Diane Williams
Arts Industry Program Director - ADA Coordinator
Mississippi Arts Commission

239 N. Lamar Street, Suite 207
Jackson, MS 39201
(601) 359-6529    (601) 359-6008/fax

 

Call for U.S. History Authors  Arcadia Publishing is currently seeking qualified writers and historians to join with us in an exciting publishing venture to document America's epic story. You may already be familiar with Images of America, our pictorial history series, but Making of America is a new narrative-based series, focusing on the history of towns and cities, and their dynamic uniqueness, across the nation. The idea behind Making of America is to map, town by town, city by city, the entire country, creating a quilt of stories to unite the nation.
Contact: Sarah M. Williams at Arcadia Publishing, 2A Cumberland Street, Charleston, South Carolina,29401
Phone:843-853-2070
Email: swilliams@arcadiapublishing.com
<mailto:swilliams@arcadiapublishing.com
Web: <http://www.arcadiapublishing.com

Author's Venue Network News  Author's Venue Network News is an e-newsletter with tips and news for writers. Author's Venue Association promotes itself as the only writers' organization with a money back guarantee! For more information, check the website.
Author's Venue  authorsvenue2@topica.email-publisher.com
Email: authorsvenue2@topica.email-publisher.com
mailto:authorsvenue2@topica.email-publisher.com
Web: http://www.authorsvenue.com

American Road   American Road Magazine is looking for writers from the south with knowledge of historic highways. They would like to have article proposals on the Dixie Highway, the Old Spanish Trail, US 61, or any other historic highway, whether past or present, named or numbered.
Contact:  Jim Ross,  American Road
Email: jross@mockturtlepress.com
Web:  http://www.mockturtlepress.com

Lannan Literary Web Cast  The Lannan Foundation inaugurated live Web casts of their Readings & Conversations series at the Lensic Performing Arts Center. All future programs in the Readings and Conversations series will be Web cast at 7:00 p.m. MST. To listen, go to www.lannan.org  and click on the live Web cast icon. A picture of the reader for that evening will be featured.
Contact: Jo Chapman at The Lannan Foundation, 313 Read Street, Santa Fe, New Mexico, 87501-2628
Phone:505 986 8160
Email: <mailto:jo@lannan.org
Web: <http://www.lannan.org

Niolan Entertainment  is looking for 3-D animation script writers who desire screen credit.  Niolan Entertainment is a 3-D animated entertainment company who is currently looking for script writers interested in receiving screen credit that want to get into the entertainment business.
Contact: Michael Moody,  Niolan Entertainment
Email: SlowDive626@aol.com <mailto:SlowDive626@aol.com
Web: <http://www.Niolan.com

Poets & Writers E-Mail Seminar  Jumpstart your writing career in the privacy of your own home. Connect with writers around the country and get invaluable information from experts on how to publish, pitch and promote your work. Class size is limited to guarantee you'll receive individual attention, so you better hurry.
Contact:  Amy Holman
Phone:212-226-3963 ext.216
Email: www.pw.org <mailto:www.pw.org
Web: <http://www.pw.org

Red Weather: A Journal of Poetry and Culture  Red Weather: A Journal of Poetry and Culture is accepting poetry and short stories. For more information, contact David Huntsperger at dwhuntsperger@yahoo.com
Contact: David Huntsperger
10301 Greenwood Ave #A404
Seattle,Washington,98133
Phone:206 706 0510
Email: dwhuntsperger@yahoo.com <mailto:dwhuntsperger@yahoo.com

The Page 2 Project  A publishing showcase and link between writers of shorts (columns, short stories, essays) to newspaper, magazine and book publishers nationwide. We use the internet in very creative ways to get our writers work before the reading public. Special program for young writers under age 18 as well.
Contact:  Jim Richards, Editor in Chief
318 Sewanee Avenue
Kingsport,TN,37760
Phone:713-463-8939
Email: arichards@awanet.us <mailto:arichards@awanet.us
Web: <http://www.page2.awanet.us

The Mississippi Encyclopedia needs qualified writers Persons interested in writing entries are invited to contact managing editor Andrea Finley at afinley@olemiss.edu or at 662-915-5993.  Topic lists and other information about the Mississippi Encyclopedia are available at the Center for the Study of Southern Culture website at www.olemiss.edu/depts/south/index.html.  Prospective authors are encouraged to browse the topic lists and suggest other subjects.

