Odyssey Storytelling- Presents SLICED AND DICED: THE SURGERY SHOW April 5, 2012

Odyssey Storytelling Presents SLICED AND DICED: THE SURGERY SHOW

April 5, 2012

Show at 7 p.m., Doors open at 6:30 p.m.

Fluxx Studio and Gallery, 416 E. 9th St., Tucson,
still only $7 at the door

Come hear really amazing stories from pediatrician and storyteller, Drew Cronyn; GED & ESL teacher, Lisa Grenier; bartender, Michael Woodward; veterinarian, Dr. Kayla Boyer; creative writing student, Ian Hudick; UA Foundation communications director, Stephanie Balzer; and trauma surgeon, Randy Friese.

NOTE that the intersection of 4th Ave and 8th Street is closed due to major construction so plan your travels accordingly.

GOT STORIES?

We are looking for stories for our May 3rd show, “Sticks and Stones: Politics on the Playground.” Have you been the BMOC or pushed around by a bully; school principal or cafeteria worker? Tell us your story!

More themes coming up:

July 5: The Customer is Always Right

August 2: Happy Campers: the Great Outdoors

September 6: At the Movies

November 1: Religion: God, Allah, Yahweh, No Way

December 6: The End of the World As We Know It

FOR MORE INFO – Penelope Starr, producer, penelope@odysseystorytelling.com, Adam Hostetter, assistant producer, adam@odysseystorytelling.com
Sarah K. Smith, assistant producer, sarah@odysseystorytelling.com
Website: http://www.odysseystorytelling.com ~ Facebook: http://www.Facebook.com/Odysseystorytelling ~ Blog: http://www.tucsoncitizen.com/stories

Odyssey Storytelling creating connections ~ one story at a time

Odyssey Storytelling is a program of StoryArts Group, Inc. a 501(c)(3) non-profit arts organization. Learn more about us at http://www.storyartsgroup.org

Stephanie Balzer Author- REVENANT

REVENANT

by Stephanie Balzer

Kore Press

“Despite spray painted tags on its low-slung concrete brick wall, the alley seems more country road than city lam. Pioneering. Carved out of necessity. Like a knuckle to a finger the driveway curves off the alley, ending in a wooden fence the MacArthurs’ sons built by hand.”

ISBN: 978-1-888553-35-2

Stephanie Balzer is a poet, journalist and non-profit professional who lives in Tucson, Az. She holds an MFA in poetry from The Univesity of Arizona and her work has appeared in CANNIBAL, CHELSEA, CUE, and MID-AMERICAN REVIEW. Her chapbook “faster, faster” is forthcom from CUE Editions.

Kore Press, Tucson, Az
http://www.korepress.org

University of Arizona Poetry Center- NEW BOOKS BY LOCAL AUTHORS

      A glimpse into process, inspiration
    It’s no secret that Tucson is chock-full of talented writers.   We’ve asked a few of these writers with recently published works to share a little about their process and inspiration. Read the words of Stephanie Balzer, Arianne Zwartjes, and Jefferson Carter, and then stop into the Poetry Center to read the books themselves.

Read the books or for more inforation go to:  poetnews@email.arizona.edu

Kore Press- Heather Brittain Bergstrom Kore Press’ Short Fiction Award Winner & Two New Titles

Kore Short Fiction Award Winner 
All Sorts of Hunger, a Leslie Marmon-Silko pick

Congratulations to Heather Brittain Bergstrom from Yuba City, CA! Her manuscript, All Sorts of Hunger, was chosen out of 250 submissions by readers and final judge  Leslie Marmon-Silko as the winner for our 2010 Short Fiction Award. the finalists are: “Return,” by Sharon May and “Mr. Smith’s Tip-Top Tale of Woe and Horror,” by Nancy Holyoke.

Two New Titles from Kore Press
For more infformation go to “Kore Press” <kore@korepress.org

“This book of poems is masterful and transporting in its form and in its orchestration of themes. Balzer’s handling of the prose poem form transforms the prose “box” into a playground, a diorama. The reader enters the speaker’s imagination–that of a woman who rents a house in a scraggly desert neighborhood, who is absorbed into the vacated rooms of the previous tenant who had killed someone before moving out…”–Barbara Cully; $9, map-folded chapbook with hand-made coffee cup prints on each cover.

“Frost Heaves is powerful mediation on grief and reclamation. This is the story of Katherine Crossly, as she assesses her life after a half century of marriage. What happens when a woman realizes that her dreams were not deferred, but stifled before they are even fully imagined? Set against the beautifully drawn landscapes of a small town in Maine, this is the story of a thaw, both literal and metaphorical. –Tayari Jones, selected Frost Heaves for Kore’s ’09 Short Fiction Award.
$10, pamphlet-stitched chapbook with hand-sprayed ink clouds on each cover.

See our website at “Kore Press” <kore@korepress.org

Kore Press- Kore Press Takes on 2010 The Tucson Festival of Books

Kore Press Takes on
The Tucson Festival of Books
March 13 & 14, 9:30 – 5:30, University of Arizona

Bust out the bookmarks and the sunblock this weekend – the Tucson Festival of Books is back! Join Kore Press March 13th and 14th on the University of Arizona campus for a weekend of books, readings, panel discussions, and hundreds of exhibitors.Visit Kore Press at booth #90 and hear Kore authors Teddy Lopez Mills and Wendy Burk read on Saturday, 2:30-3:30 in Modern Languages room 311, and  Becca Klaver read from her new book, LA Liminal, Sunday, March 14, 11:30-12:30 in the Kiva Room located in the Student Union. Book signings by Stephanie Balzer and Becca Klaver will also be held at the Kore Press booth.

Events and parking are free and open to the public. Proceeds from the event support literacy organizations in Pima County. Visit the festival website for more details.

Kore Press- Kore Women Make Waves Pushcart Prize Winners

      Kore Women Make Waves

       Kore Press Pushcart Prize nominations are in. This year at Kore we’ve nominated Sally Ashton, Teresa Stores, Stephanie Balzer, and Heather Cousins.   The Pushcart Prize is a highly anticipated anthology published annually by Pushcart Press.   The collection of essays, short stories, poems and memoirs is chosen from hundreds of small magazines and presses across the world.   Keep your eyes peeled this year for appearances by our Kore authors.

Congratulations and good luck ladies!

University of Arizona Poetry Center- apply for the Mary Ann Campau Fellowship

Calling Southern Arizona Writers!
Apply for the Mary Ann Campau Fellowship
The deadline for this year’s Fellowship applications is November 20, 2009. Make sure to check out the two most recent fellows, Stephanie Balzer and Maria Elena Wakamatsu. Webpages including samples of their work can be found on the guidelines page.

For more information go to http://poetrycenter.arizona.edu/contest/campau.shtml

Taken from Poetry Center Newsletter