Stories on Stage Presents Distant Voices

Stories on Stage’s upcoming program….
We are super excited about this show as we are integrating short stories and interspersing autobiographical digital stories
that were created by individuals at the Center for Digital Storytelling.

The show is:
“Distant Voices” and will be performed on Sunday, March 11th at 1:30 and 6:30 at Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater, 721 Santa Fe Drive.
“Through stories and video, step into the lives of individuals whose experiences span continents and generations.”

It features:
Lorne Cardinal reading War Dances by Sherman Alexie
Candy Brown reading The Headstrong Historian by Chimamanda Ngoze Adichie Mark Rubald reading Ash by Roddy Doyle

Discount tickets are available for BOOC members, their family and friends at $20/per.
All you need to do is call us at 303-494-0523 or come to the box office on show day, and mention BOOC.
Please go to our web at www.storiesonstage.org for more info.

Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America March Program

Rocky Mountain Mystery Writers of America Invites To Dinner: Special Agent Mike Angley (Ret)

When: Thursday, March 8, 2012
Where: The Denver Press Club,
1330 Glenarm St., Denver, CO
Time: 7:00 p.m. dinner; 8:00 p.m. program
Cost: $20, includes colleagues, dinner and program (Cash and check only please)

Menu: TBA

Adult beverages are available at the cash bar downstairs

PROGRAM: Insiders Guide to the Counter Intelligence Community Mike Angley will explain the nature of counterintelligence as prescribed by current Executive Orders, the differences between defensive and offensive approaches to CI, the major agencies that conduct CI, and the limitations the U.S. government places on CI activities. During the Cold War, Foreign Intelligence Services posed the greatest threat to American security, necessitating a focus on what are now regarded as the traditional elements of CI. Although crimes such as espionage, sabotage, and assassination remain serious and continue to demand attention from U.S. intelligence, today the greatest and most immediate concern is terrorism. As serious time-sensitive threats emerge, masters of the CI model oversee the execution of intricate and highly classified prevention strategies.

Bio: MICHAEL “Mike” ANGLEY is the award-winning author of the thriller series, the Child Finder Trilogy, which features USAF Special Agent protagonist, Patrick S. O’Donnell. Mike retired from the U.S. Air Force in September 2007 in the rank of Colonel, following an exciting and dangerous 25-year career as a Special Agent with the Air Force Office of Special Investigations (OSI). He held thirteen different assignments throughout the world, among which were five tours as a Commander of different units, to include two Air Force Squadrons and a Wing. Michael Angley is a seasoned criminal investigator and a counterintelligence and counterterrorism specialist. In his last assignment as the Commander of OSI Region 8 at Air Force Space Command, he was the chief architect of the nation’s space-related counterintelligence programs. He was fond of saying, “If it entered or exited the Earth’s atmosphere, I had a dog in the fight!”
www.mikeangley.com

RSVPs ARE MANDATORY. The reservation deadline is MONDAY, Mar 5, 2012. RSVP to Becky Martinez: rebgrace50@aol.com or call 303-522-1073. No shows and anyone not cancelling their reservation 72 hours in advance will be expected to pay since RMMWA will be billed for their reservation.

2012 Northern Colorado Writers Conference March 30-31

The 2012 Northern Colorado Writers Conference; Take the Road Less Traveled: March 30-31, at the Fort Collins Hilton.

In its seventh year, the Northern Colorado Writers Conference is one of the premiere writer’s conference in the region bringing in agents, editors and presenters from all over the country. The conference caters to writers of all level and genres by offering over 25 workshop choices. Plus there will be agent/editor pitch sessions, a bookstore and networking opportunities. Participants will walk away inspired and equipped with the tools needed to ensure writing success. Conference fee includes all meals, workshops, pitch sessions, and a preconference workshop on March 10.

Visit http://www.northerncoloradowriters.com formore information.

