Bay Area Writing Project

-- an open reading follows --

Audrey Fielding is a retired San Francisco USD teacher and a long-time participant in the Bay Area Writing Project. After forming Words On The Wing, her own consulting business, she has continued her career of teaching writing. She is a co-editor of the reader, An Anthology for Reading Apprenticeship, Building Academic Literacy. For the past six years she has worked on a story-writing project in Namibia that has led to the publication of ten classroom readers for Namibian learners. She is currently working on a book about the land, food and music of the Salentine Peninsula in the heel of Southern Italy. The book is a collaborative writing effort with three Italian teacher friends and David Fielding, a sketch artist. This work, still in its early stages, will be shared at the reading on August 27th. Attendees will receive an authentic Salento recipe, listen to Salentine music and be invited to provide feedback on what might be the best title for the book.

Diane Frank is an award-winning poet and author of five books of poems, including Entering the Word Temple and The Winter Life of Shooting Stars. Her friends describe her as a harem of seven women in one very small body. She lives in San Francisco – where she dances, plays cello, and creates her life as an art form. Diane teaches at San Francisco State University, leads workshops for young writers as a Poet in the Schools, and directs the Blue Light Press On-line Poetry Workshop. She is also a documentary scriptwriter with expertise in Eastern and sacred art. Blackberries in the Dream House, her first novel, was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Cherise Wyneken is a freelance writer. Over two hundred selections of her prose and poetry – juvenile and adult – have appeared in a variety of journals, periodicals, and anthologies, plus two books of poetry, a spiritual memoir, a novel, a children’s audiocassette, and a poetry chapbook (recently out from Pudding House). As a member of the South Florida Poetry Institute and the East Coast Academy of Poets she moderated and read her poetry on several programs presented by Selkirk Cable TV, Ft. Lauderdale FL, Storer TV, Hollywood, FL and WLRN Channel 17, Miami, FL. At present she is active with the Bay Area Poets Coalition, Albany Library poetry events, and variousreadings in the area.

Anthony S. Wright has been a harper since 1992, and a Certified Hypnotherapist since 1989. He has been practicing harpgnosis to accompany poet Diane Frank and others since he came to reside the Bay Area in 2003. He is a Ph.D. student at the California Institute of Integral Studies in Asian and Comparative Studies, and is the independent audio producer of the radio show Attunement: A Guide to Mystical Experience on KWMR, Community Radio for West Marin at 90.5 FM in Point Reyes Station and 89.7 FM Bolinas. You can find more information about Anthony S. Wright at www.attunement.biz.

An open reading will follow.

Contact host and reading series coordinator Judy Bebelaar for more information: jbebelaar@pacbell.net.