Apply for the Clackamas Community College Student Writer Laureate Internship

The Clackamas Community College English Department would like to recognize one enthusiastic, dedicated student as the CCC Writer Laureate to write creatively and help promote English and Creative Writing opportunities on campus.

Position Description

The Writer Laureate will be chosen fall term 2011, and will be in office winter and spring terms 2012. The Writer Laureate’s duties will be to:

• write creatively for on-campus readings, Clackamas County events, Clackamas Literary Review, and graduation
• present/read his or her creative writing at English Department, campus, Board of Education, and other meetings
• assist with coordination and execution of on-campus readings, such as the Gratitude, William Stafford, Valentine’s Day/Oregon’s Birthday, and May Day readings
• assist with and be a member of the Writers Club
• assist with Clackamas Literary Review
• assist with the Writing Conference spring term
• assist with promotion of English and Creative Writing courses, events, and opportunities, in person, on paper, and electronically

Overall, the Writer Laureate will be a representative of not only the English Department and CCC, but of the literary arts—the creative power of words and the positive impact they have.

Position Benefits

The Writer Laureate will receive:

• up to an 8-credit per term tuition waiver for winter and spring terms 2012
• access to creative office space
• references from English faculty
• professional writing and public relations experience
• recognition for his or her creative writing practice

Application Process

The position is open to all current CCC students, and interested applicants do not have to currently be enrolled in Creative Writing or English classes.  Interested students must be in good academic standing, be responsible and enthusiastic, and be willing to retain the position for both winter and spring terms 2012.

To apply, interested students must submit:

• full name, phone number, email address, and student ID number
• one letter of recommendation from any CCC instructor they have taken a course from
• a one-page, single-spaced letter describing their interest in creative writing and literature, how they envision carrying out the internship, and their own creative ideas they wish to pursue as Writer Laureate
• 10-15 pages of creative writing—poetry, fiction, or creative nonfiction (or any combination thereof)

The application deadline is December 1, 2011, at noon.

Please email complete applications to Trista Cornelius (tristac@clackamas.edu), include all application materials in one document as a Microsoft Word, Open Office, or PDF attachment, and include the words “Writer Laureate Application” in the subject line of your email.

Good luck!

Tell your story!

Hear Scott McCloud in CCC’s Neimeyer Center on Friday evening, Oct. 15, and afterward, stay late, rise early, write your story. From 6pm to 6pm, we’ll write, video, animate, produce stories. Don’t miss it.

The event is free. No need to pre-register. Just be there.

In the workshop you’ll be led to write and then produce your story by a team of leaders. If you choose video, you’ll work with Sue Mach, CCC screenwriter, and Robb Crocker from FunnelBox productions. For comics, you’ll work with Trevor Dodge, CCC comics & lit instructor, and Diana Shute from Dark Horse Comics. For poetry/storytelling, you’ll work with Kate Gray, CCC poetry instructor, Thomas Wasson, CCC animation instructor, and Michael D’Allesandro from the Independent Publishing Resource Center.

For more information about attending or helping, please contact Kate Gray at kateg@clackamas.edu or 503-594-3260, or Trevor Dodge at trevord@clackamas.edu.

Congratulations Diane!

CCC English Instructor Diane Averill has had a poem accepted in the literary magazine, The Midwest Quarterly. It is entitled “Ode to Night Winters”.

Change your diet, save the world!

Learn how important your food choices really are.

Friday, April 23

Noon-1pm

Fireside Lounge

From 1-2pm, watch The Meatrix and The Real Cost of Food:

two short, witty, animated films revealing what you don’t know about what’s on your plate.

FREE of course.  Bring curiosity and questions.  All are welcome.

If you’d like to know more, email Trista Cornelius at:  tristac@clackamas.edu

Writers’ Club Contest

Do you like to write?
Enter your poem, fiction, non-fiction or screenplay in the Writer’s Club contest!!
Contest entries will be collected through February 17th, 2010.
Submit all entries on a CD or floppy disk, along with a hard copy, to the Writers Club, Teacher Jim Grabill, RR 228. (Contact info. ext 2824, jimg@clackamas.edu)

The CD or floppy must have the student ID number written on it, as well as the title(s) and category of the entry/entries. No names on or in the CD/floppy!!
Participants should identify their hard copy by writing their student ID number only on each page. Please one-and-a-half space all fiction and nonfiction (12 pages maximum; 3000 words). Include a cover page listing your name, student ID number, phone number & address, category of entry (poetry, fiction, creative non-fiction, screenplay) and title of the submitted piece. The cover page is the only thing that should have your name on it.