Northern Colorado Writers is also partnering with Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers Gold
conference and will be giving away a free conference registration to their September conference. Writers must attend the Northern Colorado Writers Conference in order to have a chance to win this

Stories on Stage Feb 12th

Stories on Stage’s next performance is “No Such Thing as Supply and Demand” and is a fierce and funny look at the
different ways in which we all deal with money and the different ways money deals with all of us.
It features actors Leonard Barrett, Morgan Hallett and Chip Persons entertaining us with stories by
Walter Kirn, Carina Chocana, Wells Tower and Molly McNett.
And as always, our complimentary cookies and milk will be served.

The Denver show is on February 12th at 1:30 and 6:30 at
Su Teatro @ the Denver Civic Theater (721 Santa Fe Drive).
The Boulder performance is on Saturday, February 11th at 7:30pm at The Dairy Center for the Arts.

For ticket information call 303-494-0523 or
go to our web at www.storiesonstage.org for more info.

CAL Presentation: Writing the Naughty Bits

Writing the Naughty Bits:
Getting what happens between the sheets
onto the page

A CAL cocktail hour presentation,
featuring best-selling romance writer Kay Bergstrom

Does writing about la petit mort make your blood run cold? Would you rather vacuum the floors than write whoopee?

Learn to how to stop blushing, get descriptive and tastefully spice up your characters’ lives!

About Kay: Writing as Cassie Miles, Kay is a best-selling author who has sold over 75 novels of romance and suspense.

In addition to many books for Harlequin Intrigue, Kay has published with Harlequin Temptation and American, as well as with Berkley, Avon, Crown, Zebra, Kismet, Audio Entertainment and Shades of Love.

Date: Wed., Feb. 15, 2012

Time: 5 to 7 p.m.

Place: The Denver Women’s Press Club, 1325 Logan St.

Cost: $10 for members; $15 for non-members

RSVP by Mon., Feb. 13 to Mindy Sink, info@mindysink.com or call 303-596-8983.

Arapahoe Community College Literary Magazine Seeks Submissions

The Progenitor, Arapahoe Community College’s award-winning art and literary magazine, invites you to submit your poetry, prose and art for the upcoming Spring issue.
They accept submissions from students, faculty, and community members. Deadline for this year’s submissions is midnight, February 15. All submissions this year will be accepted electronically.
Click here to find out more about Progenitor and how to submit.
http://www.arapahoe.edu/campus-life/student-press/progenitor-art-and-literary-magazine

RMFW Program Jan 28 – What’s That Sound?

ROCKY MOUNTAIN FICTION WRITERS PRESENTS

WHAT’S THAT SOUND?

Presented by Anne Randolph. M.A., M.F.A

Use Music, Noise, Rhythm and Blues to Spice Up Your Writing –Plus Learn to Read Your Writing Aloud!

Saturday, January 28, 2012
1:00 pm to 3:00 pm
Arvada Public Library
7525 W. 57th Ave
Arvada, CO 80002

Bring paper and pen to write, plus bring one page, double-spaced, of your writing or a sample from literature to read aloud. In the first hour, we’ll look at what it means to add sound to your writing, and in the second hour, we’ll cover the basic skills of reading your writing aloud.

PART I: ADD SOUND TO YOUR WRITING
• Augment your writing with Music and Metaphor
• Punctuate meaning with Noise, Chatter, and Sound

• Explore examples from Joyce Carol Oates, Toni Morrison, Mary Higgins Clark

PART II: LEARN SKILLS TO READ YOUR WRITING ALOUD
• Been asked to read your work?
• Felt nervous or just scared?

• Discover how to prepare for a Reading?
• Stand tall, use your breath.
• Hold an audience with pitch, pace, and pause.
• Pre-scan your work.
• Rehearse, Practice and Present

RSVP to AnneRandolph- AT -KitchenTableWriting.com

Colorado Authors’ League 2012 Awards

Colorado Authors’ League 2012 Awards

It’s time to pick your best work published in 2011 for entry in the Colorado Authors’ League 2012 awards contest. Details about the contest and applications are at www.ColoradoAuthors.org. The deadline for entries is January 31, 2012.
Not a CAL member? Join! Join and enter your work.

