Sunday, October 18, 2009

Holy Cow! Press at the Carol Bly Event




Jim Perlman
Holy Cow! Press
Duluth, MN

Miriam Karmel Winner First Carol Bly Short Story Contest




Miriam Karmel
Minneapolis, MN
Winner First Carol Bly Short Story Contest
2009

Previous Contest Winners/Hamline MFA Students





Previous Writers Rising Up Winners and Honarable Mentions
And Hamline MFA Program Students
Remembering Carol Bly
Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN
October 17, 2009

Remembering Carol Bly Hamline's Patricia Kirkpatrick




Patricia Kirkpatrick
Remembering Carol Bly
October 17th 2009
Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN

Speakers Patricia Kirkpatrick/Cynthia Loveland




Patricia Kirkpatrick Far Left
Cynthia Loveland Far Right
Speakers October 17, 2009
Remembering Carol Bly
Anderson Center, Red Wing, MN

Friday, October 9, 2009

Winner 2009 Carol Bly Short Story Contest Miriam Karmel





Miriam Karmel of Minneapolis won the first Writers Rising Up Carol Bly short story contest with her story, "Happy Chicken." Miriam will read her story on October 17th at the Anderson Center in Red Wing at an all day event Remembering Carol Bly, A time and place for solitude: writing below the surface. The event features Carol's writing partner Cynthia Loveland leading a seminar and friend and fellow writer Hamline Professor Patricia Kirkpatrick, who will conduct a workshop. Holy Cow! Press will feature Carol and Patricia's books and Milkweed Editions has contributed Carol's books for a raffle-

Event details can be found at www.eventful.com and at www.writersrisingup.org.

Miriam Karmel's fiction and non-fiction have appeared in numerous publications including Bellevue Literary Review, Dust & Fire, Sidewalks, Passage, Jewish Women’s Literary Annual and Water~Stone Review. She is the recipient of Minnesota Monthly’s Tamarack Award for her short story, The Queen of Love. In 2007, she received the Kate Braverman Short Story Prize and the Arthur Edelstein Prize for Short Fiction. Her story, The King of Marvin Gardens appears in Milkweed Edition’s Fiction on a Stick (2008). Nora’s Story, a collection of short stories which she worked on at Ragdale, was the May 2007 selection at www.bookwise.com. She recently completed a second book of linked stories, Being Esther.

Sunday, July 12, 2009



Patricia Kirkpatrick will lead a workshop from 1:00PM to 2PM

Patricia's Books-

"Century's Road"
"John Keats Voices in Poetry"
Maya Angelou, Voices in Poetry"
"Plowie: A Story from the Prairie"



A time and place for solitude: writing below the surface.
Spend the day in Red Wing with us.. remembering Carol Bly.




Saturday October 17, 2009


10:30 AM to 4:30PM
Holy Cow! Press Book Fair All Day

Milkweed Editions Donates Carol's books to raffle



10:30AM to 11:30PM-- 'Writing Below the Surface' seminar with Cynthia Loveland

11:30AM to 1:00 PM-- Lunch- Free Time to Sight See--Write

1:00 to 2:00PM- Patricia Kirkpatrick workshop



2:00 PM to 3:00 PM Carol Bly Short Story Contest
Selected Short Story Readings



3PM to 4 PM Book Raffle
Announcement of Winner(s)
Reception-Falconer Wine (Red Wing) and Poplar Hills Dairy (Scandia) Cheese Tasting


Anderson Center, Red Wing Minnesota
Sponsored by Writers Rising Up