Friday, September 24 — featuring Katherine Grace Bond, Amber Flame and Marjorie Manwaring from the Jack Straw program
Katherine Grace Bond has written or contributed to more than 20 books, including the bestselling Legend of the Valentine (Zonderkidz) and Peculiar Pilgrims: Stories from Left Hand of God, edited by Linda Wendling (Hourglass Books). Katherine has 140 additional publishing credits include short fiction, poetry, essays, and articles (and even a comic strip!). Her work has appeared in Arabesques, Beyond Magazine,
and Margin: An Online Journal of Magical Realism. Katherine has focused on teen writers since the early 90s, believing that creative communities save lives. To this end, she teaches teens at Bellevue College in Bellevue, Washington, and at several other schools. She is also the creator of Teen Write, an acting/writing camp modeled on the Hero’s Journey, which holds quarterly overnights and a four-day event in August. She is at work on a Young Adult novel. Find Katherine at www.KatherineGraceBond.com. |
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Amber Flame is an award-winning artist, activist, and educator who performs extensively in Seattle. Whether exploring rhythmic and harmonic structures as a framework for spoken word or blending voice in song, she tests genre and medium boundaries. Amber’s newest one-woman play, entitled “Hands Above The Covers: Hairy Palms & Other Nightmares of a Church Kid,” is debuting in late June with funding through the City of Seattle’s Office of Arts & Cultural Affairs. She is also currently at work recording a new album of original music with her band, Last of the RedHot Mamas, as well as writing her first novel under the auspices of Jack Straw Artist Support and Writers Programs. She is the big brain behind A Flame Production, a visionary, collective project, as well as a member of Sankofa, an African-American women’s choir. |
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Marjorie Manwaring lives in Seattle, where she is a freelance writer and an editor for the online poetry and art journal the DMQ Review (www.dmqreview.com). Her work has been published in a variety of journals, and her chapbook Magic Word was published in 2007. Marjorie is a Pushcart Prize nominee, a 2010 Jack Straw Writer, and she has been awarded writing residencies through the Whiteley Center at Friday Harbor on San Juan Island and Artsmith on Orcas Island. You can read more of her work at www.mmanwaring.com. |
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September's emcee: Michael Dylan Welch |
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