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SUMMARY:AWN Meeting Thursday January 16
DESCRIPTION:Connect With Your Writer Muses & Empower Your Writing \nThursday\, January 16 at Bonfire Coffee from 6:30-8:30 p.m. \nIn this in-person workshop\, Jessica Barnum will share insights from her recently published book\, Dear Writer Muses\, I Am Here. You’ll discuss the “seek and receive” concepts of the writer mindset\, consider the various types of Writer Muses\, engage in a mindfulness activity to connect with Writer Muses\, and practice the personification letter-writing strategy for empowering you and your writing. Bring a journal! \nBECOME A MEMBER 
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-meeting-thursday-january-16/
LOCATION:Bonfire Coffee\, 433 Main St.\, Carbondale\, Colorado\, 81623
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SUMMARY:AWN: Holiday Party
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, December 19 at Bonfire Coffee Company (433 Main Street\, Carbondale\, CO 81623) 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. \nJoin us for a festive and fun gathering. Choose a beloved book from your shelf to share with other members\, or support a local business by visiting White River Books in Carbondale\, Bookbinders in Basalt\, or Explore Booksellers in Aspen to purchase one. Dedicate the book with your most valuable piece of writing advice\, and wrap it up to share at the exchange. Refreshments provided.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-holiday-party/
LOCATION:Bonfire Coffee\, 433 Main St.\, Carbondale\, Colorado\, 81623
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:AWN: Fairytales with Kim Bussing | Third Thursday in November
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, November 21 at Bonfire Coffee Company (433 Main Street\, Carbondale\, CO 81623) 6:30 – 8:30 p.m. \nKim Bussing will ask AWN members to look at the psychology and craft of fairy tales to sharpen your manuscript\, weave magic into both the fantastic and the mundane\, and overcome roadblocks for captivating stories. \nCRAFT TALK DESCRIPTION \nFairy tales are the most honest forms of storytelling. Through magic and metaphor\, they confront what is otherwise unspeakable. Many of the stories we tell are built off the bones of fairy tales\, from how we imagine characters\, create intrigue\, conjure settings\, and confront what haunts us. Whether you’re writing memoir or science fiction\, a children’s novel or a sweeping multigenerational drama\, the tenets of fairy tales are integral to our approach to stories. This class will look at the psychology and craft of fairy tales to sharpen your manuscript\, weave magic into both the fantastic and the mundane\, and overcome roadblocks for captivating stories. It will both teach elements of craft while providing opportunities to generate new work in your prose genre of choice. \n  \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR \nKim Bussing is an author of fairy tales for children and adults. Her first series\, The Princess Swap\, is forthcoming from Penguin Random House beginning in 2025. Her short fiction has won several grants and awards\, and she’s helped tell stories for brands including Hilton\, Marriott\, Audi\, and more. She holds an MFA from the University of Arizona\, where she taught creative writing and was co-editor of Sonora Review. She regularly speaks on the power of storytelling\, leads creative workshops\, and coaches writers and entrepreneurs. \nEmail Mallory Kaufman for more information on becoming a member.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-member-reading-with-feedback/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:AWN: 45 Ways to Turn up the Tension with April Henry | Third Thursday October
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, October 17 at Bonfire Coffee (433 Main St Carbondale)\, 6:30-8:30 p.m. \nJoin AWN for 45 Ways to Turn up the Tension: no matter what genre you’re writing\, these 45 powerful and proven techniques will make readers feel like the pages are flying by. \nTaught by April Henry\, the New York Times bestselling author of 29 mysteries and thrillers for teens and adults. \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR: \n \nEdgar-award winning and New York Times-bestselling author April Henry knows how to kill you in a two-dozen different ways. She makes up for a peaceful childhood in an intact home by killing off fictional characters. There was one detour on April’s path to destruction:  when she was 12 she sent a short story about a six-foot tall frog who loved peanut butter to noted children’s author Roald Dahl. He liked it so much he showed it to his editor\, who asked if she could publish it in Puffin Post\, an international children’s magazine. By the time April was in her 30s\, she had started writing about hit men\, kidnappers\, and drug dealers. She has published 29 mysteries and thrillers for teens and adults\, with more to come. She is known for meticulously researching her novels to get the details right. \nEmail Mallory Kaufman for more information on becoming a member.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-tbd-2/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:AN EVENING WITH MARY LOUISE KELLY MODERATED BY BREEZE RICHARDSON
