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Please join us for the Salem Literature Festival on Friday September 12th and
Saturday September 13th 2008, with over 16 scheduled events. Events will be held
at Old Town Hall, Cornerstone Books, Artist’s Row and The Salem Athenaeum.
This family-friendly Festival has events for readers and writers, kids and adults,
for all enthusiasts and devotees of the written and spoken word! Please go to
www.salemlitfest.com for a full schedule and additional information.
Featured Authors:
Chris Fauske, Bill Coyle, Hillary Rettig, John Hardy Wright,
Dana Cameron, Toni LP Kelner, Hank Phillippi Ryan,
Megan Kelley Hall, Amy MacKinnon, Lynne Griffin,
Todd Felton, Michael White and more!
Writer’s Events:
Speed Date with AGNI Editor William Delman, Overcoming Writer’s Block,
Positioning Yourself for Publication, and two Open Mics!
Family Events:
Story Time with Mayor Kim Driscoll, SCRABBLE® Tournament,
Talent Quest Show and more!
Just for Fun:
Kick-Off Celebration, Wine in Literature,
Salem Arts Association LitBop, Author’s Book Fair
For more information, go to www.salemlitfest.com or contact
bsimpson@cornerstonebooks-salem.com or rinus@salem-chamber.org.Schedule
Friday September 12, 2008
5pm Kick-Off Celebration at Old Town Hall
7pm Writers' Open Mic at Old Town Hall
7pm Scandanavian Literature with Chris Fauske and Bill Coyle at Cornerstone Books
Chris Fauske has recently published the first full-length English translation of the Norwegian novel Skipper Worse by Alexander Lange Kielland. Skipper Worse is a penetrating portrait of emotions and passions in a small coastal Norwegian town, where love and marriage struggle with pride and ambition. One of the most powerful and representative novels of the late 19th-century European realism, Skipper Worse reveals why Alexander Lange Kielland belongs in the company of Charles Dickens, Edith Wharton, and Katherine Mansfield. Chris Fauske is the interim dean of Arts and Sciences at Salem State College. He is the author or editor of four books on the Church of Ireland and other eighteenth-century Irish topics, as well as the translator of Skipper Worse. When not riding his Bianchi, he can usually be found at home in Ipswich, MA.
Winner of the 2006 New Criterion Poetry Prize, Bill Coyle's The God of This World to His Prophet offers peoms translated from the Swedish that blend marvelously with his own graceful, masterful work. "Reading "Aubade," the tiny poem that concludes Coyle's debut collection, is like witnessing a hole-in-one. It's a single, flawless stroke..." Eric Mchenry, NY Times Sunday Book Review. Bill Coyle's poems and translations have appeared widely in magazines and anthologies, including the Hudson Review, New Republic, and Poetry. His first volume of poetry, The God of This World to His Prophet, won the New Criterion Poetry Prize and was published in 2006. He works in the Writing Center at Salem State College and lives in Somerville, MA.
Saturday September 13, 2008
10am The Parlor presents "Speed Date with an Editor" at Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
The Parlor, North Shore’s Independent Writing Center offers writers the opportunity to have a "speed date" with AGNI fiction editor William Delman and to receive feedback on their work. Sign up and submit your manuscript at http://www.the-parlor.org/classes/register.php?class_pk=4. Spaces are limited! Manuscripts should be a maximum of five pages, poetry or fiction. Slots will be given out on a first-come, first-served basis and are FREE! William Delman has been a fiction editor at AGNI Magazine for the last six years, and a manuscript reviewer for CreativeByline.com for the last two. His work has appeared in The Massachusetts Review, The Literary Review, The Briar Cliff Review, Salamander, Rhino, Publio, Disquieting Muses Quarterly, SHAMPOO, and many other fine publications. In 2006 William received the Academy of American Poets Prize at Boston University. Currently he is the Director of The Bay State Underground reading series.
