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SASE: The Write Place has merged with Intermedia Arts!

[Continuing the SASE mission]

Intermedia's mission, like SASE's, is directed toward building community through the arts. I'm excited about the possibilities for what the two organizations will be able to create together that neither of us could do alone.
--Carolyn Holbrook, founder of SASE: The Write Place

Upcoming Literary Events

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  • Exciting Changes on the Horizon!

    We are pleased to announce a new era in the Writers of Color Reading Series—after nearly many wonderful years of being welcome guests of our good friends and partners at Patrick’s Cabaret, we have decided to bring the series home—to Intermedia Arts!

    Please join us on Thursday, May 8 as we say THANK YOU one last time for the wonderful space Patrick’s Cabaret has housed us in for so long, and farewell to curator Sun Yung Shin, who will be retuning to full-time teaching in the fall.

    The Writer’s of Color Reading Series will celebrate its re-launch at Intermedia Arts as Beyond the Pure: Readings by Writers of Color at 7PM on Thursday, August 14th, 2008 with curator Julie Bates. Beyond the Pure readings will be held at Intermedia Arts every 2nd Thursday, and will continue to be co-sponsored by Patrick’s Cabaret.

    The Carol Connolly Reading Series celebrates the rich diversity of voices that make up the Twin Cities community of writers, readers, and their audiences, offering public readings by both emerging and established local writers and poets. Funds for this activity are provided by the COMPAS Community Art Program through a grant from the McKnight Foundation.

  • The Carol Connolly Reading Series The Carol Connolly Reading Series Friday, May 9, 2008 7:30 PM at Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts 6666 E River Rd, Fridley Free and open to the public

    Hosted by Anna George Meek

    Featuring:
    John Reimringer has published short stories in Carolina Quarterly, Colorado Review, and other magazines. His novel manuscript, Vestments, was runner-up for the national James Jones First Novel Fellowship, and he recently won his second Minnesota State Arts Board grant, this one to research a new novel set in St. Paul in the 1920s. A former newspaper editor, Reimringer teaches writing and literature at several Twin Cities colleges and lives in the Hamline-Midway neighborhood of St. Paul with his wife, the poet Katrina Vandenberg.

    Katrina Vandenberg is the author of Atlas (Milkweed Editions), a finalist for the Minnesota Book Award, and co-author of a fine-arts letterpress chapbook, On Marriage (Red Dragonfly Press). She has received fellowships and grants from the MacDowell Colony and the Bush, McKnight, and Fulbright foundations. New essays and poems appear in Orion, Poets and Writers, Post Road, and other magazines. This fall she will serve as the resident fellow at the Amy Clampitt House near Lenox, MA.

    This Carol Connolly Reading is sponsored in part by Banfill-Locke Center for the Arts.

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  • The Carol Connolly Reading Series Speculations Monday, May 19, 2008 6:30 PM at DreamHaven Books 912 W Lake St, Minneapolis Free and open to the public

    Hosted by Eric Heideman

    Featuring:
    William Alexander has published stories in Weird Tales and Zahir, and contributes regularly to Rain Taxi. He has been honorably mentioned in the two most recent Year's Best Fantasy & Horror, was a Finalist for the Calvino Prize, and has been nominated twice for a Pushcart. He also attended the Clarion Science Fiction and Fantasy Writing Workshop in 2006. In 2008 his work will appear in Postscripts 14 (Spring) & 16 (Autumn), Lady Churchill's Rosebud Wristlet, and Fantasy: The Year's Best 2008.

    Speculations is a co-production with SF Minnesota, a multicultural speculative fiction organization. Readings run until 7:30 and are followed by a reception with free soda pop and cookies.

    This Carol Connolly Reading is sponsored in part by DreamHaven Books.

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  • The Carol Connolly Reading Series GLBT Reading Series Wednesday, May 28, 2008 7:00 PM at Intermedia Arts 2822 Lyndale Avenue South, Minneapolis Free and open to the public

    Hosted by John Medeiros and Andrea Jenkins

    Featuring:
    Emily Lloyd is the author of the award-winning chapbook The Most Daring of Transplants* (Argonne House Press, 2004). Her poems and essays have appeared in Bloom, Court Green, Smartish Pace, Phoebe, McSweeney's, The Bedside Guide to No Tell Motel, and others. The recipient of a spot in the 2007-2008 Loft Mentor Series, Emily works as a librarian with Hennepin County and teaches spoken word and storytelling at the Urban Arts Academy in Minneapolis.

    Theresa Ballard's poems have appeared in Hunger Mountain, The Massachusetts Review, Mid-American Review, Pleiades, Poetry Northwest, The Drunken Boat, Paumanok Review, as well as other literary journals. She was chosen by the Mid-American Review as Editor’s Choice for The James Wright Poetry Award and as the Editor’s Choice for Best New Poet’s 2006 by Eric Pankey. She received a SASE/Jerome Grant from Intermedia Arts in 2007 and a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant in January of 2008. She been nominated three times for the Pushcart Prize and has finally finished her first manuscript of poetry.

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