Indie Lit Festival
30 September-1 October 2022
The Frostburg State University Center for Literary Arts, in partnership with the Allegany County Library System and the Lewis J. Ort Library, is excited to announce that the sixteenth annual Western Maryland Indie Lit Festival.
This event celebrates the writers, publishers, and readers of small press and independent publishing. The weekend features readings, roundtable discussions, and practical “how to” sessions. Keep an eye out for updates and spotlights on folk who will be with us in our Facebook group and on other social media.
Schedule
Friday, September 30
7 PM: Indie Lit Kickoff Reading with Mihaela Mosculic and Michael Waters
Mihaela Moscaliuc is the author of the poetry collections Cemetery Ink (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2021), Immigrant Model (University of Pittsburgh Press, 2015) and Father Dirt (Alice James Books, 2010), translator of Liliana Ursu’s Clay and Star (Etruscan Press, 2019) and Carmelia Leonte’s The Hiss of the Viper (Carnegie Mellon University Press, 2015), editor of InsaneDevotion: On the Writing of Gerald Stern (Trinity University Press, 2016), and co-editor (with Michael Waters) of Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020). She has published scholarship in the field of Romani Studies, on issues of representation, appropriation, exophony and code-switching, and on the works of Kimiko Hahn, Agha Shahid Ali, and Colum McCann. She is the Translation Editor for Plume.
Michael Waters has published thirteen books of poetry, most recently Caw (BOA Editions, 2020), The Dean of Discipline (U Pittsburgh P, 2018) and Celestial Joyride(BOA Editions, 2016). His new book, Sinnerman (Etruscan Press), will appear in 2023. Darling Vulgarity (BOA Editions, 2006) was a finalist for the Los Angeles TimesBook Prize and Parthenopi: New and Selected Poems (BOA Editions, 2001) was a finalist for the Paterson Poetry Prize. He has co-edited several anthologies, including Border Lines: Poems of Migration (Knopf, 2020), Reel Verse: Poems About the Movies(Knopf, 2019), Contemporary American Poetry (Houghton Mifflin, 2006), and Perfect in Their Art: Poems on Boxing from Homer to Ali (Southern Illinois UP, 2003). His poems have appeared in Poetry, American Poetry Review, Paris Review, Yale Review, Kenyon Review, The Progressive and Rolling Stone. A 2017 Guggenheim Fellow, he has been the recipient of five Pushcart Prizes, fellowships from the National Endowment for the Arts, Fulbright Foundation, and NJ State Council on the Arts, and residency fellowships from Yaddo, MacDowell, Virginia Center for the Creative Arts, Anderson Center for Interdisciplinary Studies, St. James Cavalier Centre (Malta), Tyrone Guthrie Centre (Ireland), and Chateau de Lavigny (Switzerland). Waters lives in Ocean, NJ.
Saturday, October 1
Panel discussions, craft talks, and readings will take place from 11-5 in the Frostburg Museum and Mountain City Traditional Arts. A small press book fair is scheduled between 11-4 in the Gunter Hotel Ballroom.
Saturday 10/1: Events
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Talks/Panels Mountain City Traditional Arts 25 E. Main St. |
Readings Frostburg Museum, 2nd Floor 50 E. Main St. |
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11:00 |
The Nature Readings Project Bob Kunzinger |
The museum opens at noon |
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12:00 |
Working in Multiple Genres George Guida and Gerry LaFemina |
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1:00 |
Starting a Small Press Wayne Lockwood |
Michael Simms and Jim Ralston Poetry Reading |
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2:00 |
Collaboration Elizabeth Savage and Doug VanGundy |
Bob Kunzinger Non-Fiction Reading |
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3:00 |
Literary Publishing Michael Simms |
Poet-Tree Project Contributors Reading: Sally Rosen Kindred, R. David Fulcher, Richard Maslow, Nina Forsythe, MC Pratt, Leanna Koch, Gary Ciocco, Sid Gold |
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4:15 |
Bad Gigs: Panel and Reading Richard Peabody, Gerry LaFemina, et al. |
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Saturday 10/1: Small Press Book Fair / Literary Arts Organizations
11:00-4:00, Hotel Gunter Ballroom
11 W. Main St.
Air and Nothingness Press, Todd Sanders
Backbone Mountain Review, Jack Dubose and Steve Oberlechner
Bittersweet, FSU students
Crisis Chronicles Press, John Burroughs
Gargoyle / Paycock Press, Richard Peabody
Northern Appalachia Review / WCoNA Writers’ Conference of Norther Appalachia, Rita Wilson
Samsara, R. David Fulcher
Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Sid Gold
Lewis J. Ort Library
Jon D. Brayton
Michael Simms and George Guida
Indie Lit Late Night!
The Downstrokes with Killin’ Me
9:00-?, The Deep End
16 W. Main St.
$5 cover
Readings
Frostburg Museum, 2nd Floor
50 E. Main St.
11:00
The Nature Readings Project
Bob Kunzinger
The museum opens at noon
12:00
Working in Multiple Genres
George Guida and Gerry LaFemina
1:00
Starting a Small Press
Wayne Lockwood
Michael Simms and Jim Ralston
Poetry Reading
2:00
Collaboration
Elizabeth Savage and Doug VanGundy
Bob Kunzinger
Non-Fiction Reading
3:00
Literary Publishing
Michael Simms
Poet-Tree Project Contributors Reading: Sally Rosen Kindred, R. David Fulcher, Richard Maslow, Nina Forsythe, MC Pratt, Leanna Koch, Gary Ciocco, Sid Gold
4:15
Bad Gigs: Panel and Reading
Richard Peabody, Gerry LaFemina, et al.
Saturday 10/1: Small Press Book Fair / Literary Arts Organizations
11:00-4:00, Hotel Gunter Ballroom
11 W. Main St.
Air and Nothingness Press, Todd Sanders
Backbone Mountain Review, Jack Dubose and Steve Oberlechner
Bittersweet, FSU students
Crisis Chronicles Press, John Burroughs
Gargoyle / Paycock Press, Richard Peabody
Northern Appalachia Review / WCoNA Writers’ Conference of Norther Appalachia, Rita Wilson
Samsara, R. David Fulcher
Washington Writers’ Publishing House, Sid Gold
Lewis J. Ort Library
Jon D. Brayton
Michael Simms and George Guida
Indie Lit Late Night!
The Downstrokes with Killin’ Me
9:00-?, The Deep End
16 W. Main St.
$5 cover
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