Summer is Here
THE GLOT OF POETRY - A READING SERIES - EL GLOT DE LA POESÍA
Free - Gratis
Date: Thursday, December 10, 2009
Time: 7:00pm - 10:00pm
Location: S.A.D.E. (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores)
Uruguay 1371 Piso 3
Description
Guest Readers - Elisa Dejistani and María Cristina Azcona
For Readers and Listeners of Poetry
This is the 2nd gathering for the Glot of Poetry Reading Series. The GOPRS is polyglot—poems may be read in English, Spanish, or any other language. The theory is that poetry is a language.
There is open mike for those who wish to read, but members of the audience do not have to participate in open mike. In fact, we hope those who attend feel free to simply sit back, listen, and enjoy the spoken word.
A café is adjacent to the recital room, where refreshments will be available before, during, and after the reading.
Website: http://www.thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
Event: http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=178745648930
¡El 2do Lectura EL GLOT DE LA POESÍA -CICLO DE LECTURA!
Recital para poetas, lectores y oyentes de poesía
Jueves 10 de diciembre de 2009
De 19 a 21 en la S.A.D.E. (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores)
Uruguay 1371 Piso 3ro
Ciudad de Buenos Aires
Entrada libre y gratuita
Sitio Web http://www.thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
Lectoras invitadas: Ricardo Krakobsky, Elisa Dejistani, and María Cristina Azcona
Éste es el segundo encuentro del CICLO DE LECTURA. EL GLOT DE LA POESÍA.
El ciclo es políglota, pueden leerse poemas en castellano, inglés o cualquier otra lengua.
La teoría es que la POESÍA es un idioma.
El salón cuenta con un bufé con bebidas para antes, durante y después del recital.
Hay open mike, pero los miembros del público no necesariamente tienen que participar del micrófono abierto. De hecho, esperamos que aquellos que asistan se sientan libres de ponerse cómodos, escuchar y disfrutar de la palabra hablada.
Friday, December 4, 2009
Tuesday, September 15, 2009
Sunday Merienda & Book Swap
Back from the northern hemisphere and summer’s over. Fortunately, there’s spring! And I’m sure those of you who’ve been snuggling up with your space heaters are even more excited than I am. Join us for the last day of winter:
Writers in Buenos Aires Sunday Merienda & Book Swap
Sunday, September 20th
5 p.m.
Bar de Cao
Av. Independencia 2400 (corner of Matheu)
in the barrio of San Cristóbal
Come meet up with other writers to chat and/or trade or lend books! Book part optional, your presence is more than enlightening enough. If you bring a book or few, keep in mind that trading is perhaps a better alternative to lending when dealing with folks you don’t know, i.e. lend at your own risk and make sure your name is written inside so your lendee can keep track. Hope to see you there!
POWER OF POETRY Reading Series update
Photos from the first reading are up at:
http://thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
The next reading is planned for early December.
WRITERS IN THE NEWS
Have you published something exciting? Won an award? Been featured in the media? Let us know your news!
“Mirror, Mirror” short fiction by Sharon Haywood:
http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2009/08/mirror-mirror.html
Writers in Buenos Aires Sunday Merienda & Book Swap
Sunday, September 20th
5 p.m.
Bar de Cao
Av. Independencia 2400 (corner of Matheu)
in the barrio of San Cristóbal
Come meet up with other writers to chat and/or trade or lend books! Book part optional, your presence is more than enlightening enough. If you bring a book or few, keep in mind that trading is perhaps a better alternative to lending when dealing with folks you don’t know, i.e. lend at your own risk and make sure your name is written inside so your lendee can keep track. Hope to see you there!
POWER OF POETRY Reading Series update
Photos from the first reading are up at:
http://thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
The next reading is planned for early December.
WRITERS IN THE NEWS
Have you published something exciting? Won an award? Been featured in the media? Let us know your news!
“Mirror, Mirror” short fiction by Sharon Haywood:
http://sixsentences.blogspot.com/2009/08/mirror-mirror.html
Thursday, August 27, 2009
Power of Poetry Time Change
Please take note of the change in time from 7 pm to 8 pm for this event:
Thursday, August 27, 2009
8:00pm - 10:00pm
S.A.D.E. (Sociedad Argentina de Escritores)
Uruguay 1371 Piso 3
Buenos Aires, Argentina
Guest Reader - Mong Lan
For Readers and Listeners of Poetry
This is the 1st gathering for the Power of Poetry Reading Series. The
POPRS is polyglot—poems may be read in English, Spanish, or any other
language. The theory is that poetry is a language.
Plan for the 1st gathering: A microphone will be on a stand at one end
of the recital room. Chairs will be placed in rows facing the
microphone. The officers of the group will have five to ten minutes
each to say something and read a poem or two. A guest reader will read
for about twenty minutes, and then attendees who want to read may
participate in open mike. A sign-in sheet will be available for those
who want to read. Each person who makes it on the sign-in sheet will
have five to ten minutes to read. Books written by the guest reader
will be available for sale.
Members of the audience do not have to participate in open mike. In
fact, we hope those who attend feel free to simply sit back, listen,
and enjoy the spoken word.
A café is adjacent to the recital room, where refreshments will be
available before, during, and after the reading.
The themes for this reading will be:
We are past mid-winter
Spring is almost upon us
Meteor showers
The new moon
Website: http://www.thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
Event: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1089340412&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=160181430960&ref=mf
POPRS is polyglot—poems may be read in English, Spanish, or any other
language. The theory is that poetry is a language.
Plan for the 1st gathering: A microphone will be on a stand at one end
of the recital room. Chairs will be placed in rows facing the
microphone. The officers of the group will have five to ten minutes
each to say something and read a poem or two. A guest reader will read
for about twenty minutes, and then attendees who want to read may
participate in open mike. A sign-in sheet will be available for those
who want to read. Each person who makes it on the sign-in sheet will
have five to ten minutes to read. Books written by the guest reader
will be available for sale.
Members of the audience do not have to participate in open mike. In
fact, we hope those who attend feel free to simply sit back, listen,
and enjoy the spoken word.
A café is adjacent to the recital room, where refreshments will be
available before, during, and after the reading.
The themes for this reading will be:
We are past mid-winter
Spring is almost upon us
Meteor showers
The new moon
Website: http://www.thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
Event: http://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=1089340412&ref=profile#/event.php?eid=160181430960&ref=mf
Friday, August 14, 2009
NEWS & EVENTS
I’m writing from up at the Vermont Studio Center where I’m doing a writing residency alongside a gorgeous river, replete with turtles, and a woodchuck that munches on clovers outside my window. A good dose of nature, summer, and an escape from the many distractions of Buenos Aires (everything here shuts down at 9 p.m.!). I will be back in September, but if any of you are itching for a meet-up or book swap, you are more than welcome to host one, I am quite expendable really! All you have to do is pick a time and place, make a reservation for 10-20 people, and send me the details about a week in advance for me to post it, and of course, show up on time.
POWER OF POETRY Reading Series is launched!
We are Past Midwinter
Guest Reader - Mong Lan
Location: S.A.D.E.
