Announcing the Accepted Contributions to 2021 Fall Lines - a literary convergence & Winners of the Broad River Prize for Prose and Saluda River Prize for Poetry
The Jasper Project, in conjunction with Richland Library, One Columbia for Arts and Culture and Richland Library Friends & Family , is proud to announce the authors whose work has been accepted for publication in part II of the combined seventh and eighth edition of Fall Lines – a literary convergence, as well as the recipients of the 2021 Fall Lines Awards for the Saluda River Prize for Poetry and the Broad River Prize for Prose.
Congratulations to
Kasie Whitener whose short fiction, The Shower,
was selected from more than one hundred prose submissions as the winner of the Broad River Prize for Prose, and to
Angelo Geter, whose poem, Black Girl Fly,
was selected from more than 400 submissions as the winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry.
All additional contributors are listed below!
Judges for this year’s awards were
Randall David Cook for fiction and Nathalie Anderson for poetry.
Mark your calendar for Sunday October 17th at 3 pm for the 2020-2021 Fall Lines Release and Reading at the Main Branch of the Richland Library. All contributors are invited to read ONE piece from the combined issues. The event is free and open to the public!
All accepted contributors should send a 75-word bio to be included in the journal to editor@JasperColumbia.com
CONGRATULATIONS TO THE FOLLOWING!
Aida Rogers – From Proust to Gibbs
Hannah Pearson – Where the Fox and Hare Say Goodnight
Liesel Hamilton - Drifting
Susanne Kamata - The Lump
Loli Molina Munoz - Distance(s)
Carla Damron - Breaking the Surface
Arthur McMaster - Connecting Flights
Kasie Whitener - The Shower
Tim Conroy - Pendleton Street
Debra Daniel - How to Make Peach Jam
Angelo Geter - Black Girl Fly
Lisa Hase Jackson – Dead Birds of the Great Leap Forward
Ray McManus – When You Can’t Tell the Vine from the Branches
Landon Chapman – Odysseus
Ken McLaurin – Procrastination
Terri McCord – Sense Making
May O’Keefe Brady – Pandemic’s Box
Adam Corbett – The Keys and Gertrude Stein
Patricia Starek - Glass Travels
Jenny Maxwell – My Father on Tap Dancing
Nicola Waldron – Peach Harvest
Ken Denk – Propitiating the Pulmonic Plague and After the Fight
Ruth Nicholson – At Congaree Swamp
Glenis Redmond – She Makes Me Think of Houses and For Dark-Skinned Black Women You Know it’s Not Just About the Red Lipstick
Judith Cumming Reese – Twilight Song
Eileen Scharenbroch – Sisters
Worthy Branson Evans – Blues For Want of a Blues Song
Kristine Hartvigsen – Journey
Roy Seeger – Alluvial Patterns
Randy Spencer – Invitation to the Plague and When it is Over
Betsy Thorne – Quarantined
Amanda Rachelle Warren – How Many Reasons for this Up and Gone
Jo Angela Edwins – The Lichtenberg Figure
Susan Craig – Tell Me it is Enough
Danielle Ann Verwers – When the Lights Go Out
Ann-Chadwell Humphries – Golden Boy
Austin Hehir – Human
Libby Bernardin – Dear October
Horace Mungin – Flip of the Two-Headed Coin
Melanie McClellan Hartnett – untitled
Al Black – Prayers in the Spectrum
John Lane – Two Rifts on Montale
Gil Allen – The Chosen
Jane Zenger – What I Will Do For You
Lisa Johnson-McVety – Sad Feet
Fall Lines Volume VI Announces Winners - Kimberly Driggers and Derek Berry!
Jasper is delighted to announce the winners in this year’s competitive Fall Lines categories.
Congratulations to Kimberly Driggers whose poem, IMAGINE THE SOUND OF WAVES, is the winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry and to Derek Berry whose prose piece, SASQUATCH, is the winner of the Broad River Prize for Prose.
Both literary artists will be published in Fall Lines - a literary convergence, Volume VI which launches on Sunday, August 18th from 2 - 3:30 with a reading and awards ceremony at Richland Library. The event if free and open to the public.
Fall Lines is sponsored by the Jasper Project in partnership with Richland Library and One Columbia for Arts and Culture. The two winning authors will each receive a check for $250 sponsored by the Richland Library Friends & Foundation.
Judges for this year’s contests included Judy Goldman (prose) and DeLana Dameron.
