Emrys presents ELEMENTS OF ART, RHYTHM AND VERSE
Join us for dinner and a joyous evening’s entertainment!
Thursday, May 17, 6:00 to 9:00 pm, at the Kroc Center, 424 Westfield Street, Greenville.
Our program highlights the storytelling tradition of African culture with poet Moody Black, Alisa Caldwell’s Elements of Rhythm Dancers, the Spirit Beat Drummers, and the art of April Harrison. Emrys members attend free. Tickets for nonmembers are $35; students and Kroc Center members are invited to attend at a special rate of $25 per ticket.
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The Hub City/Emrys Creative Writing Prize in Poetry has been awarded to Terri McCord, with runners up Elizabeth Drewry and Vera Gomez. All three will read at the Hub City Bookshop on Wednesday, May 16 at 6pm. Come celebrate our great talent in the Upstate! Contact info@emrys.org for carpooling possibilities.
Eli’s essay, The Picture Show, will be published in the summer issue of Cimarron Review. It is the fifth essay Eli has published from a collection she is writing about her father’s long term illness and its effects on her family. The first, Birthday Girls Don’t Cry, was published in Emrys Journal in 2007. Eli has an MFA from Sarah Lawrence College and is a writer, graphic designer and mother.

Board member, Terri Lee McCord, has been awarded he annual Hub City/Emrys Creative Writing Prize in poetry. Emrys member, Bob Strother took first in fiction. Strother, Neely, and Coppenbarger, will read at the Hub City Bookshop on Wednesday, May 2 at 6 p.m. This free event at which the prizes will be awarded is open to the public. Please join us.
The 2012 Emrys Journal was released to the public on April 12 at a party in downtown Greenville. We are pleased to announce the prizewinners, selected by editors Ellyn Bache, Linda Holden, and Anna Katherine Freeland, respectively.
Emrys member Heather Magruder has a story in the current issue of Northwords Now, a literary magazine in Scotland. She won The Baker Prize English prose competition. Heather traveled to Scotland to read at the awards ceremony. The event was held at The Skeabost Hotel, Skeabost Bridge, by Portree, Isle of Skye. Read Heather’s story, Between Sea and Sky, online at Northwords Now.
Emrys president, Jo Watson Hackl, is profiled in the
cover story, Women Who Lead, in the March 2012 issue of
Greenville Business Magazine.
Read the article here.
Rochester, NY—Jillian Weise, whose Writing Room Workshop was March 31st, has been awarded the Isabella Gardner Poetry Award for her new collection, The Book of Goodbyes. Her book will be published by BOA Editions in fall 2013.

Second place in poetry went to Emrys member, Elizabeth Drewry of Landrum, Third place winner is Emrys board member, Vera Gomez of Greenville.



Celisa Steele reviews For One Who Knows How to Own Land by Scott Owens in Pirene's Review. (here)