Event: An Evening of Poetry and Prose
When: Tuesday, February 12, 6:30-7:30 pm
Where: The Hagan Foundation Center at SCC
Cost: Free and open to the public
The reading will feature the following authors:
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Wednesday, February 6, 2013
The Beacon Hill Reading Series Presents...
The 2nd installment of this year's Beacon Hill Reading Series is on its way!
Event: An Evening of Poetry and Prose
When: Tuesday, February 12, 6:30-7:30 pm
Where: The Hagan Foundation Center at SCC
Cost: Free and open to the public
The reading will feature the following authors:
DIANE SHERMAN published her first collection of poems, Walkabout, in 2011, which won an honorable mention in the New York Book Festival in 2012. Her poems have been featured in various journals including Pisgah Review, Diverse Voices Quarterly, The Spokesman Review, and The Cape Rock. Diane grew up in the San Francisco Bay Area and currently lives with her husband in Spokane, where she teaches yoga as well as the Bare Bones Writing workshop for women.
SHARMA SHIELDS' short story collection Favorite Monster won the 2011 Autumn House Fiction Contest. Sharma’s short fiction has appeared in Kenyon Review, Iowa Review, Fugue, and Sonora Review, among other places. She has received numerous awards for her writing, including the Tim McGinnis Award for Humor, a Grant for Artist Projects from Artist Trust and the A.B. Guthrie Award for Outstanding Prose. Sharma lives in Spokane with her husband, son, and newborn daughter.
PAUL LINDHOLDT grew up on Puget Sound but now lives in Spokane. A professor of English at Eastern Washington University, he teaches literature and environmental studies. He has won awards from the Academy of American Poets, the Society of Professional Journalists, and most recently from the Washington Center for the Book for his ecological memoir In Earshot of Water: Notes from the Columbia Plateau (University of Iowa Press, 2011).
Event: An Evening of Poetry and Prose
When: Tuesday, February 12, 6:30-7:30 pm
Where: The Hagan Foundation Center at SCC
Cost: Free and open to the public
The reading will feature the following authors:
Wednesday, January 23, 2013
Spokane: Where the Weather is Horrible and the Writing is Amazing
When people think of vibrant arts communities, they usually think of New York, LA, Seattle--cities on the coastlines. But in Spokane, if you were to pull out a calendar and put your finger on a random date, you'd probably land on a reading. To name a few, we have: Auntie's, DANGER! Live Writers, Naked Lunch Break, Broken Mic, Beacon Hill, Spokane Poetry Slam, EWU's Visiting Writers Series, and the magnificent Get Lit! Festival (this isn't journalism, bias is permissible).
It's kind of insane, really, how lucky us Spokanites are. So, let's take a minute and forget about the deadly ice-pavement we've been careening over for weeks, and the fact that we live somewhere that has "Stagnant Air Advisories," and bask in the knowledge that our writing community is better than their writing community, whoever they may be.
On a less narcissistic note, take a few minutes to look at the amazing work Spokane writers have been producing. Then forward the links to your friends in the Midwest and gloat.
You might remember Mari Hunt from the 2011 Inlander Short Fiction Contest, which she won with the story "Her Daughter." Now her story "In the Shadow of Elizabeth Smart" is being featured in the literary journal YARN.
From "In the Shadow of Elizabeth Smart":
Three years ago, when I was fourteen, I waited for my mother to pick me up from a department store downtown. Katie Rennert and I spent Saturday afternoon shopping, but she had to leave early. Her mom called while we were in Women’s Shoes saying she had to go out to dinner with her grandmother—or maybe it was her aunt—I can’t remember anymore. The point is, I waited for my mom by myself at the department store between two sets of doors. One set led outside, where my mother didn’t want me waiting alone, and the other led into the store. The space in between, the space where I waited, is called a vestibule. It’s a nothing space. Like being nowhere, like being fourteen.
Get the full story here.
Kevin Taylor:
Kevin Taylor spent 7 years writing for the Inlander before leaving in 2011 to pursue freelancing. No surprise here, freelancing looks good on him. His piece “Haiti: Home of Her Heart,” just won a Gold Award in the Individual Features or Feature Articles category of the 2013 CASE District VIII Communications Awards, which is a long way of saying that his feature writing is the best of the best in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Western Canada. Read more about it here.
From "Haiti: Home of Her Heart":
In Cité Soleil [site so-lay, Sun City] the poorest slum in Port-au-Prince, the chaotic capital of Haiti, Analiesse Isherwood (’11, Behavioral Neuroscience) came bearing gifts for the Christmas toy giveaway in the church. Boy. She saw the boy on the dirt street in Cité Soleil, naked but for a scrap of undefinable cloth. Plastic bottle on a string. Sitting in the passing tap-tap with her mission team, Analiesse Isherwood had the sack filled with toys – real, American toys – she had spent all her spare dollars on.
Get the full article here.
It's kind of insane, really, how lucky us Spokanites are. So, let's take a minute and forget about the deadly ice-pavement we've been careening over for weeks, and the fact that we live somewhere that has "Stagnant Air Advisories," and bask in the knowledge that our writing community is better than their writing community, whoever they may be.
On a less narcissistic note, take a few minutes to look at the amazing work Spokane writers have been producing. Then forward the links to your friends in the Midwest and gloat.
