 Robin Cody We received a press release from Paper Gardens Writing Contest which is not surprising since Paper Gardens is one of AAYC's longest running programs. Send in those poems or that creative impassioned essay on the plight of polar bears or the short story you've been let ferment. No sense in having them float in the cyber drawer of you computer.
Arts Alliance invites those who reside, study, or work in Yamhill County to participate in the 21st Paper Gardens Writing Contest. Author Robin Cody will be the 2014 judge. The Arts Alliance of Yamhill County invites submissions to the 21th annual Paper Gardens Writing Contest. Open to all who live, study, or work in Yamhill County ages 6 and up, Paper Gardens is a wonderful creative writing outlet to encourage and recognize the excellence of local writers. Postmark Deadline for entries is March 1, 2014. Portland writer Robin Cody will be the guest judge for 2014. Cody is the author of Ricochet River (Alfred A. Knopf, 1992), a novel. In 2005, The Oregon Cultural Heritage Commission recognized Ricochet River as one of the 100 essential “Oregon books.” Voyage of a Summer Sun is the non-fiction account of Cody's 82-day solo canoe trip down the Columbia River, from its source in Canada to its mouth at Astoria. With Voyage, Cody won the 1995 Oregon Book Award for literary nonfiction, and the 1996 Pacific Northwest Booksellers Association Book Award. His most recent book, Another Way the River Has, is a collection of short true stories published by Oregon State University Press in 2010. Paper Gardens features two main categories; poetry and prose, and encompasses three age groups: children (ages six to 12), youth (ages 13 to 18), and adults (19 and above). The prose category includes subcategories of short story and creative non-fiction, and is limited to one submission per person. Poetry has five subcategories: traditional, free verse, haiku, tanka, and poetry-of-place. Writers may submit up to three poems for each category or subcategory. The Poetry-of-Place subcategory is specifically intended for poems written about or inspired by places in Yamhill County. Because Paper Gardens is a writing contest for Yamhill County, work inspired by our local surroundings is a natural fit for the competition. The entry fee for adults is $5. Children and youth submissions are free of charge. The judge will select three winners in each category, and the winning poems will be published in the 2014 Paper Gardens Chapbook. The winning authors will receive a free chapbook and certificate of recognition, and will be invited to read their work at the awards ceremony April 18th at Chemeketa Community College, McMinnville. Entry Form and additional details may be found at: AAYC website. Submissions can be sent to: Paper Gardens, c/o Mike Santone, P.O. Box 1334, McMinnville OR 97128. The postmark deadline is March 1, 2014. Questions to artsyamhillcounty@gmail.com Posted by AAYC Blog No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Arts Education, Paper Gardens, writing AAYC Blog Our programs seek to encourage creativity in all of the Arts
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 Mike Santone
I will be editing the AAYC Blog in 2014 to help the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County to continue to educate, to encourage creativity, and to entertain members and the community about the Arts in our beautiful Yamhill County. For most of its existence the Arts Alliance of Yamhill County has produced a newsletter, with the catchy title "AAYC News". Five or six years ago the newsletter changed its name to "AAYC Quarterly", because for many years the newsletter was published quarterly; Spring, Summer, Fall, and Winter. For a number of reasons, some of which, like many print based media, have to do with the cost of production and distribution, the AAYC Quarterly could not continue. You can read the AAYC Quarterly Newsletters from 2008 to 2013. With sadness Winter 2013 was the last issue. In early December, Gail Watson, AAYC Board member and last newsletter designer/editor/printer, came over to my house to talk about the passing of the newsletter and other things. She told me the last issue of the newsletter was the LAST issue. I had been Editor of the AAYC News in 2006 and 2007. I enjoyed being editor, writing articles, soliciting writers to do articles, and soliciting sponsors, well maybe soliciting sponsors, not so much. With almost 50 years of doing print newsletters of one kind or another, I had been there, done that. No going back. With no one to pick it up, the newsletter is history. I was sorry to see the newsletter end, but I understand the financial burden and the changing nature of communication in our digital world. A virtual organization like AAYC still needs to continue to communicate with its members, with Yamhill County, and with the world. Maybe a blog was a partial answer? In many ways, being blog editor is more personal and more intense than being an editor of a quarterly print newsletter. I have set a goal of one article per week. Very ambitious. It means a lot of articles (posts) are needed, many more than were needed with the AAYC Quarterly.. I get to write a lot and I get to beg a lot, my friends and acquaintances, and strangers on the street to write an articles. The blog lives or dies on the depth and relevance of its posts. Real work goes into writing them. I think the mission of the blog has to be different than the mission of a four times a year newsletter. For years the newsletter tried to do a little of everything for everyone. It tried to do a Calendar of Arts/Cultural Events in Yamhill County. Coming out quarterly, it was a colossal struggle to be accurate and it was doomed to be mostly out of date by the press time. It made announcements of AAYC programs. Sometimes the announcement was days before the program, or a few days after the program was over. The newsletter also gave space for sponsors for a fee. The mission of the newsletter was to present AAYC in a package that showed many of its initiatives, programs, give local artists and writers a venue to show their work, and also tried to inform about current events. In my opinion the mission of this blog should be to provide articles (posts) that will entertain and educate readers about the Arts, Culture, and those who do creative work in our area. Because of the blogs frequency of posting Arts and/or cultural events may be discussed well in advance. A couple of the places where the newsletter and blog may converge are in writing profiles of local artists and in giving local artists and writers a venue to show their work. Already I see the digital difference. The newsletter used to mail out information on the Paper Gardens Writing Contest our list of members and past members. Now the annual Paper Gardens Writing Contest information and the contest Entry Form are available to everyone. It is a new adventure for me and it is a new endeavor for AAYC. We are beginning the journy into the digital age. Posted by AAYC Blog No comments: Email ThisBlogThis!Share to TwitterShare to FacebookShare to Pinterest Labels: Arts Education, Op-Ed AAYC Blog Our programs seek to encourage creativity in all of the Arts. |
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