The Rhode Island Foundation has $30,000 in grant money for local writers. September 4th is the deadline for applying for fellowships that will give writers, poets, and novelists the resources to reach the next level. The awards are intended to free them to concentrate time on the creative process, focus on personal or professional development, […]
(6.24) With a new name and a new home, LitArts RI is ready for its grand opening this Saturday. The former What Cheer Writers Club is completing a buildout of a new literary center that will upgrade the non-profit organization’s operations in a custom designed space that includes a new podcasting studio and a 28-foot
Trinity Rep’s 12th annual Write Here! Write Now! playwriting competition for New England high school students, grades 9-12, is now accepting submissions. Students are invited to submit an original short play (approx. 6–10 pages) by March 1, 2023. Winners will be announced on April 7. The winners will then develop their plays through a workshop process. On
Attention writers: You have one week left to submit your application for a MacColl Johnson Fellowship. Rhode Island writers who dream of having the resources to push their work to the next level have until 11:59 pm, Monday, August 9th to apply for $25,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. The grants are considered to
(2.22) In partnership with the Dramatists Guild, Frequency Writers will present Intro to Playwriting. Noted playwright Caridad Svich will spend the evening with local writers as part of the Dramatists Guild Foundation’s Traveling Masters program. Caridad Svich received the 2012 OBIE for Lifetime Achievement and a 2018 Tanne Foundation Award, as well as the Ellen
(10.10) It has come to my attention that Rhode Island author, Alexander Chee, will speak on “The Writer and the Life,” this Wednesday at Brown University. Novelist/essayist/journalist Alexander Chee inaugurates this year’s public lecture series devoted to various forms of nonfiction writing. Nonfiction!@Brown, organized by the Nonfiction Writing Program in the Department of English, features
(8.8) Local writers who dream of having more time to work on their craft have until 11:59pm on Wednesday, August 8, to apply for $25,000 fellowships from the Rhode Island Foundation. The Robert and Margaret MacColl Johnson Fellowships give writers in any genre time to concentrate on their creative process, focus on personal or professional
Still time to register for ‘Publishing Your Work: Basics.’ This August, writer and publisher Erica Mena will teach a four week workshop on publishing basics at 186 Carpenter Street. We’ll explore the literary landscape and learn how to find about journals, magazines, and presses that you might want to publish with (and read!). We’ll talk
You want swagger? William Shakespeare invented the word. And if you woke up this morning bloodstained and puking you have Shakespeare to thank for that as well. (Go here for a glossary of words coined by WS.) April 23rd is generally accepted as the date of William Shakespeare’s birth in the year 1564. He died
(4.3) The April 3rd deadline for RISCA Grants is fast approaching — you have a couple of extra days to get your application in because April 1st lands on a Saturday. I’m assuming the schools and non-profits don’t need a nudge from us, but you ‘individual artists’ out there may need a reminder. Check out
(2.5) Head over to 186 Carpenter Street Sunday for a reading and FAQs with Frequency Writers instructors. The Winter/Spring 2017 courses will be taught by Tina Cane, Rosalynde Vas Dias, Chris Kondrich, and S. Tourjee.About the rates: Over the past several years, Frequency has decreased tuition costs to students. You will see that some of our
(2.4) Last month, writer, librarian, and environmental activist Mark Baumer was struck and killed by an S.U.V. as he walked along the shoulder of a highway in Florida. This was day 100 of his barefoot walk across America, a one-man campaign to raise awareness of climate change and access to clean water. Anna Heyward writes
I just like saying “Trumbo” . . . Dalton Trumbo is a name that just had to go to Hollywood. Ironically, for several years, Trumbo was forced to use a pseudonym due to the Hollywood blacklisting; still, he won two Academy awards during that time. Trumbo had defied the anti-communist HUAC committee witch hunters who
I can’t remember when I’ve been so affected by a movie. “The End of the Tour” is one of those movies you keep going back to in your mind. The tagline sums it up, “Imagine the greatest conversation you’ve ever had.” This will definitely be one of my favorite movies of the year. It’s sad
(8.19) Frequency Writers and Aurora present “Hiding Under the Covers” a sort of welcoming party for NecronomiCon Providence. Frequency, a hub for Rhode Island’s writing community, calls all lovers of the bizarre, the spooky, and the unexplained to join them at Aurora Wednesday, August 19th, for a night of fiction and music inspired by all things
(7.27) Join poets Penelope Pelizzon and Jonathan Farmer for a talk and discussion about poetry as a social art form. Poetry is, in its own lonely way, a social art form–one that carries with it our freighted awareness of people other than ourselves. We go to poems looking for people, for the imprint of the