Markham

 

 

Sponsored by Reed Magazine and San Jose State University.

Reed Magazine announces the Edwin Markham Prize for Poetry. Writers are invited to submit poetry manuscripts of 3-5 original unpublished poems. The winner will be selected by Marilyn Chin The first-place winner will receive a $1000 cash prize. The winning manuscript will appear in the 2010 issue of Reed Magazine, and runners-up also will be considered for publication. All entrants will receive a complimentary copy of the 2010 issue of Reed Magazine.

To learn more about Markham, click here.

All submissions must abide by the following competition rules and guidelines:

1. Submit through the online system.

2. All submissions must be submitted by November 1.

3. Please submit all poems in a single computer file. Use a common file format: *.doc and *.txt preferable. Please do not submit in the *.docx file format.

4. A reading fee of $15:

Reed Magazine
SJSU English Department
One Washington Square
San Jose, CA 95192-0090

5. Writers may submit multiple entries, but remember that every five submissions (five poems) must be paid with another reading fee.

6. The finalists, as determined by Reed's poetry editors, will be sent to the judge

7. Employees and board members of the National Steinbeck Center, REED Magazine, or the Center for Steinbeck Studies are not eligible to participate in the competition.

8. The work submitted must be your own - no translations allowed.

We will begin accepting Markham submissions for the 2010 edition of REED Magazine June 1st, 2009.

If you have any questions please contact us at: reed@email.sjsu.edu

 

Zone 3 Fiction Award

Zone 3 is now accepting submissions for its annual fiction award. Entry should include a cover page with your name, address, and the title of your story. The entry fee is $10 and includes a one-year subscription to Zone 3. No deadline. Please send to Zone 3, APSU, P.O. Box 4565, Clarksville, TN 37044. The winner will be announced in the Fall 2010 issue of Zone 3.

Zone 3 is pleased to announce Vanessa Hemingway as the winner of our ninth annual Zone 3 Fiction Award for her story “Revelations,” which was published in our Spring 2009 issue.  

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Zone 3 Poetry Awards

ZONE 3 is now accepting submissions for its new Evelyn Scott Poetry Prize. Your entry should include a cover page with your name, address, and the title(s) of your poem(s). Entry fee is $10 and includes a one-year subscription to Zone 3. You may submit up to three poems (with SASE) to Zone 3, APSU, Box 4565, Clarksville, TN 37044. Postmark deadline is November 30, 2010. The winner will be announced in the Spring 2011 issue of Zone 3.  Prize: $500 and publication.

ZONE 3 is pleased to announce George Looney as first place winner of our annual Zone 3 Poetry Awards competition for his poem “The Revision of Something Imagined,” which was published in our Spring 2010 issue. Second place goes to Tara Bray for “Several Mornings While Running the Dark Streets” and third to Peter Ramos for “A Landscape.”

 

Timbuktu - The place where the Western "Songs and Dance Theory" of Black people ends

Because were in the middle of the Black History Month UK a story about the mystical place Timbuktu.

"Everybody's heard of Timbuktu but few people actually know where it is and even fewer ever get there. Everyone knows that it's a long way from here to Timbuktu, wherever "here" might be," wrote a travel journalist.

Well Timbuktu lies in the country of Mali and it’s the place where the Western "songs and dance theory" of African people ends. Because in Timbuktu you will find the hidden libraries and manuscripts of the ancient black scholars of one of the oldest Universities on the planet.

Aminatta Forna tells the story of legendary Timbuktu and its long hidden legacy of hundreds of thousands of ancient manuscripts. With its university founded around the same time as Oxford, Timbuktu is proof that the reading and writing of books have long been as important to Africans as to Europeans.

The manuscripts of Timbuktu cover diverse subjects such as mathematics, chemistry, physics, optics, astronomy, medicine, Islamic sciences, history, geography, the tradition of Islam's Prophet Mohammed, government legislation and treatise, jurisprudence, and much more. The manuscripts of Timbuktu are a living testimony of the highly advanced and refined civilization in Sub-Saharan Africa.

