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Write
Action is a non-profit organization formed to strengthen a community
of writers in Brattleboro and the surrounding area and to nurture,
encourage, and promote the literary arts in the community at large.
Enter the Third Annual Write Action
Literary Contest.
Shop for Write Action Gifts on our
gift page.
The Windham Art Gallery is pleased to present Words & Images:
A Collaboration curated by Stuart Copans, a WAG Artist,
and Arlene Distler, a representative of Write Action--who received
a grant from the Crosby Foundation, which will provide support,
in part, for the exhibit. Words & Images represents a collaboration
between writers and artists that will include poems, excerpts from
short stories and a children's book along with paintings, photographs,
a treasure hunt, and a room-sized installation down the street
from the gallery at an artist's studio. This exhibition represents
a four-month process in which artists and writers met, teamed up,
and created unique collaborations. Several of the participants
are member-artists from WAG, with many of the other artists and
all of the writers being guests invited from the community. The
exhibition will be on display from Friday, June 1 through
Sunday, July 1, with an opening reception on Friday,
June 1, from 5-8 PM, during Gallery Walk.
Here are just some of the ways Write Action contributes to our
local community:
- Open readings are held four times a year to provide a forum
for local writers.
- The Write Action Book features many
of the local authors who have read their work at a Write Action
event.
- The Award for Excellence in Creative Writing is presented annually
to a Brattleboro Union High School senior as part of senior
awards night.
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Write
Action has a scholarship
program in the works to support young people’s writing and help
children attend local summer writing camps.
- In 2006 Write Action will award the first annual Marty Jezer
Award for Excellence in Journalism in honor of noted author, journalist,
and activist Marty Jezer, first president of the Write Action boad
of directors, who passed away in June of 2005.
- Write Action plays an active role in planning and organizing
the annual Brattleboro Literary Festival that takes place each
October.
- The Write Action annual picnic is a social event and open reading,
a chance to “network” and “shmooze.”
- Write Action recently joined the Brattleboro area’s new
Alliance For The Arts, to help promote the literary arts in Windham
County.
- Write Action has initiated an annual writers’ contest, in
collaboration with the Brattleboro Reformer. The first contest, held
in 2005, had
as its theme, “Life in Windham County.”
If you are not now part of our email network, but would like to
be, enabling you to receive notices about area readings, writing
groups,
and other literary opportunities and events, please send your
email address to Eric at WriteAction2004@aol.com, and you will be
added
to the subscriber list.
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