by Virginia Scholtz
 

 


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NEWS & EVENTS
   Next Reading Date: Oct. 2, 2010
Readings   ~   Contests   ~   Awards   ~   Workshops   ~   Publications

Awards

Wisconsin Regional Writers' Association

2010 Jade Ring Contest

Awards will be announced at Fall (September) Conference

Waukesha Writers' Workshop
2010 Bo Carter Memorial Contest

Poetry Category, 2nd place : 
Mary Jo Balistreri, for "Building Towers with My Grandson"

Nostalgia Category 2nd place :
Mary Jo Balistreri, for "Memorial Day, 2008"
 


Reading Dates

October 2,  2010 at  The Women's Center

October 16, 2010
     Some of our members will participate in
     OneVision

          at the
     OCONOMOW
OC ARTS CENTER
     641 E. Forest Street
     Oconomowoc, WI 53066
 

   Past reading and photos  

June 18-19, UW-Waukesha,
     Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books
    
a free community-wide event organized by the UW-Waukesha Foundation in cooperation with community groups that include the Waukesha County Federated Library System, the Waukesha Public Library, the Literacy Council of Greater Waukesha and Martha Merrell’s Bookstore. 

April 17th - Avalon, Waukesha

March 20th - Good Harvest Market

January 30th - Woodland Pattern, Milwaukee


See Photos
 
If you would like to have the Poetry People read at your event, or if you would like to list a reading please let us know.

 

Contests

Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
     Triad Contest
           Enter in any of three categories
           Deadline is
August 2, 2010

     2011 First Chap Book Contest
           Deadline is
February 1, 2011


Workshops

Writing Poetry, Dr. Phil's Popular Poetry Workshop "Writing Poetry" at
UW - Waukesha Continuing Education Program  Fall session starts September 13th. 

Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets
Fall Conference  
October 28–30, 2011
Holiday Inn Convention Center
1001 Amber Avenue
Stevens Point, WI 54482


Publications

Echoes
Showcase your poetry in this local periodical.

Issue #11, Fall-Winter 2010
Deadline for submissions is September 30th, 2010
See submission guidelines.

Verse Wisconsin
Accepting submissions until August 1, 2010
for publication in the October edition

Muse Letter
Fall
issue deadline is August 6, 2010

Congratulations to these poets, published in the
2010 Wisconsin Poets' Calendar:

   Mary Jo Balistreri
   Janet Leahy
   Kathleen Phillips
   Betty Priebe

Kathleen Phillips' poem, Their Odyssey, was published in "Love Over 60: an anthology of women's poems"
from Mayapple Press.

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