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Words & Images: A Collaboration Between Writers and Artists

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.

• Read the Words & Images press release.

Third Annual Write Action Literary Contest

Deadline: July 1, 2007

It’s time for the Third Annual Write Action Literary Contest. The theme this year is DOORS. Prose writers and poets are invited to submit their work. Entries will be expected to reflect the writer’s reaction or response to the theme word DOORS, whether literal or figurative, actual or metaphorical.

First prize winners will be published in the Brattleboro Reformer, and winners will also have a chance to read their work at an open reading at the Brattleboro Literary Festival, 2007.

A single prose entry should be no more than 1500 words, and a single poetry entry no more than one page (single spaced). Three top winners will be chosen in each category, by a distinguished panel of local judges. First prize in each category is a $50 gift certificate; 2nd and 3rd place runners-up will receive $25 gift certificates.

Please submit entries by the July 1, 2007 deadline. Winners will be announced at the Write Action Picnic, and in the Brattleboro Reformer, in August.

Here’s how to enter: Send a manuscript with a cover; put your name, address, email address and phone number on the cover; do not put any identifying information on any of the pages of your manuscript. The first entry is free; up to two more entries in each category may be submitted for a $5 entry fee per submission, checks to Write Action. Mail to: Write Action, PO Box 822, Brattleboro, VT 05302. If you have any questions, please call 254-7755. Entries must be postmarked by July 1st, 2007.

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.