Mari Hunt:
You might remember Mari Hunt from the 2011 Inlander Short Fiction Contest, which she won with the story "Her Daughter." Now her story "In the Shadow of Elizabeth Smart" is being featured in the literary journal YARN.
From "In the Shadow of Elizabeth Smart":
Three years ago, when I was fourteen, I waited for my mother to pick me up from a department store downtown. Katie Rennert and I spent Saturday afternoon shopping, but she had to leave early. Her mom called while we were in Women’s Shoes saying she had to go out to dinner with her grandmother—or maybe it was her aunt—I can’t remember anymore. The point is, I waited for my mom by myself at the department store between two sets of doors. One set led outside, where my mother didn’t want me waiting alone, and the other led into the store. The space in between, the space where I waited, is called a vestibule. It’s a nothing space. Like being nowhere, like being fourteen.
Get the full story here.
Kevin Taylor:
Kevin Taylor spent 7 years writing for the Inlander before leaving in 2011 to pursue freelancing. No surprise here, freelancing looks good on him. His piece “Haiti: Home of Her Heart,” just won a Gold Award in the Individual Features or Feature Articles category of the 2013 CASE District VIII Communications Awards, which is a long way of saying that his feature writing is the best of the best in Washington, Oregon, Idaho, Montana, Alaska and Western Canada. Read more about it here.
From "Haiti: Home of Her Heart":
In Cité Soleil [site so-lay, Sun City] the poorest slum in Port-au-Prince, the chaotic capital of Haiti, Analiesse Isherwood (’11, Behavioral Neuroscience) came bearing gifts for the Christmas toy giveaway in the church. Boy. She saw the boy on the dirt street in Cité Soleil, naked but for a scrap of undefinable cloth. Plastic bottle on a string. Sitting in the passing tap-tap with her mission team, Analiesse Isherwood had the sack filled with toys – real, American toys – she had spent all her spare dollars on.
Get the full article here.
Thursday, October 11, 2012
Upcoming Alexandra Teague Poetry Readings
Alexandra
Teague, author of Mortal Geography (2010), will be featured at two upcoming readings!
The Beacon Hill Reading Series
Thursday, October 25th
The Hagan Foundation Center at SCC
6:30pm
EWU’s Visiting Writers Series
Friday, October 26th
Riverpoint Campus, Phase 1 Auditorium
7:00pm
Alexandra Teague is a former Stegner Fellow and NEA Fellow whose poetry has appeared in Best New Poets 2008 and Best
American Poetry 2009, as well as many notable journals, including The Missouri Review, The
Iowa Review, and Prairie Schooner.
Her debut collection, Mortal Geography, won both the 2009 Lexi Rudnitsky Prize and the
2010 California Book Award. Drawing from sources as diverse as travelogue, ESL, and Dungeons and Dragons, Mortal Geography keeps readers on their
toes with its balancing act of chaos and structure. Poems about the madness of
public transportation appear in sonnet form while poems about love take on
unexpected forms, as in this mindbender, "Two Drafts Written After a Fight":
I.
Do I love you: yes or no?
The question: Is love a figure of speech?
I do - sometimes. Everyone wonders about our love; still,
there can be no doubt I have been true (almost always).
Happily remembering the start of our romance; it seemed
so promising ...
And is love continual happiness or not?
Is not what matters?
I cannot tell you who I want to spend my life with.
Enough about our love.
II.
Do I love you? Yes or no - the question is, love,
a figure of speech. I do.
(Sometimes everyone wonders.)
About our love, still, there can be no doubt.
I have been true, almost always happily
remembering the start of our romance;
it seemed so promising, and is. Love,
continual happiness or not is not what matters.
I cannot tell you, who I want to spend my life with,
enough about our love.
What else is there to say? This is not a poet to miss.
Wednesday, January 25, 2012
Beacon Hill Reading
The Beacon Hill Reading Series presents an evening of poetry and prose with Megan Cuilla, Simeon Mills, and Nance Van Winckel on Wednesday, January 25 from 6:30 p.m. to 7:30 p.m. at the Hagan Foundation Center for the Humanities in the Spokane Community College library. The reading is free and open to all to attend.
MEGAN CUILLA received her MFA from Eastern Washington University in 2009. She is a part-time poet and full-time cat wrangler whose hobbies include baking cookies and eating them. She has excellent oral hygiene and dreams of one day becoming an astronaut. Her work is published or forthcoming in Rock and Sling and Knockout.
MEGAN CUILLA received her MFA from Eastern Washington University in 2009. She is a part-time poet and full-time cat wrangler whose hobbies include baking cookies and eating them. She has excellent oral hygiene and dreams of one day becoming an astronaut. Her work is published or forthcoming in Rock and Sling and Knockout. 
SIMEON MILLS has published short fiction in The Hawaii Review and StringTown, and on monkeybicycle.com. His graphic work has been featured on Top Shelf 2.0. He received an MFA in fiction from the University of Montana. He lives in Spokane, Washington with his wife and son.
What: Beacon Hill Reading featuring Megan Cuilla, Simeon Mills, and Nance Van Winckel
Where: SCC Hagan Foundation Center
When: January 26, 6:30 p.m. - 7:30 p.m.
Cost: Free
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