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Updates and Announcements from Accents Publishing

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Dear Friends and Fans of Accents Publishing,

Happy Spring! In Kentucky we’re starting to see new leaves on trees. We spent a busy and productive winter and can’t wait to tell you about our latest accomplishments, opportunities and announcements. Please, read on.

 

New Book

Novella Contest Results

Literary Accents Update

Poetry Class and Manuscript Analysis Workshop

 

New Book

We’re very excited to present Christopher McCurry’s first full-length poetry collection, Open Burning.  It’s a gorgeous hardcover volume, and the poems detail the fallout of a young couple’s divorce. Click on the title to read a sample poem and to learn more about the book and the author. To browse our catalog, please click here.

 

Novella Contest Results

Accents Publishing is proud to announce the results of its Inaugural Novella Competition!

The winning novella is Homegoing, by Toni Ann Johnson!

Toni Ann Johnson will receive the $500.00 award and publication of her manuscript in a separate book volume. Those who have purchased in advance a copy of the winning novella will receive it as soon as the book is out.

We read many wonderful submissions and selected the following manuscripts as finalists:

Under the Seal, by Carol Mauriello

A Hollow, Muscular Organ, by Meg Files

Cheeseburgers, by Dean Crawford

City of Foam, by Ryan Slater

Moonlit Landing, by Ari McKenna

Things Are Not So Ill as They Might Have Been, by Scott Winokur

Accents Publishing is offering publication to the first three of these finalists.

Tremendous gratitude to everyone who sent manuscripts for consideration. We appreciate your trust and support. Please keep in touch. We hope to read your work again in the future.

 

Literary Accents Call for submissions

We’re still finishing up Issue #3 of Literary Accents. We hope to be able to send it to the printer within weeks.

We’re still reading submissions for Issue #4. The theme of Issue #4 is “breakup and heartbreak”. Send 3 – 5 poems to accents.publishing@gmail.com by April 30th. We look forward to reading your work.

 

Poetry Class

Katerina Stoykova (Owner and Senior Editor of Accents Publishing) is seeking eight to ten committed poets for a fast-paced six-week writing class in person or online. In each session, the poets will workshop a poem, then listen to a craft lecture and/or participate in a writing exercise. March 26th to April 23rd. Thursdays, 6 – 8 pm at The Pam Miller Downtown Arts Center. Price for the six-week class: $120. To reserve your space in the class, write to accents.publishing@gmail.com. Deadline to apply: March 16th

 

Manuscript Analysis Workshop and a Poetry Class

Looking for 4 – 5 poets with nearly-ready book-length manuscripts for a weekend-long manuscript analysis workshop lead by Katerina Stoykova (Owner and Senior Editor of Accents). You can participate in person or remotely via Skype. Price: $250. For more information or to reserve your spot, please write to accents.publishing@gmail.com. Exact dates TBD based on participant availability.  Deadline to apply: March 31st

 

Thank you, everyone, for reading to the very end of this email. We appreciate you! Best wishes from the team at Accents Publishing.

 

New Accents Blog Intern: Community Liaison Jiv Johnson

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Jiv Johnson

Jiv Johnson, indecisive over which drink to choose at a Cracker Barrel.

Hello everyone! My name is Jiv Johnson and I’m extraordinarily grateful to be the new intern for Accents Publishing. I guess I should probably talk a little about myself and what I’ll be bringing to the writing community here in Lexington and beyond.

I’m 18 and from Mount Sterling, Kentucky. Currently, I’m a freshman at the University of Kentucky pursuing a BA in English and a minor in Appalachian Studies. I’ve been writing poetry pretty much most of my life. However, I’m more interested in the advocacy for writing in general; I’ve always found that writing seems to be an underrated art-form in a lot of artistic communities, always considered an accompanying art to other medias. Thankfully, I’ve found a position here at Accents where I’ll be doing what I love: writing about writing.

My job here will be focused on expanding communications between Accents and the greater writing community. What this means, really, is that I’ll be publishing posts and keeping any readers of the blog more up-to-date on literary happenings around the region. Outside the region, I’ll be giving more wide-ranging news on writing events such as national conferences Accents is participating in or successes of Accents writers beyond Lexington. Through some outreach to other publishing companies or writing projects, I’ll hopefully help bridge a gap between the Accents community and the overall national/international artistic conversation. The blog will still be focused on Accents related writing/authors—I’ll just be communicating more with local writing havens around town such as The Wild Fig, Morris Book Store, and countless others. I’ll also be contacting individual writers before any releases about book readings or writing events to make a more personal post about their work.

I look forward to bringing more writing news to everyone!

 

Author Update: Emily R. Grosholz

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Emily R. Grosholz is teaching a seminar called “Poetry, Time and Space” at Writing the Rockies in July.

Writing the Rockies is an intensive creative writing retreat at Western State Colorado University from July 22-July 26. Emily’s three-day seminar will look over “Cosmologies” (such as a Platonic, Biblical, Copernican) in order to investigate the relationship between time and space in the work of such poets as Chaucer, Marlowe, Spenser, Dryden, and others.

For more information, you can download this PDF from the Western State website.

For more information:

emily_grosholz_smEmily Grosholz grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and has taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University for thirty-five years, with sojourns in France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece, Spain and Italy. She and her husband Robert R. Edwards (medievalist, rugbyman, and soccer coach) raised four children in State College, Pennsylvania, surrounded by small farms and green hills on one side and the town and university on the other. She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review,and this is her seventh book of poetry.

