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Honoring Harold (Hal) Grutzmacher The Peninsula Pulse’s annual Hal Prize issue honors the late Harold (Hal) Grutzmacher, a man whose passion for writing and teaching the craft of writing spanned his lifetime. While his specialty was the English Romantic period, particularly William Wordsworth, he also loved reading (and re-reading) James Bond novels. His greatest passion, however, was teaching writing. As an English professor at Carthage College (then in Carthage, Ill.), Knox College, and Parsons College he influenced hundreds of undergraduate writers. Later, as vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tampa and dean of students at Beloit College, he continued to teach the freshman English courses, though these courses were far removed from his job description. He was also acquainted with many writers and poets, often acting as the faculty liaison, spending time and sharing meals with such authors as Philip Roth, Gogisgi (Carroll Arnett), Philip Appleman, and Wallace Stegner. His own writing appeared in numerous publications and included two volumes of poetry, Giants of My World, published by Golden Quill Press (Scribner’s) and Generations, published by Spoon River Poetry Press (and co-authored with his son, Stephen). In Door County, Wisconsin, he and his wife, Marge, opened Passtimes Books, where he enjoyed discussing literature with other avid readers. And he continued teaching writing, both at The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Several of these students later brought him manuscripts which he helped edit into finished books. His encouragement and gentle, though pointed, criticism influenced innumerable students and community members. The Peninsula Pulse, along with Write On, Door County, looks to continue in the same spirit by encouraging writers and photographers of all skill levels with The Hal Prize. Announcing the 2017 Hal Prize Contest The Peninsula Pulse newspaper in Door County, Wisconsin proudly presents the 2017 Hal Prize. Conducted annually since 2001, the mission of the Peninsula Pulse’s Hal Prize is to encourage and appreciate artistic expression through various literary forms and photography. The contest has showcased works from individuals of all ages and backgrounds – novice writers and photographers to professionals. Over the years, judges of differing areas of expertise have chosen the winning works – prose, poetry, and photography – and have included New York Times bestselling authors Michael Perry and Lesley Kagen, Wisconsin Poet Laureates Ellen Kort, Marilyn Taylor and Bruce Dethlefsen, and Minneapolis street photographer Wing Young Huie. The contest offers publication in the Peninsula Pulse’s annual Literary Issue, reaching a readership of 18,000. Cash awards of up to $150, a week stay at Write On, Door County (a literary retreat located in the heart of the Door Peninsula), a class at Peninsula School of Art (a nationally recognized year-round destination for artists and art appreciators), and other prizes will be awarded. The Hal Prize is presented in collaboration with Write On, Door County, a nonprofit organization promoting writing and reading to year-round and seasonal residents in the county. The deadline for entry is Monday, May 1, 2017. All submissions will be accepted digitally. For complete submission guidelines and to submit your creative work, visit TheHalPrize.com. A Week at Write On, Door County: Diane LeBlanc The timing was perfect. A new book was nearing publication and I was eager to resume other creative projects. So when I discovered the Hal Prize competition, the one-week residency at Write On, Door County was my incentive to enter. Several months later, I arrived at an unpretentious gray house surrounded by trees and fields. Write On Executive Director Jerod Santek greeted me, gave me a tour, then left me to begin my residency. I explored all of the property’s writing spaces. I wrote at the desk beneath a window in my room, I wrote at the table in a field several hundred yards from the house, and I wrote in the renovated chicken coop where Door County writer Norbert Blei had written for 45 years. Relocated from Ellison Bay to a field behind the house, the coop is simple: a desk, a large table, chairs, some books, and windows that overlook a garden where Blei’s defunct typewriters perch on rocks. I journaled, sketched and revised an essay in the coop, which I shared only with a resident wasp. While the residency offered solitude, I met other artists. I shared the house with poet Donna Hilbert. We connected like long-lost friends. I joined Donna, poets Ralph Murre and Sharon Auberle, musician Christy Christensen, and others for a reading at Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay. They welcomed me as if I’d been part of the original program. Donna and I also made books featuring poems we’d written during the week. As we folded and glued and printed with the basic supplies I’d brought, we imagined sharing the experience with others. From those evenings came the origins of our poetry and book arts workshop, for which I’ll return to Write On, Door County in May 2017. Diane LeBlanc is a writer, teacher, and book artist. Poetry chapbooks include This Space for Message (forthcoming 2017), Sudden Geography (2014), Dancer with Good Sow (2008), and Hope in Zone Four (1998). Poetry and essays appear in Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Mid- American Review, Water~Stone Review, and other journals. She co-authored Playing for Equality: Oral Histories of Women Leaders in the Early Years of Title IX (2016). Diane directs the writing program and teaches at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota. Write On, Door County and the Hal Prize