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MAD about Words and the Kerouac House feature Sion Dayson

Sion

The Jack Kerouac Writer-in-Residence Project of Orlando partners with MAD about Words to offer you the opportunity to learn from and write with Sion Dayson, the current writer-in-residence at Kerouac House, at a workshop there on February 8th, from 10 a.m. – 1 p.m.
Sion Dayson is an American writer living in Paris, France. Her work has appeared in The Wall Street Journal, Hunger Mountain, Utne Reader, Numero Cinq, Smokelong Quarterly (contest winner) and several anthologies including Strangers in Paris and Seek It: Writers and Artists Do Sleep, among other venues. She has previously won a Barbara Deming Award for her fiction and her novel manuscript placed on the Short List for Finalists in the William Faulkner-William Wisdom Creative Writing Competition. Sion holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts.

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Florida State Poets Association Seeks Support for Florida Poet Laureate

Florida State Senator Hukill introduced SB 290 to create an official Florida poet laureate. This is an honorary position that costs the state no money, but will support poetry education in the state.  The Florida State Poets Association supports the bill, which has passed out of its first committee and will now be considered by other committees and hopefully brought to the floor for a vote.  We are asking all Floridians to write their state senator and legislator to let them know they support the bill.

The FSPA appreciates everyone’s support to help get the bill passed.

Also, the Orlando Area Poets, the local chapter of the FSPA, meets the third Thursday of every month in the Maitland Library, at 6:30 PM.  The next meeting is Thursday, 12/19/13.