Newsletter of the
Society
Volume 8; May 2001
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Inside...Katherine Anne Porter Literary Center Opens in KyleBibliography Porter Activities Shadows on the Page ALA 2000 Joseph Mayhew Marcella Winslow Porter, "Gringo" in Mexico KAP School Other short articles
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News From Porter Biographer Joan Givner"I lead a very differen life now. I no longer teach or do academic work but am currently writing novels. Of course, I've always written fiction —short stories—but for the first time I'm really living as a writer. I even have a room of my own and an income of 500 pounds or the modern equivalent—elusive items unless one works for them and that defeats the whole purpose." The letter also enclosed clippings about her last novel, Half-Known Lives (Vancouver: New Star Books, 2000), which she thought "might be of interest to the readers of the KAP Newsletter since everything I write is bound to be full of echoes of KAP with whom I lived for so long." The novel's plot involves a group of women taking a man hostage, impregnating him, and holding him prisoner for the duration of his pregnancy. The novel traces the consequences of this experiment to the end of the characters' lives, affording a "bird's-eye view of 1970s feminism." Joan Givner's web site is http://uregina.ca/~givnerj; her e-mail address is dgivner@attglobal.net. KAP Fiction Prize at University of MarylandThe winners of the annual graduate student poetry and fiction competitions sponsored by the Creative Writing Program in the English Department of the University of Maryland read from their works on May 9 in the McKeldin Library Special Events Room. The Katherine Anne Porter Fiction Prize went to Robin Vasquez for "House Rules." Bo Schwerin's "Story For the Dying" received second prize, and Deborah Schwartz, third, for "The Dream of Superman." The Porter Prize was established with an endowment from the Literary Trust of the Estate of Katherine Anne Porter, during the tenure of the late Isabel Bayley.KAP Featured at Chautauqua in North CarolinaSouthern Writers were featured at the Buncombe County Chautauqua held June 19-23, 2000. Dr. Lynn Miller of the University of Texas at Austin portrayed KAP on June 22. The program was titled "An Evening With Katherine Anne Porter" and was held at the Smith-McDowell House Museum, Asheville, NC. Earlier that day, Dr. Miller held a workshop for adults at Pack Memorial Library in Asheville, titled "Art and People in Mexico." Dr. Miller attended an informal breakfast at Malaprops Bookstore/Cafe on June 23. Afterward, she led a children's workshop entitled "Stories from the Old South," in Pack Memorial Library. |