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Additional authors whose work will appear in the 2019 volume of Fall Lines include:
Teresa Haskew
Ellen Malphrus
Loli Molena Munoz
Libby Bernardin
Len Lawson
Susan Craig
Lawrence Rhu
Worthy Evans
Curtis Derrick
Terri McCord
Al Black
Ruth Nicholson
Heather Dearmon
Randy Spencer
Tim Conroy
Suzanne Kamata
Frances Pearce
Bo Petersen
Jon Tuttle
Kathleen Warthen
Kristine Hartvigsen
Gil Allen
Andrew Clark
Kevin Oliver
Yvette Murray
Ed Madden
Ray McManus
Nathalie Anderson
Jasper Project Executive Director Cindi Boiter and Denise Gadson Receive the Richland Library Friends and Foundation’s 2018 Awards
By: Christina Xan
The Jasper Project is happy to share that the Richland Library Friends and Foundation is honoring two South Carolina women and their dedication to our community.
The Richland Library Friends and Foundation is a 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization whose mission is to support Richland Library by raising awareness and financial support. Each year they recognize individuals who have supported literacy in Columbia.
This year, the two awards will acknowledge the achievements of women in Richland County who have contributed to our literary community and local libraries in their own unique ways. First, receiving the Lucy Hampton Bostick Award, is our own Cindi Boiter, and second, receiving the Ethel Bolden Minority Scholarship, is Denise Gadson.
According to the Richland Library, “the Lucy Hampton Bostick Award offers a custom, hand-blown glass award and cash honorarium while recognizing a South Carolina author, someone who has written a significant literary work on South Carolina, or someone in the Midlands who has significantly advanced the interest in books or libraries.” This award is named after a long-time head librarian in Richland County and former Richland Library director (1928-1968) who is “credited with fostering interest in Southern literature and history, improving cultural life in Columbia, and promoting library appreciation throughout the state.”
Cindi Boiter has been chosen to receive the award this year as a fierce advocate of the literary arts. Boiter was a freelance writer for 20 years and has published a book of award-winning stories. After teaching Women’s and Gender Studies at the University of South Carolina for a number of years, she went on to become the founder of The Jasper Project and Jasper Magazine, of which she is the Editor-in-Chief.
Likewise, the Ethel Bolden Minority Scholarship provides $3,500 in financial support for students from “underrepresented ethnic and racial groups, who are working toward the completion of a Master of Library and Information Science degree at the University of South Carolina.” This scholarship was created in 2010 and named after Bolden to recognize her years of service to the Richland County community and its libraries.
Denise Gadson has been chosen for this award this year for her continual passion for reading and for helping others, both children and adults, on their journey towards gaining that same passion as well. Gadson is the author of children’s book Penelope's World Famous Cookies and is currently seeking to further her education along in order to continue aiding others in their quest for knowledge.
The Richland Library Friends and Foundation has plans to formally recognize these wonderful women during a reception in 2019 (date TBA).
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Fall Lines Literary Magazine Accepting Submissions for 2018 Issue
Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a literary journal presented by The Jasper Project in partnership with Richland Library and One Columbia for Arts and History.
Fall Lines will accept submissions of previously unpublished poetry, essays, short fiction, and flash fiction from January 15, 2018 through April 1, 2018. While the editors of Fall Lines hope to attract the work of writers and poets from the Carolinas and the Southeastern US, acceptance of work is not dependent upon residence.
Publication in Fall Lines will be determined by a panel of judges and accepted authors (ONLY) will be notified by May 30, 2018, with a publication date in July 2018. Two $250 cash prizes, sponsored by the Richland Library Friends, will be awarded: The Saluda River Prize for Poetry and the Broad River Prize for Prose.
Each entry must be submitted as a single independent entry and include its own cover sheet.
Submit each individual poetry submission, along with its own cover sheet, to FallLines@JasperProject.org with the word POETRY in the subject line.
Submit each individual prose submission, along with its own cover sheet, to FallLines@JasperProject.org with the word PROSE in the subject line.
Cover sheets MUST include your name, the name of the one individual entry you are submitting with that cover sheet, email address, and USPO address. There is no fee to enter, but submissions that fail to follow the above instructions will be disqualified without review.
Please limit short fiction to 2000 words or less; flash fiction to 350 – 500 words per submission; essays to 1200 words; and poetry to three pages (Times New Roman 12 pt.) Please submit no more than a total of 5 entries.
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The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form, running parallel to the east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians and the softer, more gentle coastal plain.
Preview: "Overdue: An Evening of Art and Music” at Richland Library on June 30
By: Jenna Schiferl
Attempting to imagine what death feels like is uncomfortable. People rarely discuss it in casual conversation, despite it being one of the few shared experiences that every individual in existence will have in common.
Evan Meaney, a professor of Art and New Media at the University of South Carolina, has created an artificial way of experiencing what death may feel like through virtual reality. Meaney is also a filmmaker, photographer, and a freelance programmer. In addition, he has previously worked at Tennessee Oak Ridge National Laboratory, which houses the supercomputers of America.
