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2009

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Leader

Natalie Bakopoulos

 

 

 

BIO FOR

NATALIE BAKOPOULOS

 

Natalie Bakopoulos received her MFA in Fiction from the University of Michigan, where she now teaches. She is completing her first novel, set in Athens, Greece, during the military dictatorship of 1967–1974. A portion of this novel-in-progress won an Avery and Jule Hopwood Award and a Platsis Prize for Work on the Greek Legacy, both administered through the University of Michigan. Her short fiction has recently appeared in Ninth Letter and Tin House and has twice been a finalist in Glimmer Train's Short Story Award for New Writers. She is a regular contributor to Fiction Writers Review (www.fictionwritersreview.com

 

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2009

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop Special Guest

Adrianne Kalfopoulou

 

Adrianne Kalfopoulou is a writer and teacher. She is the author of a poetry collection, Wild Greens, a finalist for the Red Hen Press first book award, and a memoir Broken Greek, a finalist for a Best Books USA News award in the Women’s Life Writing category. Her second poetry collection, Passion Maps, is forthcoming from Red Hen Press in 2010, and her chapbook, Cumulus will be published by Finishing Line Press in 2009. She is the undergraduate programs director at Hellenic American University, where she teaches.

 

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2008-2009

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop

Workshop  Instructor: STRATIS HAVIARAS  

 

 

STRATIS HAVIARAS was born in Greece, where his first four books of poetry were published. He received an MFA degree in creative writing at Goddard College, and held a number of positions at Harvard University, including Curator of the George Edward Woodberry Poetry Foundation and the Henry Weston Farnsworth Room, and (Founding) Editor of Harvard Review. His books in English include two collections of poems and two novels (When the Tree Sings (short-listed for the National Book Award and named an ALA Notable Book), and The Heroic Age). Both novels were published in many languages in translation. Until 1007 Stratis Haviaras taught at creative writing at Harvard, and since 2002 he teaches and coordinates the writing workshops of The National Book Centre in Athens, Greece. He has lectured or read from his works throughout the United States. He is a member of the American Authors League, PEN New England, the Societe Imaginaire (Europe), Phi Beta Kappa of Massachusetts at Harvard, the Signet Society (Harvard), Modern Greek Studies Association, and the Greek Authors Society.

PUBLICATIONS

1-4. Four books of poetry in Greek, published in Athens between 1963 and 1972.

5. Crossing the River Twice, poetry, Cleveland State Univ. Press, 1976

6. The Poet’s Voice (Ezra Pound, T.S. Eliot, W.C. Williams, Marianne Moore, Robert Frost, Wallace Stevens, Theodore Roethke, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Sylvia Plath et al, 6 audiocasettes, with intro and comments, boxed, Harvard Univ. Press and Faber & Faber, 1978

7. When the Tree Sings, a novel, Simon & Schuster, 1979 (paper by Ballantine, 1980). Short-listed for the National Book Awards; received 5 film options; also published in England (Picador), and in seven other European languages.

8. The Heroic Age, a novel, Simon & Schuster, 1984 (paper by Penguin); also published in England by King Penguin, and in seven other European languages in translation.

9. The Telling (Πορφυρό και μαύρο νήμα in Greek translation), Kedros, fall 2007.

10. Vladimir Nabokov at Harvard (with Michael Milburn), 2 audiocassettes of readings by V.N., Poetry Room, Harvard, 1988.

