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DWC NEWS - WINTER 2020
DWC20
Congratulations to the winners
of the 2019 CNY Book Awards!
Each year, the DWC presents the CNY Book Awards,
honoring the best books published by authors from
our region. For 2019, 40 books by 37 authors were
Dear Members, Students, and Friends— nominated... including a new category for 2019,
Children’s Books. Drumroll please...
It hardly seems possible, but January 2020 marks
the beginning of the Downtown Writers Center’s 2019 CNY Book Award for Fiction:
20th season of programming. In those 20 years, Nana Kwame Adjei-Brenyah, for Friday Black
we’ve hosted readings by roughly 500 poets and au-
thors, and offered hundreds upon hundreds of cre- 2019 CNY Book Award for Nonfiction:
ative writing workshops and other programs. Mike Winchell, for The Electric War
We’ve grown tremendously along the way—and so 2019 CNY Book Award for Poetry:
have our audience members, many of whom have Paul David Adkins, for Dispatches from the FOB
achieved their own writing and publishing goals.
We wouldn’t be here without you, and we’re so glad 2019 CNY Book Award for Children’s Books:
you’ve taken this journey with us. Cory Leonardo, for The Simple Art of Flying
2020 is going to be a big year for the DWC. Stay Nine Mile Magazine also presented our own Georgia
tuned for more fantastic anniversary events as we A. Popoff with the CNY Book Award for Significant
move through the year... and keep your eyes open Contributions to the Art of Writing and Poetry.
for cool DWC20 swag!
Join us next fall for the 2020 Awards! And if you
Wishing you all the best for your writing and reading are the author of a book published between July 1,
for the DWC’s next 20 years and beyond, 2019 and June 30, 2020, nominations for the 2020
Awards open in January. Nomination forms can be
Phil Memmer found at ycny.org/cny-book-awards.
Executive Director
SAVE THE DATE • Thursday, March 12th, 6:00 PM
AN EVENING WITH CHERYL STRAYED
#1 NYT Best-Selling Author of “Wild”
Tickets will go on sale in January. Information will be available soon.
WINTER 2020 VISITING AUTHOR READINGS
Friday, January 24, 7:00 p.m.
Book Release Party for Poet GEORGIA A. POPOFF
Join us to celebrate the DWC’s own Georgia Popoff and her latest book of po-
ems, Psychometry, brand new from Tiger Bark Press. Georgia has three previ-
ous poetry collections, most recently Psalter: The Agnostic’s Book of Common
Curiosities (2015). She is coauthor of Our Difficult Sunlight: A Guide to Poetry,
Literacy, & Social Justice in Classroom & Community, a book addressing the
value of poetry in K-12 classrooms, which was a finalist for an NAACP 2012
Image Award. In 2017, she co-edited The Whiskey of Our Discontent: Gwen-
dolyn Brooks as Conscience and Change Agent (Haymarket Books), which won
the CNY Book Award in nonfiction and was a finalist for the Chicago Review
of Books prize for nonfiction.
Friday, February 7, 7:00 p.m. • Poet MICHAEL BONDHUS
Michael (formerly Charlie) Bondhus is the author of Divining Bones
(Sundress, 2018) and All the Heat We Could Carry (Main Street Rag, 2013),
winner of the Thom Gunn Award for Gay Poetry. He received his MFA in cre-
ative writing from Goddard College and his Ph.D. in literature from UMASS
Amherst. His work has appeared in Poetry, The Missouri Review, Columbia
Journal, Hayden’s Ferry Review, Bellevue Literary Review, Poetry Ireland
Review, and Copper Nickel. He has received fellowships from the Virginia
Center for Creative Arts, the Sundress Academy for the Arts, and the Haw-
thornden Castle International Retreat for Writers (UK). He is associate professor of English at Raritan Valley
Community College (NJ). More at http://charliebondhus.com.
Friday, Feb. 14, 7:00 p.m.
