Meet Dulce Matuz

Meet Dulce Matuz

Thursday, September 27, 10 AM
Location: Palo Alto College--Performing Arts Center

Dulce Matuz, voted one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, will be speaking at Palo Alto College on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 10 a.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

Matuz, an undocumented Latina who was faced legal challenges as she put herself through college, is an advocate for immigration and president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition.

For more information, call the Office of Student Engagement and Retention at 486-3125.

Free and open to the public.

Awaken the Sleeping Poet--Poem Swap

Awaken the Sleeping Poet, Barnes & Noble, Northwoods


Poem Swap: (I was going to call it: Butcher your friends' poems, but I thought "Poem Swap" was a more gentile name for our event.)


Thursday September 27 at 7:00 p.m.

OK, here are the rules...
If at all possible, obtain some of your favorite poems from your favorite local poets. You know, the people you see at the venues and whose poetry makes you laugh, cry, or think. They're your friends and acquaintances, and the goal is to share their poetry trying not to butcher it while you read it. So it's a big poem swap.

This could be A LOT OF FUN!

So get busy, and start contacting your favorite local poets, friends, and acquaintances. It's first come, first serve. And don't let your feelings be hurt if nobody selects your poems. We've got open mic
afterwards, so read the best stuff you've got and make others wish they had borrowed your poems.

See you on Thursday, September 27 at 7:00;
Open mic after the poem swap is through.
Awaken the Sleeping Poet at Northwoods Barnes & Noble
Henderson Pass at 281 and 1604
POEM SWAP
OPEN MIC afterwards until 9:00
Bring yourself, bring a poem, and bring a friend!

Your Host:
Floyd (Michaud) L. Lamrouex
lamrouex@sbcglobal.net
(210) 656-3131

Book Review: Desert America

I hope you enjoy this book review that ran in yesterday's San Antonio Express-News:

Desert America: Boom and Bust in the New Old West

Kristen Lamb Social Media and Networking Workshop

Reminder from: SARA_BIZ Yahoo! Grouphttp://groups. yahoo.com/ group/SARA_ BIZ/calKristen Lamb Social Media and Networking WorkshopSaturday September 29, 20128:30 am - 12:30 pmLocation: Four Points Sheraton, 6809 N. Loop 1604 W., SA, TX 78249Notes:Need help with networking? Lost when it comes to using social media? Kristen Lamb will present a half-day workshop on both subjects. Prices for the workshop are:$20 for SARAs, $25 for non-SARA RWA members and $30 for non RWA members. Those paying with PAYPAL please add $2.00 to total.Please fill out the form on the SARA website at sararwa.wordpress. com/ The Four Points Sheraton is at 6809 N. Loop 1604 W., SA, TX 78249. The hotel phone# is 210-690-0030.For more info on Kristen Lamb, her website is http://warriorwrite rs.wordpress. com/All Rights ReservedCopyright © 2012 Yahoo! Inc.http://www.yahoo. comPrivacy Policy:http://privacy. yahoo.com/ privacy/usTerms of Service:http://docs. yahoo.com/ info/terms/

Meet Dulce Matuz

Meet Dulce Matuz

Thursday, September 27, 10:00 AM

Location: Palo Alto College--Performing Arts Center


Dulce Matuz, voted one of Time Magazine’s 100 Most Influential People in the World, will be speaking at Palo Alto College on Thursday, Sept. 27, at 10 a.m. in the Performing Arts Center.

Matuz, an undocumented Latina who was faced legal challenges as she put herself through college, is an advocate for immigration and president of the Arizona Dream Act Coalition.

For more information, call the Office of Student Engagement and Retention at 486-3125.

Free and open to the public.

Destination SA Magazine

From Edna Campos Gravenhorst:


If you happen to be downtown in September and see Destination SA Magazine in San Antonio, Texas, please pick up a copy. An article I co-authored with Nichalos Fuqua is featured in the September 2012 issue. The title is, "Hidden History."

QuirkOut!

From Edna Campos Gavenhorst:

It could happen to you! My friend Diane Kline and her friend Cary Goldwasser co-authored a blog which was picked up as a column for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.These ladies inspire me. Check out their Quirk Out Column!

Marcantoni Blog Recommendation

Jonathan Marcantoni recommends the following post:

Self Publishing diminishes quthor's dignity and the craft of writing

Awaken the Sleeping Poet

Awaken the Sleeping Poet at the Twig

Mo Saidi & Jim Brandenburg
with special guest Palmer Hall
Don't miss this opportunity on Tuesday, September 11, at 7:00 p.m.
to meet and listen to the founders of Voices de la Luna and our
very special guest, Palmer Hall.

