http://newportreview.org/blog News from the Newport Review webzine: writing contests, guidelines and upcoming events. Thu, 02 Sep 2010 02:57:52 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en Writing  Class/Workshop Saturdays, September 11, 2010 - October 2, 2010 1:00 PM-3:00 PM Rochambeau Library, Providence Community Library 708 Hope Street Providence, RI 02906 Kathryn Kulpa and Susan Hradil, editors of the Newport Review, will be giving a Flash Fiction Workshop at the Rochambeau Library on 4 successive Saturday afternoons September 11 - October 2. Kathryn Kulpa ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=73   Newport Review's editors are excited to announce that we have had our first entry in the 2010 Bananagrams® Writing Contest. As promised, the first writer to send in her entry to the contest will receive a special thank-you package from Newport Review, including a book by one of our ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=70 All of us at Newport Review were sad to hear of the death of Abraham Nathanson, inventor of Bananagrams®, in Bonnet Shores on Sunday, June 6. All of us at Newport Review are grateful for his generous donation of $500 to sponsor our Bananagrams® Writing Contest. So ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=69 Please mark your calendars for a reading featuring Newport Review writers and editors, including some writers scheduled for our summer issue. This free event is hosted by Books on the Square, a great indie bookstore in Providence, and some of the poets and fiction writers who will be sharing their ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=68 OK, writers ... get to pushing those pens. The Newport Review Bananagrams® Writing Contest is now open. Entries of prose and poetry will be accepted May 1 through September 1, 2010. (Full details here.) If $500 in prizes, publication, accolades and honors aren't enough of an incentive, we've also got a ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=67 Contests New for 2010: Bananagrams® Writing Contest - $500 in Prizes for Poetry and Prose   Complete Contest Guidelines: Format: Writers must use all seven words from the 21-letter Bananagrams® grid that will be displayed on this site as of May 1, 2010. Writers may use words more ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=65 NEWPORT REVIEW BRINGS POETRY AND STORIES TO LIFE AT THE LIBRARY Join authors and editors from Newport Review for an Evening of Poems and Stories, Wednesday, April 28th at 7PM at ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=64 New for 2010: Bananagrams® Writing Contest!   Contest Guidelines Format: Writers must use all the words from the 21-letter Bananagrams® grid that will be displayed on the Newport Review site as of May 1, 2010. Deadline: Opens May 1, 2010, at midnight; Closes September 1, 2010, ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=63 ... we want to thank you, thank you! Newport Review Donors, January - February 2010 Mollie Bergeron Jennifer Bergmark Lisa Borders Frank DiSirio William Glenn Susan Grant Natalie Gruppuso Kirsten Hammerstrom Charron Holtzman Susan and George Hradil Hester Kaplan Jan English Leary Little Pear Press John McDaid Kiersten Marek Eugenia Petty Geoffrey Schoos Ellen Taylor These patrons of the arts (most of them artists in their own right) are making ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=62 The fourth online issue of Newport Review will be released on the Winter Solstice: December 21, 2009. We are happy to present artwork by Brian Martin, a RISD graduate, along with our flash fiction contest winners and more new poetry, fiction and creative nonfiction. While the solstice is the shortest day ... http://newportreview.org/blog/?p=60