Uruguay 1371 Piso 3
Date of Event: Thursday, 27 August, 2009
Time of Event: 8 PM
The officers of the group will have five minutes each to say something and read a poem or two of theirs. After the officers of the group have spoken, the guest reader will read for about twenty minutes, then open mike for the attendees. A sign-in sheet will be available for those who would like to read. Each person who makes it on the sign-in sheet will have five minutes to read.
The themes for this reading will be:
We are past mid-winter
Spring is almost upon us
Meteor showers
The new moon
More info: http://thepowerofpoetryreadingseries.blogspot.com/
New Zona Norte writers group is looking for members!
Thursdays 7:30 in Olivos (sometimes in Martinez)
Contact: Karla Sutton, karla624@gmail.com
Wednesday, July 1, 2009
Writers in BA Bar Night!
Take note: Bar Night postponed to NEXT FRIDAY, JULY 10th, same time & place
Writers in Buenos Aires Bar Night
Friday, July 10th
9 p.m.
La Poesia
Chile 502 (on the corner of Bolivar)
San Telmo
Come out of hibernation and join us at this beautiful classic literary café & bar to meet up and chat with other writers. They have delicious food, too. Friends of writers also welcome! Hope to see you there!
Friday, June 26, 2009
June/July News & Events
Writers in BA Bar Night
9 p.m.
Friday, July 3rd
La Poesia
Chile 502 (on the corner of Bolivar)
San Telmo
Come out of hibernation and join us at this beautiful classic literary café & bar to meet up and chat with other writers. They have delicious food, too. Friends of writers also welcome! Hope to see you thereFrom Pablo Laurito:
TALKARAMA
English/Spanish Conversation Group
Now POETRY RECITAL!
TOMORROW, Saturday 27th of June
• from 6 to 7 pm
Poetry Reading and Recital
Please, bring some poems to read and share. (In Spanish or English)
• From 7 to 8 pm
We are going to meet again for another Talkarama English-Spanish Conversation Group
Bilingual chats and hanging out
At
Pizza Mass (Paseo La Plaza)
Montevideo 1601, corner Sarmiento
Buenos Aires City
Feel free to invite your friends and spread the word
Contact: Pablo, potenza78ar@hotmail.com
WRITERS IN THE NEWS
Have you published something exciting? Won an award? Been featured in the media? Let us know your news!
WBA on Radio Nacional!
Listen to the recorded interview of Sharon Haywood, Donigan Merritt, and Maryann Ullmann at the book fair at the following links:
Part 1 http://doniganmerritt.typepad.com/files/entrevista-feria-parte-1.mp3
Part 2 http://doniganmerritt.typepad.com/files/entrevista-feria-parte-2.mp3
Sharon Haywood published the following articles: “Applause for ‘Bodies’ by Susie Orbach” at http://www.adiosbarbie.com/features/applause-for-bodies and “Remembering Ruby” at http://anybody.squarespace.com/anybody_vent/2009/6/21/remembering-ruby.html
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
NEWS & EVENTS
SUNDAY MERIENDA & BOOK SWAP
5 p.m. to 8 p.m.
Sunday, May 31st
Eterna Cadencia
Honduras 5574 (near Fitz Roy)
Palermo Hollywood
Join us on the sofas in the back room of the café next to the Eterna Cadencia book store. Meet up with other writers to chat and/or trade or lend books! Book part optional, your presence is more than enlightening enough. If you bring a book or few, keep in mind that trading is perhaps a better alternative to lending when dealing with folks you don’t know, i.e. lend at your own risk and make sure your name is written inside so your lendee can keep track. Hope to see you there!
WRITERS IN THE NEWS
Have you published something exciting? Won an award? Been featured in the media? Let us know your news!
Maya Frost has launched her new book, The New Global Student! From the website: “The New Global Student will show you how to completely avoid the angst and expense of the traditional college admissions game. Discover the creative and strategic alternatives guaranteed to prime students for their most thrilling and fulfilling opportunities.” www.newglobalstudent.com Congratulations, Maya!
Donigan Merritt published a guest blog post about the Book Fair on Reading Group Guides. Check it out:http://www.readinggroupguides.com/blog/2009/05/donigan-merritt-impressions-from-buenos.asp
Sharon Haywood published her article, “Music’s New Bold and Bountiful” on Adios Barbie: http://www.adiosbarbie.com/features/musics-new-bold-and-bountiful
Monday, May 4, 2009
Writers in BA on Radio Nacional Argentina!
NEWS & EVENTS
Check out Writers in BA on Radio Nacional Argentina! Writers in Buenos Aires members Donigan Merritt, Sharon Haywood, and me (Maryann Ullmann) were interviewed today at the Feria del Libro for Radio Nacional’s English-language program for Radiodifusion al Exterior to air TOMORROW, MAY 5th at both 3 p.m. and 11 p.m. (probably in the second half of the show, 3:30 & 11:30). Listen on-line at: http://www.radionacional.com.ar/ to hear your fellow expat writers ramble on and make fools of us all.
If any of you have websites or blogs that you have not yet added to the Writers in BA blog and you want me to add them, let me know ASAP as there will surely be some extra hits tomorrow after the interview airs…so don’t get missed just because you were wallowing in your slovenly self-pitying writers’ procrastination…speaking of which, I have *finally* launched my own website: www.maryannullmann.com, so if I can do it, believe me, you can do it.
Panel: “How to Form and Maintain a Writer’s Group”
Tuesday, May 5th, 4:30-5:30 p.m.
At the Feria del Libro, La Rural Exhibition Hall, by Plaza Italia in Palermo
Location: Sala A. Storni, White Pavilion
Participating: Amanda Fernandez, Katharine Jones, Tara Sullivan, Sharon Haywood, Ambi Alexander, and Maryann Ullmann
Description: Many writers strengthen their craft by participating in writing groups, which differ in structure from the local "Taller Literario" format. Members of Thursdays@Three, a writing group of seven English-speaking foreigners living in Buenos Aires, will discuss how to form and run a peer-led writing group, including guidelines for critique, group structure, membership, and group goals. (panel led in Spanish)
Writing Classes (in English)
Start May 7th and May 12th Eight week classes for those who write, and those who want to write, but need a jump start. Open to native and non-native English speakers alike. We’re so sure you’ll love these classes we invite you to try the first session of each class for free! Class titles listed below; check out our website for the details, and for free (weekly) writing exercises: www.BuenosAiresWordsmith.com And feel free to contact us with any questions: BuenosAiresWordsmith@gmail.com
The Craft of Writing
Meets Thursdays in Palermo Viejo
Eight week course starts May 7th
The Creative Path to Writing Better
Meets Tuesdays in Palermo Viejo
Eight week course starts May 12th
Monday, April 20, 2009
Writers in BA Guide to the Book Fair
35th International Buenos Aires Book Fair
La Feria Internacional del Libro de Buenos Aires is coming up, April 23rd-May 11th. If you’re not familiar with it, it’s a giant exposition of books, authors, readings, workshops, and a variety of random and informative booths from Mormons to anarchists …
This year there will be talks and readings by American authors Junot Díaz (Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) and Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News). There will also be Writers in BA members participating at various levels: María Christina Azcona will be signing her book, A Guide to Find Peace; and my writers’ group, Thursdays@Three, will be publishing a compilation, giving readings, and leading workshops on screenwriting and running a writers’ group. Details are on the schedule below.
