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Events
The Ant & the Elephant: a poetry seminar with Starkey Flythe, Jr.;
presented by Poetry Society of South Carolina;
$10 for PSSC members and $15 for non-members
Saturday, February 18, 2012
10am to noon at ARTworks
Starkey Flythe, one of South Carolina's most published contemporary poets, will present a seminar at ARTworks on Saturday, February 18, 10am to noon. Presented by the Poetry Society of South Carolina, the seminar is $10 for PSSC members and $15 for non-members. To register, contact PSSC at http://poetrysocietysc.org and slesin@islc.net.
Starkey Flythe's literary career spans from Africa to the Saturday Evening Post where he was editor. His poem "Greeks" was published in the New Yorker in 2011 and his short story "New Deal" was a winner of the Piccolo Fiction Open in 2000, in addition to numerous publications, from Ploughshares to books from Furman University's Ninety-six Press (Paying the Anesthesiologist) and Snake Nation Press (The Futile Lessons of Glue.) He is a Georgia Poetry Circuit winner, as well as a Yaddo and Breadloaf fellow, and helped found the Sand Hills Writers Conference.
"The Ant & the Elephant" seminar "reduces the poem from Britannica to Pocket Book." Start with the smallest possible subject (instead of love or time or death,) say with a flea (see the 16th Century poets) instead of a hippo, a hummingbird instead of an albatross. The seminar will be an exercise in moment (see Emily Dickinson,) intensifying emotion, including the extra murdering, as they say, "your little darling."
Author C. Hope Clark on writing & A Lowcountry Bribe
;
presented by Beaufort ProWriters;
$10
Tuesday, February 21, 2012
7 to 8:30pm at ARTworks
A resident of Chapin SC, Clark is the author of a newly-released novel, A Lowcountry Bribe, the first book in the new Palmetto State Mystery Series from Bell Bridge Books. Clark will sign copies of her new mystery, and give a presentation on the numerous ways of "finding the motivational and financial means to write," based on her extensive experience as founder of FundsforWriters.com, an online resource for grants, contests, markets and funding sources for writers. Her site is one of Writer's Digest's 101 Best for Writers for the past eleven consecutive years: "writing can be sweet if you decide to make it so."
Clark's newsletters at www.fundsforwriters.com reach 42,000 readers each week. She is also published in Writer's Digest, The Writer Magazine, Landscape Management, Voices of Youth Advocates (VOYA), Chicken Soup for the Soul, and many other online and print publications, and she speaks at conferences throughout the United States.
Beaufort ProWriters is a monthly meeting for professional writers or wannabe professional writers of any genre, from magazine articles to novels to technical writing. For more info, contact Katherine Tandy Brown at ktandybrown@gmail.com or (843) 379-5886.
Beaufort Intergalactic Storytelling Festival & Liars Competition
Thursday March 8 - Sunday March 11, 2012
Around & About Beaufort Town Center
A full schedule of events and ticket prices will be available by February 6, 2012
The inaugural Beaufort Intergalactic Storytelling Festival and Liars Competition blasts off March 8-11, 2012! It's an esteemed gathering of those who shoot the breeze with the greatest of ease, of the lying liars and the audiences who laugh with them, all in performances and workshops over 4 days and 3 nights, including children's events, special theater events, concerts, and audience participation activities. Set your phasers to fun.
Storytellers beaming in include Dolores Hydock, the headliner from the National Story Telling Festival in Jonesborough TN, Hawk Hurst, co-director for both the Stories for Life Storytelling Festival and the Piccolo Spoleto Children's Festival, Ronstadt Generations, members of the musical family dynasty, Natalie Daise star of Nickelodeon's Gullah Gullah Island, John McCutcheon, folksinger and writer of "Tender Mercies," and the Lowcountry Story Tellers Guild All-Stars ~ because in space no one can hear you scream, but in Beaufort SC, everyone wants to hear some good ol' stories.
The launchpad is Beaufort Town Center, a marshfront shopping & leisure area with restaurants, accommodations, and ARTworks, the producer of the Festival & Liars Competition, in a partnership with the Literacy Volunteers of the Lowcountry.
