Local Journals, Local Writers
Local writers featured in the latest issues of Inkwell and The Westchester Review are the focus of this Sunday afternoon reading.
Inkwell
is published semiannually in the spring and fall by Manhattanville College
and is staffed by faculty and graduate students of the writing program.
Inkwell is dedicated to providing a forum for emerging writers
and to publishing high quality poems and short stories in a literary journal
that also features non-fiction, artwork, essays and interviews on writing
by established figures, and yearly competitions in poetry and fiction.
www.inkwelljournal.org
Fiction writer Marie-Helene Bertino was awarded Mississippi Review’s 2007 Short Story Prize (Spring, 2007) and a Kurt Vonnegut award from The North American Review (Fall 2007). She has an MFA from Brooklyn College, where she received the Himan Brown award for Creative Writing. She is the editor’s assistant at One Story literary magazine. Marie- Helene will read from her short story, "This Is Your Will to Live".
Poet Noah Michelson received his MFA from New York University. His work has been published in or is forthcoming from The New Republic, Hunger Mountain, The Cincinnati Review, The National Poetry Review, Poetry Daily, and Verse Daily among others. He is also included in the Scribner anthology The Best American Erotic Poetry from 1800 to the Present, edited by David Lehman. Noah will read his short poem, "Manger".
Jesse Schotter is currently a PhD student in English at Yale University. He was an undergraduate at Yale and then taught high school English for two years before returning to undertake graduate work.
Poet Missy Egan Wey earned her Master of Arts in Writing degree from Manhattanville College, (with thanks to Sr. Ruth Dowd). A wife, mother, grandmother and volunteer, she manages her own PR/Development/Special Events firm, serving not-for-profit clients in Westchester. Her poetry has appeared in several publications including Inkwell, A Joyful Noise, The Crucible and Eureka Literary Journal. Missy will read her poem, "The Vermont Wife".
The
Westchester Review is published annually. The editors welcome
previously unpublished poems, stories and essays by established and emerging
writers living or working in New York’s Westchester County. According
to publisher JoAnn Duncan Terdiman, The Westchester Review began
with a conversation on a summer evening. “There are so many gifted writers
here in the county,” I said to my daughter. “Wouldn’t it be something
if there were a journal for the many voices of Westchester?” We looked
at each other and said, “Why not?” www.westchesterreview.com
Maura McCaw writes short stories and teaches American literature to foreign students at EF International Language School. She received her BA in philosophy and English literature from University of Toronto. In the mid 90s, she started to write fiction in Louise Alpert’s weekly writers’ workshops. In 1998, she enrolled in the creative writing program at Sarah Lawrence College where she received her MFA in fiction in 2001. Currently, she participates in a weekly writers’ group in Manhattan. A resident of Tarrytown, she enjoys hiking, traveling and spending time with her five grown children and their families.
Meredith Trede is one of the founding publishers of Toadlily Press. Her chapbook, Out of the Book, was in Desire Path, the inaugural volume of The Quartet Series. Journals that have published her work include Blue Mesa Review, Gargoyle, Heliotrope, The Paris Review, and Runes. Her husband and she are partners in a management consulting company. She holds an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College, an MA in Human Resources and Management from the New School, and a BA in Liberal Arts. Meredith has held residency fellowships at Ragdale, Saltonstall, and the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts in Virginia and France.
Sergio Troncoso, the son of Mexican immigrants, was born in El Paso, Texas and now lives in New York City. After graduating from Harvard College, he was a Fulbright Scholar to Mexico and studied international relations and philosophy at Yale University. Troncoso’s stories have been featured in many anthologies, including The Norton Anthology of Latino Literature, Latino Boom: An Anthology of U.S. Latino Literature, Once Upon a Cuento, Hecho en Tejas: An Anthology of Texas-Mexican Literature, and many others. In 1999, his book of short stories, The Last Tortilla and Other Stories (University of Arizona Press), won the Premio Aztlán for the best book by a new Chicano writer, and the Southwest Book Award from the Border Regional Library Association. His novel, The Nature of Truth (Northwestern University Press), was published in 2003.
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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.