11. Seamus Heaney at Harvard (with Michael Milburn), 2 audiocassettes of readings by S.H., Poetry Room, Harvard, 1990.

12. Millennial Afterlives, Prose Poems, Wells College Press, 2000

13. Translation of C.P. Cavafy, The Canon, Hermes, Athens, 2004. US edition to be published by Harvard Univ. Press, Fall, 2007

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July 2006, 2005 & 2004

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop

Workshop  Instructor: Nick Papandreou

 

Nick Papandreou is the author of “A Crowded Heart” (Picador, Penguin) which was short-listed for the Los Angeles First Fiction Award in 1999 and was a bestseller in its Greek incarnation. His most recent book is titled Andreas Papandreou: Life in the First Person and the Art of Political Narrative which looks at how politicians try to impose their narrative on the world. His most recent essay came out this fall (2004), in an anthology called The Genius of Language, (Pantheon). His second novel, “The Thief of Memory” is awaiting a publisher. He was won the Greek Science Fiction award for the year 2000. Short stories and essays of his have appeared in American and Canadian journals such as Antioch Review, The Literary Review, Threepenny Review, AGNI, Quarterly West, Harvard Review, Quarry, Wascana Review, The Journal of the Hellenic Diaspora, Indiana Review as well as in Greek literary journals such as LEXI, and Entefktirion. Born in Berkeley, California, he has spent much of his life in North America, but now lives in Greece where he writes for a living. Though his family has kept him close to a world of politics, passion has kept him close to the universe of literature.

 

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 July 1st -July 3rd  2006

     Aegean Arts Circle Workshop

Workshop Instructor: Beatriz Badikian

  

Beatriz Badikian-Gartler earned her doctorate in creative writing from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has been the recipient of numerous awards and grants in the language arts.   Recently, Badikian-Gartler has been a faculty member at Chicago's Roosevelt University , the University of Illinois at Chicago and the Newberry Library where she teaches literature, writing and women's studies.  Today she teaches at Northwestern University in Evanston, and was recently named one of 100 Women Who Make a Difference by Today's Chicago Woman magazine.

She is the author of:

bullet Old Gloves: A 20th Century Saga, a novel published by Fractal Edge Press
bullet Mapmaker Revisited, a collection of poetry
bullet Akewa is a Woman, a chapbook of poetry now in its second edition.
bullet Co-editor of Naming the Daytime Moon, an anthology of Chicago women writers.
bullet Contributor to the mini-anthology Emergency Tacos.

Known in Chicago as a dynamic speaker, Beatriz shares her work on the national poetry circuit and appears in galleries, bookstores, libraries and community centers through the country. She has lectured throughout the Midwest on poetry and literature, and has a deep interest in fiction, American literature of the twentieth century, multi-ethnic literatures of the United States, film theory and travel literature.

  EDUCATION
1994 Ph.D. English--Graduate concentration in Women's Studies, University of Illinois at Chicago.

 Professional affiliations include:

Modern Languages Association
Midwest Modern Languages Association
Society for the Study of Multi-Ethnic Literature of the U.S.
Popular Culture Association
American Studies Association
National Women's Studies Association
National Coalition of Independent Scholars 

For more information go to: www.bbgartler.com 

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July 1st- 8th 2007

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July 8th- 15th  2006

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop

Workshop Instructor: June Gould

June S. Gould, Ph.D.

Author:

The Writer in All of Us: Improving your Writing through Childhood Memories, E.P. Dutton/ PlumeBooks, New York.

Counting the Stones, a book of Holocaust Poetry, with Barbara Haber and Ruth Steinberg, Shadow Press, New Jersey.

Numerous Poems and Short Stories as well as an acclaimed chapter on teaching the language arts in the text, Constructivism: Theories, Perspectives and Practice, C. Fosnot, (Ed.) Teacher’s College Press, Columbia University, New York.

Workshop Leader and Keynote Speaker on Memoir Writing:

The National Council of Jewish Women, New York City

The International Women’s Writing Guild, New York City

The Guild’s Big Apple New York Conference on Writing, New York City 

Scarsdale School System, Scarsdale, New York

Columbia University Teachers of Excellence Tri-state Consortium, New York City

Fairfield University, Fairfield, Connecticut

Southern Connecticut State University, New Haven, Connecticut

Manhattanville College, Purchase, New York

Bank Street College, New York City

The National Writer’s Union, Wesport, Connecticut

Private Fiction and Poetry Workshops in New York City and in Westport, CT.

Readings for Counting the Stones:

92nd Street Y, New York City

The United States Holocaust Memorial Museum, Washington D.C.