But although this heritage is familiar to numerous Africans, many Westerners still believe that Africa had only an oral, nonliterate culture. Comments like those made by the British historian Hugh Trevor-Roper in 1963 still resonate: "Perhaps in the future, there will be some African history to teach. But at present there is none. There is only the history of Europeans in Africa. The rest is darkness."

In reality, Timbuktu was once a haven of high literacy. These manuscripts, some dating to the 14th century and written mostly in Arabic, show that medieval Timbuktu was a religious and cultural hub as well as a commercial crossroads on the trans-Saharan caravan route. Situated at the strategic point where the Sahara touches on the River Niger, it was the gateway for African goods bound for the merchants of the Mediterranean, the courts of Europe and the larger Islamic world, wrote Lila Azam Zanganeh in the New York times.

Read more about this video at hwww.fordfoundation.org

Links
http://www.timbuktufoundation.org

The post was inspired by the Afro-Brazilian site http://www.casadasafricas.com.br

Caroline Chikezie & Hakeem Kae-Kazim star in epic Nigerian Movie Musical “Inalé”

Posted on Tuesday, October 12th, 2010 at 5:54 PM

By BellaNaija.com

With each passing day, our hope and faith that the Nigerian Movie Industry is truly making progress is renewed. Many argue that economic distress promotes creativity and that might just be the case for Nollywood. Movie fans are no longer satisfied with the status quo – redundant story lines, poor technical quality and mediocre acting. To justify spending their hard earned Naira and dollars, Nollywood fans desire quality films!

Inalé is the latest offering from the “revitalized” Nollywood. Inalé is a movie musical and tells a story of enchantment and intrigue; a legend of bravery and valour, its theme revolves around the test of true love and restoration of peace between two warring communities.

Inalé is based on a folktale that has been told by the Idoma people of Benue state over the ages. As the story goes, the most beautiful girl who happens to be the princess of Idoma land faces various trials and tribulations.

The movie is directed by Jeta Amata and features Nigerian/British actress Caroline Chikezie in the lead role. Caroline plays Princess Inalé, the beautiful daughter of the great King Oche of the Idoma people in Idomaland, Nigeria. Her beloved Odeh, played by Hakeem Kae-Kazim, must win their customary wrestling tournament to take Inalé’s hand in marriage.

The villagers had gathered for the big ceremony to only indulge the presence of a masked stranger’s request that challenges not only the tradition of the village law, the future of the kingdom but the strength of Odeh and Inalé’s true love.

The soundtrack of the movie featured original songs performed by Bongos Ikwue. Other stars featured in the movie include Ini Edo-Ehiagwina, Keppy Ekpenyong, Dede Mabiaku, Mbong Amata, Nse Ikpe Etim and Omawumi.

According to the filmmakers, Inalé is the first-ever Nigerian movie musical shot in celluloid. The movie is set to premiere on the 22nd of October at GDCinemas in Lagos and on the 28th of October at Silverbird Cinemas in Abuja.

View the trailer for Inalé and stills from the movie below.

Caroline Chikezie - Inale, Princess of Otukpo

Hakeem Kae Kasim - Ode

Dede Mabiaku - King Oche

Keppy Ekpenyong Bassey Inyang - The Stranger

Ini Edo - Omada

View the trailer for Inale

Terry McMillan Talks Writing, Living, Loving & Learning

By MsWOO, on September 22nd, 2010

As previously mentioned here, Terry McMillan‘s recently published novel, Getting To Happy, has already been adapted into a screenplay by the author and her sccreenwriting partner, Ron Bass.

