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7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month

6:30 pm: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests

6-Week Boot Camp “Abracadabra! – Poet-TRY 13” with Stephanie Barbé Hammer

Submission Window CLOSES for 2024 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes

7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month

6:30 pm: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests

Name: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests
Start: 2023-04-06T18:30:00-05:00
End: 2023-04-06T20:00:00-05:00

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Apr 2, '23	Apr 3, '23	Apr 4, '23 7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month 7:00 pm: Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month 7:00 pm – 9:00 pm April 4, 2023 Tuesdays, 4/4, 4/11, 4/18, 4/25/23 7:00-9:00 PM PT, on Zoom $100, four weekly meetings To enroll: https://tinyurl.com/BrantinghamWrites Thirty Days Until Done for National Poetry Month Calling all poets! This is one boot camp you won’t want to miss. Following the method created in John Brantingham’s website, students will write a poem a day for the month of April. At the end of that month, they will have thirty individual poems that together will form a unified chapbook collection. The classes will generate new work, workshop existing poems, and develop new techniques and skills. (Meets weekly.) John Brantingham was Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks’ first poet laureate. His work has been featured in hundreds of magazines, Writers Almanac and The Best Small Fictions 2016 and 2022. He has nineteen books of poetry and fiction including Life: Orange to Pear (Bamboo Dart Press). He is the founder and general editor of The Journal of Radical Wonder. He lives in Jamestown, NY. More	Apr 5, '23	Apr 6, '23 6:30 pm: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests 6:30 pm: “Arranging Your Poetry Manuscript” with Cati Porter and guests 6:30 pm – 8:00 pm 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. More	Apr 7, '23	Apr 8, '23

2 6-Week Boot Camp “Abracadabra! – Poet-TRY 13” with Stephanie Barbé Hammer April 2, 2024 STARTS Tuesday, April 2, 2024 Asynchronous Boot Camp for Writers: “Abracadabra! – Poet-TRY 13” with Stephanie Barbé Hammer $150. On Padlet, with optional office hours on Zoom; to register: A generative 6-week asynchronous class for poets (and fiction writers too) featuring magic, wizardry, illusion and more. Join us for Lucky 13! Yes, we are reuniting for our thirteenth year of Poet-TRY. Writers will receive a prompt (or more) every week for four weeks, during which time they are invited to write about the prompt and then post their work to our online discussion board for support and a tiny bit of feedback. During weeks five and six, our class will conclude with two weeks of workshopping poems you choose for the process. Writers will receive more in-depth feedback during this time, and you will receive advice from your fellow writers on how to revise or grow your work further. Or maybe it’s just ready to send out! This workshop is asynchronous. Students are asked to keep up with the weekly assignments and post them during the week. Padlet is a virtual, customizable ‘bulletin board’ used by educators with options to populate with text, images, audio, videos, and links. All levels welcome! Prose writers are warmly invited – always – to this magical poetry party. Stephanie Barbé Hammer is a seven-time Pushcart Prize nominee in fiction, nonfiction and poetry and is the author of two poetry collections, two novels, a novelette, and a how to write magical realism craft book. Originally from Manhattan, Stephanie moved to Southern California in 1986. She has lived on the West Coast ever since. She taught at the University of California, Riverside campus for 30 years, then tried living on Whidbey Island, Washington State, but found that she missed California too much, and moved to Santa Barbara in the fall of 2023. A professor emerita of Comparative Literature, she teaches creative writing at Hugo House Seattle and Inlandia, Riverside. She served as managing editor at SHARK REEF literary magazine for several years and is culture editor at large and writer at the Journal of Radical Wonder. She sits on the advisory board of Writers Bloc Presents. More

30 Submission Window CLOSES for 2024 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes April 30, 2024 February 1-April 30, 2024 Call for Entries: 2024 Hillary Gravendyk Poetry Prizes $20 reading fee Submit at http://tinyurl.com/InlandiaSubmit 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 2024 for publication in 2025. National and Regional awardees each win book publication and a cash prize of $1,000. Enter using Submittable: https://tinyurl.com/InlandiaSubmit Poetry book manuscripts will be accepted via Submittable from February 1 through April 30, 2024. One National and one Regional prizewinner will each be awarded $1,000 and a standard book contract. More