DESCRIPTION:Join us for a conversation with 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize ceremony moderator\, novelist and host of NPR’s “All Things Considered\,” Mary Louise Kelly. \nModerator: Aspen Public Radio’s Executive Director\, Breeze Richardson. \nThis event is free and open to all\, registration is requested. \nThe event is currently at capacity\,\nif you are interested in attending plan to arrive when the doors open at 5:30 p.m.  \nDOORS: Open at 5:30 p.m. \nEVENT: Conversation 6:00 p.m. – 7:00 p.m. \nSEATING: General admission and available on a first come\, first served basis. \nCome early and purchase a drink at the TACAW bar. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR \nMary Louise Kelly is a host of “All Things Considered\,” NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. Previously\, she spent a decade as national security correspondent for NPR News\, and she’s kept that focus in her role as anchor. That’s meant taking “All Things Considered” to Russia\, North Korea\, Iran and beyond. \nShe’s published two novels\, “Anonymous Sources” and “The Bullet\,” as well as the New York Times bestselling memoir\, “It. Goes. So. Fast. The Year of No Do-Overs.” Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times\, among other publications\, and she serves as a contributing writer at The Atlantic. \nABOUT THE MODERATOR \nBreeze Richardson joined the Aspen Public Radio team in June 2021. Highly-respected in public media for her strategic planning and communications background\, she has a passion for telling stories and producing community-focused programming. \nSince arriving in the Roaring Fork Valley\, Breeze has been on stage exploring disability and inclusion with 1A’s Jenn White\, discussing the importance of local journalism for Aspen Institute’s Society of Fellows\, and in conversation with Tockukwu Okafor\, Dr. Bessel van der Kolk\, and 2023 Aspen Words Literary Prize winner Jamil Jan Kochaifor Aspen Words. In February 2023\, she took the stage at the Wheeler Opera House with NPR’s Ailsa Chang to lead a conversation about making big career changes\, representation in media\, and the impact of investigative journalism. \nBreeze currently serves as President of the Rocky Mountain Community Radio coalition\, and is an elected member of the Western States Public Radio Board of Directors. In 2024\, she completed the Public Media Diversity Leaders Initiative (PMDLI) hosted by the Riley Institute at Furman University\, and is a proud alumni of the Aspen Institute Hurst Leaders Forum.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/an-evening-with-mary-louise-kelly-moderated-by-breeze-richardson/
LOCATION:TACAW\, 400 Robinson St.\, Basalt\, CO\, 81621
CATEGORIES:Aspen Words Literary Prize,Literary Prize,Writers in Residence
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20241006T160000
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SUMMARY:2024 Fall Writing Workshop with Mary Robinette Kowal (Two Workshops in One)
DESCRIPTION:Sunday\, October 6th\, 9am to 4pm (with a 1-hour lunch break). Mary Robinette Kowal will be teaching two of her most popular topics: \n Hiding Exposition in Plain Sight \nIn this workshop\, we learn how to give our readers all the information they need to know about the setting we created\, without drowning them in information. Together we learn the art of subtly expositing without showing our authorial hand. \nEndings: How to Wrap Things Up  \nVery often\, writers get to the two-thirds mark in a work and bog down\, sometimes abandoning it to move on to something shinier. Why does this happen? It’s a place at which we move from raising questions for the reader to needing to answer them. This change in mode requires a different set of tools than the beginning of a story\, while needing to appear part of a seamless whole. In this workshop\, we’ll look at how to wrap up loose ends\, decide which things we can leave dangling\, and what elements make a strong closing sentence. \nGeneral Admission: $95 | AWN Member: $35 \n \n  \nLearn more about the Aspen Writers Network (AWN) \nand become a member today!  \nABOUT THE INSTRUCTOR\nMary Robinette Kowal is the author of The Spare Man\,The Glamourist Histories series\, Ghost Talkers\, and the Lady Astronaut Universe. She is part of the award-winning podcast Writing Excuses and has received the Astounding Award for Best New Writer\, four Hugo awards\, the Nebula and Locus awards. Her stories appear in Asimov’s\, Uncanny\, and several Year’s Best anthologies. Mary Robinette\, a professional puppeteer\, also performs as a voice actor (SAG/AFTRA)\, recording fiction for authors including Seanan McGuire\, Cory Doctorow\, and John Scalzi. She lives in Nashville with her husband Rob and over a dozen manual typewriters. Visit maryrobinettekowal.com.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/2024-fall-writing-workshop-with-mary-robinette-kowal-two-workshops-in-one/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240919T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240919T203000
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SUMMARY:AWN: Member Reading with Feedback
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, September 19 at Bonfire Coffee (433 Main St Carbondale)\, 6:30-8:30 p.m. \nThis month’s meeting is one of the more important ones in our schedule. It provides the opportunity for you to support your fellow writers and/or be supported. We will be having member readings with optional feedback. Refreshments provided. \nReading Rules: \nReadings are 4 minutes max (yes\, we enforce this). Please practice and time yourself. \nConstructive feedback (1 minute max) per reviewer = what you liked best + one area you suggest the writer take another look at. \nEmail Mallory Kaufman for more information on becoming a member.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-tbd/
LOCATION:Bonfire Coffee\, 433 Main St.\, Carbondale\, Colorado\, 81623
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240914T170000
