehem. For directions
or more information about the Writers’ Soirees, other Firehouse
Fridays events, or other Touchstone performances, visit the Touchstone
website at www.touchstone.org.
*Admission
supports both Touchstone and our featured writers.
