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 

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.
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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/