By SVKCVB
Wednesday, July 18, 2007
A Canadian has won the Third Annual Ernest Hemingway Festival ‘Prose for Papa’ fiction writing contest. William Dexter Wade, a graduate of the University of Colorado and currently a Senior Scholar in Linguistics at the University of Manitoba, earned the $500 cash first place prize with his submission The Poet, which will be published in the forthcoming festival magazine. Dr. Wade has published a paper, chapter, or monograph once a year, on average, during a thirty-year academic career. Turning to fiction in retirement, he has a short story, with a coincidental Hemingway focus, entitled Take No Prisoners, Write No Adverbs included in the Silver Anniversary Anthology of the Manitoba Writers Guild and is nearing completion of a novel. He lives in Manitoba, Canada.
Second place was awarded to Megan Williams, a lecturer in the English Department at Santa Clara University, in the San Francisco Bay Area. Her winning entry Horse Graveyards is part of a collection of stories she is writing about Maine and Pennsylvania.The third place prize goes to Sun Valley resident, W.W. Kirchherr for his submission The World of Parmenides. A retired professor of mathematics and computer science at San Jose State University, California, he has written short stories as a hobby for years but has never had any published. He is originally from Chicago.
The three winning entries can all be read on-line at www.ernesthemingwayfestival.org.
Friday, July 20, 2007
Monday, April 16, 2007
Willy Mason
from Npr.org
April 16, 2007
"Signed myself out today / Sent a letter far away," Willy Mason sings on "We Can Be Strong."
It's never entirely clear where he was, but a later reference to "a sterile room" provides a clue that it wasn't a luxury hotel. Later in the song, he's back on his mother's couch, wondering what happened to all those friends who chose to go to college and were so disillusioned that they dropped out and vanished.
An earlier generation subscribed to the idea of turning on, tuning in and dropping out, but the voice of "We Can Be Strong" is so numb and confused by life on earth in 2007 that finding the right knob to tune out is too taxing.
The wonder of "We Can Be Strong" is that it isn't nearly as depressing as its lyric. It helps that the New Englander is far from a typical young alt-folkie — he's recorded for Bright Eyes' label and toured with Beth Orton and Death Cab for Cutie — and his stripped-wood voice implies resilience more than defeat.
The song's arrangement feels craggier and more rugged than that of the average singer-songwriter ballad. (Having Rosanne Cash pitch in on harmony doesn't hurt; her voice conveys nothing but strength.) Anti-anthems rarely sound this anthemic.
April 16, 2007
"Signed myself out today / Sent a letter far away," Willy Mason sings on "We Can Be Strong."
It's never entirely clear where he was, but a later reference to "a sterile room" provides a clue that it wasn't a luxury hotel. Later in the song, he's back on his mother's couch, wondering what happened to all those friends who chose to go to college and were so disillusioned that they dropped out and vanished.
An earlier generation subscribed to the idea of turning on, tuning in and dropping out, but the voice of "We Can Be Strong" is so numb and confused by life on earth in 2007 that finding the right knob to tune out is too taxing.
The wonder of "We Can Be Strong" is that it isn't nearly as depressing as its lyric. It helps that the New Englander is far from a typical young alt-folkie — he's recorded for Bright Eyes' label and toured with Beth Orton and Death Cab for Cutie — and his stripped-wood voice implies resilience more than defeat.
The song's arrangement feels craggier and more rugged than that of the average singer-songwriter ballad. (Having Rosanne Cash pitch in on harmony doesn't hurt; her voice conveys nothing but strength.) Anti-anthems rarely sound this anthemic.
Thursday, March 29, 2007
Shannon Manning's New Antithesis, huh?
I would like to see assembled a cabal of politically and comically sentient artists who want to strive together to create something aesthetically abrasive and beautiful at the same time, something that grooves in, grows out of and builds on the concerns and culture of our own times. Something that requires a manifesto. This is an approach to a manifesto, which I hope will take many forms. I would love to see smart, passionate people who are varied, differently-minded yet united in spirit, who share some basic beliefs about the use and abuse of life and power. People who are starting to wonder if it is enough to just make people laugh are asking the right questions.
Sunday, March 25, 2007
Found our secret little Conference, did you?
Like to be listed as a cyber performer? Send us your link and we just might put you on the A-list.
Like to be featured as the Union's Director/Founder? Send Dr. Rowan your photo and we might post your likeness.
rowan.mayhewphd@gmail.com
Like to be featured as the Union's Director/Founder? Send Dr. Rowan your photo and we might post your likeness.
rowan.mayhewphd@gmail.com
Monday, March 19, 2007
Elements of the Emerging Art Form - Blogologism
Converging Arts: Acting and role playing, journalism, short fiction, ventriloquism, collage, parody, stage direction, and blogging.
Sunday, March 18, 2007
Spring Conference - Brugge, Belgium
April 23-25, 2007. Hotel Prinsenhof, Brugge Towne Centre. For more information and accommodations, please contact Georges Simenon in Guest Services.
Featured Speaker/Performer: Victor Monchego, Canadian writer and blogologist:
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