FEB POETRY RETREAT IN THE WOODS--UPDATED

wiselittleraccoon.gaia.com
Presents a

 POETRY RETREAT IN THE WOODS

Feb 23-24, 2008
Heathcote Community Conference Center
Nestled between Baltimore, MD & York, PA

Feb 23 10 am to 6 pm
Feb 24 10 am to 6 pm

 **FREE READING & OPEN MIC Feb 22, 7:30 pm**

This weekend workshop will explore economy in poetry, and the art of “show, don’t tell,” giving the reader or audience our thoughts through imagery.

Join us in Heathcote Community’s historic mill for a weekend of reading, writing, playing and performing. Bring your old favorites and works in progress for our critique sessions!

Join us for two days of experiential intensive, with critique sessions, writing periods and visceral workshops on finding fresh images, economy of language, show/don’t tell, writing from instinct and rewriting with detachment.

This weekend is for any writer who wants to take her/his poetry to the next level, especially for publication or performance. Who is your audience? What are your goals–Are you trying to communicate specific ideas or hone poetic craft? Do you get quagmired in or avoid rewrites? Come to the woods and dance poetically outside of your comfort zone!

I minimize lectures and work more as facilitator. Poetry is like film–There are endless genres and audiences. Your own approach is not wrong. But let me take you on a challenging ride to the unexpected image that guards the core of your poem!
   
Rustic, communal lodging for participants will be provided in the workshop space. Bring your own bedding. Meals are vegan/vegetarian and organic, provided in Heathcote Community’s popular kitchen and dining room.
   
Registration will be limited to 10 participants.

Please mail this form to:
Poetry Retreat in the Woods
Heathcote Community
21300 Heathcote Road Freeland, MD 21053

Optionally, include up to  3 samples of your poetry.

FEES

workshop                    $100        $100
lodging
Fri nite                    $10        _____
Sat nite                    $10        _____
Sun nite                    $10        _____
meals
Fri dinner                    $5        _____
Sat breakfast                $2        _____
Sat lunch                    $3        _____
Sat dinner                    $5        _____
Sun breakfast                $2        _____
Sun lunch                    $3        _____
Sun dinner                $5        _____
airport transportation
arriving                    $20        _____
departing                    $20        _____

                    YOUR TOTAL    _____

Please make checks payable to

CURIO COAST PRODUCTIONS,
or pay via paypal, to
curiocoastREMOVE@comcast.net.

Work exchange & potluck available. Email any questions.

About the Facilitator:

    Wren is Artist-in-Residence at Heathcote Center. Her poems have appeared in The Baltimore Review, Digges’ Choice, The Baltimore Women’s TImes, The Green Revolution and the anthology Blood and Tears. She received a Young Authors Award in Poetry from The Courier Journal. She is a founding member of Baltimore’s Sunday Salon critique group. She wrote a stage play from her poetry, This Is How She Steps on Snakes, which she performed in Baltimore and at Towson University. The journal Grub Street awarded her first prize for slam poetry.
    Wren Tuatha is principally  a screenwriter, under the banner Curio Coast Productions. She wrote the feature scripts Bacca Blooms, Strands of Emily, This Is How She Steps on Snakes and My Second Simone. She is currently developing feature film scripts for collaboration with Rattle the Cage and others. She studied poetry, as well as Electronic Media and Film at Towson University and education at the University of Louisville. Her short films, “Totems of a Road-Colored Goat” and “Sparrow, Like Everyone,” are poem treatments.

    Her poems and projects can be viewed at:

http://wiselittleraccoon.gaia.com/

Re: FEB POETRY RETREAT IN THE WOODS--UPDATED

And here are updates on the CCP contest:

wiselittleraccoon.gaia.com presents:
THE CURIO COAST SPRING POETRY PRIZE

Curio Coast Productions specializes in arts and education to challenge and encourage social change in areas such as sustainability, human rights, etc. To introduce CCP to poets we’re offering this general topic contest. Future contests will have themes, such as animal rights, feminism, intentional community, Earth-based spirituality, etc.
 
Prize & Fees:

Prize: $100. Winner & 2 honorable mentions will be published on wiselittleraccoon.gaia.com

$10 fee per 3 poems, no poem more than 2 pages each. One writer may send more than 3 poems, $10 per each group of 3.

Each poem should be printed in a 12 point, easily readable font. The writer’s name, address, phone number and email address should be in the upper right hand corner of each page–front or back is acceptable. Folding to fit a letter sized envelope is fine. Simultaneous submission and previously published work is welcome–We want your best! Please keep copies of your work. We do not return submissions.

Judging:

We will be looking for fresh, specific imagery, economy, rhythm, interesting subject matter and overall poetic craft.  Tone can be edgy or inspirational. Any topic is welcome. Submissions will be reviewed by Wren Tuatha and Curio Coast Productions volunteers.

Deadline & Submission Address:

March 20, 2008 (spring equinox) Prize Announcement: April 20, 2008

Make check payable to Curio Coast Productions. Mail submissions to:

Curio Coast Spring Poetry Prize
Heathcote Center
21300 Heathcote Road
Freeland, MD 21053