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Journals, Local Writers
Our third
annual reading focused on two local journals, Inkwell and The
Westchester Review, spotlights writers featured in their latest editions.
This is a great opportunity to hear local writers and to ask questions
of the editors of these two publications concerning submission guidelines
and more.
Inkwell,
Manhattanville College’s award-winning literary journal, is published
semiannually in the spring and fall by the College’s Master of Arts
in Writing Program. Staffed by faculty and graduate writing students
and alumni, Inkwell is dedicated to presenting emerging and established
writers, and to publishing high quality poems and short stories. The
journal also features nonfiction, artwork, and essays and interviews
on writing by established literary figures. Inkwell’s fiction and poetry
competitions, now in their 12th and 13th years respectively, offer cash
prizes and publication. www.inkwelljournal.org
- Fiction writer
Arlaina Tibensky is a graduate of Columbia University's MFA
program. Her fiction has appeared in One Story, Small Spiral Notebook,
and The Madison Review, among others. She is the Artistic Director
of Pen Parentis, a New York based collective for writers with children,
and is hard at work on her second novel for young adults.
- Poet Ellen
Peckham has read, published and exhibited in the U.S., Europe
and Latin America. She frequently uses both art forms in a single
work, the text decorating and explicating and the image illuminating.
Her archives of drafts, edits and art are collected at the Harry Ransom
Center for the Humanities and a 7 minute visual biography, Parallel
Vocabularies, is available on DVD and via her WEB site, www.ellenpeckham.com.
- Fiction writer
Dan Preniszni is the Director of Marketing & Publications
at Manhattanville College and a student in Manhattanville's Master
of Arts in Writing Program. Dan has been published in The Boston
Phoenix; The Village Voice; and one of his stories was
made into an episode of CBS TV's Cagney & Lacey. He is
the recipient of the 2009 Elizabeth McCormack/Inkwell MAW Students
& Alumni Award for Fiction.
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welcome previously unpublished poems, stories and essays by established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
- Poet Jessica
Bennett lives in Katonah with her patient husband, their two teenagers,
and a fat coonhound.
- Nina Gabriele-Cuva
is a teaching artist and actor/director. Throughout Westchester she
teaches theater and creative writing and has developed programs for
special-needs youth and first-time teenage female offenders. Nina
is now writing and directing, with Pelham High School students, a
play that addresses the issues of elementary school children in Westchester.
- Rachel M.
Simon's book of poems, Theory of Orange, won the Transcontinental
Prize from Pavement Saw Press. Her chapbook, Marginal Road,
is forthcoming from Hollyridge Press. She teaches gender studies,
film, and writing at SUNY Purchase, Sarah Lawrence College, and the
Marymount Manhattan College program at Bedford Hills Correctional
Facility.
- Rachel Wineberg
is a writer and theater director who lives in Hastings-on-Hudson.
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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, the William Robinson 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 Arts Westchester with funds from Westchester
County Government.
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