Sixteen years ago, the Peninsula Pulse, an independent newspaper covering the news, arts and entertainment on Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, introduced an annual literary contest issue. Through the years, the growth of the annual contest moved through several changes including a name change and the additions of photography and nonfiction to the existing poetry and fiction categories. Businesses and individuals were gracious in their support of the contest from the outset. Still, the evolution was slow and though the number of entries in all categories grew steadily through the years, the staff at the Peninsula Pulse felt there were many more possibilities still to be explored. The addition of Write On, Door County as a collaborator in 2014 helped make many of these possibilities become a reality. Write On, Door County’s generous donation of stays at their retreat house allowed the contest to attract nationally recognized and published authors and photographers to serve as judges. In addition, the first place winners in fiction, non-fiction and poetry are awarded stays at the retreat house. In conjunction with this collaboration, marketing efforts were significantly broadened to reach a wider audience, which resulted in submissions from across the state, region and nation. And the submission process, for both writing and photography, was streamlined by utilizing the Submittable website. The closing date for this year’s Hal Prize is May 1, 2017, with the winning entries appearing in the Aug. 4, 2017 issue. Submission details can be found at TheHalPrize.com. 2017 JUDGES BIOS Fiction: David Haynes David Haynes is a Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and since 1996 has taught with the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. His most recent novel is A Star in the Face of the Sky. He is the founder and director of Kimbilio. Nonfiction: Erika Janik Erika Janik is a historian, author and the Executive Producer of Wisconsin Life on Wisconsin Public Radio. She is the author of six books, including Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction, A Short History of Wisconsin, and Odd Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in Salon, Slate, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Edible Milwaukee, On Wisconsin, Midwest Living, and The Onion, among others. She holds master’s degrees in American history and journalism from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Originally from Redmond, Washington, she now knows more about Wisconsin than she ever thought possible. Photography: Kevin J. Miyazaki Kevin J. Miyazaki’s artwork addresses issues of family history and ethnicity. His photographs have been shown nationally, and in Wisconsin at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, St. Norbert College and the James Watrous Gallery in Madison. Photographs from his exhibition, Perimeter, commissioned by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, were published as a monograph by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2014. Miyazaki’s portrait, food and travel assignments have taken him to 30 states and more than 20 countries, for clients including The New York Times, AARP, Travel + Leisure, Architectural Digest and Martha Stewart Living. The Poetry Editors of cream city review cream city review, started in 1975 by Mary Zane Allen, is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to publishing memorable and energetic pieces that push the boundaries of literature. Continually seeking to explore the relationship between form and content, cream city review features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, visual art, reviews of contemporary literature, and author interviews. Published biannually, cream city review is a volunteer- based, nonprofit journal that has attracted readers and submissions from around the world. Approximately 4,000 submissions are received each year from both unpublished and established writers. The cream city review poetry team is: Alessandra Simmons Alessandra Simmons, whose poems have appeared in Rabbit Catastrophe, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Post Road, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Other Journal and elsewhere. Soham Patel Soham Patel’s publications include New Weather Drafts (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016), and nevermind the storm (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2013) and Riva: A Chapter (kitchen-shy press, 2013). Her poems and essays have been printed in Dusie, Cortland Review, Volta, Copper Nickel, Cranky, SHAMPOO, Stirring, Denver Quarterly, XCP (Cross Cultural Poetics), Anti-, Fact-Simile Editions, Foursquare and elsewhere. Tobias Wray Tobias Wray’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Third Coast, Bellingham Review, North American Review, American Literary Review and elsewhere. THE HAL PRIZE THE HAL PRIZE ccr
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Honoring Harold (Hal) GrutzmacherThe Peninsula Pulse’s annual Hal Prize issue honors the late Harold (Hal) Grutzmacher, a man whose passion for writing and teaching the craft of writing spanned his lifetime. While his specialty was the English Romantic period, particularly William Wordsworth, he also loved reading (and re-reading) James Bond novels. His greatest passion, however, was teaching writing. As an English professor at Carthage College (then in Carthage, Ill.), Knox College, and Parsons College he influenced hundreds of undergraduate writers. Later, as vice president for academic affairs at the University of Tampa and dean of students at Beloit College, he continued to teach the freshman English courses, though these courses were far removed from his job description.
