Another ... er, bull-shoot writers' conference in Suck City?
No, it's the Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers' Conference at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach.
The conference will be Jan. 11 through Jan. 15 at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach. The conference includes workshops and readings by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn (author of "Another Bull---- Night in Suck City" and "The Ticking Is the Bomb"), poet Gregory Orr, ("How Beautiful the Beloved," "The Blessing"), novelist and poet Terese Svoboda ("Trailer Girl and Other Stories," "Weapons Grade") and novelist and short story writer Rick Moody ("Garden State," "The Ice Storm," "The Diviners").
Registration deadline is 4 p.m. Jan. 8. Cost is $1,475 for onsite (includes meals and a room on the ACA campus), $1,150 offsite (includes meals but not on-campus lodging).
The four featured writers will be giving readings, open to the public, at the ACA campus. Admission is $10 per reading, ACA members $8. Also, workshop participants will give a free reading at the conclusion of the conference.
For more information or to register, call 386-427-6975, ext. 16, or go online at bfawwc.com.
Here's the schedule of readings:
Nick Flynn, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 11. Flynn's critically acclaimed memoir, "Another Bull---- Night in Suck City," details his experiences in his late 20s working at a Boston homeless shelter -- where he frequently encountered his drunk, down-and-out father. The memoir is scheduled to become a film starring Robert De Niro and Casey Affleck.
Flynn also is the author of two books of poetry, "Some Ether" and "Blind Huber." His poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, Paris Review, National Public Radio's "This American Life" and The New York Times Book Review.
"The Ticking Is the Bomb," his new memoir, is scheduled to be released Jan. 18. In that work Flynn explores raising a daughter in an age of terror and torture, and his attempts to connect to his mother, who committed suicide.
Gregory Orr, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12. Orr's short, lyric free verse has appeared in 10 collections of poetry, including "The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems," "Orpheus and Eurydice," "City of Salt" and his most recent volume, "How Beautiful the Beloved."
He also wrote the memoir "The Blessing," and a book about the art of poetry, "Poetry as Survival."
Rick Moody, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13. Writing in Booklist, critic Eloise Kinney called Moody's novel "The Ice Storm" an "Updikean version of the 1970s: upper-middle-class discontents expressed through fumbling adventures on the sexual frontier." The novel was made into a 1997 movie directed by Ang Lee.
Moody's short fiction and journalism have been anthologized in "Best American Stories 2001," "Best American Essays 2004" and "Year's Best Science Fiction #9."
His new novel, "The Four Fingers of Death," is due in July.
Terese Svoboda, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14.
Readings by participants in the Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers' Conference, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15.
No, it's the Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers' Conference at the Atlantic Center for the Arts in New Smyrna Beach.
The conference will be Jan. 11 through Jan. 15 at the Atlantic Center for the Arts, 1414 Art Center Avenue, New Smyrna Beach. The conference includes workshops and readings by poet and memoirist Nick Flynn (author of "Another Bull---- Night in Suck City" and "The Ticking Is the Bomb"), poet Gregory Orr, ("How Beautiful the Beloved," "The Blessing"), novelist and poet Terese Svoboda ("Trailer Girl and Other Stories," "Weapons Grade") and novelist and short story writer Rick Moody ("Garden State," "The Ice Storm," "The Diviners").
Registration deadline is 4 p.m. Jan. 8. Cost is $1,475 for onsite (includes meals and a room on the ACA campus), $1,150 offsite (includes meals but not on-campus lodging).
The four featured writers will be giving readings, open to the public, at the ACA campus. Admission is $10 per reading, ACA members $8. Also, workshop participants will give a free reading at the conclusion of the conference.
For more information or to register, call 386-427-6975, ext. 16, or go online at bfawwc.com.
Here's the schedule of readings:
Nick Flynn, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 11. Flynn's critically acclaimed memoir, "Another Bull---- Night in Suck City," details his experiences in his late 20s working at a Boston homeless shelter -- where he frequently encountered his drunk, down-and-out father. The memoir is scheduled to become a film starring Robert De Niro and Casey Affleck.
Flynn also is the author of two books of poetry, "Some Ether" and "Blind Huber." His poems, essays and non-fiction have appeared in include The New Yorker, Paris Review, National Public Radio's "This American Life" and The New York Times Book Review.
"The Ticking Is the Bomb," his new memoir, is scheduled to be released Jan. 18. In that work Flynn explores raising a daughter in an age of terror and torture, and his attempts to connect to his mother, who committed suicide.
Gregory Orr, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 12. Orr's short, lyric free verse has appeared in 10 collections of poetry, including "The Caged Owl: New and Selected Poems," "Orpheus and Eurydice," "City of Salt" and his most recent volume, "How Beautiful the Beloved."
He also wrote the memoir "The Blessing," and a book about the art of poetry, "Poetry as Survival."
Rick Moody, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 13. Writing in Booklist, critic Eloise Kinney called Moody's novel "The Ice Storm" an "Updikean version of the 1970s: upper-middle-class discontents expressed through fumbling adventures on the sexual frontier." The novel was made into a 1997 movie directed by Ang Lee.
Moody's short fiction and journalism have been anthologized in "Best American Stories 2001," "Best American Essays 2004" and "Year's Best Science Fiction #9."
His new novel, "The Four Fingers of Death," is due in July.
Terese Svoboda, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 14.
Readings by participants in the Blue Flower Arts Winter Writers' Conference, 7:30 p.m. Jan. 15.
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