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To the Lighthouse poetry pub prize deadline soon

Posted in awards, To the Lighthouse, tagged on Thursday 23 August 2012| Leave a Comment »

For more details, visit A Room of Her Own Foundation.

Loveliness and stillness clasped hands in the bedroom, and among the shrouded jugs and sheeted chairs even the prying of the wind, and the soft nose of the clammy sea airs, rubbing, snuffling, iterating, and reiterating their questions— “Will you fade? Will you perish?”— scarcely disturbed the peace, the indifference, the air of pure integrity, as if the question they asked scarcely needed that they should answer: we remain. – To the Lighthouse

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Orlando prizes awarded in spring, fall

Posted in A Room of Her Own Foundation, Orlando, tagged , on Tuesday 21 August 2012| Leave a Comment »

 

The Orlando Prizes sponsored by the A Room of Her Own Foundation are awarded in both spring and fall. Spring 2012 winners in four categories are listed above.

Entries in the fall competition, which also includes eMessages, are being reviewed now, as they were due July 31.

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Woolf sightings: A series of Woolf-related events

Posted in Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , on Monday 20 August 2012| Leave a Comment »

A series of Woolf-related events (1,5, 10)  and a new use for Virginia and Leonard’s former home in Richmond (4) take center stage in Woolf sightings this week.
  1. The History Girls Present: A Summary of Things So Far, Chortle
    Instead, they simply reimagine the likes of Boudicca, the Bröntes, Napoleon and Virginia Woolf with contemporary mentalities, casting them in a series of modern situations to ever diminishing returns. This might be perfectly watchable if almost …
  2. ‘Diaries’ by George Orwell, edited by Peter Davison, Boston Globe
    … have always been a record of what the writers feel, not just what they see and do. Whether it is the overwhelmingly intimate confidences of a Virginia Woolf or the more event-packed memoirs of Pepys and Boswell; the I, and the I’s emotions lie at …
  3. Ties That Bind: Canadian-Sri Lankan Partnerships, The Island.lk (subscription)
    Virginia Woolf once said that ‘nothing has really happened unless it has been described.’ Many would know by personal experience one or two facets of the Sri Lanka-Canada relationship. They would not be aware of the full story. What Ingrid Knutson has …
  4. Alchemy Viral Chooses to Support ETC Charity, Educating the Children, Melodika.net(press release) 

    Brooks House, 34 Paradise Rd., Richmond Upon Thames

    The company is based in Virginia Woolf’s house, in central Richmond. After considering various charities Alchemy Viral (AV) has chosen to support Educating the Children**,http://www.etceducation.org, a charity that fights for education for children in …

