BEGIN:VCALENDAR VERSION:2.0 PRODID:-//The Notebooks Collective - ECPv6.15.20//NONSGML v1.0//EN CALSCALE:GREGORIAN METHOD:PUBLISH X-WR-CALNAME:The Notebooks Collective X-ORIGINAL-URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com X-WR-CALDESC:Events for The Notebooks Collective REFRESH-INTERVAL;VALUE=DURATION:PT1H X-Robots-Tag:noindex X-PUBLISHED-TTL:PT1H BEGIN:VTIMEZONE TZID:America/New_York BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20210314T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20211107T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20220313T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20221106T060000 END:STANDARD BEGIN:DAYLIGHT TZOFFSETFROM:-0500 TZOFFSETTO:-0400 TZNAME:EDT DTSTART:20230312T070000 END:DAYLIGHT BEGIN:STANDARD TZOFFSETFROM:-0400 TZOFFSETTO:-0500 TZNAME:EST DTSTART:20231105T060000 END:STANDARD END:VTIMEZONE BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220920T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220516T151354Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220907T145732Z UID:200-1663702200-1663707600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Anne-Marie Oomen & Patricia Ann McNair DESCRIPTION:Join us for the virtual book launch of Anne-Marie Oomen’s new book\, As Long as I Know You: The Mom Book. Published by University of Georgia Press\, this book was selected by Aimee Nezhukumatathil for the Sue William Silverman Prize for Creative Nonfiction. Anne-Marie will be in conversation with Patricia Ann McNair. \n\n\n\nThis event will be a celebration of Anne-Marie’s newest memoir\, but it will also be a conversation between working creatives who have written their way through life and all its iterations. We are certain you don’t want to miss it! \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie Oomen\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAnne-Marie Oomen’s forthcoming books are AWP’s winner of the Sue William Silverman nonfiction prize for As Long as I Know You (University of Georgia Press)\, and The Long Road (Cornerstone Press). She edited ELEMENTAL: A Collection of Michigan Nonfiction\, is author of The Lake Michigan Mermaid\, (co-authored with Linda Nemec Foster)\, Pulling Down the Barn\, House of Fields (all  Michigan Notable Books)\,  American Map: Essays\,  Uncoded Woman (poetry)\, and Love\, Sex and 4-H (Next Generation Indie Award for Memoir). She has written seven plays\, including the award-winning Secrets of Luuce Talk Tavern.  She is a poetry and nonfiction instructor at Solstice MFA at Lasell University (MA) and Interlochen College of Creative Arts. Visit her at www.anne-marieoomen.com \n\n\n\nPatricia Ann McNair (she/her/hers)\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nPatricia Ann McNair’s short story collection\, Responsible Adults\, was named a Distinguished Favorite by the Independent Press Awards; The Temple of Air (stories) was named Chicago Writers Association’s Book of the Year; her collection of essays\, And These Are the Good Times\, was a Montaigne Medal Finalist for Most Thought-Provoking Book of the Year. McNair is an Associate Professor Emerita of Columbia College Chicago. She lives in Tucson\, Arizona. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-anne-marie-oomen/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Eventbrite-Header-AMO.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220915T203000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220819T192558Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220831T160341Z UID:357-1663270200-1663273800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:September Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/september-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/08/Sept-Write-Together.jpg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220816T203000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220706T000718Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220706T000824Z UID:330-1660678200-1660681800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:The Sealey Challenge: A Mid-Month Jump-Start DESCRIPTION:The Sealey Challenge\, started by poet Nicole Sealey\, challenges readers to read one collection of poetry every day through the month of August. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIf you’re anything like us\, you’ve started this challenge before\, fully convinced that you would finish the month without missing a day. But\, like us\, you may have hit a wall mid-month (or so)\, not just with finishing a collection every day\, but with honoring your own creative space when you’re spending so much time reading the work of others. \n\n\n\nThat’s what this offering is all about: join us in mid-August to reflect on what you’ve read so far and to cull writing prompts and other insights from the collections you’re reading. We’ll spend part of our time together sharing our experiences of The Sealey Challenge (favorite collections\, tips for completing\, etc)\, then move into provided ideas for writing prompts. The instructor will bring prompts and other aides\, but we’ll also open up discussion so we can all learn from each other.  URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/the-sealey-challenge-a-mid-month-jump-start/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/07/sealey-challenge-class.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220727T203000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220603T152909Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T151237Z UID:275-1658950200-1658953800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:July 27 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/july-27-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-27-2022.