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SUMMARY:2024 Community Read Beyond the Book: Hamlet Movie Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words in partnership with the Pitkin County Library Cinema presents a “Hamlet” movie weekend.  \nJoin us in the Pitkin County Library Dunaway Community Meeting Room on Friday and Saturday\, September 13 & 14 to watch back-t0-back silver screen renditions of “Hamlet” 1996 and 1948. \nExact times and registration details to come. \nAll Community Read Events are free and open to all.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/2024-community-read-beyond-the-book-hamlet-movie-weekend/2024-09-14/
LOCATION:Pitkin County Library\, 120 N. Mill St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen Words Literary Prize
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SUMMARY:2024 Community Read Beyond the Book: Hamlet Movie Weekend
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words in partnership with the Pitkin County Library Cinema presents a “Hamlet” movie weekend.  \nJoin us in the Pitkin County Library Dunaway Community Meeting Room on Friday and Saturday\, September 13 & 14 to watch back-t0-back silver screen renditions of “Hamlet” 1996 and 1948. \nExact times and registration details to come. \nAll Community Read Events are free and open to all.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/2024-community-read-beyond-the-book-hamlet-movie-weekend/2024-09-13/
LOCATION:Pitkin County Library\, 120 N. Mill St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen Words Literary Prize
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SUMMARY:AWN: Self Publishing Panel
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URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-self-publishing-panel/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240725T143000
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SUMMARY:AYC: The Wordplay & Expression Summer Camp
DESCRIPTION:The Wordplay & Expression Summer Camp \nOpen to incoming 6th-9th graders \nJuly 22-25 \n10 am- 2:30 pm \nJoin Aspen Words and Jess Barnum at Aspen Youth Center Monday\, July 22 – Thursday\, July 25 for a Wordplay & Expression Summer Camp. This workshop will provide a place for you to focus on everything wordplay\, writing\, voice\, creativity\, and expression. You’ll self-discover\, empower\, and manifest your own creativity\, confidence\, intuition\, success\, and other magical magic that pops up for you along the way. You’ll engage in a variety of activities such as wordplay writing\, reading for inspiration\, and stage performances. There will be time to learn and create together as a group\, and there will be time to independently create and showcase what you self-design. This camp is a place for you to be the inspiration that you are! Plan to pack a water bottle\, snacks\, SPF\, a long sleeve top layer\, a hat\, sunglasses\, a journal\, and a laptop (optional). Registration is required! \nPrice: $100 – Scholarships available *Registration is limited* \nCLICK HERE TO SIGN UP
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/ayc-the-wordplay-expression-summer-camp/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240718T183000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240718T203000
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SUMMARY:AWN: Summer Soiree
DESCRIPTION:AWN members join us for the Summer Soiree! Enjoy heavy appetizers\, AWN’s new signature “Working Title” cocktail\, a magic show by Doc Eason and an open mic.  \n  \n 
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-summer-soiree/
LOCATION:Village Smithy\, 26 S 3rd St.\, Carbondale\, CO\, 81623\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:2024 Community Read Book Pick-Up
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words and Pitkin County Library are thrilled to present the 2024 Community Read\, which celebrates literature\, unites readers around a work of fiction and ignites meaningful conversation on the vital social issues explored in the novel\, Enter Ghost by Isabella Hammad\, winner of the 2024 Aspen Words Literary Prize. \nJoin us at Pitkin County Library’s front lawn to pick-up your free copy of the award-winning novel on Wednesday\, July 17 between 12-1 p.m. and 4-6 p.m.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/2024-community-read-book-pick-up/
LOCATION:Pitkin County Library\, 120 N. Mill St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Aspen Words Literary Prize
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240627T161500
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240627T173000
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SUMMARY:Drawing to a Close: Sustaining Inspiration Beyond the Conference
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 27 4:15-5:30 p.m. \nDrawing to a Close: Sustaining Inspiration Beyond the Conference \nSpeakers: Mahogany Browne\, Jim Shepard\, Karen Shepard\, Angie Kim \nModerator: Adrienne Brodeur \nhttps://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-summer-words-public-panels/e585336
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/drawing-to-a-close-sustaining-inspiration-beyond-the-conference/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240627T150000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240627T160000
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SUMMARY:Craft Talk: The Plot Thickens: Creating Narratives that Hook Readers
DESCRIPTION:Thursday\, June 27 3:00-4:00 p.m. \nCraft Talk: The Plot Thickens: Creating Narratives that Hook Readers \nSpeakers: Kelly Fremon Craig\, Angie Kim \nhttps://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-summer-words-public-panels/e585336
