June Events

Creative Writing Workshop Group: Tuesdays (ongoing)

5th Street Bagelry, 10am

Open to anyone willing to bring some short creative writing and discuss others' work as well.

Contact: Colin Meldrum, colinjmeldrum@gmail.com

Farewell Poetry Reading: Thursday, June 19th

College Market, 6-7pm
Readers: Margaret Aho, Greg Nicholl

Join us as we bid farewell to poet Greg Nicholl.

Contact: Bethany Schultz Hurst, pocatello.readings@gmail.com

Call for Submissions: Literary Pavers, June 30th

The Pocatello Arts Council invites authors with ties to Pocatello and the vicinity to submit excerpts of their literary work as part of a public art project in partnership with Old Town Pocatello.

Hopefully, you have had a chance to see the "Literary Pavers" already installed in the walkways of Historic Old Town Pocatello. The PAC continues to look for original prose or poetry excerpts thematically reflecting Pocatello and the surrounding area (its history, culture, environment, ecology, landscape, people, values, customs, etc.), and we invite you to send in a submission.

Please follow the submission guidelines:
• For visual impact we would like to keep submissions to a 50 word maximum.
• Include a clear explanation of your connection as author to the Pocatello area.
• Posthumous submissions from responsible parties are welcome. For such submissions, provide explanation of your relationship to the author and of the author's connection to the Pocatello area.
• Include your name, address, phone number, email address.
• For acknowledgement of submission receipt, include a self-addressed, stamped postcard, or email address.
• Include a self-addressed, stamped envelope for a final response once acceptance decisions have been made. Please be aware that final response time could be several months.

To be considered for the next round of installations, submissions must be postmarked by June 30, 2008. Send all submission materials to:
Pocatello Arts Council
c/o the Mayor's Office
911 North 7th Ave.
Pocatello, ID 83201

Contact: John Gribas, Chair of the Pocatello Arts Council, at 282-2695, or visit www.pocatelloarts.org.