The Book Fair is at La Rural exhibition center, by Plaza Italia, Santa Fe & Sarmiento, on the D subte line in Palermo, also served by a gazillion buses. The book fair is HUGE, so if you’re coming for a specific event, make sure to get there early so you have time to orient yourself and find it. You can get schedules and maps there or on-line. Day entrance passes are $10 pesos Mon-Thurs and $13 pesos Fri-Sun, and it opens at 2 p.m. and stays open until 10 p.m. (Sun-Thurs) and 11 p.m. (Fri & Sat), and until 1 a.m. Thursday, April 30th (eve of a holiday).
For more info on the Book Fair: www.el-libro.org.ar
How to find it: http://www.el-libro.org.ar/internacional/general/como-llegar.html
Writers in Buenos Aires Book Fair Highlights:
Friday, April 24th:
3 & 4 p.m. Presentation and reading by Michael Casey, author of Che's Afterlife: The Legacy of an Image. U.S. Embassy stand, Yellow Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 2023.
5 p.m. Reading by Donigan Merritt from his novel Possessed by Shadows. (same location)
6 p.m. Presentation by Michael Luongo, author of Frommer’s Buenos Aires: “Buenos Aires through the Eyes of an American Travel Writer.” (same location)
Saturday, April 25th:
3 p.m. Readings by Maryann Ullmann & Ambi Alexander from Thursdays@Three: Expat Writers in Buenos Aires. U.S. Embassy stand, Yellow Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 2023.
4-5 p.m. Panel: “How to Write a Screenplay"
Location: Sala D.F. Sarmiento, White Pavilion
Participating: Katharine Jones and Tara Sullivan
Description: Two members of Thursdays@Three, a writing group of English speaking foreigners living in Buenos Aires, will present key points to consider when writing a screenplay. Topics covered will include: 1. How to turn a "story" into a screenplay; 2. Screenplay structure; 3. Plot v. character driven screenplays; 4. What you want from each scene; 5. What makes dialogue work, and how you know when it doesn't. (panel led in Spanish)
6 p.m. Talk by Annie Proulx, author of “Brokeback Mountain” and The Shipping News: “Anchoring Fiction in Geography.” Sala J.C. (Julio Cortázar), Ochre Pavilion
Sunday, April 26th:
6 p.m. Readings by Amanda Fernandez, Katharine Jones, and Tara Sullivan from Thursdays@Three: Expat Writers in Buenos Aires. U.S. Embassy stand, Yellow Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 2023.
Tuesday, April 28th:
6 p.m. Reading by Donigan Merritt from his novel The Common Bond. U.S. Embassy stand, Yellow Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 2023.
Thursday, April 30th:
7 p.m. Book signing of A Guide to Find Peace by Maria Cristina Azcona. Stand Sade, Blue Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 331.
Friday, May 1st
5 p.m. Readings by Amanda Fernandez and Maryann Ullmann from Thursdays@Three: Expat Writers in Buenos Aires. U.S. Embassy stand, Yellow Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 2023.
6 p.m. Reading by Don Ranard from a forthcoming book of travel stories. (same location)
7 p.m. Readings by Tara Sullivan, Katharine Jones, and Ambi Alexander from Thursdays@Three: Expat Writers in Buenos Aires. (same location)
Saturday, May 2nd
6 p.m. Presentation by Brian Byrnes, author of Fodor’s Argentina and Fodor’s Buenos Aires: “Travel Writing: Describing Argentina to the World.” U.S. Embassy stand, Yellow Pavilion, Calle 35, Stand 2023.
8 p.m. Talk by Junot Díaz, author of The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao and Drown: “From Santo Domingo to New York: the Experience of Immigrants in the United States.” Sala J.C. (Julio Cortázar), Ochre Pavilion
Tuesday, May 5th
4:30-5:30 p.m. Panel: "How to Form and Maintain a Writer’s Group”
Location: Sala A. Storni, White Pavilion
Participating: Amanda Fernandez, Katharine Jones, Tara Sullivan, Sharon Haywood, Ambi Alexander, and Maryann Ullmann
Description: Many writers strengthen their craft by participating in writing groups, which differ in structure from the local "Taller Literario" format. Members of Thursdays@Three, a writing group of seven English-speaking foreigners living in Buenos Aires, will discuss how to form and run a peer-led writing group, including guidelines for critique, group structure, membership, and group goals. (panel led in Spanish)
Tuesday, March 31, 2009
Next Bar Night & Book Fair News
Thanks to all who came out for the book swap/merienda last Sunday! It was a good time with no shortage of books to go around so we will definitely do it again. And a big, big thanks to all those who responded to my desperate pleas for housing and computer help! Gracias a ustedes I am now writing to you from my adorable new apartment in Chacarita on my new MacBook and have moved on to plotting the acquisition of a kitten.
Writers in BA Bar Night
Friday, April 3rd
9 pm
Bar Sugar
@ Costa Rice 4619
(near Armenia) in Palermo
Pry yourself away from your typewriter, emerge from your hovel, and come out and meet other writers to discuss conspiratorial plots to take over the city. Friends/companions welcome. Spread the word!
35th International Buenos Aires Book Fair
La Feria Internacional del Libro Buenos Aires is coming up, April 23rd-May 11th. If you're not familiar with it, it's a giant exposition of books, authors, readings, workshops, and a variety of random and informative booths from Mormons to anarchists ...
This year there will be talks and readings by American authors Junot Diaz (Drown, The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao) and Annie Proulx (Brokeback Mountain, The Shipping News). There will also be Writers in BA members participating at various levels: Maria Christina Azcona will be signing her book, A Guide to Find Peace; the Thursdays@Three writers' group will be publishing a compilation, giving readings, and leading workshops on screenwriting and running a writers' group. If anybody else has book fair related news, please let me know this week and I will but together a little Writers in BA guide to the Book Fair with schedule. Send to writersinba@gmail.com.
For more info on the Book Fair: www.el-libro.org.ar
Monday, March 16, 2009
Sunday Merienda/Book Swap & More!
Greetings all! Very sorry to have been MIA on WBA activities. I am back from Córdoba, and, as I’m sure many of you who have been around B.A. for a while can in some way sympathize with, I find myself scrambling to find an affordable apartment and contending with a computer suffering a slow sputtering death at the same time. Thus, I’m going to put out a shameless plea: Anybody have a lead on a place to live, an HP specialist/miracle worker, an affordable laptop for sale, or somebody coming from the states that could bring me a computer if I order one on-line?
O.K. enough begging…
Sunday Merienda & Book Swap!:
Sunday, March 22
5 p.m.
Bar de Cao
Av. Independencia 2400 (corner of Matheu)
in the barrio of San Cristóbal
Come meet up with other writers to chat and/or trade or lend books! Book part optional, your presence is more than enlightening enough. If you bring a book or few, keep in mind that trading is perhaps a better alternative to lending when dealing with folks you don’t know, i.e. lend at your own risk and make sure your name is written inside so your lendee can keep track. Hope to see you there!
New Poetry Reading Series & Facebook Group:
From Stephen Page:
Group Pen B.A.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=145964390003&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=145964390003&ref=mf
THE POWER OF POETRY - A READING SERIES - EL PODER DE LA POESÍA
-POETRY OF THE AMERICAS
-POETRY OF THE WORLD
A CROSS-CULTURAL GATHERING FOR POETS AND POETRY LOVERS.
