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Readings anyone?
From 7 to 9 p.m. Aug. 7, the public is invited to INsideOUT at Joan James Harris Theater, Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Ave., New Smyrna Beach.
The event is a public reception and readings of works-in-progress by teen participants in the "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency. It's free and reservations are requested. Call 386-427-6975.
This is the culminating public event for Atlantic Center for the Arts' second annual "your word" Teen Creative Writing Residency, which began July 26. The "your word" residency is an international program offering 21 teens an opportunity to explore and expand the power of their individual voices through writing workshops with contemporary masters, including Master Writers Terrance Hayes, Ander Monson, Victoria Redel and the 2009 "your word" Fellow, Arisa White.
In addition to three Master Writers-in-Residence, one "your word" Fellow is chosen annually to provide mentorship to participating teens.
The 2009 "your word" Fellow is ARISA WHITE, who was an ACA Associate Artist-in-Residence with Sharon Olds in 2006. White is also a Cave Canem Fellow and holds a master's degree from the University of Massachusetts, Amherst. Factory Hollow Press
published her chapbook "Disposition for Shininess" in 2008. She received a Poets & Writers grant in 2008 and was awarded the 2007 Pavel Strut Fellowship in Poetry from the University of Western Michigan for a month-long fellowship in Prague.
TERRANCE HAYES, Master Writer in Poetry, is the award-winning author of "Wind in a Box" (Penguin 2006), "Hip Logic" (2002), which won National Poetry Series, and "Muscular Music" (1999), winner of the Kate Tufts Discovery Award. About his work, Cornelius
Eady said: "First you'll marvel at his skill, his near-perfect pitch, his disarming humor, his brilliant turns of phrase. Then you'll notice the grace, the tenderness, the unblinking truth-telling just beneath his lines, the open and generous way he takes in our world." He has been a recipient of many honors and awards, including a Whiting Writers Award, a Pushcart Prize, a Best American Poetry selection and a National Endowment for the Arts Fellowship. He is an associate professor of creative writing at Carnegie Mellon University.
ANDER MONSON, Master Writer in Creative Nonfiction/Memoir, winner of the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, is the author of three books: "Neck Deep and Other Predicaments," creative nonfiction/memoir (Graywolf Press 2007), "Other Electricities," fiction (Sarabande Books 2005) and "Vacationland," poetry (Tupelo Press 2005). Monson is a professor of English at the University of Arizona and a recent recipient of the Christopher Isherwood Foundation Award. His nonfiction has been collected in "The Best Creative Nonfiction Volume 2" and "The Best American Essays 2008." He is the designer, editor and publisher of "Diagram Magazine" and New Michigan Press. Of Monson's memoir, Robert Polito, judge for the Graywolf Press Nonfiction Prize, said, "Every time I turn to it I'm astonished all over again by the majesty of this book."
VICTORIA REDEL, Master Writer in Fiction, is the critically acclaimed author of two books of poetry and three books of fiction. Her latest novel, "The Border of Truth" (Counterpoint 2007), weaves the situation of refugees and a daughter's awakening to the history and secrets of her father's survival and loss. "Loverboy" (2001 Graywolf; 2002 Harcourt) was awarded the 2001 S. Mariella Gable Novel Award and the 2002 Forward Silver Literary Fiction Prize and was chosen in 2001 as a Los Angeles Times Best Book. "Loverboy" was adapted for a feature film directed by Kevin Bacon. Her most recent collection of poems, "Swoon" (2003 University of Chicago Press), was a finalist for the James Laughlin Award. Her work has appeared in numerous magazines and journals including O the Oprah magazine, Redbook and Bomb.
For more information, visit the Web site at atlanticcenterforthearts.org.
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