10:30am Story Time with Mayor Kim Driscoll at Cornerstone Books
Please join Mayor Kim Driscoll as she returns to Cornerstone to share her love for books. Story time followed by snack and activity.
11am SCRABBLE® Tournament at The Salem Athenaeum
Join us for a game of SCRABBLE® and compete against friends or fellow enthusiasts. Please pre-register for this free event by emailing info@salemathenaeum.net. Become the Champion of the 2007 Salem Literary Festival and win a cool prize!
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12pm – 6pm Author’s Book Fair at Old Town Hall, 1st Floor
Come and meet a wide array of authors and see what they’re working on now. Authors include Janet Young, Bonnie Hurd Smith and more!
12pm Hillary Rettig and "Overcoming Writer's Block" at Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
Procrastination and writer's block are occupational hazards of the writing life, and the bane of many writers' existences. But they needn't be heart-rending or career-ending problems. Both can, in fact, be easily addressed once you've figured out the specific nature of your block and what's causing it. (Hint: it's not that you're lazy or uncommitted—so stop blaming yourself!) This lively and illuminating workshop will help you understand the specific nature and causes of your procrastination problem or block, including the contributing factors of perfectionism, negativity, hypersensitivity and panic. Then it will offer techniques that any writer can use to easily and quickly get back on track. The great news is that, once a writer actually starts solving his or her procrastination problem or block, as opposed to just dithering over it and blaming himself or herself, change can happen amazingly fast!
The workshop leader, Hillary Rettig, has been teaching artists, activists, entrepreneurs and other "ambitious dreamers" how to be happier and more productive for nearly ten years. She has led workshops on time management and overcoming procrastination at Grub Street Writers, Chicks Who Write, and many other venues. She is author of The Lifelong Activist: How to Change the World Without Losing Your Way (Lantern Books, 2006) and the free e-book The Little Guide To Beating Procrastination, Perfectionism and Blocks, which may be downloaded at www.lifelongactivist.com.
1pm Author John Hardy Wright with Hawthorne's Haunts at Cornerstone Books
Loose the latchstring and peer into the places where Nathaniel Hawthorne passed back and forth from nineteenth century New England to the fertile country of his imagination. From Salem to Bowdoin College, and through Lenox and Concord, Salemite John Hardy Wright trails the famous author to his "old accustomed chambers" and reveals the inspiration behind an American literary legend. John Hardy Wright was the assistant curator of the former Essex Institutes Museum for 16 years. He was a Historical Society consultant for 12 years and was the Interim Director for the Historical Society of Old Newbury for one year. Wright has published eight other books with Arcadia Publishing.
1pm Talent Quest Performances and Dramatic Readings at Artist's Row
Performers from Debra Crosby's talent TV show will sing songs from pop and rock to Broadway, and acting students from Debras Crosby's acting studio will read short excerpts from some of our all time favorite classic books. Fun for the whole family!! Debra Crosby's successful career includes acting, acting coaching, improvisation, writing, producing and directing. She founded A Quest Actor's Studio in 2005. The web site for Debra Crosby's Talent Quest TV is www.talentquesttvshow.com & the web site for A Quest Actors Studio is: www.aqueststudio.com.
2pm Sisters in Crime, featuring Hank Phillippi Ryan, Dana Cameron and Toni L.P. Kelner, at Old Town Hall
Join investigative reporter and novelist Hank Phillippi Ryan (Prime Time, Face Time), New York Times bestseller Toni L.P. Kelner (Without Mercy), and professional archaeologist Dana Cameron (Ashes and Bones) as they discuss writing, mysteries, how they draw from real-life experiences--and what happens when your characters take you beyond real life and into adventure! These award-winning authors and members of Sisters in Crime will take audience questions and sign books following the discussion.