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/craft-talk-the-plot-thickens-creating-narratives-that-hook-readers/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240626T041000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240626T164000
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SUMMARY:Craft Talk: Conversation in Motion: Dialogue & Gesture in Character Development
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 26\, 4:10-4:40 p.m. \nCraft Talk: Conversation in Motion: Dialogue & Gesture in Character Development \nSpeaker: Peter Orner \nhttps://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-summer-words-public-panels/e585336
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/36380/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240626T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240626T160000
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SUMMARY:Craft Talk: From Life to Page: Harnessing Experience to Inform Your Writing (no matter the genre)
DESCRIPTION:Wednesday\, June 26\, 3:30-4:00 p.m. \nCraft Talk: From Life to Page: Harnessing Experience to Inform Your Writing (no matter the genre) \nSpeaker: Martha McPhee \nhttps://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-summer-words-public-panels/e585336
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/craft-talk-from-life-to-page-harnessing-experience-to-inform-your-writing-no-matter-the-genre/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240625T033000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240625T163000
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SUMMARY:How Stories Stand: Crafting Narrative Architecture through Structure\, POV\, and Time
DESCRIPTION:Tuesday\, June 25\, 3:30-4:30 p.m.  \nSpeakers: Karen Lord\, Will Schwalbe\, Jim Shepard \nModerator: Regina Brooks \n https://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-summer-words-public-panels/e585336
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/how-stories-stand-crafting-narrative-architecture-through-structure-pov-and-time/
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DTSTART;TZID=America/Denver:20240624T133000
DTEND;TZID=America/Denver:20240624T143000
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SUMMARY:Publishing Pathways: Understanding the Industry
DESCRIPTION:Publishing Pathways: Understanding the Industry \nMonday\, June 24\, 1:30-2:30 p.m. \nSpeakers: Sophie Cudd\, Dawn Davis\, Aram Fox\, Mollie Glick \nModerator: Lisa Sharkey \nPurchase your $30 pass to all 6 events: \nhttps://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-summer-words-public-panels/e585336
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/publishing-pathways-understanding-the-industry/
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SUMMARY:Summer Words
DESCRIPTION:Join us for our annual Summer Words Writers Conference in Snowmass\, CO.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/summer-words-2/
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SUMMARY:AWN: Writing Prompts
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URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-writing-prompts/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:Book Ball
DESCRIPTION:Aspen Words’ 2024 Book Ball promises to be a real page turner! Join author and keynote speaker Michael Lewis for an unforgettable experience with fellow literature lovers while enjoying cocktails and dinner at the historic Hotel Jerome. Book Ball raises critical funds to support Aspen Words programs including writers in the schools\, scholarships for aspiring writers and community talks with Pulitzer Prize-winning authors.\n\n\nBOOK BALL\nThursday\, June 20\, 2024 \n5:30-9:30 p.m. MT \nASPEN WORDS ANNUAL BENEFIT DINNER  \nFeaturing  \nMichael Lewis \nThursday\, June 20\, 2024\nHotel Jerome Grand Ballroom \nLeadership award to be presented to Tom Bernard. \nThank you to our host committee!\nLisanne and Jim Rogers\nAndrea and Chris Bryan\nErin Lentz\nEllie Knaus and Adam Sztykiel\nSue and Ron Hopkinson\nSuzanne Bober and Steve Kahn \nTICKETS ON SALE IN APRIL 2024\nSign up for our newsletter to get a notification when tickets go on sale
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/book-ball/
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SUMMARY:AWN: Summer soiree and open mic at the Village Smithy Restaurant
DESCRIPTION:Details to come!
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-summer-soiree-and-open-mic-at-the-village-smithy-restaurant/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:AWN: State of the Publishing Industry
DESCRIPTION:Kevin Larimer\, Editor in Chief of Poets & Writers magazine\, will be in-person at this meeting to discuss the state of the publishing industry in 2024. He is also the coauthor of The Poets & Writers Complete Guide to Being a Writer: Everything You Need to Know About Craft\, Inspiration\, Agents\, Editors\, Publishing\, and the Business of Building a Sustainable Writing Career (Avid Reader Press\, 2020). He has given presentations and appeared on a number of panels on publishing at events such as the Library of Congress National Book Festival\, the Sozopol Fiction Seminars\, the Anguilla Lit Fest\, the Slice Literary Writer’s Conference\, the Iceland Writers Retreat\, the Kauai Writers Conference\, the Kachemak Bay Writers’ Conference\, Poets Forum\, the Bronx Book Fair\, and the Writer’s Hotel.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-state-of-the-publishing-industry/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:Aspen Words Literary Prize Ceremony
