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Welcome to Write Action
We exist because of an activist, vibrant base of writers in southeastern Vermont, and because of an engaged community of readers. In this, we feel very fortunate – Vermont is fertile ground for writers! An important part of our commitment to writers is Write Action's email newsletter. Now going out to over 300 people, the newsletter highlights literary events in the tri-state region. There are also updates on writing groups, and writer’s opportunities.
Intrinsic to our founding as a grass-roots organization, Write Action holds at least two open readings a year, and often more. One is always at the Brattleboro Literary Festival. We take great pride in helping to bring together the writing community for this annual, free weekend-long celebration of literature featuring renowned and up-and-coming authors. BLF is an event that is becoming known throughout the northeast for the level of authors on its roster and the diversity of its literary events (www.brattleboroliteraryfestival.org). Among our achievements, in recent years, Write Action has instituted an annual writing contest for poetry and prose; has established Brattleboro Union High School senior awards for creative writing and journalism (The Marty Jezer Award for excellence in Journalism); sponsors “Poets of the Past”, a monthly in-depth reading and discussion of favorite poets, held 3rd Sundays at Twilight Tea Lounge (www.twilighttealounge.com); has published booklets and one anthology of local writing (The Best of Write Action). Write Action has collaborated with arts organizations such as the co-operatively owned and run Windham Art Gallery (www.windhamartgallery.com), the Vermont Jazz Center (www.vtjazz.org), and Luminz Dance Studio (www.luminzstudio.com). Write Action has also worked with town organizations on projects such as The Brattleboro Historical Society’s panels that describe in poetry and prose familiar downtown businesses and locales. These panels, encased in weatherproof frames, have been displayed downtown in an outdoors space, and are currently under consideration by BaBB to be installed in the River Garden, a town-owned public building. Funding for these projects have come from The Crosby Foundation, Dunham-Mason Foundation, Brattleboro Savings & Loan, and the Vermont Arts Council. The annual picnic, usually held at the home of a Write Action board member, is a social event and open reading, a chance to “network” and “shmooze”. What's New Write Action Announces Member Pages A member page has a single lifetime cost of $30. Changes/updates to the page may be made once every 6 months, and will cost $10 each time the page is updated. A simple directory listing with web link or other contact info is $5. Click on Members at www.writeaction.net <http://www.writeaction.net> to view a prototype page. Payment is by check to Write Action: PO Box 822, Brattleboro, Vt 05302; or on-line at PayPal, at www.writeaction.net. Send page contents, preferably as Word attachments, to: info@writeaction.net Upon receipt of payment, contents will be posted (leaving a couple of days for page construction). Questions? Email info@writeaction.net If you would like to be part of our email network, enabling you to receive notices about area readings, writing groups, and other literary opportunities and events, please, send your request to be added to the database to Eric at WriteAction2004@aol.com. Write Action Gifts Shop for Write Action Gifts on our gift page. |
Write
Action is a community-based, grass-roots writer’s organization
formed in 1999 “to strengthen a community of writers in Brattleboro
and the surrounding area; and to nurture, encourage, and promote
the literary arts in the at-large community”.© 2006 Write Action | site by MuseArts