Announcements Thread – 06-06-2008

Shameless Plug – Latoya

The new issue of Bitch just hit the newsstands (it isn’t on their site yet) and I’m in it! I wrote “Dollars But No Sense” (p. 25) which analyzes the financial messages sent by women’s interest magazines and men’s interest magazines.

I’m not the only one published this month though – Deesha Philyaw, who contributes to Anti-Racist Parent wrote one of the features on why there aren’t more black “momoirs” (mommy memoirs). And, as usual, the whole issue is amazing, covering everything from a feminist interpretation of the bible to a critical feminist analysis of Prince’s career. Go grab a copy!

Girls Write Now Reading

On Sunday, June 8, from 4-6PM, New York City’s most talented teen writers from Girls Write Now, along with celebrity host Amanda Diva (Def Poetry Jam, HipHopNation, MTV2, Floetry), will turn a downtown bookstore into a showcase for a collection of powerful new poems, stories and essays that reflect an electrifying community of girl writers spanning often hard-and-fast lines of race, age, economics and geography in New York City.

Barnes and Noble is located at 97 Warren Street in Tribeca, New York, NY 10007; tel. 212-587-5389

Boston International Film Festival

Boston, MA – BIFF announces the 6th Annual Boston
International Film Festival, beginning June 6, 2008 and
running through June 14, 2008.

The Boston International Film Festival is proud to
encourage and support independent filmmakers from
around the world. The festival strives to promote
international understanding, by bringing a variety of movies
to the diverse Boston community. These films will both
entertain and educate viewers about the world today. The
goal of the festival is to display the passion and unique
visions of the filmmakers in an environment that brings all
cultures together.

The festival will be screening over 100 short and feature films from
30 countries, including Argentina, Australia, Brasil, Canada, Cape
Verde, Dominican Republic, France, Germany, Haiti, Hongkong,
India, Iran, Ireland, Israel, Jamaica, Japan, Mexico, Nigeria,
Panama, Russian Federation, Rwanda, Senegal, Singapore, South
Africa, Spain, Thailand, Tibet, UK, Venezuela, and USA.

The festival screenings will take place at the AMC/LOEWS theater,
Boston Common: 175 Tremont St. Boston.

For more information, you can visit our website at
www.bifilmfestival.com or you may contact us via e-mail:
info@bifilmfestival.com or by phone (617) 482 – 3900

Asian American Writers Workshops

2008 Short Story Competition
Deadline Friday, July 11, 2008

Hyphen Magazine & The Asian American Writers’ Workshop announce the 2008 Short Story Competition

Asian American writers of short fiction are encouraged to enter the 2008 Short Story Competition jointly sponsored by Hyphen and The Asian American Writers’ Workshop. The winner will receive a $1,000 cash prize, publication in Hyphen magazine, a one-year subscription to Hyphen and a one-year membership to AAWW. Ten finalists shall also receive a one-year membership to AAWW and a one-year subscription to Hyphen. The winner of the 2007 Short Story Competition was Preeta Samarasan, whose debut novel Evening is the Whole Day was recently published by Houghton Mifflin.

Submissions must be unpublished, postmarked by Friday, July 11, 2008 and accompanied by a $10 entry fee per story. Please see full submission guidelines here before entering.

Two Truths and a Lie: Writing Creative Non-Fiction with Bushra Rehman
Tuesdays, July 8 – 29, 7 to 9pm

A workshop on writing drawn from real life, but employing the techniques of poetry and fiction.

Writing from life can be a tricky business. There are people to protect, faulty memories of events, and the pitfalls of self-censorship and self-aggrandizement. This is where creative non-fiction comes in. It’s a form of writing that is drawn from real life, but employs techniques of poetry and fiction. Creative nonfiction recognizes that our lives are too rich not to write about, but that our imaginations are too strong to ignore. In this class, we will write by drawing on memory, family myth, and the truth and lies of our lives. We will cover literary techniques such as character, dialogue, setting and story arc, as well as performance.

Bushra Rehman is the author of a collection of poetry, Marianna’s Beauty Salon (Colorlines Magazine, 2006), and one of the editors of Colonize This! Young Women of Color on Today’s Feminism (Seal Press, 2002). Bushra has been featured in NY Newsday and her work has appeared in Colorlines, Curve, SAMAR, Bottomfish, and is forthcoming in Writing the Lines of Our Hands: An Anthology of South Asian-American Poetry. She performs her work around the country.

@ The Workshop
16 West 32nd Street, 10th Floor
btwn Broadway & 5th Avenue)
New York City

Cost is $175/$150 for members

Contact Information
email: desk@aaww.org
phone: 212-494-0061
web: http://www.aaww.org

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