Blue Mountain Center

Katherine Arnoldi graduated with her PhD in Creative Writing from Binghamton University in May, 2008. She has been awarded a Fulbright for 2008-9 to Paraguay to write a novel that takes place at the Mennonite communities in the Chaco region.

Hillary Jordan's "Mudbound'" is the winner of the NAIBA Book of the Year Award for Fiction. NAIBA is the New Atlantic Independent Booksellers Assoc., a regional organization covering NY, NJ, DC, Maryland, Pennsylvania & Delaware.

Richard is among 10 visual arists from 10 member states of the United Nations asked to imagine what peace looks like. Starting May 26, 2008 his vision and the with the others have been displayed on full size outdoor billboards all over San Francisco.

For more information:
peacebillboards.org

Orbis Books is pleased to announce the release of "Living Beyond the 'End of the World'" a book by Margaret Swedish.

"A chilling forecast of ecological catastrophe, and an outline of the moral and spiritual resources we will need to surive."

Lisa's new play THE WALLS is slated for production in 2009 by Chicago's Rivendell Theatre Ensemble. The play was recently workshopped and presented in a staged reading as part of a fellowship residency at the University of Chicago's Summer Incubator program.

FootHills Publishing is pleased to announce the release of "My Late Mother as a Ruffed Grouse" a book of poetry by Will Nixon.

To see the cover and read the title poem, please visit the FootHills website page at http://www.foothillspublishing.com/2008/id62.htm

Check out the review...

http://thejewishadvocate.com/this_weeks_issue/news/?content_id=5232

THE GRAPES OF WRATH, the opera by Ricky Ian Gordon and Michael Korie (based on Steinbeck's classic novel), is now available for pre-order on Amazon.com. Just use this link:
http://www.amazon.com/Grapes-Wrath-Minnesota-Opera-Premiere/dp/B00182Z7F...

...and voila, it's yours, as soon as it is released later this summer.

To see press, photos and hear excerpts from the opera, use this link and follow "The Grapes of Wrath."
http://rickyiangordon.com

Check out Aleta's article about Angel Island that is hot off the press in the
July-September issue of Bay Nature magazine.

The article is also featured on the home page of the NEW Bay Nature website
at http://www.baynature.com/. The new website is really cool and
interactive. Take a moment to play with the maps in particular!

On Monday 30 June, Tarik was on BBC Radio 3, from New York, talking
about his latest CD (see attached).

Listen online for up to seven days afterwards: www.bbc.co.uk/radio3

If you go to www.dramaticpublishing.com, click on "new acquisitions" in the left column, then scroll down past Shakespeare to "Smoldering Fires," you can see how Kermit's play is being advertised and even read an excerpt from it.

www.joyceellenweinstein.com

Don't miss checking out the link to the little film Nida, Lithuania on the Baltic Sea in PHOTOGRAPHY.

"The website has launched"

http://kristincapp.com/

The musicians of the Paul Rucker Quintet were the recent winners of Earshot Outside Jazz Ensemble of the Year.

A colloquium to focus on Clarissa Sligh's contribution to the ethics of represtnation of trns identities was held at Haverford college in April. Clarissa's photographs were also exhibited.

In May, the AIDS Service Center NYC presented Conrad Johnson with the ASC Hero Award for Team New York Aquatics in honor of Conrad and the team's multi-year fundraising successes to benefit the Service Center.

Maggie is working on an illustrated book called In The Dust Zone with the artist Scott Gillis. They have a revamped website up, www.dustzone.com, and are currently looking for an agent or publisher. If you have time to check out the website and have any ideas or leads for them, they would be totally grateful! There is a downloadable book proposal on the site, along with a movie, an mp3 of sound you can download, and lots of drawings and text.

Katherine Arnoldi graduated with her PhD in Creative Writing from Binghamton University in May, 2008. She has been awarded a Fulbright for 2008-9 to write a novel that takes place at the Mennonite communities in Paraguay. She will visit teen mom centers in Asuncion and all over South America.

The video animation piece that Jessica was working on at BMC last summer and presented in her Thesis show in NY, is in the process of being acquired by MoMA -- they are going to show it as of next week!

In May 2008, Lisa E. Wanzer, MFA '84 completed a two-week creative writing
fellowship at Kimmel Harding Center Nelson Center for the Arts in Nebraska
City. She worked on two pieces of short fiction and a lyrical essay while
in residence. Lisa also chaired a fiction panel at this year's Popular
Culture Association Conference in San Francisco. Her poem "Gelatin
Prints" is due out in Specs Journal in September. Recent fiction has
appeared in Tampa Review and Apalachee Review. She would love to hear
from other BMC alumni writers on the left coast!