This week, as Getting To Happy hits the shops, McMillan has been talking to Donya Blaze in a three part inteview for Media Beat (posted blow). With two previous novels already adapted for to the big screen – Waiting to Exhale (1995) and How Stella Got Her Groove Back (1998) – and one for TV Disappearing Acts (2000),  McMillan reveals how she was never particularly fond of her female characters in Waiting to Exhale because she thought ere they were a little desperate, how she’s put the ugliness of divorce behind her (and the fact that Stella was not completely autobiogaphical), and advises young writers to concentrate on stories and characters rather than setting money and fame as a main goal. She also gives her view on new technology and urban/street literature among other things. She also gives, in my view, unspoken guidance as to how to graciously do 58 and give good ‘fro while you’re at it!

Florida Atlantic University, with the Americas Research Center at Rice University, is hosting the interdisciplinary conference “Haiti and the Americas: Histories, Cultures, Imaginations.” The conference will be held on October 21-23, 2010 at Florida Atlantic University and the Wyndham Garden Hotel in Boca Raton, Florida.

The Haiti and the Americas Conference will be held at the Boca Raton campus of Florida Atlantic University and co-sponsored by Rice University. Keynote speakers will include Myriam J.A. Chancy, J. Michael Dash, and Sibylle Fischer. In addition to academic panels featuring presentations by leading scholars, the filmmaker Michelange Quay will be a special guest, presenting his film Eat, For This Is My Body (2008) on Thursday at 6:00pm in FAU’s Senate Chambers, and creative writers such as Andrea Shaw, Rose Rejouis, and Myriam J.A. Chancy will read from their work in the Ritter Art Gallery on Friday evening. There will also be feature presentations by organizations working in Haiti, such as the Digital Library of the Caribbean talking about their Protecting Haitian Patrimony Initiative, as well as local organizations working with Haitians in South Florida such as the Toussaint L’Ouverture High School for Arts and Social Justice in Boynton Beach.

For more information and a trailer of Eat, for this is My Body, see previous post Call for Papers: Haiti and the Americas.

For the full description and program, go to http://www.creativecaribbeannetwork.com/page/5218/en

4hero are an electronic music band from Dollis Hill, northwest London, comprising producers Mark 'Marc Mac' Clair & Dennis 'Dego' McFarlane.

While the band is often cited as "4 Hero" or "4-Hero", the name is presented as "4hero" on their own albums and websites.

They are known as early pioneers of breakbeat hardcore and drum and bass music, and the group obtained a Mercury Music Prize nomination for their 1998 album Two Pages. More recently, on their 2007 album, Play with the Changes, 4hero has experimented with downtempo and Nu jazz.

Mark 'Marc Mac' Clair & Dennis 'Dego' McFarlane continue to produce music as 4hero as well as a variety of other aliases they've developed over the years. 

—Wikipedia

4hero feat. Ursula Rucker - Loveless

Recorded @ Montreux Jazz Festival 1998

featuring Ursula Rucker on vocals.

Original track taken from the MOBO Award winning & Mercury Prize nominated 'Two Pages' album released 1998 on Talkin' Loud/Universal.

Golden Age Of Life

Recorded @ Montreux Jazz Festival 1998

Carol Cosby - lead vocals
FACE & Sandra Escoffery - BV's 
Dego - Piano
Marc Mac - Rhodes
Luke Parkhouse - Drums
Brad Somatik(the original) - Percussion
Andy Hamill - Upright Bass
Leon Mar - Guitar
Monaco String Quartet
The Instrumental String Quartet

Original track taken from 4hero 'Two Pages' album.

Golden Age Of Life - produced, written & arranged by Dego & Marc Mac.

Star Chasers

Recorded @ Montreux Jazz Festival 1998
Line Up:
FACE - lead vocals
Carol Cosby & Sandra Escoffery - BV's 
Marc Mac - Rhodes/Wurlitzer 
Dego - Acc Piano
Luke Parkhouse - Drums
Brad Somatik(original) - Percussion
Andy Hamill - Upright Bass
Chris Bowden - Saxaphone
Leon Mar - Guitar
The Instrumental String Quartet 
Monaco String Quartet

Original track from the 4hero 'Two Pages' album.
Star Chasers - produced, written & arranged by Marc Mac.