*Come and read your poems, poems from other authors, or just listen
and enjoy the poetry recital
*In English, Spanish, or any other language.
-------------------------------------------------------------
EL PODER DE LA POESÍA – CICLO DE LECTURA
-Poesía de América
-Poesía del mundo
UN ENCUENTRO CULTURAL PARA POETAS Y AMANTES DE LA POESÍA.
*Vení a leer tus poemas, de otros autores, o tan solo a escuchar y
disfrutar de la poesía
*En español, inglés o cualquier otro idioma
Writers in the News:
Have you published something exciting? Won an award? Been featured in the media? Let us know your news!
Check out this article about children’s beauty pageants:
“A good role model?” by Sharon Haywood
http://www.any-body.org/
O.K. enough begging…
Sunday Merienda & Book Swap!:
Sunday, March 22
5 p.m.
Bar de Cao
Av. Independencia 2400 (corner of Matheu)
in the barrio of San Cristóbal
Come meet up with other writers to chat and/or trade or lend books! Book part optional, your presence is more than enlightening enough. If you bring a book or few, keep in mind that trading is perhaps a better alternative to lending when dealing with folks you don’t know, i.e. lend at your own risk and make sure your name is written inside so your lendee can keep track. Hope to see you there!
New Poetry Reading Series & Facebook Group:
From Stephen Page:
Group Pen B.A.
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=145964390003&ref=mf#/group.php?gid=145964390003&ref=mf
THE POWER OF POETRY - A READING SERIES - EL PODER DE LA POESÍA
-POETRY OF THE AMERICAS
-POETRY OF THE WORLD
A CROSS-CULTURAL GATHERING FOR POETS AND POETRY LOVERS.
*Come and read your poems, poems from other authors, or just listen
and enjoy the poetry recital
*In English, Spanish, or any other language.
-------------------------------------------------------------
EL PODER DE LA POESÍA – CICLO DE LECTURA
-Poesía de América
-Poesía del mundo
UN ENCUENTRO CULTURAL PARA POETAS Y AMANTES DE LA POESÍA.
*Vení a leer tus poemas, de otros autores, o tan solo a escuchar y
disfrutar de la poesía
*En español, inglés o cualquier otro idioma
Writers in the News:
Have you published something exciting? Won an award? Been featured in the media? Let us know your news!
Check out this article about children’s beauty pageants:
“A good role model?” by Sharon Haywood
http://www.any-body.org/
Tuesday, February 17, 2009
News and Events
I am off to Córdoba for two weeks and plan to hold the next meet-up as soon as I get back, probably Sunday, March 8th as a Sunday merienda and book swap, will keep you posted! In the meantime, plenty to keep you busy:
Poetry Reading, Thursday!:
Writers in BA member Walter Viegas will be reading his poetry, in Spanish
Thursday, February 19th at Boutique del Libro, Thames 1762 at 7:30 pm.
From Walter:
Leo mis poemas en Librería La Boutique del Libro, Thames 1762
el jueves 19 de febrero a las 19.30 hs
junto a los poetas Laura Wittner, Martin de Souza y Natalia Moret
Entrada libre y gratuita.
Por favor, difundir.
Poetry Reading Series:
Writers in BA member Stephen Page is organizing a poetry reading series and would like to invite other folks to participate:
From Stephen:
I will be starting a poetry reading series in March, perhaps June, entitled
Poetry of the Americas
Poetry of the World
It will most likely take place in cafes or libraries, be bilingual, and run on a quarterly basis to coincide with seasonal changes. I you are interested, send me a message. Pablo Laurito has already volunteered to be my assistant to handle the Castellano poetry.
Stephen Page, smpage@fibertel.com.ar, or contact on Facebook
Poetry Reading, Thursday!:
Writers in BA member Walter Viegas will be reading his poetry, in Spanish
Thursday, February 19th at Boutique del Libro, Thames 1762 at 7:30 pm.
From Walter:
Leo mis poemas en Librería La Boutique del Libro, Thames 1762
el jueves 19 de febrero a las 19.30 hs
junto a los poetas Laura Wittner, Martin de Souza y Natalia Moret
Entrada libre y gratuita.
Por favor, difundir.
Poetry Reading Series:
Writers in BA member Stephen Page is organizing a poetry reading series and would like to invite other folks to participate:
From Stephen:
I will be starting a poetry reading series in March, perhaps June, entitled
Poetry of the Americas
Poetry of the World
It will most likely take place in cafes or libraries, be bilingual, and run on a quarterly basis to coincide with seasonal changes. I you are interested, send me a message. Pablo Laurito has already volunteered to be my assistant to handle the Castellano poetry.
Stephen Page, smpage@fibertel.com.ar, or contact on Facebook
Saturday, January 31, 2009
Next Bar Night and Pete Sevang Results!
Writers in Buenos Aires Bar Night
9 p.m., Wednesday, February 4th
La Poesia
Chile 502, corner of Bolivar
San Telmo
Pry yourself away from your typewriter, emerge from your hovel, and come out and meet other writers to discuss conspiratorial plots to take over the city.
We will meet upstairs in the balcony section. La Poesia is a beautiful, recently re-opened literary cafe with lots of history, so come check it out! Friends/companions welcome. Spread the word!
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THE PETE SEVANG RESULTS ARE IN!
Frankly, I’m more confused about who the real Pete Sevang is than ever now, but there are some convincing theories. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries! They were all fun to read. The judging process was blind (a third party compiled the entries anonymously from the writersinba account for reading). The full results are published below.
FIRST PLACE
and the Grand Prize of $1.10 in monedas goes to:
“Who is Pete Sevang?”
By Rachel Paiste
SECOND PLACE
“Were You Sevanged?”
By Sharon Haywood
THIRD PLACE
“Who is Pete Sevang?”
By Noah Pedrini
HONORABLE MENTIONS
“Pete Sevang – Postman” by Skye Brannon
“Who is Pete Sevang?” by Scott Alexander Young
“Who is Pete Sevang?” by Karla Sutton
“The Reinvention of Pete” by Fred Aceves
9 p.m., Wednesday, February 4th
La Poesia
Chile 502, corner of Bolivar
San Telmo
Pry yourself away from your typewriter, emerge from your hovel, and come out and meet other writers to discuss conspiratorial plots to take over the city.
We will meet upstairs in the balcony section. La Poesia is a beautiful, recently re-opened literary cafe with lots of history, so come check it out! Friends/companions welcome. Spread the word!
________________________
THE PETE SEVANG RESULTS ARE IN!
Frankly, I’m more confused about who the real Pete Sevang is than ever now, but there are some convincing theories. Thanks to everyone who submitted entries! They were all fun to read. The judging process was blind (a third party compiled the entries anonymously from the writersinba account for reading). The full results are published below.
FIRST PLACE
and the Grand Prize of $1.10 in monedas goes to:
“Who is Pete Sevang?”
By Rachel Paiste
SECOND PLACE
“Were You Sevanged?”
By Sharon Haywood
THIRD PLACE
“Who is Pete Sevang?”