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220721T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220525T153846Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220719T172345Z UID:235-1658431800-1658437200@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Jessica Cuello & Jan Beatty DESCRIPTION:Join us for an In Conversation with poets Jessica Cuello & Jan Beatty. Jessica will read from her new book\, Liar\, and Jan will be reading from her book The Body Wars and a conversation will ensue about writing\, community\, and more! \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nJessica Cuello\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJessica Cuello’s Liar was selected by Dorianne Laux for the 2020 Barrow Street Book Prize and her manuscript Yours\, Creature is forthcoming from JackLeg Press in spring of 2023. Cuello is also the author of Hunt (The Word Works\, 2017) and Pricking (Tiger Bark Press\, 2016). Cuello has been awarded The 2017 CNY Book Award\, The 2016 Washington Prize\, The New Letters Poetry Prize\, a Saltonstall Fellowship\, and The New Ohio Review Poetry Prize. She is a poetry editor at Tahoma Literary Review and teaches French in CNY. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Beatty\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJan Beatty’s seventh book\, American Bastard\, won the Red Hen Nonfiction Award\, 2021. A new chapbook\, Skydog\, was released in May\, 2022 by Lefty Blondie Press. The University of Pittsburgh Press published The Body Wars in Fall\, 2020\, and in the New York Times\, Naomi Shihab Nye said: Jan Beatty’s new poems in “The Body Wars” shimmer with luminous connection\, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Other books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (2018 Paterson Prize)\, named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019; The Switching/Yard\, Red Sugar\, Boneshaker\, and Mad River\, winner of the Agnes Lynch Starrett Prize. Beatty worked as a waitress\, an abortion counselor\, and in maximum security prisons. For fifteen years\, she directed creative writing at Carlow University where she ran the Madwomen in the Attic writing workshops.  URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/conversation-jessica-cuello-jan-beatty/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/Eventbrite-Header_JessJan.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220716T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220716T170000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220603T152752Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220608T150554Z UID:271-1657987200-1657990800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:July 16 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/july-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/06/July-16-2022-400-PM-ET.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220628T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220628T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220525T153219Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220621T201709Z UID:228-1656444600-1656450000@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Marcia Karp & George Kalogeris DESCRIPTION:Join the Notebooks Collective for an In Conversation with poets Marcia Karp & George Kalogeris. These two poets have known each other and each other’s work for 25 years. They will read from their new books\, talk translation\, and other aspects of the writing life. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Authors\n\n\n\nMarcia Karp\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nMarcia Karp’s book\, If By Song\, was published by Lily Poetry Review Books in 2021. She has published poems and translations in journals and anthologies in England and America\, including The Times Literary Supplement; Harvard Review; The Guardian; Partisan Review; The Word Exchange: Anglo-Saxon Poems in Translation (Norton); and Joining Music with Reason: 34 Poets\, British and American\, Oxford 2004-2009 (Waywiser). She taught literary and editorial matters at Boston University after earning graduate degrees there. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nGeorge Kalogeris\n\n\n\nPortrait of George Kalogeris.\n\n\n\nGeorge Kalogeris’s most recent book of poems is Winthropos\, (Louisiana State University\, 2021). He is also the author of Guide to Greece (LSU)\, a book of paired poems in translation\, Dialogos (Antilever\, 2012)\, and poems based on the notebooks of Albert Camus\, Camus: Carnets (Pressed Wafer\, 2006). His poems and translations have been anthologized in Joining Music with Reason\, chosen by Christopher Ricks (Waywiser\, 2010). He teaches English Literature and Classics in Translation at Suffolk University. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/conversation-marcia-karp-george-kalogeris/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/EventBrightMarciaGeorge.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220621T203000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220516T143705Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T145538Z UID:194-1655839800-1655843400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:June 21 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/june-21-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/jpeg:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/eventbrite.jpeg END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220611T160000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220611T170000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220504T194955Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220516T143301Z UID:185-1654963200-1654966800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:June 11 Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions\, suggest some prompts\, and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/june-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/05/June-Write-Together.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220522T163000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220425T013126Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220506T144745Z UID:162-1653231600-1653237000@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Allison Adair & Eileen Cleary DESCRIPTION:Join us for an afternoon of conversation\, curiosity\, and community. Poets Allison Adair and Eileen Cleary will read from their new books\, and chat with each other about the making of poetry. Get unique insights on craft and revision and all things creative. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAbout Allison Adair\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAllison Adair’s first collection\, The Clearing\, was selected by Henri Cole as winner of Milkweed’s Max Ritvo Poetry Prize. Her poems appear in American Poetry Review\, Arts & Letters\, Best American Poetry\, Kenyon Review Online\, and ZYZZYVA; and her work has been honored with the Pushcart Prize\, the Florida Review Editors’ Award\, the Orlando Prize\, a Massachusetts Cultural Council grant\, and first place in the Fineline Competition from Mid-American Review. Originally from central Pennsylvania\, Allison teaches at Boston College and Grub Street. \n\n\n\nAbout Eileen Cleary\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nEileen Cleary is the author of Child Ward of the Commonwealth (Main Street Rag Press\, 2019)\, which received an honorable mention for the Sheila Margaret Motton Book Prize and 2 a.m. with Keats (Nixes Mate\, 2021). In addition\, she co-edited the anthology Voices Amidst the Virus\, the featured text at the 2021 Michigan State University Filmetry Festival. Her poem “The Way We Fled” was recently anthologized in Tree Lines: 21st Century American Poetry (Grayson Books\, 2022.) URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-allison-adair-eileen-cleary/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/EventbriteAllisonEileen.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220510T203000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220409T161939Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220502T190715Z UID:157-1652211000-1652214600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:May Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/may-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/04/May-Write-Together.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220423T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220314T190323Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220314T233039Z UID:130-1650742200-1650747600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: Three Poets DESCRIPTION:José Angel Araguz\, Quintin Collins\, and Daniel B. Summerhill\n\n\n\n\n\nA reading and conversation to celebrate the launch of their new books. \n\n\n\n\nRotura (Black Lawrence Press)\n\n\n\nClaim Tickets for Stolen People (Ohio State University Press)\n\n\n\nMausoleum of Flowers (CavanKerry Press)\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\nAbout the Readers\n\n\n\nJosé Angel Araguz\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nJosé Angel Araguz\, Ph.D. is the author of Rotura (Black Lawrence Press\, 2022). His poetry and prose have appeared in Prairie Schooner\, Poetry International\, The Acentos Review\, and Oxidant | Engine among other places. He is an Assistant Professor at Suffolk University where he serves as Editor-in-Chief of Salamander and is also a faculty member of the Solstice Low-Residency MFA Program. He blogs and reviews books at The Friday Influence. \n\n\n\nTwitter: @JoseAraguz Instagram: @poetryamano Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jose.araguz \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuintin Collins\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nQuintin Collins (he/him) is a writer\, editor\, and Solstice MFA Program assistant director. He is the author of The Dandelion Speaks of Survival (Cherry Castle Publishing\, 2021) and Claim Tickets for Stolen People (The Ohio State University Press/Mad Creek Books\, 2022)\, selected by Marcus Jackson as winner of The Journal‘s 2020 Charles B. Wheeler Prize. Quintin’s other awards and accolades include a Pushcart Prize and the 2019 Atlantis Award from the Poet’s Billow\, as well as Best of the Net nominations. \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel B. Summerhill\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDaniel B. Summerhill is Assistant Professor of Poetry/Social Action and Composition Studies at California State University – Monterey Bay. He has performed in over thirty states\, the UK\, and was invited by the U.S. Embassy to guest lecture and perform in South Africa. Daniel has earned a Sharon Olds fellowship as well as a fellowship from the Watering Hole. His poetry has appeared in Columbia Journal\, Rust & Moth\, Button Poetry\, Anti-Heroin Chic\, The Hellebore\, and others. His work has earned him two Pushcart nominations as well as a Best of the Net nomination. His debut collection is Divine\, Divine\, Divine published by Oakland-based Nomadic Press. His sophomore collection\, Mausoleum of Flowers was published by CavanKerry Press in April 2022. Summerhill holds an MFA in Creative Writing from the Solstice Low-Residency MFA. Daniel is the inaugural poet Laureate of Monterey County. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-three-poets/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/03/EventBrightTemplate-JQD.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220405T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220227T214409Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220228T165333Z UID:114-1649187000-1649192400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:In Conversation: M. Soledad Caballero DESCRIPTION:Join the Notebooks Collective for a reading and conversation with poet Soledad Caballero. She will read from her new book\, I Was A Bell\, winner of the 2019 Benjamin Saltman poetry prize. We will discuss memory\, displacement\, and language. \n\n\n\nBuy Soledad’s book here \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\nAbout the Book\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nIn this collection\, Caballero imagines how memory frames and reshapes the present\, how memory illuminates and limits the stories of ourselves\, and how\, despite the passage of time\, primal moments in the past are the ghosts and echoes of our present. These poems interweave an early childhood lived in another country and in another language with experiences of immigration and family histories in the United States. They create connections between a child’s naïve perspective of dictatorship and an adult perspective informed by bodily illness and political knowledge. Ultimately\, Caballero traces