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Events in April 2023

  • - “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
    “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests

    “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests


    April 6, 2023

    Thursday, April 6, 2023

    Inlandia Institute and Riverside Public Library Present

    First Thursdays Arts Walk

    “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript”

    with Cati Porter and guests

    Free and open to the public. No registration required.

     

    Riverside Main Library

    3900 Mission Inn Blvd

    Riverside, CA 92501

    Doors Open at 6:00 PM

    6:30-8:00 PM

    For National Poetry Month, learn some new techniques for arranging a poetry manuscript. Join Cati Porter and special guests who talk about their own adventures in arranging a poetry manuscript and give you some strategies for arranging your own.

    If a poem is the best words in their best order, then a poetry manuscript is the best poems in their best order. But with so many possible variations, how do you decide what is “best”? Cati Porter is the author of eleven poetry books and chapbooks and has extensive experience in what not to do, and some tried-and-true strategies and tips.

    Attendees of this program who submit a manuscript to the Hillary Gravendyk Prize open poetry book competition will have their contest entrance fee comped.

    Open mic poetry readings start at 6:30. Program begins at 7:00.

    Cati Porter has been writing and publishing for three decades. She has a Masters in Fine Arts — Poetry from Antioch University, Los Angeles, and is the author of eleven collections of poetry, including The Body at a Loss (CavanKerry Press, 2019), Novel (Bamboo Dart Press, 2022), and the forthcoming small mammals (Mayapple Press, 2023). She is founder and editor of Poemeleon: A Journal of Poetry and executive director of Inlandia Institute.

  • - Call for Entries: 2023 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes, Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians OPENS
    Call for Entries: 2023 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes

    Call for Entries: 2023 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes

    LAST DAY
    April 30, 2023

    Call for Entries: 2023

    Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes

    Submissions from February 1-April 30, 2023

    National and Regional awardees each win book publication and a cash prize of $1,000. Enter using Submittable: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaSubmit

    Inlandia Institute is excited to announce the opening of the submission window for the 2023 Hillary Gravendyk Prize poetry competition. Poetry book manuscripts will be accepted via Submittable from February 1 through April 30, 2023. One National and one Regional prizewinner will each be awarded $1,000 and a standard book contract.

    The competition was created in memory of the late Inland Empire poet, Hillary Gravendyk, who passed away in 2014.

    The Hillary Gravendyk Prize is an open poetry book competition for all writers regardless of the number of previously published poetry collections. The manuscript page limit is 48-100 pages, and Inlandia Institute Press invites all styles and forms of poetry. Only electronic submissions will be accepted via Inlandia’s ‘Submittable’ portal. Multiple submissions are accepted, with a $20 reading fee required for each manuscript. The winners will be announced Fall 2023 for publication in 2024.

    All entrants will be considered for the National Prize, and entrants who currently reside or work in Inland Southern California, the “Inland Empire,” will also be considered for the Regional Prize (Riverside and San Bernardino Counties, and any non-coastal Southern California area, from Death Valley in the northernmost region to Anza-Borrego Desert State Park in the southernmost).

    Hillary Gravendyk (1979-2014) was a beloved poet living and teaching in Southern California’s Inland Empire region. She wrote the acclaimed poetry book, HARM from Omnidawn Publishing (2012) and the poetry collection The Naturalist (Anchiote Press, 2008). A native of Washington State, she was an admired Assistant Professor of English at Pomona College in Claremont, CA. Her poetry has appeared widely in journals. She was awarded a 2015 Pushcart Prize for her poem “Your Ghost,” which appeared in the Pushcart Prize Anthology. Hillary Gravendyk passed away on May 10, 2014 after a long illness. This contest has been established in her memory.

    For additional details about the Hillary Gravendyk Prize, or to learn more about Inlandia Institute, please visit inlandiainstitute.org.

    This activity is supported in part by the California Arts Council, a state agency. Learn more at www.arts.ca.gov.

     

    Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians OPENS

    Call for Submissions Inlandia Hearts Librarians OPENS

    April 30, 2023

    April 30-June 30, 2023

    Call for Submissions: Inlandia Hearts Librarians

    Special Library Issue

    Call for Submissions for Inlandia: A Literary Journey

    Submit to: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaLibrarians

    Now accepting art, fiction, nonfiction, and poetry from librarians past and present on any topic and only about librarians/libraries from nonlibrarians for this themed issue.

    Submissions open Saturday, April 30, 2023, and close Friday, June 30, 2023, at midnight Pacific Time.

    Simultaneous submissions accepted. Previously curated submissions accepted. Translations accepted. See website for full guidelines.