3pm Author Megan Kelley Hall at Cornerstone Books
Megan Kelley Hall is the author of the breakout Young Adult novel Sisters of Misery, which revolves around witchcraft, runic mythology, the supernatural, family ties and an ominous high-school clique. In a fictional town which closely resembles Salem, fifteen-year-old Maddie Crane must negotiate family secrets, small-town gossip and the social hell which is high school to try to save her gorgeous, eccentric cousin. Kelley Hall studied creative writing at Skidmore College, has written for publications such as Elle, Glamour and The Boston Globe, and is a partner at Kelley & Hall Book Publicity and Promotion, which she opened with her mother and sister.
5pm Grub Street North presents Amy MacKinnon and Lynne Griffin with "Positioning Yourself for Publication" at Cornerstone Books
This free workshop for writers will focus on ways authors can improve their chances for publication through networking and promotion. Amy is the author of the newly-released novel Tethered, which Booklist calls "a haunting, gracefully rendered debut". It is the story of a Brockton-based mortician who must adjust her solitary existence as she is drawn to help a young girl in peril. Amy MacKinnon is a former congressional aide whose commentaries have appeared in the Christian Science Monitor, Boston Globe, Seattle Times, and on National Public Radio affiliates, and This American Life. She began her writing career at age eleven when she nominated her dad to the National Father of the Year Committee. He won. Lynne Griffin is a nationally recognized expert on family life. She is the author of Negotiation Generation: Take Back Your Parental Authority Without Punishment. Lynne's debut novel, Life Without Summer will be published in April 2009 by St. Martin's Press.
5pm Todd Felton and A Journey Into the Transcendentalists' New England at Old Town Hall, 2nd Floor
This lavishly illustrated volume examines the major figures of the Transcendentalist movement and explores the places that inspired them. Chapters spotlight Cambridge (Emerson) and Walden (Thoreau), Salem (Hawthorne), Amherst (Dickinson) and Concord and the utopian communities of Brook Farm and the Fruitlands. Todd is a full-time freelance writer and photographer specializing in literary and cultural travel. A Journey into the Transcendentalists' New England and A Journey into Ireland's Literary Revival have received favorable notices in the pages of Vanity Fair and The Boston Globe, among other publications. Todd has written for National Geographic Traveler and Backpacker, and also writes a monthly column on literary road trips for Automotive Traveler.
7pm Author Michael White and Soul Catcher at Cornerstone Books
This Booksense Editor's Choice Selection is the compelling tale of one man's quest to find a runaway slave and the incredible odyssey that changed both of their lives forever. Richard Russo, the Pulitzer Prize winning author of Empire Falls, has said of Soul Catcher, "The book will be compared to Cold Mountain of course, but White's book is a more dramatic narrative and every bit as richly detailed and beautifully written...(it) reads like an adventure story." A New York Times Notable author, Michael White has written four novels, A Brother's Blood, The Blind Side of the Heart, A Dream of Wolves and The Garden of the Martyrs, and a collection of short stories, Marked Men. He teaches at Fairfield University and at the Stonecoast MFA program in Maine.
7pm Salem Arts Association LitBop at the Salem Arts Association Gallery in Artist's Row
The Salem Arts Association is hosting a lit-themed mixer with featured readings and an open mic starting at 7 pm on Saturday, September 13th. Featured readers include: Chip Cheek representing Quick Fiction, a literary magazine published by Salem Arts Association members; Wendy Snow-Lang Salem Arts Association Member and member of North Shore Writer's Group; and J.D. Scrimgeour from the creative writing program at Salem State College.
The Salem Arts Association is the premier membership organization for artists and art-lovers living and working in the Salem area. The mission of this artist-led organization is to bring art, in all its forms, to the community and bring the community, in all its diversity, to the arts in Salem. We do this by producing art exhibits, readings, performances, and special events, operating a retail gallery, exhibition and performance space in Salem's Artists Row, and by forging important community partnerships. In March of 2008, the Salem Arts Association was nominated for the Salem Chamber of Commerce 2007 Community Service Award. See more and learn more about membership at www.salemartsassociation.org.
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