He was also acquainted with many writers and poets, often acting as the faculty liaison, spending time and sharing meals with such authors as Philip Roth, Gogisgi (Carroll Arnett), Philip Appleman, and Wallace Stegner. His own writing appeared in numerous publications and included two volumes of poetry, Giants of My World, published by Golden Quill Press (Scribner’s) and Generations, published by Spoon River Poetry Press (and co-authored with his son, Stephen).
In Door County, Wisconsin, he and his wife, Marge, opened Passtimes Books, where he enjoyed discussing literature with other avid readers. And he continued teaching writing, both at The Clearing Folk School in Ellison Bay, Wisconsin and Northeast Wisconsin Technical College. Several of these students later brought him manuscripts which he helped edit into finished books.
His encouragement and gentle, though pointed, criticism influenced innumerable students and community members. The Peninsula Pulse, along with Write On, Door County, looks to continue in the same spirit by encouraging writers and photographers of all skill levels with The Hal Prize.
Announcing the 2017 Hal Prize ContestThe Peninsula Pulse newspaper in Door County, Wisconsin proudly presents the 2017 Hal Prize.
Conducted annually since 2001, the mission of the Peninsula Pulse’s Hal Prize is to encourage and appreciate artistic expression through various literary forms and photography.
The contest has showcased works from individuals of all ages and backgrounds – novice writers and photographers to professionals. Over the years, judges of differing areas of expertise have chosen the winning works – prose, poetry, and photography – and have included New York Times bestselling authors Michael Perry and Lesley Kagen, Wisconsin Poet Laureates Ellen Kort, Marilyn Taylor and Bruce Dethlefsen, and Minneapolis street photographer Wing Young Huie.
The contest offers publication in the Peninsula Pulse’s annual Literary Issue, reaching a readership of 18,000. Cash awards of up to $150, a week stay at Write On, Door County (a literary retreat located in the heart of the Door Peninsula), a class at Peninsula School of Art (a nationally recognized year-round destination for artists and art appreciators), and other prizes will be awarded.
The Hal Prize is presented in collaboration with Write On, Door County, a nonprofit organization promoting writing and reading to year-round and seasonal residents in the county.
The deadline for entry is Monday, May 1, 2017. All submissions will be accepted digitally. For complete submission guidelines and to submit your creative work, visit TheHalPrize.com.
A Week at Write On, Door County: Diane LeBlancThe timing was perfect. A new book was nearing publication and I was eager to resume other creative projects. So when I discovered the Hal Prize competition, the one-week residency at Write On, Door County was my incentive to enter.
Several months later, I arrived at an unpretentious gray house surrounded by trees and fields. Write On Executive Director Jerod Santek greeted me, gave me a tour, then left me to begin my residency.
I explored all of the property’s writing spaces. I wrote at the desk beneath a window in my room, I wrote at the table in a field several hundred yards from the house, and I wrote in the renovated chicken coop where Door County writer Norbert Blei had written for 45 years. Relocated from Ellison Bay to a field behind the house, the coop is simple: a desk, a large table, chairs, some books, and windows that overlook a garden where Blei’s defunct typewriters perch on rocks. I journaled, sketched and revised an essay in the coop, which I shared only with a resident wasp.
While the residency offered solitude, I met other artists. I shared the house with poet Donna Hilbert. We connected like long-lost friends. I joined Donna, poets Ralph Murre and Sharon Auberle, musician Christy Christensen, and others for a reading at Miller Art Museum in Sturgeon Bay. They welcomed me as if I’d been part of the original program.
Donna and I also made books featuring poems we’d written during the week. As we folded and glued and printed with the basic supplies I’d brought, we imagined sharing the experience with others. From those evenings came the origins of our poetry and book arts workshop, for which I’ll return to Write On, Door County in May 2017.
Diane LeBlanc is a writer, teacher, and book artist. Poetry chapbooks include This Space for Message (forthcoming 2017), Sudden Geography (2014), Dancer with Good Sow (2008), and Hope in Zone Four (1998). Poetry and essays appear in Bellingham Review, Hayden’s Ferry Review, The Journal, Mid-American Review, Water~Stone Review, and other journals. She co-authored Playing for Equality: Oral Histories of Women Leaders in the Early Years of Title IX (2016). Diane directs the writing program and teaches at St. Olaf College in Northfield, Minnesota.
