Programs and Events, Fall 2008 - Spring 2009

College Student Writing Contest

for Wisconsin Undergraduates

Win $150 and read your prize-winning poem or story at the opening banquet for the Wisconsin Local Food Summit in January in Wisconsin Rapids.  This contest is co-sponsored by the Northwest Wisconsin Regional Food Network, and Sustainable Literature / Red Cedar programs at the University of Wisconsin - Barron County.

Each year both a poem and a story or creative non-fiction essay will be selected; ALL submissions will also be considered for publication in Red Cedar, UW-BC’s annual journal of the arts and literature, which comes out every May. 

To read last year’s winning entries, click HERE.

To read SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND DETAILS, click HERE.

Submit Your Work to Red Cedar!

Red Cedar, UW Barron County’s Annual Journal of Arts and Literature will publish its 2009 edition in May, featuring the writing of college students and others from throughout Wisconsin and the northern Midwest, UW-Barron County students, staff, and faculty, and writing from high school students and area residents of Northwest Wisconsin.  In addition, Red Cedar will feature the work of several area artists.  

To check out a PDF of Red Cedar 2008, click HERE.

To read SUBMISSION GUIDELINES AND DETAILS, click HERE.

Or email inquiries to redcedar@uwc.edu.

Poetry Slam for High School Students

Click here for details and guidelines for the High School Poetry Slam.

Over a hundred high school students, teachers, and UW-Barron campus students and staff, as well as community members, gathered in the Commons at UW-BC last spring for our First Annual High School Poetry Slam Competition.  Every participant will receive free tuition and books for a three day creative writing workshop to be held on the UW Barron County campus in Rice Lake in June, and the top three poets in the competition will win iPods.  The event was sponsored by the UW-Barron County Pilot Project on Enrollment and Sustainable Literary / Red Cedar. Check back here for more information soon about the Slam competition for Spring, 2009. 

Click here watch video clips from the Slam.

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Email joel.friederich@uwc.edu for more information.

Free Writing Workshops with Judy Barisonzi

Want to try your hand at metaphors? Record your feelings and observations in a way that captures their beauty and originality?  Join Judy at 6 - 7:30 p.m. every other Monday at the Rice Lake Public Library for a free informal writing workshop.  Perfect for all ages and writing abilities.  

Email judith.barisonzi@uwc.edu or

joel.friederich@uwc.edu for more information.

Contemporary Author Series

Click HERE to read about the first annual UW-Barron County Contemporary Authors Series, readings and discussions held last year from October, 2007, to March, 2008.  And check back here soon for information about the next visiting author series, discussions, and  courses open to the community and UW-BC students - coming in Fall, 2009.