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What's Happening

Playwrights Roundtable at the Orlando Fringe Festival

Playwrights Roundtable’s 2010 Fringe Festival production, Who Murdered Winthrop Carlson: A Choose Your Own (Mis)Adventure Mystery, is at the Blue Venue at Fringe!

Tickets are available online at www.orlandofringe.org and at the box office located at the Lowdnes Shakespeare Center. Tickets are $10 general admission and $8 for PRT members, seniors, students with ID, and our Fellow Fringe artists.

Remember, folks, that this price does not include the Fringe button needed to gain admission to ANY Fringe shows; these cost just $8 at the main door.

Who Murdered Winthrop Carlson isn’t the only show with PRT ties. Winthrop scribe David Strauss and longtime PRT member Nicole Antonia Carson also will have their splendid mashup Annie Todd: The Demon Orphan of Fleet Street in the Green Venue.

PRT vets Larry Stallings, Alex Carroll and Kimberly Luffman, along with Joe Glass, present Words with the Detective at the Red Venue.

Marcie Schwalm, who has performed in a number of PRT productions, offers Ironhead: Quest for the Ring of the Dark Evil Lord of Evil Darkness in the Pink Venue.

Support your local PRT artists, folks!

Calls for Submissions

Seeking art and writing submissions for MUSE

The LIT is excited to announce that MUSE, its quarterly literary journal, is going thematic! Art images and literary submissions relating to the themes of “Imprisonment” (June), “Drama” (September) and “Otherness” (December) are being sought. Send submissions to images4muse@the-lit.org or words4muse@the-lit.org. Be sure to include your contact information and indicate which issue or theme your work is being submitted for.

Complete submission guidelines can be found on The LIT’s website: www.the-lit.org

There are several other calls for submissions to the LIT at that website, so check it out.

What's Happening

Maitland Poets & Writers Readings

Event: Maitland Poets & Writers Readings
Location: Lake Lily Park
840 Lake Lily Drive
Maitland , FL 32751
Website: http://www.pamaitland.org/mpw
When: two Sundays a month during the Maitland Farmer’s Market; other PAM special events
Director/Organizer: Vanessa Blakeslee, 407-310-2464 or vblakeslee@gmail.com
Maitland Poets & Writers Reading Series runs on two Sundays a month at Lake Lily Park in Maitland, plus other special events in which the Performing Arts of Maitland takes part. The event has two available time slots (11 a.m. and noon) for featured writers and poets to read from their work. The Performing Arts of Maitland sponsors local songwriters, singers and musicians every Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm at the Maitland Farmer’s Market, and the Maitland Poets & Writers Readings take place between the music acts.
On the Sundays in which Maitland Poets & Writers hosts readings in Lake Lily Park, we also offer creative writing workshops (limited to 12 participants) from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Cottage at Lake Lily. The workshops are led by your reading host and MPW Director, Vanessa Blakeslee, and follow the Amherst Writers & Artists™ method. Please contact Vanessa for information on how to register for a workshop. No fee to attend, but PAM asks workshop participants to make a donation. Maitland Poets & Writers Workshop proceeds solely benefit Maitland Poets & Writers and enable Performing Arts of Maitland to continue to bring literary opportunities to the community.

Pre-registration for Sunday workshops is required – come join the fun!
Upcoming Featured Readers:
May 16th
11 am Tod Caviness
Noon-Stacy Barton
May 30th:
11 a.m.-Suzy Spraker
Noon-Dale Slongwhite
June 6th:
11 a.m.-Calypso Strawn
Noon Chris McClelland
June 20th:
11 a.m. – Gerry Wolfson-Grande
Noon – Russell Mangum
Vanessa Blakeslee is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2009 she received grants and fellowships from the United Arts of Central Florida, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. Her short fiction is forthcoming in The Bellingham Review, The Saranac Review, and Harpur Palate. In 2010 her poetry will appear in The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Hiram Poetry Review, among others. She is currently at work on a novel.
Please visit www.vanessablakeslee.com for more information.