The Mississippi Encyclopedia is a collaborative project organized by the Center for the Study of Southern Culture at the University of Mississippi, in partnership with the Mississippi Humanities Council, the Mississippi Department of Archives and History, and the University Press of Mississippi, which will publish the volume.  The editor-in-chief is Charles Reagan Wilson, who co-edited the Encyclopedia of Southern Culture, with Ted Ownby and Ann Abadie serving as consulting editors and twenty-eight scholars from Mississippi and other states serving as associate editors.

If you decide to make an inquiry, please be sure to include something about your background and interests so that they can assign a topic that would be a good fit.

The Jentel Artist Residency offers dedicated individuals a supportive environment in which to further their creative development.  Here artists and writers experience unfettered time to allow for thoughtful reflection and meditation on the creative process in a setting that preserves the agricultural and historical integrity of the land.

The deadline for accepting applications is January 15th for the Summer/Fall-Residency Dates: May 15-December 13.

For additional information visit: www.jentelarts.org

The Puffin Foundation has small grants for artists ranging from
$1,000-$2,500 and the deadline is December 31, 2003.

The Puffin Foundation continues to make grants that encourage emerging artists in the fields of art, music, theater and literature whose works, due to their genre and/or social philosophy might have difficulty being aired.  www.puffinfoundation.org

Some of you may be interested in resources for teaching poetry - writing in classrooms.  The information below comes from the T&W Books Spring 2003 catalog ( www.twc.org ):

Classics in the Classroom
(Using Great Literature to Teach Writing - all levels) Edited by Christopher Edgar & Ron Padgett
ISBN 0-915924-58-7 $16.95 paperback

Poetry Everywhere
(Teaching Poetry Writing in School and in the Community - all levels) by Jack Collom and Sheryl Noethe
ISBN 0-915924-98-6  $17.95 paperback

The Adventures of Dr. Alphabet
(104 Unusual Ways to Write Poetry in the Classroom and the Community -Elementary thru High School)  by Dave Morice
ISBN 0-915924-44-7  $17.95 paperback

Handbook for Poetic Forms  Edited by Ron Padgett -- All levels
ISBN 0-915924-60-9  $17.95 paperback

Listener in the Snow  The Practice and Teaching of Poetry.  By Mark Statman
ISBN 0-915-924-59-5  K-High School  $14.95 paperback

Moving Windows  (Evaluating the Poetry Children Write - all levels)  By Jack Collom
ISBN 0-915924-55-2  $14.95 paperback

The Writing Book (A Workbook in Creative Writing - Elementary)  By Inky Penguin
ISBN 0-915924-65-X  $9.95 paperback

I Never Told Anybody  (Teaching Poetry Writing to Old People) By Kenneth Koch
ISBN 0-915924-53-6  $15.95 paperback

Personal Fiction Writing (A Guide to Writing from Real Life)  By Meredith Sue Willis
ISBN 0-915924-62-5 $16.95 paperback

Deep Revision (A Guide for Teachers, Students, and Other Writers) By Meredith Sue Willis
ISBN 0-915924-41-2  $14.95 paperback

Teaching and Writing Popular Fiction  (Horror, Adventure, Mystery, and Romance in the Classroom)  By Karen Hubert
ISBN 0-915924-04-8  $14.95 paperback

The Writing Workshop (How to Teach Creative Writing)  By Alan Ziegler
ISBN 0-915924-07-2
$13.95 paperback - Volume 1
$15.95 paperback - Volume 2
$25.95 two volume set

Sweet Illusions  (A Young Adult Novel - Elementary through High School)
Note: Sweet Illusions is unusual in that this story has an additional twist.  The reader is given a writing idea for extending each chapter.
By Walter Dean Myers
ISBN 0-915924-15-3  $9.95

 

There is a writer on my literary artists mailing list who always provides me with timely information to share with all of you.  Listed below are two websites that you might find helpful if you are interested in arts in education as a poet.  If you are interested in school residencies as a poet, the second site connects you to the state standards for required learning in the classroom.
www.poets.org or  www.onlinepoetryclassroom.org

 

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