The UJA Federation’s Shoah commemoration at Vassar College

The Museum of Jewish Heritage, New York City,

and many other centers, libraries and ecumenical houses of worship throughout the country.

Book Club Leader: Contemporary Novels

Couples Group, Scarsdale, New York

Women’s Group, Rye, New York

Women’s Group, Norwalk, Connecticut

Couples Group, Stamford, Connecticut  

Writing Consultant K-12:

For numerous school systems in the tri state area including Westport, CT, Scarsdale, New York, and New York City.

Recent Awards:

The Westchester Holocaust Center on behalf of my novel in progress, Outside a Train is Waiting.

American Education Research Association for my written contributions in the field of writing.

Advisory Board Member

The National Women’s Museum, Dallas, Texas.

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July 2008 & 2005

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop

Workshop Instructor: Connie May Fowler

 

 

Connie May Fowler is a novelist, memoirist, and screenwriter.  Her most recent work, The Problem with Murmur Lee, has been published by Doubleday in January 2005.  It has been chosen as Redbook’s premier book club selection.  In 2002 she published When Katie Wakes, a memoir that explores her descent and escape from an abusive relationship.  She is the author of four critically acclaimed novels including Remembering Blue which was awarded the Chautauqua South Literary Award and Before Women had Wings, recipient of the 1996 Southern Book Critics Circle Award and the Francis Buck Award from the League and American Pen Women.  Three of her novels have been Dublin International Literary Award nominees.  Ms. Fowler adapted Before Women had Wings for Oprah Winfrey.  The result was an Emmy-winning film starring Ms. Winfrey and Ellen Barkin.  Her work has been translated into 15 languages and is published worldwide.  Her essays have been published in The New York Times, The London Times, American Oxford, and elsewhere.  In October Ms. Fowler performed in the Vagina Monologues alongside Jane Fonda and Rosie Perez in a production that raised over $100,000 for two charitable agencies that aid women and children in need. 

Miss Fowler is the Irving Bacheller Professor of Creative Writing at Rollins College and is director of the college’s writing series, Winter with the Writers, A Festival of the Literary Arts.  She is a Florida native.

For more about Connie May Fowler’s published work go to: www.conniemayfowler.com.  On the Rollins  site click on the "director" cookie: www.rollins.edu/winterwiththewriters.

http://www.randomhouse.ca/catalog/display.pperl?0385499817&view=print

 http://mostlyfiction.com/contemp/fowler.htm

 http://www.bookpage.com/0002bp/connie_may_fowler.html

 

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June 19th - June 29th 2004

Aegean Arts Circle Workshop

Workshop Instructor: DOROTHY ALLISON

 Dorothy Allison is the author of “Bastard Out of Carolina”  (National Book award Finalist), “Cavedweller” (American Library Association Prize), “Two or Three Things I know for Sure” (NY Times Notable Book of the Year), and “Trash” (Selection in the Best American Short Stories Collection for 2003). She has crafted a body of work praised and prized for its compassionate, provocative, sometimes bruising commitment to truth. Born in small-town South Carolina to a fifteen-year-old unwed mother and a brutally abusive father, Dorothy Allison harnessed an intensely defiant spirit to overcome years of abuse and build a major literary career. Her reputation as a teacher and workshop leader is unparalleled, and her classes, when offered, invariably fill up quickly.

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Summer 2003

Workshop Instructor: KATHRYN (Kitsi) WATTERSON

 Kathryn Watterson, teaches writing to undergraduates at Princeton University, where she has taught since 1988, and to graduate students at the University of Pennsylvania, where she began teaching in 2003. She is the author of many short stories and several prize-winning books, including Not by the Sword (Simon & Schuster), which won the 1996 Christopher Award and Women in Prison (Doubleday), which inspired an ABC documentary on the subject. Three of her other books, including You Must Be Dreaming (basis for the NBC movie, "Betrayal of Trust"), have been chosen by the New York Times as Notable Books of the Year.

 

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