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Bacopa Literary Review Presentation
November 8, 2015, 2:30 pm
The Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) presented the sixth annual edition of their literary journal, the Bacopa Literary Review, and announced the winners of their 2015 contest. The forty-one works selected for Bacopa included authors from as far away as Australia, Brazil, and Canada as well as from the Gainesville area and several other states. Of the nine winners in the contest – note that the judging is blind so the judges don’t know the authors – four were local residents.
WAG members picked up their free copies of Bacopa, and visitors had a chance to buy one for $10. Gen Aris, Bacopa Editor-in-Chief, led the program of readers during which editors introduced each of thirteen readings from the journal by sharing a short bio of the author. The program included all or parts of six of the prize-winning entries plus other works by three local authors as well as four non-winners from out of state that the editors thought we’d enjoy. Editors on behalf of authors not able to attend and authors read selections of about four minutes each. The appreciative audience followed along in their own copies. After applauding the readings — listed below — the audience celebrated by enjoying a table of treats and healthy snacks.
David Maas read his poem “Beautiful Like This.”
Catherine Ghosh, third place nonfiction winner, read an excerpt from “The Fire Breather.”
Dorothy Staley, editor, read an excerpt from Ellen Perry’s first place fiction “Milk – Bread – Soft Drinks.”
Michael Allard, third place fiction winner, read an excerpt from “Your Invisible Alligator.”
Jani Sherrod, editor, read Margaux Griffith’s poem “Late Bloom.”
Pat Caren (pen name Marie Q. Rogers) read selections from her story “Canebreak.”
Bonnie Ogle, on behalf of Kaye Linden, first place creative nonfiction winner, read Kaye’s “The Linear and Circular One Sentence of Tattoo Designs over His Body.”
Gen Aris, editor, read Kimberly Rose’s poem “Medicine My Mother Was.”
Dorothy Staley, editor, read Mary Moycik’s short fiction “Reading the Newspaper.”
Michael Kite, second place creative nonfiction winner, read an excerpt from “Memories of a Honeymoon and a Milk Carton.”
Gen Aris, editor, read Darrell Dela Cruz’ poem “Where We Are Located.”
Jani Sherrard, editor, read Diane Stone’s first place poem “Local Weather.”
Gen Aris, editor, read Nicholas Lloyd’s story “Sprint.”