All posts by Darlyn Finch Kuhn

News Writing or How I Decided to Save the World One Bowl Game at a Time

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FWA’s Rik Feeney (Who Never, EVER Exaggerates) has this to say:

Join us February 3rd at 6:30 pm at the University Club in Winter Park where world famous, literary giant, associate editor, and journalist without compare, Jeffrey Rembert will show us how his news writing approach will bring order to your initial draft. Rembert says, “I’m not as tall as you’d think, or as young, and my drawl only kicks in when I’m drinking.” Hard to believe he may actually be responsible for protecting First Amendment rights. The talk is free and open to the public. Contact Rik Feeney for more information at usabookcoach@gmail.com.

 

Directions to Orlando FWA Meeting site

The University Club of Winter Park, 841 N. Park Ave., Winter Park, FL 32789

From I-4 East or West, take the Lee Road exit and head East toward the Atlantic Ocean. Lee Road will dead end at 17-92 (Orlando Ave.) where you will make a right turn, then get immediately into the left turn lane to make a left on Webster. Follow Webster through a light at Denning, then another light at the railroad tracks, then you will come to a stop sign, actually stop, then before the next stop sign (which is Park Ave) you will turn left into the University Club. Park your car in the grass, then walk up the ramp to the side door. Enter and keep going to your left inside to the library where we hold the meeting.

Blue Territory: a meditation on the life and art of Joan Mitchell

Fri Feb 5th 7.00pm – 8.30pm

“Robin Lippincott’s Blue Territory avoids the tedium of a detailed life chronicle. Instead he delivers a beautiful meditative essay that captures Joan Mitchell’s essence. Mitchell was an immensely innovative and acclaimed painter who was a part of a very male abstract expressionist world. As the world has changed she has gradually overcome some of the under appreciation that comes with being a woman in what was viewed as a man’s environment. Lippincott’s poetic compilation of several moments of Joan’s life, gives us insight into her genius and humanity.”
Pat Greene, curator/director Gallery of Avalon Island

About the author: Robin Lippincott has two books new books: Blue Territory: A Meditation on the Life and Art of Joan Mitchell, his take on the American abstract expressionist painter. And in the spring of 2016, Robin’s collaboration with Spalding MFA graduate Julia Watts, Rufus + Syd, a novel for young adults, will be released. Robin is also the author of the novels In the Meantime, Our Arcadia, and Mr. Dalloway, as well as a short story collection, The ‘I’ Rejected. Robin’s fiction has received nominations for the IMPAC Dublin Literary Award, the Pushcart Prize, the American Library Association Roundtable Award, the Independent Book Award, and the Lambda Literary Award. For ten years he reviewed mostly art and photography books for The New York Times Book Review. His fiction and nonfiction have appeared in over thirty journals, including The Paris Review, Fence, Bloom, American Short Fiction, Memorious, The Literary Review, Provincetown Arts, The Louisville Review, and The Bloomsbury Review, and his fiction has been anthologized in The Women We Love, M2M: New Literary Fiction, as well as Rebel Yell and Rebel Yell 2. He has held many fellowships at Yaddo, and a fellowship at the MacDowell Colony. He lives in the Boston area.

The Bohemian Woods: Writer’s Consortium

Tue Feb 2nd 8.00pm – 10.00pm
The Imperial at Washburn Imports1800 N Orange Ave, Orlando, FL 32804, USA map 

Contemporary literature doesn’t get more contemporary as Orlando’s sharpest writers read prose and poetry inspired by current events. It might get political. It might get personal. It won’t get predictable. 8-10 pm every 1st Tuesday at The Imperial at Washburn Imports. Host Tod Caviness assembles his favorite bards against humanity for a night of poetry and prose inspired by current events.
February’s writers are:

Vanessa Blakeslee
Tom Lucas
Matt Matrisciano
Thad McCollum
Meg Sefton