DESCRIPTION:A conversation with the prize finalists and announcement of the 2024 winner. \nDetails: \nMorgan Library & Museum \n225 Madison Ave.\, New York\, NY 10016 \nProgram: 6:30-7:30 p.m. ET \n& Livestreamed! \nFREE Registration:  \nhttps://support.aspeninstitute.org/event/2024-aspen-words-literary-prize-ceremony/e568007/register/new/select-tickets \nFinalists: \n\n\n\n\n\n\n \nLoretta Thurwar and Hamara “Hurricane Staxxx” Stacker are the stars of Chain-Gang All-Stars\, the cornerstone of CAPE\, or Criminal Action Penal Entertainment\, a highly popular\, highly controversial\, profit-raising program in America’s increasingly dominant private prison industry. It’s the return of the gladiators and prisoners are competing for the ultimate prize: their freedom. In CAPE\, prisoners travel as Links in Chain-Gangs\, competing in death-matches for packed arenas with righteous protestors at the gates. Thurwar and Staxxx\, both teammates and lovers\, are the fan favorites. And if all goes well\, Thurwar will be free in just a few matches\, a fact she carries as heavily as her lethal hammer. As she prepares to leave her fellow Links\, she considers how she might help preserve their humanity\, in defiance of these so-called games\, but CAPE’s corporate owners will stop at nothing to protect their status quo and the obstacles they lay in Thurwar’s path have devastating consequences.  Moving from the Links in the field to the protestors to the CAPE employees and beyond\, Chain-Gang All-Stars is a kaleidoscopic\, excoriating look at the American prison system’s unholy alliance of systemic racism\, unchecked capitalism and mass incarceration and a clear-eyed reckoning with what freedom in this country really means.  \nPantheon – Random House \nNana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah is the New York Times-bestselling author of  Friday Black. His work has appeared in The New York Times Book Review\, Esquire\, The Paris Review and elsewhere. He was a National Book Foundation’s “5 Under 35” honoree\, the winner of the PEN/Jean Stein Book Award and the Saroyan Prize\, and a finalist for the National Book Critics Circle’s John Leonard Award for Best First Book\, along with many other honors. Raised in Spring Valley\, New York\, he now lives in the Bronx. \n  \n \nIn Temple Folk\, Black Muslims contemplate the convictions of their race\, religion\, economics\, politics and sexuality in America. The 10 stories in this collection contribute to the bounty of diverse narratives about Black life by intimately portraying the experiences of a community that resists the mainstream culture to which they are expected to accept and aspire to while functioning within the country in which they are born. With an unflinching eye for the contradictions between what these characters profess to believe and what they do\, Temple Folk accomplishes the rare feat of presenting moral failures with compassion\, nuance and humor to remind us that while perfection is what many of us strive for\, it’s the errors that make us human.  \nSimon & Schuster \nAaliyah Bilal was born and raised in Prince George’s County\, Maryland. She has degrees from Oberlin College and the University of London School of Oriental and African Studies. She’s published stories and essays with The Michigan Quarterly Review and The Rumpus. Temple Folk is her first short story collection. \n \nWhat does it mean to really see the world around you—to bear witness? And what does it cost us\, both to see and not to see? In these ten stories\, each set in the changing landscapes of contemporary New York City\, a range of characters—from children to grandmothers to ghosts—live through the responsibility of perceiving and the moral challenge of speaking up or taking action. Though they strive to connect with\, stand up for\, care for and remember one another\, they often fall short and the structures they build around these ambitions and failures shape their futures as well as the legacies and prospects of their communities and their city. In its portraits of families and friendships lost and found\, the paradox of intimacy\, the long shadow of grief and the meaning of home\, Witness enacts its own testimony. Here is a world where fortunes can be made and stolen in just a few generations\, where strangers might sometimes show kindness while those we trust—doctors\, employers\, siblings—too often turn away\, where joy comes in snatches: flowers on a windowsill\, dancing in the street\, glimpsing your purpose\, change on the horizon.  \nFarrar\, Straus and Giroux – Macmillan \nJamel Brinkley is the author of A Lucky Man: Stories\, which won the Ernest J. Gaines Award for Literary Excellence and was a finalist for the National Book Award\, the PEN/Robert W. Bingham Prize for Debut Fiction\, the Story Prize\, the John Leonard Prize\, and the Hurston/Wright Legacy Award. He has also been awarded an O. Henry Prize\, the Rome Prize\, a Wallace Stegner Fellowship\, and a Lannan Foundation Fellowship. His work has appeared in The Paris Review\, A Public Space\, Ploughshares and The Best American Short Stories. He was raised in the Bronx and in Brooklyn\, New York\, and currently teaches at the Iowa Writers’ Workshop. \n \nAfter years away from her family’s homeland\, and healing from an affair with an established director\, stage actress Sonia Nasir returns to Palestine to visit her older sister Haneen. Though the siblings grew up spending summers at their family home in Haifa\, Sonia hasn’t been since the second intifada and the deaths of her grandparents. While Haneen stayed and made a life commuting to Tel Aviv to teach at the university\, Sonia remained in London to focus on her