Update, February 19th

A few things:

1) The deadline for the February publication, "Origins" is TOMORROW.
More information can be found on the blog CWGsaic.blogspot.com

2) The next meeting is next week, Thursday February 26th.

3) A Performance by our Guild Sponsor Sherry Antonini.

MOTEL
(Low rent, shag-carpeted tales shaped into spoken word, soundscape and song)
New work written and performed by Sherry Antonini and Basil Abbott
Saturday, Feb. 21
9:30 pm
Viaduct Theatre
3111 North Western Avenue
Chicago

$15 or pay what you can
The evening also features performances by BFAW/MFAW instructors Jenny Magnus and Ruth Margraff.
As part of Rhinoceros Theater Festival 2009, produced and curated by
Curious Theatre Branch.

Spring Schedule/February Publication Deadline

Dear Guild People,
I figured I should send out word that we will have a meeting next week. The following is the Spring 2009 Schedule. As always, meetings are held at 4:30 in room 1302 of MacLean.

February Tu 10, Th 26
March Tu 3, Th 26
April Tu 7, Th 23

I should have fliers up by Friday or over the weekend.

*FEBRUARY PUBLICATION

This months theme is "Origins"
1. The point at which something comes into existence or from which it derives or is derived.
2. Ancestry: "We cannot escape our origins, however hard we try" (James Baldwin).
3. The fact of originating; rise or derivation: The rumor had its origin in an impulsive remark.
4. Anatomy The point of attachment of a muscle that remains relatively fixed during contraction.
5. Mathematics The point of intersection of coordinate axes, as in the Cartesian coordinate system.

DEADLINE Friday, February 20th. *5 page limit, if you wish to submit a longer piece an excerpt may be chosen.
Submit pieces to jcrone@saic.edu

*The goal is to get out 3 publications this semester at the end of February, March and April. We will be continuing with the one word themes. I'm working on getting more funding for this. Feel free to send ideas for potential themes. Another goal is to have a reading or two.

Another Important Thing: I've heard a couple clusters of people talking about trying to get together some serious, structured writing workshops for short fiction. If you are interested let me know. I would love to point you in the direction of these people. If you want a poetry workshop I can point you towards people. Always remember that the mission of the CWG is to support, promote and involve writers at SAIC. If you want to see something done with writing, let me know, I would love nothing more than to try to make it happen.

Hope to see you all next Tuesday!

Jeni

Spring 2009!

It is time to get things going with the Creative Writing Guild for 2009! I hope everyone had a great winter break, and maybe even did some writing. I hope to begin meetings in February, meeting on a Tuesday and Thursday schedule again which I hope to get written out and set up soon. In the next two weeks I hope to have the schedule out, flyers around school and information about the next publication. Due to the success of the first two publications I will be asking student association for more funding and hopefully BFAW as well.

Two things to check out:

1) In Preparation, a zine currently edited by BFAW student Alyssa Martinez. The deadline for the February issue is this Friday, January 30th. Submit stuff!!! more info can be found here:
http://inpreparationzine.blogspot.com/

2) The 2009 AWP Conference and Book Fair in Chicago February 11-14, Passes to the events can be bought on-site for a student price of $45
information can be found here: http://www.awpwriter.org/conference/2009awpconf.php

HAPPY WINTER BREAK

The Semester is over!!!! Unless you have class on Monday...

Abridged has been distributed. It is a great issue featuring 15 writers!

Keep writing over winter break and the Guild will be back in 2009!

End of the semester!

The last meeting of the semester is December 2nd. Time to start planning for next semester.


Deadline for the December publication "Abridged" is December 1st.

November 2nd Meeting Updates

*Places:A Creative Writing Guild Publication has been distributed.

*A meeting is scheduled for TUESDAY, NOVEMBER 18th, since Thanksgiving messes with the meeting schedule.

*DECEMBER PUBLICATION

The theme is "Abridged"

send short short stories, short poems, haikus, vignettes, any short form of writing or anything with form or content that fits this definition:

1. to shorten by omissions while retaining the basic contents: to abridge a reference book.
2. to reduce or lessen in duration, scope, authority, etc.; diminish; curtail: to abridge a visit; to abridge one's freedom.
3. to deprive; cut off.

DEADLINE: Monday, December 1st

send pieces to jcrone@saic.edu

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Everyone should check out Speed Trap Gallery, a not-for-profit, artist run gallery and reading space on Grand Ave in Chicago, run by Patrick Anderson and Katherine Harvath. They are currently accepting entries for their December show and reading. The theme is “The Distance Anywhere” and the deadline is November 20th. Visit the MySpace or Facebook page for more info or contact speedtrapgallery@gmail.com

http://www.myspace.com/speedtrapgallery

http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1661103410&ref=ts

October Updates

*The CWGs first Publication "Places" is due to go out in the next two weeks. It will feature writing by 14 Students.

*We have begun discussing the potential of readings, to possibly be hosted by Patrick Anderson who is starting a reading series out of his apartment and is willing to open the space to the Guild.
*Everyone start thinking about ideas for readings!
some ideas for Guild readings:
-NOvember... http://www.readbookonline.net/readOnLine/4219/
-Preparing for the Winter Doldrums
-Nostalgia and Sentimentality

*The next publication: Possibly theme: "Abridged" featuring short-short stories, short poems, haikus, vignettes and other concise pieces of writing.

* Now that a lot of business has been taken care of at the first three meetings, we can now make time at the meetings for workshopping and writing exercises.

A silly little nonsensical poem from a poem pass at lat weeks meeting:

Enclosed in a ziplock baggy
bigger than a flip flop
caliwop
clip clop bop bop
dance till you drop
spin and twirl
try not to get sick
Flugle Floggle, Moggle goggle,
emitting a smell like a moldy towel
don't open the bag she said
but "pop!" there it went
spilt across the floor now; it's
no use crying now, not when it has
cried for you
many tears on the floor

*Next meeting November 4th, bring writing!