The Twig Book Shop is the premiere poetry place in San Antonio.
Located at 200 E. Grayson, Ste. 124, San Antonio, TX in the
revitalized historic Pearl Brewery.

Bring yourself; bring a friend; bring a poem!

Host:

Floyd L. Lamrouex
lamrouex@sbcglobal.net
(210) 656-3131

Reyna Grande at Barnes and Noble

Here is an article on Reyna Grande's new book, The Distance Between Us, which appears in today's San Antonio Express-News: REVIEW

Reyna will give a reading and book signing at:

Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing

Monday, Sept. 10

7:30 p.m.

Free and open to the public

Children's Book Writers & Illustrators Conference

The San Antonio chapter of the Society of Children’s Book Writers & illustrators (SCBWI) is hosting a one-day writer's conference on Saturday, September 15, 2012, at Incarnate Word University. This is your opportunity to get inspired and learn more about the writing process. Agents, editors, published authors and illustrators will present sessions and workshops. Click here for a link to details and registration.


Lupe Ruiz-Flores
Website: www.luperuiz-flores.com
Blog: www.luperuiz-flores.blogspot.com

Gemini Ink Hosts Community Talk and Block Party

The following post is sent to us by Edna Campos Gravenhorst:

Gemini Ink Hosts Community Talk and Block Party

Welcoming Executive

Artistic Director Sheila Black

WHO: Gemini Ink

WHAT: A Community Talk and Block Party welcoming Sheila Black as Executive
Artistic Director. The event will feature open dialogue on creative writing in the community led by Black and showcasing special guest poet Connie Voisine. Enjoy readings, music, refreshments and the company of readers, writers.

WHEN: Friday, September 7, 6:30pm, FREE and Open to the Public

WHERE: Gemini Ink, 513 S. Presa

WHY: Get to know Sheila Black and Gemini Ink through conversation and. Join in on the dialogue.
Community Talk will reflect on how creative writing is partly about a dream of freedom and justice-an ideal world; yet must balance this with being truthful in honoring our experience of the world as it is-and the tension between the two.

Sheila Black is the author of two poetry collections, House of Bone and Love/Iraq, (both CW Press). She recently co-edited with poets Jennifer Bartlett and Mike Northen Beauty is a Verb: The New Poetry of Disability (Cinco Puntos Press), named a Notable Book for 2012 by the American Library Association (ALA). A third collection Wen Kroy is forthcoming from Dream Horse Press. She is a 2012 Witter Bynner Fellow in Poetry, selected by recent US Poet Laureate Philip Levine. Connie Voisine is the author of Rare High Meadow of Which I Might Dream, (University of Chicago Press,) a finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Award. Her first book, Cathedral of the North, won the Associated Writing Program's Award in Poetry. She has poems published in The Georgia Review, Ploughshares, Poetry Magazine, Black Warrior Review, The Threepenny Review, and elsewhere.

For more information on contact us at 210.734.9673 or info@geminiink.org , or visit us at www.geminiink.org

Need a Freelance Editor?

From Jonathan Marcantoni:


I have been a freelance writer and editor for eight years. I have edited 18 books, 15 of which have been published. My editing services are at a reasonable flat rate and can be negotiated to fit your budget. I guarantee a high quality product with quick turn around. If you are a writer seeking an editor, please contact me at Jon.marcantoni@gmail.com

Reyna Grande

 Reyna Grande book discussion and signing of The Distance Between Us  at Barnes and Noble, San Pedro Crossing on Monday, Sept. 10 at 7:30 p.m. Free and open to the public!

DAW Books

From Ruben Soto, President Emeritus of the Society of Latino and Hispanic Writers of San Antonio:

DAW Books, Inc. is one of the rare imprints of Penguin that does not require an agent to make submissions on behalf of writers. The editorial focus at DAW is science fiction and fantasy novels. The editors caution that nearly all their novels are more than 80,000 words long.


Milkweed Editions is a literary press based in Minnesota. In addition to novels, this press also publishes nonfiction and poetry. They're currently open to submissions through the end of September. After that, they'll re-open to submissions in January.

Grey Gecko Press is a small publisher that accepts about everything—except extreme horror, erotica, and religious fiction. If you're writing in those genres, this isn't the press for you. For everyone else, it might be a good fit. Prospective authors should submit a synopsis and the first three chapters.