By Noah Pedrini
HONORABLE MENTIONS
“Pete Sevang – Postman” by Skye Brannon
“Who is Pete Sevang?” by Scott Alexander Young
“Who is Pete Sevang?” by Karla Sutton
“The Reinvention of Pete” by Fred Aceves
"Who is Pete Sevang?" Contest Winners
FIRST PLACE
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Rachel Paiste
He rubbed Tomas’ head one more time, and leaned over to softly kiss his brow. He had been doing this every night for some time now, but it never got easier. Or harder, really. It just was. He put his two kids in bed, kissed their quietly resting foreheads, and slipped out. His wife rarely even noticed his exit. Sometimes she asked questions, but it seemed that lately she had bored of them. Tonight was no different. He had his whole excuse planned: there was a late night meeting at the firm, this was an incredibly challenging case, they needed to put in many extra hours. But she could not be bothered to look up from her TV program. He slipped out unseen.
Went to his car. Peered towards the back seat; the outfit was there, in a Kevingston bag. He pulled out of the driveway and drove towards Once.
Entered the Burger King. Changed into the slinky red gown, the one with holes in all the right places. Fitted his wig to his now ashen hair. Spent fifteen minutes delicately applying his makeup, attaching his false lashes, gargling mouthwash.
Taking to the streets, he felt like a different person. The real Pete Sevang. It was only 14 minutes before a John picked him up. After a few moments of haggling price, he slipped into the red Peugeot and was off.
SECOND PLACE
Were you Sevanged?
By Sharon Haywood
Are you a writer in Argentina? Looking for love in Dubai? Hoping to network with other teachers in Japan? If you answered yes, then you were probably Sevanged. Pete Sevanged to be exact. I was too.
Single, born in June, a freelance writer and teacher—that’s all you know about him; well, at least that’s all he told you via his Facebook account. And of course, that he resided in the same city you live in. His profile picture displayed a stunning shot of Mount Kilimanjaro. His photo albums exhibited various pictures of supposed pets: two Golden Labs, a Siamese cat, a cockatoo, and a teddy-bear hamster. Did you chuckle at the cute accompanying captions? I did.
His wall was filled with benign pleasantries such as, “Nice to meet you—maybe in person soon!”; “Hope to see you at the party!”; “Sorry you couldn’t make it. Maybe next time.” Were you one of the hundreds of friends who wrote on his wall? I was.
He’s gone now. Evaporated into cyber-space. The closest hit Facebook comes up with is multiple Peter Strangs. Google only lists blog entries from confused writers in Buenos Aires, heartbroken women in the United Arab Emirates, and angry educators in Asia. I hope you take refuge knowing you’re not alone. I’m sure you’re like me now, a lot more discerning about whom you call friends. One last question though: Did you notice that he disappeared the same day your bank balance read zero? I didn’t either.
THIRD PLACE
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Noah Pedrini
Peter Sevang, acclaimed social linguist and gender theorist, was pronounced dead Sunday night after his raft capsized off the coast of Miami.
Raised in the Cuban countryside by his father, a diplomat, Sevang was fluent in three languages by the age of seven. Majoring in Gender Studies at the University of Havana, his influential dissertation Debemos Girar a la Izquierda garnered international attention and incensed his peers. In it, Sevang argued that popularly-held male/female stereotypes were largely based in fact. He asserted that the gender of words related to such stereotypes were predominantly of one gender or the other, and the decision of which wasn't arbitrary as popularly believed but based on centuries of observed behavior.
Solicited by the US Department of Internal Affairs shortly thereafter, Sevang researched the growing rate of divorce among married couples in America. His findings posited a direct correlation between the percentage of words in a country's language that were gendered and its number of successful marriages. What resulted from the use of Modern English, he wrote, was “the erosion of an inferred passion through language that keeps relationships alive when they would otherwise wither away.”
Sevang's recommendation—update the English language so that most of its words are gendered, or officially adopt the language of a minority population as a second—was summarily rejected.
Immediately exiled from the country, Sevang was forced to leave the young fiancé he had met only months before.
Returning to Cuba, he taught at his alma mater until his death.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Pete Sevang - Postman
By Skye Brannon
Pete Sevang is a U.S. postman turned alcoholic, just last week. He's boxer shorts on Tuesday and banana hammock on Friday night. Behind a bar that has a sign that says "Bar", he has parked the eagle headed postal-truck with its beak tucked in a crack between dumpster and carpet van. Pete Sevang slurs these words, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...but whiskey's another story." He's all laughs at three and moody murmurs at ten.
He sits beside a man far less interesting and far more pungent. This is not a difficult task in the least. The two are on bar stools that squeak when turned, although no one's sober enough to hear it. Are they really squeaking? Pete Sevang is divorcee unextraordinaire and step-boyfriend when he feels the need. He is pretzels on game day and popcorn at the movies. He started favoring mixed nuts, just last week.
Inside Pete Sevang's squat postal truck there is a passport. The passport has a photo of a lady that had applied an extra layer of make-up just for the passport photo's occasion. Passport photos last for years, she had reckoned while applying lines. Honeymoons were worth the passport wait, but she had waited too long herself. She only had a day before the plane left, and Pete Sevang was going to ruin it for her. Pete Sevang had ruined so much for her already. She was an ex-wife turned new bride, just last week.
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Scott Alexander Young
Even as the Buenos Aires night fibrillates with hi-tech fireworks and the racket of a kajillion taxistas listening to Tango volume way up high; the enquiry “who is Pete Sevang” rings loud and clear for fashionably fluttering lips in Palermo’s haute bohemian café society circa 2064.
Little does this cyber-age sewing circle of foppish gossips know of Sevang’s secret life as a luxury lovin’ Vigilante!
Tonight - Sevang is wearing his usual holographic smoking jacket and monogrammed airborne pumps, surrounded by an entourage of distractingly beautiful midgets.
Earlier, Sevang had to dispatch an intruder from his presidential suite: a hulking psychopath with an eye-patch, a bad Afro and even worse Lithuanian accent.
There was a bodaciously rocktacious action sequence in which a lot of frightfully expensive furniture was smashed, but Sevang’s shirt-front somehow remained spotless.
Ultimately, Sevang’s experience with the French Foreign Legion and San Francisco’s chapter of the Sisters-of-Perpetual-Indulgence paid off. Not only did he expel the infectiously louché assassin, he tumbled over a thrillingly obtuse scintilla of evidence.
On ejection the henchman caught his jacket on the door, ripping open its breast pocket. He’d salvaged his wallet, but in the confusion didn’t notice when a micro-chip sized diary dropped to the floor; one that belonged to elusive femme fatale, Maryann Ullmann.
All of a sudden, the case was cracked wide open!!!
This is what these society types just don’t get. Sevang can boogie-oogie-oogie all night long, but when it comes to fieldwork, the guy is all suave professionalism!
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Karla Sutton
"Peter Sevang. passenger, Peter Se-vang, please come to gate 5,” a nasal voice blares, another noise amongst the clamor of JFK. A toddler wails. I wince, look up. The man walking to the counter looks familiar, but I don’t remember the name.
He looks as though he rolled out of bed and put on his clothes from the night before: wrinkled, grey suit, polished shoes. He is tall, thin, unshaven, longish brown hair pulled back in a ponytail.