Accents on The Best American Poetry Blog

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a copy of The Best American Poetry's newest anthology

a copy of The Best American Poetry’s newest anthology

Award-winning poet Karen Schubert recently interviewed Katerina for the Best American Poetry Blog.

In the interview, Karen asks, “Does poetry and publishing poetry serve to deepen your connection to your chosen community?” to which Katerina responds:

I think the most productive way to feel connected to a community is to work to serve it, to give of yourself.

The interview reads more like an informal conversation between Karen and Katerina, and primarily discusses Accents’ mission of promoting brilliant voices and fostering an exchange in literature among different cultures.

Katerina also shares a poem from Brandel France de Bravo’s Mother, Loose, and discusses the importance of translating and sharing Bulgarian poetry, such as in The Season of Delicate Hunger.

Check out the interview here, and be sure to check out Lit Youngstown, the blog that Karen Schubert runs with Kris Harrington and Liz Hill, as well as Karen Schubert’s personal blog.

 

Proud Citizen—Encore Screening

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The Kentucky Theatre will host a second screening of Proud Citizen today at 7pm.

If you haven’t seen the film, it follows Bulgarian playwright (and phone company employee) Krasimira Stanimirova (Katerina Stoykova-Klemer) as she comes to Kentucky to see her play brought to life. The film is a funny, contemplative look at what it’s like to be a stranger in a strange land as well as a creative force yearning for acceptance and understanding.

The film features the acting of Natalie E. Cummins, Leif Erickson, Ryan Case, and Blakeley Burger as the local theatre company putting on Krasimira’s play and Judy Sanders, Sami Allison, and Elliott Moore Haynes as some of the locals she meets along the way.

If you’ve seen the film and would like to share your thoughts, please visit the Proud Citizen Facebook page and tell the cast and crew!

Press and related links for Proud Citizen:

When: Tuesday, January 27, 2015 @ 7pm
Where: The Kentucky Theatre
214 E. Main St.
Lexington, KY 40507
(859) 231-7924

Proud Citizen: Opens Today!

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Proud Citizen

poster by Cricket Press

The Lexington premiere of Proud Citizen is tonight at 7:30pm at the Kentucky Theatre. Tickets are selling fast, so you can pick them up at 5pm at the box office or online by clicking here.

For those interested in what others have to say, below is a list of some of the press the film has been receiving.

As mentioned previously, the film starts at 7:30pm tonight, but Kremena Todorova and JD Lester will be hosting a potluck at 6:30, so feel free to come early and show off your cooking skills.

Other helpful links:

Proud Citizen Lexington Premiere

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proudcitizenrevlaurels2Proud Citizen, a feature-length film shot almost entirely in Lexington with a local cast, will make its Lexington premiere on January 15th, 2015 at 7:30 at the Kentucky Theater. Tickets are $6.00.

After winning second place in a play writing contest, Bulgarian Krasimira Stanimirova travels to the rolling hills of Kentucky for the premiere of her autobiographical, Communist-era play Black Coat. Expecting southern hospitality, Krasi instead finds herself isolated and lonely as she explores America on foot. Proud Citizen is a funny, sometimes heartbreaking meditation on disappointment, traveling, the comfort of strangers and the joy of funnel cakes.

Directed by Thom Southerland and featuring Katerina Stoykova-Klemer in the lead role, the film has gathered awards such as “Best of the Fest” and “Best Narrative Feature” and “Audience Favorite” from New Orleans Film Festival, River’s Edge International Film Festival, Knoxville Film Festival, and others.

More information about the film, as well as a trailer can be found at ProudCitizenTheMovie.com

Childhood by Emily R. Grosholz, & Lucy Vines

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ChildhoodAccents is proud to announce our first illustrated book, Childhood, written by accomplished poet Emily R. Grosholz with drawings by the Parisian artist Lucy Vines.

Childhood is a heartwarming collection about childbirth and adoption, about children and parents; and a fixed percentage of sales will go to an international nonprofit organization that works to protect and encourage children worldwide by providing food and water, medical attention, shelter from violence, and education. (Click here for more information.)

What others are saying about Childhood and Emily R. Grosholz:

These eloquent, edgy poems write of youth and parenting in powerful ways. They also go well beyond that, in addressing childhood as revelation […]

–Eavon Boland,
Professor of English, Stanford University

 

Emily Grosholz is a singular presence in American letters—a poet-philosopher whose brilliant verse on science, mathematics and ideas has been justly praised.

–Dana Gioia,
Past Director, National Endowment for the Arts

Childhood by Emily Grosholz reminds me of how delightful, invigorating, and at the same time humbling my experience of parenthood was.

–Tadatoshi Akiba,
Past President, Mayors for Peace

Childhood will be available October 15th, 2014 and is currently available for pre-order from the Accents Store.

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Emily R. Grosholz grew up in the suburbs of Philadelphia, and has taught philosophy at the Pennsylvania State University for thirty-five years, with sojourns in France, England, Germany, the Netherlands, Israel, Finland, Costa Rica, Russia, Greece, Spain and Italy. She and her husband Robert R. Edwards (medievalist, rugby man, and soccer coach) raised four children in State College, Pennsylvania, surrounded by small farms and green hills on one side and the town and university on the other. She is an advisory editor for The Hudson Review, and this is her seventh book of poetry.

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Lucy Vines was born in 1929 in Hartford, Connecticut. She was raised in New York City, then came to France during the McCarthy era and has lived in Paris ever since, in a milieu of writers and painters. She is married and has one child. The Morat Foundation in Freiburg, Germany, the École des Beaux-Arts in Nîmes, France, and the Maison de l’Amérique Latine in Paris have held retrospective shows devoted to her work. Her works are untitled.