Author CHERYL LU-LIEN TAN
Cheryl Lu-Lien Tan is a New York-based journalist and author of the
international bestsellers Sarong Party Girls (William Morrow, 2016) and
A Tiger In The Kitchen: A Memoir of Food & Family (Hyperion, 2011),
which New York magazine named one of the “Top 25 Must-Read Food
Memoirs of All Time.” Her stories have appeared in The New York Times,
The Paris Review, The Washington Post, Bon Appetit, Food & Wine, Na-
tional Geographic, Foreign Policy, Marie Claire, and Newsweek, among
other places. In 2012, she was the recipient of a major arts creation
grant from the National Arts Council of Singapore in support of her novel. Born and raised in Singapore,
she crossed the ocean at age 18 to go to Northwestern University in Evanston, Ill. An active member of the
Asian American Journalists Association, she served on its national board for seven years, ending in 2010.
THANK YOU Unless otherwise noted,
all DWC events are free and
open to the public, and take
DWC programs are made possible by funding from the County of Onondaga,
place at the Downtown Y,
administered by CNY Arts, and the New York State Council on the Arts, with
340 Montgomery St.,
the support of Governor Andrew Cuomo and the New York State Legislature.
Syracuse, NY 13202.
Parking is available on the
street, or in the Warren
Street Garage, which is
attached to the Y’s lobby.
MORE WINTER VISITING AUTHOR READINGS
Friday, February 21, 7:00 p.m.
Author TINA MAY HALL and Poet ADAM GIANNELLI
Tina May Hall’s stories have appeared in The Collagist, 3rd bed, the minnesota
review, Quarterly West, Black Warrior Review, Water-Stone Review, Fairy Tale
Review, and other journals. Her novella in prose poems, All the Day’s Sad Stories,
was published by Caketrain Press in the spring of 2009. Her debut novel, The
Physics of Imaginary Objects, was the winner of the 2010 Drue Heinz Literature
Prize. Her latest novel, The Snow Collectors, will
be published by Dzanc Books in February 2020.
She teaches at Hamilton College.
Adam Giannelli is the author of Tremulous Hinge (University of Iowa Press,
2017), winner of the Iowa Poetry Prize, and the translator of a selection of
prose poems by Marosa di Giorgio, Diadem (BOA Editions, 2012). His poems
and essays have appeared in the New York Times Magazine, Washington
Post Magazine, Kenyon Review, New England Review, Ploughshares, and
elsewhere. He teaches literature and creative writing at Hamilton College.
Friday, February 28, 7:00 p.m.
Poets DAVID WEISS and CHARLES COTÉ
David Weiss is the author of a novel, The Mensch, and four collections of poems,
most recently Per Diem (Tiger Bark Press 2019) and Perfect Crime (Nine Mile Press,
2018). He co-edits Seneca Review, teaches at Hobart and Williams Smith Colleges,
and lives on a farm in the Finger Lakes.
Charles Coté is a graduate of Syracuse University,
and a clinical social worker in private practice in Roch-
ester, NY. He is the author of the chapbook, Flying
for the Window (Finishing Line Press, 2008) and his
first full-length collection, I Play His Red Guitar (Tiger Bark Press, 2019).
His work has appeared in Barrow Street, Big City Lit, Segue, Salamander,
and The Cortland Review, among other journals, and his poem “Conversa-
tion” was selected as the Poem of the Month by Cosmographia Books. He
teaches poetry at Writers & Books.
DWC WINTER OPEN MIC NIGHT
Friday, March 6, 7:00 p.m.
We’ll bring refreshments... you bring a brief sample of new work to share
(1-2 poems, up to 1000 words of prose).
Friday, March 13, 7:00 p.m.
STONE CANOE #14 RELEASE PARTY
Join us to celebrate the release of the latest issue of Stone
Canoe, the only literary journal focused on the work of au-
thors and artists from Upstate New York. We’ll have refresh-
ments and enjoy readings by contributors to the issue, and
we’ll announce and award the journal’s series of annual prizes.
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