Nonchalantly attempting to get closer, I trip over someone’s laptop charger. I am no longer bored girl, hours early for my flight. I am sly, film-noir sleuth. My eavesdropping imparts that Mr. Sevang, flying standby, will be sitting in seat 40B.
I look at my boarding pass: 40A.
Moments later, Mr. Sevang slides a slim briefcase into the overhead compartment. He takes his seat without a glance in my direction. Smells strongly of cigarettes. I stare down at my book, sleuthing peripherally.
I make a coughing noise, the obvious-clearing-your-throat type. I cross and re-cross my shortly-skirted legs. Nothing. Not a hint of eyeball movement from Mr. Sevang. So, I accidentally drop my book on his foot.
We both bend and reach at the same time.
“I know you!” I stammer. You’re John from 5A!”
“Would you please lower your voice, miss,” he whispers with a fake Nordic accent. “My name is Petah, and I do not know vat you are talking about.” He winks.
The Reinvention of Pete
By Fred Aceves
"Nice talking to you. My name’s Pete Sevang,” the fortyish man says to a fellow American as she gathers her newspaper and leaves the café. He’s impressed by the ease with which he’s using his new name, by how naturally he can fabricate his background.
Last night he arrived in Buenos Aires with an assumed name to reinvent himself.
Made up stories will replace his old self, bit by bit, so he can turn into Pete Sevang.
And who is Pete Sevang? He doesn’t know. But it’s someone whose personality, whose life will soon take shape.
This is the beauty of expatriation, thinks Pete, as he finishes the hard tip of his medialuna and wipes the stickiness from his fingers. You are anonymous, an unknown to yourself, too. If you are the life you lead, it follows that a changed life, the one he’s working at now, makes him a different person. With his 122,674 dollars in the bank.
He will find a trendy apartment, seek out business opportunities, get hair plugs at a third-world price and lose the beer belly that is not a beer belly but a buffalo-wings-and-Coke belly. This last goal he made just minutes ago, after watching crowds hustle down the sidewalk and counting only five fatties among them.
The unknown who, what, where and how of Pete’s new life has filled him with a longing he hasn’t felt for years. He asks for the bill. It’s mid-morning and he has many things he wants to be today.
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Rachel Paiste
He rubbed Tomas’ head one more time, and leaned over to softly kiss his brow. He had been doing this every night for some time now, but it never got easier. Or harder, really. It just was. He put his two kids in bed, kissed their quietly resting foreheads, and slipped out. His wife rarely even noticed his exit. Sometimes she asked questions, but it seemed that lately she had bored of them. Tonight was no different. He had his whole excuse planned: there was a late night meeting at the firm, this was an incredibly challenging case, they needed to put in many extra hours. But she could not be bothered to look up from her TV program. He slipped out unseen.
Went to his car. Peered towards the back seat; the outfit was there, in a Kevingston bag. He pulled out of the driveway and drove towards Once.
Entered the Burger King. Changed into the slinky red gown, the one with holes in all the right places. Fitted his wig to his now ashen hair. Spent fifteen minutes delicately applying his makeup, attaching his false lashes, gargling mouthwash.
Taking to the streets, he felt like a different person. The real Pete Sevang. It was only 14 minutes before a John picked him up. After a few moments of haggling price, he slipped into the red Peugeot and was off.
SECOND PLACE
Were you Sevanged?
By Sharon Haywood
Are you a writer in Argentina? Looking for love in Dubai? Hoping to network with other teachers in Japan? If you answered yes, then you were probably Sevanged. Pete Sevanged to be exact. I was too.
Single, born in June, a freelance writer and teacher—that’s all you know about him; well, at least that’s all he told you via his Facebook account. And of course, that he resided in the same city you live in. His profile picture displayed a stunning shot of Mount Kilimanjaro. His photo albums exhibited various pictures of supposed pets: two Golden Labs, a Siamese cat, a cockatoo, and a teddy-bear hamster. Did you chuckle at the cute accompanying captions? I did.
His wall was filled with benign pleasantries such as, “Nice to meet you—maybe in person soon!”; “Hope to see you at the party!”; “Sorry you couldn’t make it. Maybe next time.” Were you one of the hundreds of friends who wrote on his wall? I was.
He’s gone now. Evaporated into cyber-space. The closest hit Facebook comes up with is multiple Peter Strangs. Google only lists blog entries from confused writers in Buenos Aires, heartbroken women in the United Arab Emirates, and angry educators in Asia. I hope you take refuge knowing you’re not alone. I’m sure you’re like me now, a lot more discerning about whom you call friends. One last question though: Did you notice that he disappeared the same day your bank balance read zero? I didn’t either.
THIRD PLACE
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Noah Pedrini
Peter Sevang, acclaimed social linguist and gender theorist, was pronounced dead Sunday night after his raft capsized off the coast of Miami.
Raised in the Cuban countryside by his father, a diplomat, Sevang was fluent in three languages by the age of seven. Majoring in Gender Studies at the University of Havana, his influential dissertation Debemos Girar a la Izquierda garnered international attention and incensed his peers. In it, Sevang argued that popularly-held male/female stereotypes were largely based in fact. He asserted that the gender of words related to such stereotypes were predominantly of one gender or the other, and the decision of which wasn't arbitrary as popularly believed but based on centuries of observed behavior.
Solicited by the US Department of Internal Affairs shortly thereafter, Sevang researched the growing rate of divorce among married couples in America. His findings posited a direct correlation between the percentage of words in a country's language that were gendered and its number of successful marriages. What resulted from the use of Modern English, he wrote, was “the erosion of an inferred passion through language that keeps relationships alive when they would otherwise wither away.”
Sevang's recommendation—update the English language so that most of its words are gendered, or officially adopt the language of a minority population as a second—was summarily rejected.
Immediately exiled from the country, Sevang was forced to leave the young fiancé he had met only months before.
Returning to Cuba, he taught at his alma mater until his death.
HONORABLE MENTIONS
Pete Sevang - Postman
By Skye Brannon
Pete Sevang is a U.S. postman turned alcoholic, just last week. He's boxer shorts on Tuesday and banana hammock on Friday night. Behind a bar that has a sign that says "Bar", he has parked the eagle headed postal-truck with its beak tucked in a crack between dumpster and carpet van. Pete Sevang slurs these words, "Neither snow nor rain nor heat nor gloom of night...but whiskey's another story." He's all laughs at three and moody murmurs at ten.
He sits beside a man far less interesting and far more pungent. This is not a difficult task in the least. The two are on bar stools that squeak when turned, although no one's sober enough to hear it. Are they really squeaking? Pete Sevang is divorcee unextraordinaire and step-boyfriend when he feels the need. He is pretzels on game day and popcorn at the movies. He started favoring mixed nuts, just last week.
Inside Pete Sevang's squat postal truck there is a passport. The passport has a photo of a lady that had applied an extra layer of make-up just for the passport photo's occasion. Passport photos last for years, she had reckoned while applying lines. Honeymoons were worth the passport wait, but she had waited too long herself. She only had a day before the plane left, and Pete Sevang was going to ruin it for her. Pete Sevang had ruined so much for her already. She was an ex-wife turned new bride, just last week.
