CALENDAR
Cafe Muse Literary Series
Friendship Heights Village Center, 4433 South Park Avenue, Chevy Chase, MD. 7:00 pm with open readings after featured readers. Free. Adele Steiner and Laura Golberg host. Michael Davis plays classical guitar at most programs.

8/2---Poet Henry Israeli & poet/playwright Pat Davis

9/20---Poets Dave & Janet Northrop

10/4---Poets Idra Novey & Luis Alberto Ambroggio

The Iota Poetry Series
Iota Bar and Restaurant,
2832 Wilson Blvd., Arlington, Virginia at 6 pm. Open readings follow. Admission free. Miles David Moore hosts. For more information, call 703-522-8340 or 703-256-9275.

8/08--- Annual All-Open Reading (no featured readers this time)

9/12--- 16th Anniversary Celebration starring featured readers from the past season (no open reading this time)i

10/10---The Poet's Cookbook: Recipes from Tuscany reading with Grace Cavalieri, Sabine Pascarelli, Karren Alenier and other poets TBA

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WORD WORKS ANNOUNCES

2010 WASHINGTON PRIZE WINNER

Brad Richard of New Orleans, Louisiana has won the 2010 Washington Prize for his manuscript Motion Studies.

2011 CAPITAL COLLECTION PUBLICATIONS

Denise Duhamel has selected Barbara Ungar of Saratoga Springs, NY, author of Charlotte Bronte, You Ruined My Life and Michele Wolf of Gaithersburg, MD, author of Immersion, for the Hilary Tham Capital Collection for publication in 2011.

2010 JACKLYN POTTER YOUNG POETS

The Word Works is pleased to announce that Judith Freeman has selected Will Frazier, a Senior at Episcopal High School, and Julia Holemans, a Freshman at the H-B Woodlawn Program, as winners of the 2010 Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition.

Ms. Holemans read her original poetry with nationally known Sue Ellen Thompson at the Joaquin Miller Cabin on June 15. Mr. Frazier who is a previous winner of the prize -- he was selected in 2008 by Teri Cross Davis -- read at the first program since he ise spending his summer in France.

Thanks to Perry Epes, Director of the Jacklyn Potter Young Poets Competition for managing the prize again this year.

NANCY WHITE ELECTED PRESIDENT

January 2009, Nancy White was elected president of The Word Works. She is the third president of this nonprofit literary organization which has been publishing contemporry poetry and presenting public programs for over thirty years. Nancy is author of Sun, Moon, Salt which won the Washington Prize in 1992. Sun, Moon, Salt was just released in January in its second edition. Congratulations to Nancy on both accomplishments.

2010 HILARY THAM CAPITAL COLLECTION

The Word Works is pleased to announce that Nothing Happened by W. Perry Epes was published in the Hilary Tham Capital Collection. This first collection by a Southern poet tackles hard questions about family, race, and the state of being. Purchase your copy now and help establish the life of this book.

MAYWEED ACCRUES HONORS

On the Writer's Almanac, Garrison Keilor featured Frannie Lindsay's poem "Grace" from her Washington Prize winning book Mayweed. Visit The Writer's Almanac website to read this poem.

Poetry Daily featured Frannie Lindsay's poem "The Thrift Shop Dresses" from Mayweed. Visit Poetry Daily's website to read this poem.

2009 WASHINGTON PRIZE WINNER

The Word Works proudly announces that Mayweed by Frannie Lindsay, of Belmont, MA, is the winner of the 2009 Washington Prize. Lindsay’s two previous books are also prize winners: Lamb won the 2006 Perugia Press Intro Award and was runner-up for the James Laughlin Award from the Academy of American Poets. Where She Always Was (Utah State University Press) was selected for the 2004 May Swenson Award.

For more information about this year's prize, visit the Washington Prize page. Post entries by March 1, 2010.

FIRST PUBLICATION BY TOAD HALL PRESS

The Word Works is pleasd to announce that Toad Hall Press, an affiliate publishing house, has published Judah's Lion by Anne Caston. This collection, by an award-winning poet, goes to the gut of the human condition. Order your copy now.

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