burgeoning acting career and now dissolute marriage. On her return\, she finds her relationship to Palestine is fragile\, both bone-deep and new. \nOnce at Haneen’s\, Sonia meets the charismatic and candid Mariam\, a local director\, and finds herself roped into a production of Hamlet in the West Bank. Soon\, Sonia is rehearsing Gertude’s lines in Classical Arabic and spending more time in Ramallah than in Haifa with a dedicated group of men from all over historic Palestine who\, in spite of competing egos and priorities\, each want to bring Shakespeare to that side of the wall. As opening night draws closer it becomes clear just how many invasive and violent obstacles stand before a troupe of Palestinian actors. Amidst it all\, the life Sonia once knew starts to give way to the daunting\, exhilarating possibility of finding a new self in her ancestral home. \nA stunning rendering of present-day Palestine\, Enter Ghost is a story of diaspora\, displacement\, and the connection to be found in family and shared resistance. Timely\, thoughtful\, and passionate\, Isabella Hammad’s highly anticipated second novel is an exquisite feat\, an unforgettable story of artistry under occupation. \nGrove Press – Grove Atlantic \nIsabella Hammad is the author of The Parisian and Enter Ghost. Her writing has appeared in The Paris Review\, The Nation\, Granta\, Conjunctions\, and elsewhere. She was awarded the Plimpton Prize\, an O. Henry Award\, the Sue Kaufman Prize from the American Academy of Arts and Letters\, the Palestine Book Award and a Betty Trask Award\, and her work has been supported by the Lannan Foundation and Columbia University’s Institute for Ideas and Imagination. \n \nIn 1972\, when workers in Pottstown\, Pennsylvania\, were digging the foundations for a new development\, the last thing they expected to find was a skeleton at the bottom of a well. Who the skeleton was and how it got there were two of the long-held secrets kept by the residents of Chicken Hill\, the dilapidated neighborhood where immigrant Jews and African Americans lived side by side and shared ambitions and sorrows. Chicken Hill was where Moshe and Chona Ludlow lived when Moshe integrated his theater and where Chona ran the Heaven & Earth Grocery Store. When the state came looking for a deaf boy to institutionalize him\, it was Chona and Nate Timblin\, the Black janitor at Moshe’s theater and the unofficial leader of the Black community on Chicken Hill\, who worked together to keep the boy safe. As these characters’ stories overlap and deepen\, it becomes clear how much the people who live on the margins of white\, Christian America struggle and what they must do to survive. When the truth is finally revealed about what happened on Chicken Hill and the part the town’s white establishment played in it\, McBride shows us that even in dark times\, it is love and community—heaven and earth—that sustain us.  \nRiverhead Books – Penguin Random House \nJames McBride is the author of the New York Times–bestselling Oprah’s Book Club selection Deacon King Kong\, the National Book Award–winning The Good Lord Bird\, the American classic The Color of Water\, the novels Song Yet Sung and Miracle at St. Anna\, the story collection Five-Carat Soul\, and Kill ’Em and Leave\, a biography of James Brown. The recipient of a National Humanities Medal and an accomplished musician\, McBride is also a distinguished writer in residence at New York University. \n\n\n\n\n\n\nModerator: \nMary Louise Kelly is a host of “All Things Considered\,” NPR’s award-winning afternoon newsmagazine. Previously\, she spent a decade as national security correspondent for NPR News\, and she’s kept that focus in her role as anchor. That’s meant taking “All Things Considered” to Russia\, North Korea\, Iran and beyond. \nShe’s published two novels\, “Anonymous Sources” and “The Bullet\,” as well as the New York Times bestselling memoir\, “It. Goes. So. Fast. The Year of No Do-Overs.” Her writing has appeared in the Wall Street Journal and The New York Times\, among other publications\, and she serves as a contributing writer at The Atlantic.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/aspen-words-literary-prize-ceremony/
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SUMMARY:AWLP Ceremony Watch Party: Pitkin County Library
DESCRIPTION:Please RSVP here! \nPitkin County Library is delighted to once again host a free livestream viewing party of the Aspen Words Literary Prize Awards Ceremony taking place at the Morgan Library in New York City on Thursday\, April 25th. The event will be held in the Library’s Dunaway Community Room and doors will open at 4:00pm\, with the livestream beginning at 4:30pm. \nThe finalists for the $35\,000 Aspen Words Literary Prize\, which honors a work of fiction that illuminates vital contemporary issues\, are: \n“Chain-Gang All-Stars” by Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah \n“Temple Folk” by Aaliyah Bilal \n“Witness” by Jamel Brinkley \n“Enter Ghost” by Isabella Hammad \n“The Heaven & Earth Grocery Store” by James McBride \n  \nAttendees at the Library’s viewing party will be able to delight in the evening’s most exciting aspects in real-time: a conversation with the finalist authors led by Mary Louise Kelly co-host of NPR’s award-winning show All Things Considered\, and the live announcement of the $35\,000 prize winner. \nRefreshments will be served and prizes will be awarded for those who correctly guess the winning book.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awlp-ceremony-watch-party-pitkin-county-library/
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SUMMARY:AWN: Local Bookstore Panel
