New at the Attic Institute

We're partnering with Stonehenge Studios for two nights of readings with the Atheneum Class of 2012. Fiction. Nonfiction. Poetry. May 30 and June 6.

Listen and Enjoy:

Attic Atheneum Class of 2012 Annual Reading

 

May 30, 7pm: Sarah Thomas, Philip Sauerbeck, Elizabeth Hickey, Amy Racely, Celeste Hamilton Dennis, Cynthia Dettman

June 6, 7pm: Kristine Mijares, Mark Reed, Tina Tau, Tricia Knoll, Brian Benson

Stonehenge Studios: 3508 SW Corbett

 

Miss Lit answers a new question: "HELP! SOCIAL MEDIA IS TAKING OVER MY WRITING TIME!"

http://financialsocialmedia.com/wp-content/uploads/2012/02/social-media-bandwagon.jpgDear Miss Lit --

I used to be such a focused writer. When it was time to write, all I did was write. Then I started spending time submitting my work to literary magazines. And then I started getting involved with Facebook and Twitter and blogging. And going to readings and workshops and looking for an agent and shmoozing with other writers. And on and on and on. The problem is that now, when it is time to write, I've got a million other writing-related tasks to accomplish, and so I spend a frighteningly small amount of time actually writing. My other writer friends think that things are going great for me, because it looks like that from the outside. But in reality, I'm horrified with myself for how little I actually write these days. Any advice? Thank you thank you thank you!

Signed,
Shamefully-spread-too-thin

Read Miss Lit's answer

Attic Institute Associate Fellows and Atheneum faculty Karen Karbo and Cheryl Strayed to appear at the Los Angeles Times Book Festival April 21-22

 

Karbo and Strayed, the current kick-a**, wild leaders of the Atheneum's team nonfiction head to L.A. 

Learn more about the Atheneum, the Attic Institute's ground-breaking alternative to the low-residency M.F.A.

You're invited to a free information meeting about the Attic Atheneum: Thursday, May 3, 7:30pm

The Attic Atheneum is a unique ten month program for writers of fiction, nonfiction, and poetry.

If you're interested in learning more about how to focus on your writing for a nearly a year in our alternative to the low-residency MFA offering, come on up Thursday, May 3, 7:30pm. It's free. There'll be treats.

And remember: The deadline to apply for the Atheneum class of 2013 is May 30.

R. S. V. P. required

Associate Fellow Paulann Petersen reappointed Oregon's poet laureate

Congratulations to Attic Institute Associate Fellow Paulann Petersen

Reappointed by Oregon Gov. John Kitzhaber to a second term, Paulann is Oregon's sixth poet laureate since 1921 and the second woman to have the title.

"Not only is she widely respected in the literary world, her commitment to bringing poetry to the people of Oregon makes her an ideal laureate for reappointment," Kitzhaber said in a statement on April 12, 2012.

Yuvi Zalkow joins the Attic Institute as an Adjunct Fellow

Yuvi Zalkow, novelist and literary-tech raconteur

We are delighted to announce that Yuvi Zalkow has been appointed Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute and will begin working with writers on a variety of subjects from fiction to e-books beginning this summer. Yuvi's novel, A Brilliant Novel in the Works, is due out later this year. He is the creator and host of the amazing video series, "I'm a Failed Writer."

 

Lee Montgomery joins the Attic Institute as an Adjunct Fellow

Lee Montgomery, Writer and Editor

We are pleased to announce that writer and editor Lee Montgomery has been appointed Adjunct Fellow at the Attic Institute. Lee will teach non-fiction in the Atheneum for 2012-2013. Joining Lee as Atheneum faculty are David Biespiel, Wendy Willis, Karen Karbo, G. Xavier Robillard, and Merridawn Duckler. Applications for the Atheneum are due May 30.

Applications for Atheneum class of 2013 are due by May 30th

Apply to the Attic Atheneum

Groundbreaking alternative to the M.F.A. 

The Attic Atheneum melds independent study under close faculty supervision, student receptions, public readings, and other special Atheneum events created around good food and great conversation, dialogue, and literary community.

Learn how to advance your writing through the Atheneum

Join the Atheneum class of 2013

 

Adjunct Fellow and 'Buried in the Sky' author Peter Zuckerman to teach new sequence of nuts and bolts workshops

 
We examine the concepts, titles, first sentences, first chapters, characters, plot structures and first chapters of the books and stories that make it to print. For fiction and non-fiction writers. After this class, you should have your book or story started, have an idea of where it is going , and know how you're going to get it there. Writers will bring their pages and read from them. Half seminar, half workshop. For fiction and non-fiction writers.
 
 
 

 

Class 1: Concepts, titles, first sentences

Class 2: Characterization

Class 3: Plots

Class 4: The First Chapter

 

 

Kerry Cohen joins the Attic Institute as an Adjunct Fellow

Kerry Cohen: Young adult novelist, memoirist, and writer

Kerry is the author of six books, including Loose Girl: A Memoir of Promiscuity; Seeing Ezra: A Mother's Story of Autism, Unconditional Love, and The Meaning of Normal; Dirty Little Secrets: Breaking the Silence on Teenage Girls and Promiscuity; and the three young adult novels Easy, The Good Girl, and It's Not You, It's Me. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, The Washington Post, Psychology Today, and many other anthologies and journals.

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Notes from David Biespiel, President of the Attic Institute

 

Letter announcing the new Attic Institute

"Eleven years have gone by in a blink. But today begins a new era as we renew our dedication both to the word and to the world."

 

Interview about the founding of the Attic Institute

"All sorts of excellent pieces of writing get started and finished here. That's what it means to be a literary studio."

 

Farewell commentary as editor of Poetry Northwest: " A Sense of Form and A Sense of Life"

"I realize now that the divide between Modernist American poetry and, let's call it, Rilkean American poetry is largely unnecessary. Poetry can be both a repository of wisdom and contain revolutionary feeling -- even in the same poem."

 

Essay on poets and democracy in Poetry magazine: "This Land Is Our Land"

"America's poets have a minimal presene in American civic discourse and a miniscule public role in the life of American democracy. I find this condition perplexing and troubling -- both for poetry and for democracy."