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Scott Alexander Young
Even as the Buenos Aires night fibrillates with hi-tech fireworks and the racket of a kajillion taxistas listening to Tango volume way up high; the enquiry “who is Pete Sevang” rings loud and clear for fashionably fluttering lips in Palermo’s haute bohemian café society circa 2064.
Little does this cyber-age sewing circle of foppish gossips know of Sevang’s secret life as a luxury lovin’ Vigilante!
Tonight - Sevang is wearing his usual holographic smoking jacket and monogrammed airborne pumps, surrounded by an entourage of distractingly beautiful midgets.
Earlier, Sevang had to dispatch an intruder from his presidential suite: a hulking psychopath with an eye-patch, a bad Afro and even worse Lithuanian accent.
There was a bodaciously rocktacious action sequence in which a lot of frightfully expensive furniture was smashed, but Sevang’s shirt-front somehow remained spotless.
Ultimately, Sevang’s experience with the French Foreign Legion and San Francisco’s chapter of the Sisters-of-Perpetual-Indulgence paid off. Not only did he expel the infectiously louché assassin, he tumbled over a thrillingly obtuse scintilla of evidence.
On ejection the henchman caught his jacket on the door, ripping open its breast pocket. He’d salvaged his wallet, but in the confusion didn’t notice when a micro-chip sized diary dropped to the floor; one that belonged to elusive femme fatale, Maryann Ullmann.
All of a sudden, the case was cracked wide open!!!
This is what these society types just don’t get. Sevang can boogie-oogie-oogie all night long, but when it comes to fieldwork, the guy is all suave professionalism!
Who is Pete Sevang?
By Karla Sutton
"Peter Sevang. passenger, Peter Se-vang, please come to gate 5,” a nasal voice blares, another noise amongst the clamor of JFK. A toddler wails. I wince, look up. The man walking to the counter looks familiar, but I don’t remember the name.
He looks as though he rolled out of bed and put on his clothes from the night before: wrinkled, grey suit, polished shoes. He is tall, thin, unshaven, longish brown hair pulled back in a ponytail.
Nonchalantly attempting to get closer, I trip over someone’s laptop charger. I am no longer bored girl, hours early for my flight. I am sly, film-noir sleuth. My eavesdropping imparts that Mr. Sevang, flying standby, will be sitting in seat 40B.
I look at my boarding pass: 40A.
Moments later, Mr. Sevang slides a slim briefcase into the overhead compartment. He takes his seat without a glance in my direction. Smells strongly of cigarettes. I stare down at my book, sleuthing peripherally.
I make a coughing noise, the obvious-clearing-your-throat type. I cross and re-cross my shortly-skirted legs. Nothing. Not a hint of eyeball movement from Mr. Sevang. So, I accidentally drop my book on his foot.
We both bend and reach at the same time.
“I know you!” I stammer. You’re John from 5A!”
“Would you please lower your voice, miss,” he whispers with a fake Nordic accent. “My name is Petah, and I do not know vat you are talking about.” He winks.
The Reinvention of Pete
By Fred Aceves
"Nice talking to you. My name’s Pete Sevang,” the fortyish man says to a fellow American as she gathers her newspaper and leaves the café. He’s impressed by the ease with which he’s using his new name, by how naturally he can fabricate his background.
Last night he arrived in Buenos Aires with an assumed name to reinvent himself.
Made up stories will replace his old self, bit by bit, so he can turn into Pete Sevang.
And who is Pete Sevang? He doesn’t know. But it’s someone whose personality, whose life will soon take shape.
This is the beauty of expatriation, thinks Pete, as he finishes the hard tip of his medialuna and wipes the stickiness from his fingers. You are anonymous, an unknown to yourself, too. If you are the life you lead, it follows that a changed life, the one he’s working at now, makes him a different person. With his 122,674 dollars in the bank.
He will find a trendy apartment, seek out business opportunities, get hair plugs at a third-world price and lose the beer belly that is not a beer belly but a buffalo-wings-and-Coke belly. This last goal he made just minutes ago, after watching crowds hustle down the sidewalk and counting only five fatties among them.
The unknown who, what, where and how of Pete’s new life has filled him with a longing he hasn’t felt for years. He asks for the bill. It’s mid-morning and he has many things he wants to be today.
Monday, January 12, 2009
WIN $1.10 in MONEDAS
NEWS & EVENTS
Great Sunday Merienda meet-up, thanks to all who came out! A great idea came up to do a book swap, so the next merienda will include this feature. And we will still have more bar nights, too, for those who prefer to go out under cover of night, but you won’t be expected to lug your books to those.
Since many of us have other jobs or entrepreneurial side projects to actually support ourselves while writing, it seems appropriate that we should support each other in these endeavors as well. Thus, Writers in Buenos Aires is extending free advertising for such activities in the newsletter and on the blog, for WBA members only. Are you a freelance zoot suit model? Black market moneda vendor? Psychic? Whatever your services, send a 50 word limit description + relevant contact info and website for the newsletter classifieds (will run twice) and a 15 word limit ad for the blog (will stay up) to writersinba@gmail.com. And be sure to check out the classifieds at right to see what your fellow writers have to offer.
Now a shameless plea: please help me! I installed Google adsense on the blog and have made US$1.49 so far, which is really exciting and I’m hoping to save up for a beer or ice cream. So if you’re bored, procrastinating your writing project, burnt out on facebooking, by all means click away on the google ads on the right side and very bottom of this page. You may even find something of interest.
Given this new lucrative income, I’m upping the stakes on the ‘Who is Pete Sevang?’ Writing Contest (Guidelines below, DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY, JANUARY 15!). The first prize winner will receive AR$1.10 in *real* monedas for a now-inflated bus ride. Yes, *genuine* monedas. Don’t let this opportunity slip by!
________________________
THE ‘WHO IS PETE SEVANG?’ WRITING CONTEST
Deadline: THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, MIDNIGHT!
Yep that’s right, there’s still a contest for your creative outlets, deadline extended to January 15th, because I know some of you have *intriguing* manuscripts in the works and I want to read them! So the question of the day is “Who is Pete Sevang?” Similar rules apply.
This is a fiction contest based on no actual person, except to the extent that fiction draws on real life, i.e. you can base Pete Sevang on your real life evil stepfather bent on publicly humiliating you, but you must give him a Texas accent and a Batman costume that he steals away in at night.
What we do know about Pete Sevang: He is a writer lurking in Buenos Aires that nobody has met.
Send a paragraph of flash fiction or a poem (limit 250 words) on the topic ‘Who is Pete Sevang?’ to writersinba@gmail.com with “Who is Pete Sevang?” in the subject heading. Deadline JANUARY 15, 2009. First, second and third prize entries will be published on our blog and reserve an honorary slot to read them at the forthcoming open mike (to be announced). First place winner will also receive $1.10 in *real* monedas.
We’ll have more serious contests in the future, too, with serious prizes and judges and blind submission procedure, but this is to get us going!
Great Sunday Merienda meet-up, thanks to all who came out! A great idea came up to do a book swap, so the next merienda will include this feature. And we will still have more bar nights, too, for those who prefer to go out under cover of night, but you won’t be expected to lug your books to those.