  5. Luna Stage Presents VITA AND VIRGINIA, 9/27-10/28, Broadway World
    Luna Stage presents the New Jersey Premiere of ‘Vita and Virginia’ by Eileen Atkins, adapted from correspondence between Virginia Woolf and Vita Sackville-West. Directed by Jane Mandel, with previews running Sept 27-Oct 4 and opening night set for Oct …
  6. How the great writers published themselves, The Independent
    So did Walcott and Woolf. And what Marcel Proust, and Laurence Sterne, and Martin Luther, and Walt Whitman, and Ezra Pound, and Emily Dickinson, and Nathaniel Hawthorne, and Jane Austen, and Derek Walcott, and Virginia Woolf all did, at least …
  7. ‘In Their Own Words’ explores British thinkers with stunning archival footage, HollywoodSoapbox.com
    In Their Own Words features six hours of endlessly interesting audio and visual footage of several iconic voices from the 20th century, including J.R.R. Tolkien, Sigmund Freud, Robert Graves and Virginia Woolf. Broken into six one-hour documentaries …
  8. All about art, but lacking in artistry, Irish Times
    As the prose is so strained, it is easy to speculate instead whether this novel is intended as an act of homage to Virginia Woolf. Stylistically, the two writers are worlds apart, and Woolf’s extraordinary third work, Jacob’s Room (1922), shaped by her…
  9. Words Not Swords: Iranian Women Writers and the Freedom of Movement, Examiner.com
    … from poetry, fiction, biography and autobiography to cinema and religious text. … The theme of freedom of movement running through the work, encompassing not only the oft-repeated need for women to have, in Virginia Woolf’s words, ‘a room of their …
  10. South Orange Professor Lectures on Virginia Woolf, Patch.com
    South Orange resident and Fordham University professor Anne Fernald launches a four-lecture book talk and lecture series on the life and works of Virginia Woolf. Fernald teaches English and Women’s Studies at Fordham University’s Lincoln Center Campus …
  11. 10 toughest challenges in literature identified, Hurriyet Daily News
    “To the Lighthouse” by Virginia Woolf is a novel written in 1927 that is “both intellectually and psychically difficult,” according to Wilkinson. “Not only is it hard to tell who’s who and who’s saying or thinking what, it is also disconcerting, even …
  12. ‘Breaking Bad’ recap: Episode 5, ‘Dead Freight’, Baltimore Sun (blog)
    Last week, after Skyler channeled Virginia Woolf and made a slow walk into a swimming pool her most obvious cry for help, it was time for “Breaking Bad” to get back to its increasingly complicated drug business. When Walt “defeated” Gus, he believed he …
  13. The beauty of ‘camping’, The Doings Western Springs
    Writers such as Henry Thoreau and Virginia Woolf have written long, exploratory narratives about the importance of solitude. We all have a fundamental need to be alone, to think, to recharge. And perhaps this is what I need more than a hike in the woods.
  14. Baby Names That End With The Letter ‘O’, Huffington Post
    Famed also as the enigmatic protagonist of  Orlando:_A_Biography, Virginia Woolf’s celebrated novel, it has been brought into the modern world by British actor Orlando Bloom, not to mention …
  15. Picture books capture imaginations, StarPhoenix
    Virginia Woolf covertly chronicles the childhood relationship between writer Virginia Woolf and her sister, Vanessa Bell, through a story about a little girl who encourages her moody “wolfish” sibling to communicate through art. Isabelle Arsenault’s …
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Virginia Woolf plays ball — and then some

Posted in Alice Lowe, commodification, Woolf online, Woolf sightings, tagged , , , , , , on Wednesday 15 August 2012| 8 Comments »

Screen shot of Virginia Woolf at bat in NYT Book Review caricature

In the years between the two world wars, Gertrude Stein and Alice B. Toklas played ball — baseball. Their team, known as Le Gang Stein, included female luminaries from the literary world.

New York Times illustrator Rick Meyerowitz captures the team as he imagines it in a caricature titled “The Girls of Summer.” Published in the Aug. 3 NYT Book Review, it features a snippet of a poem by Stein and includes Virginia Woolf.

But there’s more about Virginia Woolf and baseball. According to the Cosmic Baseball Association website, she played infield on the Paradise Pisces team.

What’s more, Woolf is said to consider Ring Lardner’s You Know Me, Al, her “favorite baseball book.”

Todd Avery documents the connection between Woolf and Lardner in “‘The Girls in Europe Is Nuts over Ball Players’: Ring Lardner and Virginia Woolf” (1968). Avery writes that “Both writers—Lardner as a matter of professional obligation as well as personal interest, Woolf as a feminist theorist—were attuned to an unusual degree to the ideological role of sports in their respective societies” (1). He adds that just one 1925 essay, “American Fiction,” which is included in The Moment And Other Essays, expresses Woolf’s interest in Lardner.

A July 23, 2012, Wall Street Journal article, “Taking Fiction Out to the Ballgame,” also mentions Lardner’s appeal to Woolf, citing her “American Fiction” essay: “[Lardner] writes the best prose that has come our way, often in a language which is not English.”

Alice Lowe manages to connect Woolf and baseball as well, in her essay ”Seventh Inning Stretch,” published in Hobart in April 2011.

And if you love baseball as much as you love Woolf, you can combine the two by purchasing your very own Woolf baseball jersey.

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A women writers conference inspired by Virginia Woolf

Posted in conferences, events, tagged on Tuesday 14 August 2012| Leave a Comment »


For full details of this event and registration, visit A Room of Her Own

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