“We Will Love You Forever,” Meaney’s most recent VR project, debuted in Brazil two weeks ago. Guests at “Overdue: An Evening of Art and Music” at Richland Library on June 30 will be have the unique opportunity to experience it for themselves.
Meaney described his project as an exploration of imposter syndrome, a phenomenon where high-achieving adults constantly question their success and are unable to internally recognize their own accomplishments. This is often paired with a constant fear of being exposed as a “fraud” or feeling wildly under-qualified for certain tasks they are expected to perform.
It is difficult to accurately diagnose, so there is little concrete information about the prevalence of the syndrome; however, feelings of uncertainty and self-doubt are incredibly common.
“It’s how I think Kanye West feels sometimes. Love him or hate him, he is kind of a genius and he is misunderstood. So I feel like he probably questions himself more than he lets on,” Meaney says.
In the simulator, the user creates what has been formally acknowledged as the most beautiful piece of artwork ever consumed by man. After receiving copious praise from nondescript, featureless bodies, the room begins to collapse and eventually you arrive in hospice care, as you watch a generic PowerPoint presentation on how to die.
Meaney identified his project as one of dependent interactivity. In the simulator, the user can walk around, nod ‘yes’ or ‘no,’ and even pick up items. All of these opportunities lead to a greater and higher level of interactivity on a spectrum of user involvement.
“We Will Love You Forever” allows for users to “make art in the abyss, die on Earth, [and] decay on the Moon.” Through this piece, Meaney ultimately asks one of the most poignant questions regarding death: “What if it is just nothing?”
Wray Bowling is another artist and programmer that will be presenting his work at Overdue. Bowling is currently an employee at the library as a user experience programmer and web developer.
After studying interactive multimedia in college, Bowling started experimenting with using code as a creative medium.
“I’m still a web developer, and I’m still an artist,” Bowling says.
The program that he will be using at Overdue is a jigsaw puzzle synthesizer. It runs on a web browser and allows users to manipulate and adjust different variables in order to create a completely individual puzzle layout.
After a puzzle is created, the file is exported and uploaded to a silhouette maker, where it is then cut onto old vinyl record covers. The entire process takes about 20 minutes to complete.
“It’s called a synth as opposed to a generator because it’s a synthesizer in more of an open interpretation of what that word means,” Bowling says. “Synthesis doesn’t mean a keyboard that looks like a piano and makes be-boop sounds. That’s not what it means at all. Synthesis is about taking lots of small, concrete ideas, and, when they work in unison together as a single unit, you synthesize something that wouldn’t be possible otherwise.”
Jordan Morris, a maker coordinator in the studio services department at the library, is one of the primary event organizers for Overdue. The purpose of the event is to celebrate the opening of the first level of the library. The first level now houses an expandable auditorium that can seat between 150-200 people. In addition, the renovations created a gallery space for local artists and the film and sound department.
The library hosted a similar event last year of the same name to celebrate the opening of the second floor makerspaces and studios. The second floor hosts everything from practical skills including woodworking and sewing classes to technical courses for recording equipment and computer programming.
After the passage of a bond referendum in 2013, RCPL has been challenging traditional norms associated with a library is capable of, and Overdue is no exception. According to Emily Stoll, a media relations specialist at the library, many guests are surprised to learn about the courses that the Main branch offers.
Currently all of the technical equipment available for patrons to use must be kept in house, but the library staff has aspirations to one day have a lending library established.
“We’re always thinking ahead, we’re always thinking to that next step of how we can provide people access, and not only access, but free access. It’s always something that we are exploring,” Stoll says.
Many of the artists at Overdue blend the lines between technology and art with what they create.
“It wasn't a conscious decision — just one of many aspects of making that we wanted to be able to offer the community.” Morris says, “It's a way to showcase some of the equipment that Richland Library has available for people to explore. This technology might be too expensive to invest in personally, but it’s free here.”
This year, there will be double the amount of artists and interactive opportunities at Overdue, in addition to three fresh new bands. RBTS WIN, Contour, and DJ Siji will perform at the event, which begins at 7 p.m.
Fall Lines
Fall Lines – a literary convergence launches third issue with a reception and reading at Tapp’s Arts Center July 28th
The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form, running parallel to the east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians and the softer, more gentle coastal plain.
Jasper Magazine, in partnership with Richland Library, USC Press, One Columbia, Muddy Ford Press, and The Jasper Project will release the third annual issue of Fall Lines – a literary convergence on Thursday, July 28th from 7 – 9 pm at a free reception at Tapp’s Arts Center. An annual literary journal based in Columbia, SC, Fall Lines was conceived as a mechanism for highlighting Columbia as the literary arts capitol of South Carolina.
