July 2019
“Watershed” craft talk at Wilmington Writers Conference
Have you seen the line-up for this year's Wilmington Writers Conference? Please save the date: Saturday, July 27, 8:30 to 4pm. Join your local writing community at morning and afternoon sessions to feed your creativity. My afternoon session for poets and prose writers is "Watershed: Personal Landmarks in Public Conversation." During the session, we'll do short exercises and I will talk about ways to write about life-changing events. We'll look at the world outside and identify our personal landmarks. Watershed:…
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Residency and workshop at Write On Door County writing retreat
JoAnn will teach a workshop in revision while in residence at Write On Door County writers center and writing retreat.
Find out more »October 2019
In the Company of Laureates
Poets from Pennsylvania, Delaware, Maryland, Virginia and the District of Columbia will share poems & offer a panel on "Resilience." Sunday October 13 at Northern Virginia Community College, Woodbridge Campus Prince William County Arts Council and the Poet Laureate Circle present a poetry event for all ages, "In the Company of Laureates," on October 13th, from 1 pm to 5 pm at the Northern Virginia Community College Woodbridge Campus in the Lakeside Theater and Atrium at 2645 College Drive, Woodbridge, VA.…
Find out more »November 2019
Writer in residence, Lillian E. Smith Center
Looking forward to a gift of time and space this November at a very special artists' retreat where I will continue work on my story of family, identity and survival. I will be in residence right after having spent a long weekend with my wonderful big family! I hope to honor the memory of the center's founder, and repay those who have invited me to write here, by making fresh discoveries in the work I have before me. from the…
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Writing Residency, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts
Mount San Angelo is the best in the winter. I am going to hole up and organize newly-written parts of my memoir. A great tree Fellow Mid-Atlantic writers, composers and artists, especially fellow Delaware creatives, consider applying to VCCA for a MAAF Creative Fellowship. Deadlines are January 15, May 15 or September 15 for residencies and and fellowships. I completed my two chapbooks while in residency at The Virginia Center for the Creative Arts. I finished poems in Words…
Find out more »March 2020
AWP Conference Panel with State Poets Laureate of Color
Washington poet laureate Claudia Castro Luna Oregon poet laureate Elizabeth Woody Carmen Tafolla, inaugural poet laureate of San Antonio Local Arts Advocacy in 2020 and Beyond! I will join award-winning writers Claudia Castro Luna , Carmen Tafolla and Elizabeth Woody on a panel at AWP 2020 to talk about poetry and civic engagement. State poets laureate attempt to bring poetry into the town hall, so to speak, across their communities. Why get people involved with poetry? The hope is that…
Find out more »Baltimore CityLit Festival, Panel on Residencies
The 17th Annual CityLit Festival takes place on Saturday, March 21, 2020. Baltimore’s award-winning, day-long festival is a literary celebration for readers & writers. It is a free event. This year the festival returns to its original location, the central Enoch Pratt Free Library, a longtime partner. Cynthia Bond reads at CityLit Festival credit: CityLitProject.org The event is designed to inspire and motivate the writer in everyone. The festival features premier authors you may or may not know,…
Find out more »I’m staying home. Can’t wait to see you again.
Meanwhile, be safe and check back. Say Hi on Twitter or Facebook. I am curating a list of my favorite write-ins, salons, podcasts and streaming events that have lifted me up during the great shut-in. I'll post stuff here and there, and let you know when I am hosting an event.
Find out more »June 2020
Tell Your Story: Online writing class. June 15. July 13. August 10.
June 15, July 13, August 10th. 7:00pm - 8:30 pm. Hosted by The Woodlawn Library, New Castle County (DE) Libraries. Online writing class. All levels. Register here. Contact me for Zoom Link
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International Lamplight Residency
This opportunity is amazing: I have been writing every day, peeling into the layers of my memoir to uncover new connections. On the days I step away to work on something different, to take a break, even more connecting threads appear. Back to memoir-in-progress. At last it's cooking. A New International Residency for Writers The International Lamplight Residency is a collaborative project sponsored by Write On Door County in Wisconsin, and Varuna, The Writers' House in New South Wales, Australia.…
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