Lighthouse Writers Workshop Podcast

Saturday, December 10, 2011 6:00 PM @ Lighthouse Grotto

The Draftees:

• Regina Drexler, short story
• Brynn Downing, poetry
• Sean McAfee, novel
• Deanne Gertner, short story

The Draft Reading Series celebrates the diverse and talented writing in our workshops that hovers around a given theme. They happen once per eight-week session--every winter, spring, late summer, and fall.

Writers in workshops are drafted by instructors and sent to the front lines to read their work.

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Saturday, March 17, 2012 6:00 PM @ Lighthouse Grotto

• Jenny Weins, novel
• Stacie Chadwick, young adult novel
• Malinda Miller, nonfiction
• Mark Asimus, short fiction

The Draft Reading Series celebrates the diverse and talented writing in our workshops that hovers around a given theme. They happen once per eight-week session--every winter, spring, late summer, and fall.

Writers in workshops are drafted by instructors and sent to the front lines to read their work.

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Listen in to the Writer's Studio, a reading and often rollicking on-stage interview with some of the best writers out there.

This October 2011, we had the great fortune to have Mary Karr visit for a weekend's worth of events.

Mary Karr is an award-winning poet and best-selling memoirist. She is the author of Lit, the long-awaited sequel to her critically-acclaimed and New York Times best-selling memoirs The Liars’ Club and Cherry. Lit received an avalanche of rave reviews across the country in every major publication and was an immediate hit, making the New York Times, Independent Booksellers, San Francisco, and Boston Globe best-seller lists. It was a “Best Book of 2009”: #3 in nonfiction books on Time Magazine’s “The Top 10 Everything of 2009,” New York Times Book Review (Top 10), New York Times Michiko Kakutani's list (Top 10), New Yorker (Reviewer Favorite), Entertainment Weekly (Top 10), Time Magazine (Top 10), Washington Post, San Francisco Chronicle, Chicago Tribune, Christian Science Monitor, Slate, St. Louis Post Dispatch, Cleveland Plain Dealer, and Seattle Times. And Karr won Audiofile’s Earphones Award for audio excellence for her reading of the audio book of Lit.

And, her talents at cussing can make a sailor blush.

Enjoy.

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Saturday, October 8, 6:00 PM @ Lighthouse Grotto, 1515 Race Street

The Draft celebrates the diverse and talented writing in Lighthouse workshops that hovers around a given theme. They happen once per eight-week session--every winter, spring, late summer, and fall.

This time, the theme was, "Know Thyself."

Writers in workshops are drafted by instructors and sent to the front lines to read their work.

Tjaden Lotito, poetry Jim Ringel, short fiction Christy Bailey, memoir Taryn Browne, novel

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Event Happening: June 10, 2011 Lighthouse LitFest 2011

Whitman famously said that "To have great poets, we must have great audiences too." Join us as a group of Colorado's finest poets chart a course across the vast ocean of American poetry, discussing which books by contemporary poets they would bring to a desert island if there were so lucky as to be marooned on one.

Featuring poets Lynn Wagner, Jake Adam York, David J. Rothman, and Michael J. Henry.

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Event Happening: July 16, 2011 Part of the Lighthouse LitFest 2011

We’re supposedly living in an era of nonfiction, of sensationalism, of “I can top that one!”  And, as the cliché goes, truth is stranger than it… so what’s all this business with making up worlds and characters and stories? Some of the best and brightest fiction writers in the state convene to take on this very topic. Join us and add your own two cents!

Featuring Nic Brown, Rebecca Berg, and Nick Arvin.

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Friday, April 15, 6:30 PM At Walker Fine Art gallery

Celebrate National Poetry Month with Lighthouse at Walker Fine Art, where we’ll explore collaboration that links literature to other art forms, to produce unexpected hybrids and cool collisions of media and forms.

Artist Judy Anderson and Lighthouse poet Ginny Hoyle kick off the evening with a brief discussion of the shared creative process behind When We Were Birds, a book arts installation that turns poems into cold rolled steel, a city on a hill, and other expressions of three-dimensional visual art.

Then get ready for a fast-paced presentation of lively responses from a handful of Lighthouse scribes that will knock your literary socks off. Followed by a special acoustic set from the totally great local band, Fingers of the Sun.

Readers include: Roger Wehling Lynn Wagner Chris Ransick JD Frey Andrea Moore Michael Henry Dee Casalaina

And poets from the Lighthouse Youth Program!

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Saturday, May 7, 7:00 PM At 910 arts EventGallery

Before it became a call to action on the Interwebs, chance encounters happened in real life, with real people. And what better fodder for literature? Remember that guy you met on the train to Munich, the one who gave you a cigarette and told you that you would fail at many things? Or that woman on the street who gave your dog a pat on the head and began a conversation with her about the UFOs?

Be entertained by four current workshoppers who’ll read works in progress that address the theme and energy of chance encounters. We can’t tell you what will happen, but we can guarantee it will make your Facebook status afterwards.

Featuring:

Jessica Austgen (novel) Beth Bell (short story) Carmel Mawle (novel) Jody Sorenson (poetry)

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Film guru Alexandre Philippe enlightens us on how great scenes become unforgettable in our minds, and how great acting, smart dialogue, evocative setting and other elements interact to make a complete and unforgettable moment. A great time for all movie fans and for students of dramatic writing—screenplay, story, memoir, playwriting—who write in scene. And be ready to take copious notes.

The scene/film he deconstructed: the opening to Inglorious Basterds. Amazing.

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The Draft 9.0: The "You" in Voyeur

Voyeurism doesn't have to be creepy, but isn't it nice when it is? We're all writers or readers, after all, the ultimate nosy spies. Listen in to the Draft 9.0, guaranteed fun, possibly addictive, and always inspiring.

The draftees: Kate Rosen—nonfiction Laurel Kallenbach—fiction Kim O’Connor—poetry Mari Brown—fiction

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