Write On, Door County and the Hal PrizeSixteen years ago, the Peninsula Pulse, an independent newspaper covering the news, arts and entertainment on Wisconsin’s Door Peninsula, introduced an annual literary contest issue.
Through the years, the growth of the annual contest moved through several changes including a name change and the additions of photography and nonfiction to the existing poetry and fiction categories. Businesses and individuals were gracious in their support of the contest from the outset. Still, the evolution was slow and though the number of entries in all categories grew steadily through the years, the staff at the Peninsula Pulse felt there were many more possibilities still to be explored. The addition of Write On, Door County as a collaborator in 2014 helped make many of these possibilities become a reality.
Write On, Door County’s generous donation of stays at their retreat house allowed the contest to attract nationally recognized and published authors and photographers to serve as judges. In addition, the first place winners in fiction, non-fiction and poetry are awarded stays at the retreat house. In conjunction with this collaboration, marketing efforts were significantly broadened to reach a wider audience, which resulted in submissions from across the state, region and nation. And the submission process, for both writing and photography, was streamlined by utilizing the Submittable website.
The closing date for this year’s Hal Prize is May 1, 2017, with the winning entries appearing in the Aug. 4, 2017 issue. Submission details can be found at TheHalPrize.com.
2017 JUDGES BIOSFiction: David HaynesDavid Haynes is a Professor of English at Southern Methodist University and since 1996 has taught with the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College. He is the author of seven novels for adults and five books for younger readers. His most recent novel is A Star in the Face of the Sky. He is the founder and director of Kimbilio.
Nonfiction: Erika JanikErika Janik is a historian, author and the Executive Producer of Wisconsin Life on Wisconsin Public Radio. She is the author of six books, including Pistols and Petticoats: 175 Years of Lady Detectives in Fact and Fiction, A Short History of Wisconsin, and Odd Wisconsin. Her work has appeared in Salon, Slate, The Atlantic, Smithsonian, Edible Milwaukee, On Wisconsin, Midwest Living, and The Onion, among others. She holds master’s degrees in American history and journalism from the University of Wisconsin – Madison. Originally from Redmond, Washington, she now knows more about Wisconsin than she ever thought possible.
Photography: Kevin J. MiyazakiKevin J. Miyazaki’s artwork addresses issues of family history and ethnicity. His photographs have been shown nationally, and in Wisconsin at the Madison Museum of Contemporary Art, the University of Wisconsin – Milwaukee, St. Norbert College and the James Watrous Gallery in Madison. Photographs from his exhibition, Perimeter, commissioned by the Haggerty Museum of Art at Marquette University, were published as a monograph by the Wisconsin Historical Society Press in 2014. Miyazaki’s portrait, food and travel assignments have taken him to 30 states and more than 20 countries, for clients including The New York Times, AARP, Travel + Leisure, Architectural Digest and Martha Stewart Living.
The Poetry Editors of cream city reviewcream city review, started in 1975 by Mary Zane Allen, is Milwaukee’s leading literary journal devoted to publishing memorable and energetic pieces that push the boundaries of literature. Continually seeking to explore the relationship between form and content, cream city review features fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, visual art, reviews of contemporary literature, and author interviews. Published biannually, cream city review is a volunteer-based, nonprofit journal that has attracted readers and submissions from around the world. Approximately 4,000 submissions are received each year from both unpublished and established writers.
The cream city review poetry team is:
Alessandra SimmonsAlessandra Simmons, whose poems have appeared in Rabbit Catastrophe, WomenArts Quarterly Journal, Post Road, Hawaii Pacific Review, The Other Journal and elsewhere.
Soham PatelSoham Patel’s publications include New Weather Drafts (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2016), and nevermind the storm (Portable Press at Yo-Yo Labs, 2013) and Riva: A Chapter (kitchen-shy press, 2013). Her poems and essays have been printed in Dusie, Cortland Review, Volta, Copper Nickel, Cranky, SHAMPOO, Stirring, Denver Quarterly, XCP (Cross Cultural Poetics), Anti-, Fact-Simile Editions, Foursquare and elsewhere.
Tobias WrayTobias Wray’s poems have appeared or are forthcoming in Blackbird, Third Coast, Bellingham Review, North American Review, American Literary Review and elsewhere.
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