Could You Be Published in the Next Edition?
This
special event begins with a reading featuring Alethea Black and
Claudia Burbank—the winners of Manhattanville College’s Inkwell
Literary Journal annual writing competition—and Rod Carlson,
Ruth Obernbreit and Amy Ralston Seife from The Westchester
Review.
The panel discussion immediately following the reading will include Linda Simone, Associate Director of Manhattanville’s Graduate Writing Program from Inkwell and Naomi Lipman, Managing Editor of The Westchester Review, both of whom will address inquiries specific to their journals, from the submission and judging process at Inkwell to the editorial process and mission of The Westchester Review.
Alethea
Black was born in Boston and graduated from Harvard College. Joan
Silber chose her first published short story, “I Knew You’d Be Lovely,”
to win Inkwell’s Fiction Competition. She also has fiction appearing
in the summer 2007 issue of the Antioch Review. She currently lives
in Pawling, NY where she is completing a book of short stories.
Claudia Burbank was born in New Haven, Connecticut, and graduated from Vassar College. She is the recipient of a 2003 Fellowship from the New Jersey State Council on the Arts as well as a Pushcart Prize nomination. Her recent poems appear in Cream City Review, Silk Road, Confrontation, and Southern Poetry Review. She resides in Bernardsville, NJ.
Rod Carlson grew up in northern Minnesota, was a Marine in Vietnam and then a business consultant. He lives in White Plains.
Ruth Obernbreit of Larchmont is a writer and painter with an MPS from Pratt Institute. Her writing focuses on the personal essay. Over the last twenty years, many of her works have been published locally. She studies painting with Don Keene and last year illustrated a collection of poetry by Joe Landau, entitled New York is Everywhere.
Amy Ralston Seife holds an MA in English Literature from Yale, and an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College. She received First Prize in the 2007 Pen & Brush Prose Contest and honorable mention in the Zoetrope: All-Story 2004 Fiction Contest, as well as being named finalist in the Phoebe Winter 2006 Fiction Competition and Inkwell’s 9th Annual Fiction Competition. Her stories have appeared in Lumina, Inkwell and The Westchester Review. She lives in Larchmont.
All readings include a question & answer period and a reception with books by the author(s) for sale.
Suggested
Donation: $5 ($3 for HVWC members and those under age 18)
Programs and events at The Hudson Valley Writers’ Center are made possible, in part, by grants from the Bydale Foundation, the David G. Taft Foundation, the Orchard Foundation, and the Thendara Foundation; with public funds from the New York State Council on the Arts, a State Agency, and the National Endowment for the Arts; and by the Basic Program Support Grant of the Westchester Arts Council with funds from Westchester County Government.