Since many of us have other jobs or entrepreneurial side projects to actually support ourselves while writing, it seems appropriate that we should support each other in these endeavors as well. Thus, Writers in Buenos Aires is extending free advertising for such activities in the newsletter and on the blog, for WBA members only. Are you a freelance zoot suit model? Black market moneda vendor? Psychic? Whatever your services, send a 50 word limit description + relevant contact info and website for the newsletter classifieds (will run twice) and a 15 word limit ad for the blog (will stay up) to writersinba@gmail.com. And be sure to check out the classifieds at right to see what your fellow writers have to offer.
Now a shameless plea: please help me! I installed Google adsense on the blog and have made US$1.49 so far, which is really exciting and I’m hoping to save up for a beer or ice cream. So if you’re bored, procrastinating your writing project, burnt out on facebooking, by all means click away on the google ads on the right side and very bottom of this page. You may even find something of interest.
Given this new lucrative income, I’m upping the stakes on the ‘Who is Pete Sevang?’ Writing Contest (Guidelines below, DEADLINE THIS THURSDAY, JANUARY 15!). The first prize winner will receive AR$1.10 in *real* monedas for a now-inflated bus ride. Yes, *genuine* monedas. Don’t let this opportunity slip by!
________________________
THE ‘WHO IS PETE SEVANG?’ WRITING CONTEST
Deadline: THURSDAY, JANUARY 15, MIDNIGHT!
Yep that’s right, there’s still a contest for your creative outlets, deadline extended to January 15th, because I know some of you have *intriguing* manuscripts in the works and I want to read them! So the question of the day is “Who is Pete Sevang?” Similar rules apply.
This is a fiction contest based on no actual person, except to the extent that fiction draws on real life, i.e. you can base Pete Sevang on your real life evil stepfather bent on publicly humiliating you, but you must give him a Texas accent and a Batman costume that he steals away in at night.
What we do know about Pete Sevang: He is a writer lurking in Buenos Aires that nobody has met.
Send a paragraph of flash fiction or a poem (limit 250 words) on the topic ‘Who is Pete Sevang?’ to writersinba@gmail.com with “Who is Pete Sevang?” in the subject heading. Deadline JANUARY 15, 2009. First, second and third prize entries will be published on our blog and reserve an honorary slot to read them at the forthcoming open mike (to be announced). First place winner will also receive $1.10 in *real* monedas.
We’ll have more serious contests in the future, too, with serious prizes and judges and blind submission procedure, but this is to get us going!
SPOTLIGHT: PROFILE YOUR FELLOW WRITERS! Seeking submissions…
As an ongoing writing project, you are invited to interview and profile each other for publication in the WBA newsletter & blog as a way of getting to know each other and getting our names and our work out there! Profiles will be published on a rolling basis, up to 1 or 2 bi-weekly.
You can profile a friend or use this as an opportunity to get to know someone new!
*What you get as the writer: A byline and clip of your writing published on our site
*What you get as the interviewee: A spotlight and publicity for your work
To solicit an interview, you can:
-Come to one of the Writers in BA meet-ups and find someone there
-Peruse the writers' sites listed on the Writers in BA blog for something that strikes your interest
-Put a call out on the google group as a willing interviewer or interviewee (writersinba@googlegroups.com)
-Find someone who isn't yet in Writers in BA, but perhaps should be...
GUIDELINES
-Limit 500 words
-Please keep it up to your best writing standards and edit carefully!
-Please provide the contact info of the person being profiled if they are not already in WBA so the final profile can be cleared with them for accuracy.
-Provide a link to the profilee's website if relevant (and yours, too!)
-Provide a photo if possible (an original one that you have the right to distribute legally, please)
-The person being profiled does not need to be a published author, or even necessarily a writer; they could be an editor, literary translator, or something of the sort.
-The person being profiled does not need to be a continual resident in Argentina if their work or time spent here is relevant.
Send submissions to: writersinba@gmail.com
You can profile a friend or use this as an opportunity to get to know someone new!
*What you get as the writer: A byline and clip of your writing published on our site
*What you get as the interviewee: A spotlight and publicity for your work
To solicit an interview, you can:
-Come to one of the Writers in BA meet-ups and find someone there
-Peruse the writers' sites listed on the Writers in BA blog for something that strikes your interest
-Put a call out on the google group as a willing interviewer or interviewee (writersinba@googlegroups.com)
-Find someone who isn't yet in Writers in BA, but perhaps should be...
GUIDELINES
-Limit 500 words
-Please keep it up to your best writing standards and edit carefully!
-Please provide the contact info of the person being profiled if they are not already in WBA so the final profile can be cleared with them for accuracy.
-Provide a link to the profilee's website if relevant (and yours, too!)
-Provide a photo if possible (an original one that you have the right to distribute legally, please)
-The person being profiled does not need to be a published author, or even necessarily a writer; they could be an editor, literary translator, or something of the sort.
-The person being profiled does not need to be a continual resident in Argentina if their work or time spent here is relevant.
Send submissions to: writersinba@gmail.com
Tuesday, January 6, 2009
Reminder: THE ‘WHO IS PETE SEVANG?’ WRITING CONTEST, Deadline: JANUARY 15!
It's only 250 words. Don't procrastinate. Don't let this deadline pass you by. You've got eight days. That's 31.25 words per day. Totally doable, no excuses!
THE 'WHO IS PETE SEVANG?' WRITING CONTEST
Deadline: THURSDAY, JANUARY 15!
Yep that's right, there's still a contest for your creative outlets, deadline extended to January 15th, because I know some of you have *intriguing* manuscripts in the works and I want to read them! So the question of the day is "Who is Pete Sevang?" Similar rules apply.
This is a fiction contest based on no actual person, except to the extent that fiction draws on real life, i.e. you can base Pete Sevang on your real life evil stepfather bent on publicly humiliating you, but you must give him a Texas accent and a Batman costume that he steals away in at night.
What we do know about Pete Sevang: He is a writer lurking in Buenos Aires that nobody has met.
Send a paragraph of flash fiction or a poem (limit 250 words) on the topic 'Who is Pete Sevang?' to writersinba@gmail.com with "Who is Pete Sevang?" in the subject heading. Deadline JANUARY 15, 2009. First, second and third prize entries will be published on our blog and reserve an honorary slot to read them at the forthcoming open mike (to be announced).
THE 'WHO IS PETE SEVANG?' WRITING CONTEST
Deadline: THURSDAY, JANUARY 15!
Yep that's right, there's still a contest for your creative outlets, deadline extended to January 15th, because I know some of you have *intriguing* manuscripts in the works and I want to read them! So the question of the day is "Who is Pete Sevang?" Similar rules apply.
This is a fiction contest based on no actual person, except to the extent that fiction draws on real life, i.e. you can base Pete Sevang on your real life evil stepfather bent on publicly humiliating you, but you must give him a Texas accent and a Batman costume that he steals away in at night.
What we do know about Pete Sevang: He is a writer lurking in Buenos Aires that nobody has met.
Send a paragraph of flash fiction or a poem (limit 250 words) on the topic 'Who is Pete Sevang?' to writersinba@gmail.com with "Who is Pete Sevang?" in the subject heading. Deadline JANUARY 15, 2009. First, second and third prize entries will be published on our blog and reserve an honorary slot to read them at the forthcoming open mike (to be announced).
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