Ann Teplick Readings

Here's the dates to catch readings for fellow SCBWI member Ann Teplick-

Friday August 5 at 7 p.m.

Elliott Bay Book Company
I'll be sharing the stage with four wonderful 2011 Jack Straw Writers:
Nassim Assefi, Anne McDuffie,Nora Wendl, and Don Fels.

Wednesday August 17 a7 5:30 p.m.

Queen Anne Books
I will be reading with other contributors to the latest Drash: Northwest Mosaic.

Tomorrow is her first reading! If you didn't make it to the SCBWI Summer National Conference you can connect and support SCBWI members right at home!

Ann Teplick Reading at Jack Straw Writing Program Reading Series

The Jack Straw Writers Program Reading Series is upon us! May 6, 12 and 20 @ 7 p.m. at Jack Straw Productions in Seattle's Roosevelt District. For more information on the series, visit their website.

Ann Teplick will be reading her poetry on Friday, May 6.

Good News for Ann Teplick

It's certainly a Happy Holidays for Ann Teplick!! Ann has a prose poem, THIS IS HOW I WANT TO BE KISSED, inspired by Auguste Rodin's sculpture, "The Kiss," in the new issue of Crab Creek Review (2010 Vol 2). But that's not all for Ann! She's also just been accepted into the 2011 Jack Straw Writer's program and has received a Hedgebrook fellowship for 2011. Congratulations Ann!!

Ann Teplick Reading

Ann Teplick will be reading at Richard Hugo House on Wednesday November 3, 7-9 p.m. from a new and first collection of poetry, THE BEAUTY OF A BEET: Poems from the Bedside, funded by Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs, 4Culture, and Hugo House.

Joining Ann will be writers Esther Altshul Helfgott, Courtney Putnam and Richard Gold, all reading on the theme of loss and grace, with a hint of wit.

For more information on the event visit the Hugo House website.

Good News for Ann Teplick

Good news for Ann Teplick! Ann has an essay in Hunger Mountain's spring issue, entitled "THe QUIETER WE BECOME, THE MORE WE ARE ABLE TO HEAR," Ann shares her experience writing with teens at the Washington State psychiatric hospital.

Check out her essay on Hunger Mountain here. Click on the Young Adult and Children's Literature section.

Play performances and poetry readings for Ann Teplick

She will be reading some poems to celebrate the release of the Lit journal Drash on Sunday May, 23 at 3 p.m., at Third Place Books Ravenna. She'll read again on Wednesday, Aug. 18 at 6:30 p.m., at Queen Anne Books.

Her play She's the One, a story that explores the art of hallucination, will be showcased in an evening of new work by Seattle Playwrights' Studio, Friday evening June 11, at 7 p.m. in the ArtsWest theatre in West Seattle.

Her play Coming Clean, a story of the burden of secrets, will be performed in a festival of short one-acts, July 9 and 10 at Driftwood Theatre in Edmonds.

Good news for Ann Teplick

She writes:

"I am a 2010 CityArtist recipient, having received funds from the Seattle Office of Arts and Cultural Affairs for a collection of poems entitled The Beauty of a Beet, Poems from the Bedside. These poems explore the struggle and beauty at the bedside of loved ones who are dying, and incorporate Japanese death poetry and the death stories of Hindu, Tibetan Buddhist, and Zen masters into some of the text. I will be reading at three Seattle venues in late 2010."

Good news for Ann Teplick

She gets to teach two children's writing classes at the Richard Hugh House. They're intended for kids in third through sixth grades, and you can learn more about them
here.

Ann is a poet, playwright and prose writer who makes a big difference for student writers in our community. She works with young writers at Hugo House; in schools; through Coyote Central, an after-school arts program; and with The Pongo Publishing Teen Writing Project at the Washington State psychiatric hospital.