Schneiderman-ia 2009: This time it’s impersonal!

That crazy Association of Writing Program conference makes its way to Chicago soon (February 11-14), preceded by the 5th Annual Lake Forest Literary Festival at Lake Forest College, north of the city.

First: Here’s the rundown on the Literary Festival, starring cool poets like Christian Bök and Stephanie Strickland. Events are free and open to the public.

Now: here’s a series of off-site AWP events in which I am involved. Check something out if you are in the neighborhood, and, if you care about the deep personal connection we experience together.

I mean, we really share something, the two of us.

[If you are a conference attendee, you can find me on two different panels (Friday and Saturday)—but you’ll have to flip through the massive schedule and sort through scads of “personal expression” readings...]


1) Wednesday, February 11: 6 pm
Chiasmus Press Reading and Party
Location: Barbara's Bookstore, 1218 South Halsted Street

A reading and wine party with Chiasmus authors Cris Mazza, Gina Frangello, Davis Schneiderman, Stephen Graham Jones, and Lily Hoang.

Bonus: You can cut-up, mark, or otherwise deface a copy of my novels Abecedarium (Chiasmus Press) and DIS (BlazeVox books) as part of the Deconstructing Books project. Visit the Packingtown Review table at the conference and enter a free raffle to win the books: Bonus bonus: Saturday’s book fair at AWP is open to the public: Hilton Chicago, 720 South Michigan Avenue.


2) Thursday, February 12, 8-11 pm Reading Between the Lines: An AWP Offsite Event, curated by Larry O. Dean
Location: Beat Kitchen (upstairs)
2100 W. Belmont, 773-281-4444

Join emerging as well as established writers from across the US for this intimate reading scheduled to coincide during the annual AWP Conference:

Shaindel Beers, Jessica Berger, Emma Bolden, Donald Breckenridge, Bruce Covey, Jacque E. Day, Lori Desrosiers, Laura Dixon, Eckhard Gerdes, Johannes Göransson, Sara Greenslit, Chris Hildebrand, Matt Markgraf, Pamela Johnson Parker, Ted Pelton, Brianna Pike Sarah Rosenthal, Davis Schneiderman, Karissa Sorrell, Roger Stanley
Richard Thomas, Chet Weise, Scott Woodham, Snežana Žabić.


3) Friday, February 13: 8 pm
A reading hosted by UIMA -- Ukrainian Institute of Modern Art
Location: 2320 West Chicago Avenue, Chicago Illinois, 60622

Readers: Ralph Berry, Eckhard Gerdes, AD Jameson, Lance Olsen, Davis Schneiderman, Yuriy Tarnawsky, Lidia Yuknavich.

Wish You Were Here

Michael Kimball has a great project to write life stories on postcards, or, in postcard like forms.

Here's mine.

It will also be part of Keyhole magazine, issue #6, guest edited by William Walsh, where each part of the book will be "literature."

Weather beautiful, buy can't wait to return...

Davis

Hey, apply for this award: it's money, food, housing, and publication!

Lake Forest College
Madeleine P. Plonsker Emerging Writer's Residency Prize (Prose)

Lake Forest College, in conjunction with the &NOW organization, invites applications for an emerging prose writer under forty years old, with no major book publication, to spend two months (February-March or March-April 2010) in residence at our campus in Chicago’s northern suburbs on the shore of Lake Michigan.

There are no formal teaching duties attached to the residency. Time is to be spent completing a manuscript, participating in the Lake Forest Literary Festival, and offering two public presentations.

The completed manuscript will be published (upon approval) by the Lake Forest College Press &NOW Books imprint.

The stipend is $10,000, with a housing suite and campus meals.

Send curriculum vita, no more than 30 pages of manuscript in progress, and a one-page statement of plans for completion to:

Plonsker Residency
Department of English
Lake Forest College
Box A16
555 N. Sheridan Road
Lake Forest, IL 60045.

Submissions must be postmarked by April 1, 2009 for consideration by judges Robert Archambeau, Davis Schneiderman, and Joshua Corey.