DESCRIPTION:[vc_row][vc_column][vc_column_text] \n  \nLocal Bookstore Panel \nThursday\, March 21 @ 6:30 – 8:30 p.m.\nIn-Person at Bonfire Coffee Company (433 Main Street\, Carbondale\, CO 81623) \nLocal booksellers from BookBinders and White River Books will share their expertise for writers who hope to one day see their own work on the shelf. \nSnacks\, coffee\, tea\, beer and wine will be provided.[/vc_column_text][/vc_column][/vc_row]
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-member-readings-with-optional-feedback/
CATEGORIES:Aspen Writers' Network
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Abraham Verghese – Paepcke Auditorium & Livestreamed
DESCRIPTION:Buy Winter Words Tickets + Passes\n\nIN-PERSON SEASON PASS: $80\nAttend three in-person events at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen and one in-person event at TACAW in Basalt \n \nVIRTUAL SEASON PASS: $40\nJoin all four Winter Words events via livestream \n \nINDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS: $30\nJoin any of the four events in-person \n \n MORE WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit Explore Booksellers (221 E. Main St.\, Aspen)\, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.\, Monday-Sunday\, or stop by the Aspen Words lunchtime box office in the Red Brick Center for the Arts (110 E. Hallam St.\, Aspen)\, on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. \n\nBestselling author of “Cutting for Stone\,” Abraham Verghese wraps up the 2024 Winter Words season\, presenting his latest work\, “The Covenant of Water\,” also a New York Times bestseller\, as well as an Oprah’s Book Club selection and the subject of a six-part podcast series hosted by Oprah Winfrey. This mystical work of fiction follows three generations of a family which experiences mysterious tragedy on the South Indian coast. Verghese will talk about his inspiration for the novel and how his deep and knowledgeable background in the medical field influences his work. \nModerator: Elisabeth Egan\, author and a New York Times books editor \nEvent location: Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen (1000 N 3rd St). Parking is limited. \nDoors: 5:30 p.m. | Talk: 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Book-signing to follow. Explore Booksellers will be selling books. \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\n \nAbraham Verghese\, MD\, MACP\, is Professor and Linda R. Meier and Joan F. Lane Provostial Professor and Vice Chair for the Theory and Practice of Medicine at the School of Medicine at Stanford University. He is also a bestselling author of “Cutting for Stone\,” and the recently released “The Covenant of Water” as well as a physician with a reputation for his focus on healing in an era where technology often overwhelms the human side of medicine. He received the Heinz Award in 2014 and was awarded the National Humanities Medal\, presented by President Barack Obama\, in 2015. \nBorn in Addis Ababa in 1955\, the second of three sons of Indian parents recruited by Emperor Haile Selassie to teach in Ethiopia\, he grew up near the capital and began his medical training there. When the emperor was deposed\, Verghese briefly joined his parents in the United States\, working as an orderly\, or nursing assistant\, in a series of hospitals and nursing homes before completing his medical education in India at Madras Medical College. His experiences of civil unrest and his time as a hospital orderly were to leave a significant mark on his life and work. \nAfter graduation\, he left India for a medical residency in the United States and\, like many other foreign medical graduates\, he found only the less popular hospitals and communities open to him\, an experience he described in a 1997 New Yorker article\, “The Cowpath to America.” \nAbraham Verghese’s early years as an orderly\, his care of terminal AIDS patients and the insights he gained from the deep relationships he formed and the suffering he witnessed were transformative. Though he wrote a seminal scientific paper\, he felt the sometimes cold and unimaginative language of science could not begin to capture the nature of the experience for patients and families\, nor did it convey his own feelings as he witnessed their journeys. These were the cumulative experiences around which his first book\, “My Own Country: A Doctor’s Story\,” is centered. \nAs his interest in writing grew\, he took time off from medicine to study at the Iowa Writers Workshop\, where he earned an MFA in 1991. Since then\, his work has appeared in the New Yorker\, Texas Monthly\, Atlantic\, The New York Times\, The New York Times magazine\, Granta\, Forbes and The Wall Street Journal\, among others. \nAfter leaving Iowa\, Verghese became professor of medicine and chief of the Division of Infectious Diseases at Texas Tech Health Sciences Center in El Paso\, Texas\, where he lived for the next 11 years. In El Paso\, he finished his first book\, chosen as one of the Best Books of the Year by TIME and later filmed for Showtime as “My Own Country\,” directed by Mira Nair and starring Naveen Andrews. His second bestselling book\, “The Tennis Partner: A Story of Friendship and Loss\,” explored his friend and frequent tennis partner’s losing struggle with addiction. “The Tennis Partner” was a New York Times Notable Book of the Year. \nIn his writing and work\, Abraham Verghese continues to emphasize the importance of bedside medicine and physical examination in an era of advanced medical technology. He contends that the patient in the bed often gets less attention than the patient data in the computer. His December 2008 article in the New England