Keep in mind that the CAL awards contest is not just for books! Entry categories cover the gamut of writing reflected in our organization’s broad membership—articles, short stories, essays, poetry, and specialty writing, as well as fiction and nonfiction books for adults and youth. Once again, judging will be independently conducted by SouthWest Writers, who did a fine job last year.

Now don’t dismiss our awards contest as some shallow beauty pageant whose winners get to flaunt a handsomely engraved glass award on their bookshelf or in their foyer (though the award is handsome). For one thing, the announcement of the finalists and the winners provide a precious opportunity for CAL to showcase our members’ best works to the statewide writing community, as well as the reading public, thereby strengthening the visibility and viability of our organization. Second, CAL winners tell us that they’ve used their awards to promote their winning projects and further their writing careers.

Bruce W. Most
2012 Awards Chair

ACC Announces Writers Studio Literary Contest

The Writers Studio at Arapahoe Community College announces its 8th Annual Writers Studio Literary Contest for unpublished work in poetry, fiction, and creative nonfiction. $250 prize, publication in Progenitor, ACCs award-winning literary magazine, and invitation to the Spring Literary Festival will be awarded to first-place winners in each category. Second place winners will be invited guests at the literary festival. The contest is open to all Colorado residents and the deadline to submit work is March 1, 2012.

Final judges for this year’s contest are Harrison Fletcher (creative nonfiction), author of Descanso for My Father: Fragments of a Life, a Bakeless Literary Award finalist, and selection for the University of Nebraska Press American Lives Series edited by Tobias Wolff, Dan Beachy-Quick (poetry), author, most recently, of Circle’s Apprentice (Tupleo 2011) and Wonderful Investigations (Milkweed 2012), a book of poetry and a book of essays, mediations, and tales (respectively). (poetry) and Jennifer Davis (fiction), author of Her Kind of Want, winner of the Iowa Award for Short Fiction and Our Former Lives in Art, selected by Barnes and Noble for their Discover Great New Writers series. The judges will also serve as writing faculty for the 2012 Spring Literary Festival on Saturday, April 21.

New this year: we will be accepting electronic submissions only for art and literary pieces through Submittable, the online submission manager. For submission guidelines or about the Writers Studio, visit the Writers Studio Web site at ACC Writers Studio General Submission Guidelines<writerstudio

Entries for the 2012 Colorado Book Awards Due Jan 13 2012

The Colorado Center for the Book at Colorado Humanities is Now Accepting Entries for the 2012 Colorado Book Awards

Nominations Must Be Received By January 13, 2012

DENVER, CO (December 21, 2011)–Colorado Humanities and its program department, Colorado Center for the Book, are accepting nominations until January 13, 2012 for the 21st annual Colorado Book Awards. The Book Awards recognize and promote Colorado’s finest writers, illustrators, photographers and editors. Finalists and winners will be honored in an award event to be held in Aspen next June as part of Aspen Summer Words.

The Colorado Book Award program is one of the oldest book award programs in the country, receiving 150 qualified submissions annually. Program Coordinator, Jennifer Long says. “Finalists will be announced in April 2012 followed by readings and book signings in the Denver metro and other areas. These readings are a great way to hear what’s hot by local authors and to enjoy an evening of fun discussion and hobnobbing with the local literati.”

To enter the competition with digital or printed books, authors, editors, illustrators, photographers and publishers should visit www.coloradohumanities.org, click on Programs/Events and select Colorado Book Awards. A $53 fee must accompany each entry. Fans and friends may send suggestions of books to be entered to Jennifer Long at long@coloradohumanities.org in advance of the deadline.

The public is also invited to participate as Selectors of the finalists in up to twelve categories. Applications to serve as a Selector are also available atwww.coloradohumanities.org.

The Colorado Center for the Book, founded in 1989 as a state affiliate of the Center for the Book in the Library of Congress, is among the most active of the 50 state centers for the book. With at least five major projects and the strong support of Colorado Humanities, its host institution, it is making a difference in the lives of readers—and potential readers—in every corner of the state.

For more information about the Colorado Book Awards or the Colorado Center for the Book at Colorado Humanities, please contact Jennifer Long atlong@coloradohumanities.org or 303.894.7951 x21.