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Friday August 4, 2006
1:00-3:00pm Check-in
3:30 Welcome: Andria Cole, founder Flanked
Melody Joy Short, manager, Akwaaba Bed & Breakfast Inn
3:45-4:45 Panel Discussion: Lecturers discuss
the binding forces between women writers and among genres/Craft/Purpose/Competing
with Media and Popular forms/Q&A Session
5:00-6:00 Happy Hour: Meet
your complements
6:15-7:15 Round Robin: Sharing our gifts (Participants
read from their accepted manuscripts and hear an excerpt from
Pushcart Prize nominee Rosalia Scalia's "Sister Rafaele Heals
the Sick." Read the nominated story at www.pebblelakereview.com).
7:30 Dinner on your own
8:45 Musical Performance by The Challenge (www.thechallengeband.com) |
Saturday
August 5, 2006
6:00am Sunrise: Setting the write frame of mind
7:00-8:00 Yoga with Anjali Sunita
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:15-11:15 Lectures
11:45-12:45pm Susan Darraj—what editors look for
12:45-1:45 Lunch on your own
2:15-5:15 Workshops
6:00-7:00 Dinner
7:30-9:00 Literary
Reading Guest Tayari Jones, author of the acclaimed Leaving Atlanta (awarded the Hurston/Wright Award for Debut Fiction) and The
Untelling (awarded the Lillian C. Smith Award for New Voices). Visit www.tayarijones.com to taste a bit of her beauty. Welcome Tayari! We
are honored to celebrate your excellence and thank you for believing
in ours
9:00pm-10:00 A Literary Discussion: A Woman Writer’s
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Sunday
August 6, 2006
6:00am Sunrise
8:00-9:00 Breakfast
9:15-10:15 Build Me a Metaphor lecture
10:30-11:15 The Importance of Fellowship: A Discussion
with a writers group
3 years strong
(11:00-2:00) Individual Critiques
12:00pm-1:00 Lalita Noronha-Blob: Life after
publication
1:15 Farewell
Too often a writer’s words are lost at literary readings. What was beautiful becomes muffled. Language becomes “blah blah blah.” A choreographed reading promises that literature remains so after it has left the page and is spoken. In a choreographed reading, audience members are provided copies of the work to be performed and the writers (or guest actors) read it with the understanding that their art will be heard!
This fall, Flanked presents its premier choreographed reading. Writers are asked to explore the topic, “The First Time I…” through poetry, fiction, or non-fiction. We expect and welcome tales about kisses, love-making, and fist fights, but challenge writers to relay fist shames, first joys, first births, and first fears. Click on the link below for submission guidelines.
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