Journal of Medicine\, “Culture Shock: Patient as Icon\, Icon as Patient\,” clearly lays out his viewpoint. \nIn speaking about his novel\, “Cutting for Stone\,” he also addressed the issue: “I wanted the reader to see how entering medicine was a passionate quest\, a romantic pursuit\, a spiritual calling\, a privileged yet hazardous undertaking. It’s a view of medicine I don’t think too many young people see in the West because\, frankly\, in the sterile hallways of modern medical-industrial complexes\, where physicians and nurses are hunkered down behind computer monitors and patients are whisked off here and there for all manner of tests\, that side of medicine gets lost.” \nToday\, as a popular invited speaker\, Verghese has more forums beyond his writing in which to share his views on patient care. He speaks widely on the subject\, as well as giving talks and readings from his books. At the Stanford School of Medicine\, he has led the effort to establish the Stanford 25\, where residents and students are taught techniques and skills to recognize the basic phenotypic expressions of disease that manifest as abnormal physical signs. \n  \n\nThanks to our partners at Explore Booksellers and Bookbinders Basalt\,\nAspen Words members receive 20% off Winter Words book titles.  \n \n \n\nThank you to our season presenting sponsors \nDiane & William Hunckler\nBeth & Josh Mondry \nHelen & Wally Obermeyer\n  \nThanks also to our local partners:
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-abraham-verghese-paepcke-auditorium-livestreamed/
LOCATION:Paepcke Auditorium\, 1000 N 3rd St.\, Aspen\, CO\, 81611\, United States
CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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SUMMARY:Winter Words with Safiya Sinclair – TACAW in Basalt & Livestreamed
DESCRIPTION:Buy Winter Words Tickets + Passes\n\nIN-PERSON SEASON PASS: $80\nAttend three in-person events at Paepcke Auditorium in Aspen and one in-person event at TACAW in Basalt \n \nVIRTUAL SEASON PASS: $40\nJoin all four Winter Words events via livestream \n \nINDIVIDUAL EVENT TICKETS: $30\nJoin any of the four events in-person \n \n MORE WAYS TO PURCHASE TICKETS: Visit Explore Booksellers (221 E. Main St.\, Aspen)\, 11 a.m.- 6 p.m.\, Monday-Sunday\, or stop by the Aspen Words lunchtime box office in the Red Brick Center for the Arts (110 E. Hallam St.\, Aspen)\, on Wednesdays from 11 a.m.-2 p.m. \n\nWhat is it like to leave everything you know behind? Join Aspen Words at TACAW for Winter Words with memoirist and award-winning poet Safiya Sinclair\, as she discusses her new book\, “How to Say Babylon.” This Read with Jenna TODAY show book club pick examines the author’s rigid Rastafarian upbringing and her efforts to break free from the patriarchal structure which defined her youth. \nModerator: Mitzi Rapkin\, host of First Draft: A Dialogue on Writing \nEvent location: TACAW 400 Robinson Street Basalt\, CO 81621. Parking is limited. \nDoors: 5:30 p.m. | Talk: 6:00-7:00 p.m. | Book-signing to follow. Explore Booksellers will be selling books. \n  \nABOUT THE AUTHOR\nSafiya Sinclair was born and raised in Montego Bay\, Jamaica. She is the author of the memoir “How to Say Babylon\,” forthcoming from Simon & Schuster in October 2023. She is also the author of the poetry collection “Cannibal\,” winner of a Whiting Writers’ Award\, the American Academy of Arts and Letters’ Metcalf Award\, the OCM Bocas Prize for Caribbean Poetry\, the Phillis Wheatley Book Award and the Prairie Schooner Book Prize in Poetry. “Cannibal” was selected as one of the American Library Association’s Notable Books of the Year and was a finalist for the PEN Center USA Literary Award and the Seamus Heaney First Book Award in the UK and was longlisted for the PEN Open Book Award and the Dylan Thomas Prize. \nSinclair’s other honors include a Pushcart Prize\, fellowships from the Poetry Foundation\, Civitella Ranieri Foundation\, the Elizabeth George Foundation\, MacDowell\, Yaddo\, the Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference and the Fine Arts Work Center in Provincetown. Her work has appeared in The New Yorker\, Granta\, The Nation\, Poetry\, Kenyon Review\, the Oxford American and elsewhere. \n\nThanks to our partners at Explore Booksellers and Bookbinders Basalt\,\nAspen Words members receive 20% off Winter Words book titles.  \n \n \n\nThank you to our season presenting sponsors \nDiane & William Hunckler\nBeth & Josh Mondry \nHelen & Wally Obermeyer\n  \nThanks also to our local partners:
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/winter-words-with-safiya-sinclair-tacaw-in-basalt-livestreamed/
LOCATION:TACAW\, 400 Robinson St.\, Basalt\, CO\, 81621
CATEGORIES:Winter Words
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SUMMARY:AWN: Nisi Shawl teaches Writing the Other
DESCRIPTION:Writing the Other: A Practical Approach has been the standard text on inclusivity in speculative fiction for over 20 years.  Its co-author Nisi Shawl teaches writers helpful tools for the work of respectfully representing characters differing from their creators’ race\, age\, gender\, etc.; they’ve previously appeared at Duke University\, Spelman College\, University of Hawaii Manoa and many other learning institutions.\n\nShawl is also a prolific short story author and multiple award-winning editor.  Their most recent publication is Kinning\, a sequel to their Nebula finalist alternate history Everfair.  They live in Seattle\, near a large lake filled with dangerous currents and millionaires.
URL:https://www.aspenwords.org/events/awn-nisi-shawl-teaches-writing-the-other/
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