Cash prizes awarded for 1st, 2nd and 3rd place winners in each category as well as publication in the Writers Club book. Please read instructions carefully.

Food for Thought

“Stories about food are stories about us, our history and values.” –Jonathan Safran Foer.

Please join us for “Food for Thought,” a discussion about food, identity, and the novel Crescent by Diana Abu-Jaber. (It’s okay if you haven’t read it!)

Hear some stories (and maybe share your own) on Wednesday, February 10 from 6 – 8pm at Carnegie Center, 606 John Adams St, Oregon City with the Oregon City Library and the CCC English Department.

After getting some tasty Lebanese food, settle in to hear students from HUM 170 share their insights about how food reflects and shapes who they are, then join in conversation with our panel of food enthusiasts and experts: Kim Carlson, a journalist and the creator of Culinate.com; Anne-Louise Sterry, creator of the kitchen character ‘Aunt Lena’; and Dr. Diane Vines, nursing instructor at University of Portland and food expert.

Please invite friends, colleagues, and students who might be interested. For more info, call Kate at 503-594-3260 or email kateg@clackamas.edu

Great Gibbons Geekout

Yesterday, due in large part to the grace of one Diana Schutz, Watchmen co-creator Dave Gibbons beamed into Trevor Dodge’s intro to lit theory class at Clackamas CC. He set up a Skype videochat with Dave, clicked a couple of times on the mouse to get things started, and the next he knew, an entire hour had dissolved into an energetic, student-centered Q&A session. He wasn’t able to videocapture the call, but he did manage (with Dave’s assistance and blessings) to get an excellent audio rip of our conversation. Here is the link to download an MP3 version. (Please see Trevor’s blog: http://trevordodge.com/?p=2642)

Trevor writes, “To say the experience was one of the highlights of both my teaching career and my personal journey through this life as an unapologetic geek would be an egregious understatement. As would be to describe Dave as nothing less than tremendously gracious, whipcrackingly smart and devastatingly beautiful. (Yes, I did say beautiful, and if you listen to the conversation…well…just listen to the conversation.)”

 Take more classes from Trevor, like Comics and Lit (ENG216) this Winter. You never know who might turn up in your class!

Eco-eating & Eco-poetics, writers of beauty

Trista Cornelius & Jim Grabill

Two published writers, two CCC instructors

Reading their latest

Jim is the author of a number of books, including An Indigo Scent after the Rain andPoem Rising Out of the Earth and Standing Up in Someone. His new poems have been published or will soon appear in The Common Review, The New York Quarterly, The Chariton Review, The Hamilton Stone Review, ecopoetics, Many Mountains Moving, Pemmican, The Bitter Oleander, and others.

	Trista spent last year on sabbatical, reading about food, writing about it, growing it, and eating it.  From the torment of quitting caffeine to the thrill of cracking open coconuts, Trista believes great adventure can be had through food.  While not eating, she took a few classes and remembered what it’s like to be a student—definitely not as easy as pie!

Free

RR220

Tuesday, Nov. 3^rd, noon

For more info, contact Kate Gray, English dept. 503-657-6958, ext. 2371, orkateg@clackamas.edu

Oregonians Choose CCC Poets!

Poetry Northwest has published Oregon 150 Poetry Book List: 150 Books for 150 Years of Statehood, and three of CCC’s best are on the list! No surprise there. Diane Averill’s For All That Remains and Beautiful Obstacles, Jim Grabill’s An Indigo Scent After the Rain and Poem Rising Out of the Earth, and Kate Gray’s Another Sunset We Survive are five of the Northwest’s BEST books of poetry! These three are among some good company too—check the list out for yourself!

Congratulations Diane, Jim, and Kate!

American Lit. Fall 09!

 

We will read four excellent books in this course:

The Adventure of Huckleberry Finn (Dover Thrift Ed.) ISBN: 0486280616

The Scarlet Letter (Dover Thrift Ed.) ISBN: 0486280489

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7^th ed., Volume B (1820-1865) ISBN: 0393927407

The Norton Anthology of American Literature, 7^th ed., Volume C (1865-1914) ISBN: 0393927415

ALL these books can be found online at discount prices!

If you have any questions, please contact Ryan Davis, ryand@clackamas.edu, 503.657.6958 x5137.