a lineage of memory\, exploring how present moments unearth the past that ripples through them. This collection does not reconcile the past and the present. Instead\, these poems remind us that how we ask questions about ourselves\, our histories\, and our bodies is what creates our identities\, our traumas\, and our future hopes and possibilities. From Red Hen Press\n\n\n\nAbout M. Soledad Caballero\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nM. Soledad Caballero is Professor of English and co-chair of the WGSS Program at Allegheny College. She is a Macondo and a CantoMundo fellow\, has been nominated for three Pushcart Prizes\, was winner of the 2019 Joy Harjo poetry contest by Cutthroat: A Journal of the Arts and the 2020 SWWIM’s SWWIM-For-the-Fun-of-It contest. Her poems have appeared in the Missouri Review\, the Iron Horse Literary Review\, the Crab Orchard Review\, and other venues. Her collection\, I Was a Bell\, won the 2019 Benjamin Saltman poetry prize\, Red Hen Press 2021. She is an avid tv watcher and a terrible birder. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/in-conversation-m-soledad-caballero/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/I-WAS-A-BELL-1.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220301T193000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220301T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220210T172150Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220211T155702Z UID:76-1646163000-1646168400@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays Book Launch DESCRIPTION:Please join The Notebooks Collective in welcoming Dr. Randall Horton for the launch of his new memoir\, Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays. Dr. Horton will do a brief reading followed by a conversation with host Ashley Johnson and guests Gary Lyles and Mark Johnson. Q&A to follow. \n\n\n\nReserve your tickets now to receive a special offer to purchase Dead Weight: A Memoir in Essays. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite\n \n\n \n \n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nDead Weight: A Memoir in Essays\n\n\n\nDead Weight: A Memoir in Essays chronicles the improbable turnaround of a drug smuggler who\, after being sentenced to eight years in state prison\, returned to society to earn a PhD in creative writing and become the only tenured professor in the United States with seven felony convictions. Dr. Horton’s visceral essays highlight the difficulties of trying to change one’s life for the better\, how the weight of felony convictions never dissipates. \n\n\n\nAbout Dr. Randall Horton\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nRandall Horton is the author of a previous memoir and several books of poetry\, including Pitch Dark Anarchy: Poems (TriQuarterly Books\, 2013) and The Lingua Franca of Ninth Street. In 2019 he served as poet-in-residence for the Civil Rights Corps in Washington\, DC\, which is a nonprofit organization dedicated to challenging systemic injustice in the American legal system. The recipient of numerous awards\, including the Gwendolyn Brooks Poetry Award\, the Bea González Poetry\, a National Endowment of the Arts Fellowship in Poetry\, and a Right to Return Fellowship from the Soze Foundation\, he currently sits on the Advisory Board of PEN America’s PEN Prison Writing Program. He is a professor of English at the University of New Haven. \n\n\n\nAbout Host Ashley Johnson\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nAshley Johnson’s essays have appeared in Sleet\, Glassworks\, and Iron City Magazine. Her essay Sing was nominated for a 2020 Pushcart Prize. She is currently working on a hybrid-memoir that examines the residual effects of mass incarceration on the Black family structure. Ashley holds her MFA from the Solstice MFA Creative Writing Program of Pine Manor College\, MA in Education from UMUC\, and BS in Criminal Justice from Marymount University. Ashley currently resides in Silver Spring\, Maryland with her husband and their two sons. URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/dead-weight-a-memoir-in-essays-book-launch/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/Dead-Weight.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T200000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220217T210000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220210T170245Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T172343Z UID:72-1645128000-1645131600@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:February Write-Together DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to come together to write. \n\n\n\nBring a work in progress\, the edits you want to do\, a project you need to get done\, or an empty notebook to get started. We’ll open with setting intentions and then get to work. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/february-write-together/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/02/FEB-WriteTogether.png END:VEVENT BEGIN:VEVENT DTSTART;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T150000 DTEND;TZID=America/New_York:20220213T163000 DTSTAMP:20260503T233143 CREATED:20220131T051534Z LAST-MODIFIED:20220210T022611Z UID:31-1644764400-1644769800@thenotebookscollective.com SUMMARY:February Write-In DESCRIPTION:Writing is a solitary exercise—and\, for so many of us\, it’s a solitary exercise that’s changed remarkably in this past year. Born from our own personal need to infuse community into the solitary practice of writing\, The Notebooks Collective invites you to a monthly write-in. The goal is generative. The process is communal. \n\n\n\nOnce a month\, we’ll meet (via Zoom)\, for 60-90 minutes. And we’ll write. Prompts will be provided and can be used or not. There will be time to share\, should you choose to or not. \n\n\n\nThese events are free and everyone is encouraged to attend\, regardless of genre/interest/experience. \n\n\n\n\n\n Get Tickets\n Get Tickets on Eventbrite URL:https://thenotebookscollective.com/event/february-write-in/ ATTACH;FMTTYPE=image/png:https://thenotebookscollective.com/wp-content/uploads/2022/01/tnc-2022-feb-write-in-e1644459957753.png END:VEVENT END:VCALENDAR