A panel of judges selected 30 pieces of poetry and prose, from hundreds of international submissions, for publication in Fall Lines alongside invited pieces from Ron Rash, Terrance Hayes, Pam Durban, Laurel Blossom, and Patricia Moore-Pastides. Two prizes for the literary arts, sponsored by Friends of the Richland Library, will also be awarded including the Saluda River Prize for Poetry to Kathleen Nalley for her poem, “The Last Man on the Moon,” and the Broad River Prize for Prose, awarded to Claire Kemp for her short fiction, “The Dollmaker.” Adjudicators included SC poet laureate Marjory Wentworth and award-winning author Julia Elliott. In addition, Fall Lines will also publish the winner of the 2016 South Carolina Academy of Authors Coker Fiction Fellowship, “I Can’t Remember What I Was Trying to Forget,” by Phillip Gardner.
The awards ceremony and reception will also feature readings by selected authors whose work is published in this issue of Fall Lines: Scott Chalupa, David Travis Bland, Matthew O’Leary, Mike Miller, Claire Kemp, Kathleen Nalley. Tim Conroy, Julie Bloemeke, Eileen Scharenbroch, Jonathan Butler, and Mark Rodehorst.
The editors of Fall Lines, Cindi Boiter, Ed Madden, and Kyle Petersen, are deeply appreciative of this year’s sponsors including Jonathan and Lorene Haupt, Sara June Goldstein, Richland Library, One Columbia for Arts and History, Muddy Ford Press, Columbia Museum of Art, the SC Philharmonic Orchestra, Rosewood Art and Music Festival, Deckle Edge Literary Festival 2017, and The Whig.
For more information please contact Cindi Boiter at cindiboiter@gmail.com.
Fall Lines
CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS: Fall Lines - a literary convergence
Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a literary journal in its third year of publication based in Columbia, SC and presented by Jasper Magazine in partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, Muddy Ford Press, Richland Library and One Columbia for Arts and History.
With a single, annual publication, Fall Lines is distributed in lieu of Jasper Magazine’s regularly scheduled summer issue. Fall Lines will accept submissions of previously unpublished poetry, essays, short fiction, and flash fiction from February 1, 2016 through April 1, 2016. While the editors of Fall Lines hope to attract the work of writers and poets from the Carolinas and the Southeastern US, acceptance of work is not dependent upon residence.
Publication in Fall Lines will be determined by a panel of judges and accepted authors will be notified in May 2016, with a publication date in summer 2016. Accepted authors will receive two copies of the journal. Two $250 cash prizes, sponsored by the Richland Library Friends, will be awarded: The Saluda River Prize for Poetry and The Broad River Prize for Prose.
Each entry must be submitted as a single independent entry with the appropriate category (poetry, essay, fiction, flash fiction) typed in the email subject heading.
Submit poetry to submissions.poetry@jaspercolumbia.com.
Submit prose to submissions.prose@jaspercolumbia.com.
Please include with each submission a cover sheet stating the title of your work, your name, email address, and USPO address. There is no fee to enter.
Please limit short fiction to 2000 words or less; flash fiction to 350 – 500 words per submission; essays to 1200 words; and poetry to three pages. Please submit no more than a total of 5 entries.
The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form, running parallel to the east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians and the softer, more gentle coastal plain.
"Andy Smith does not spend his time waiting" -- Tony Tallent Endorses Andy Smith
We are all drawn to people who are able to articulate a vision for a brighter future, particularly when that vision touches on things we really care about. Articulating a vision is a powerful action. Implementing it is even more powerful. Too often there seems to be a wait-time for many leaders to act on the vision they have announced. Perhaps they are waiting for a mass of approval or funding or a wave of new insight and personal courage. This wait-time burns through resources, opportunities and trust.
Andy Smith does not spend his time waiting. He is already actively making moves to fulfill the vision he has set for the City of Columbia. He hasn’t waited for superficial permission or for the political climate to be easy. The work Andy Smith does both through his role as a nonprofit director of a notable organization in Columbia as well as an involved community member has already made improvements that surpass the tangible changes many seasoned leaders have made. He has lifted up the lives of disadvantaged youth and has shown a palpable respect to marginalized and vulnerable segments of our community in ways that are remarkable. Andy Smith cares in ways that are real and not only in words.
Andy Smith is already doing the work that is moving Columbia toward a brighter future. Imagine how much more powerful this good, earnest work would be if Andy had a platform to reach into our community more directly.
We all want to see great, mindful changes in our city. Andy Smith hasn’t waited for others to make this happen. He has stepped in with courage and without hesitation. Why would we want to prolong making Columbia an even better place to be? We know someone who can help make this happen more rapidly. Andy Smith. Andy doesn’t hesitate to do the right thing. Let’s not hesitate anymore either.
DECKLE EDGE — New Literary Festival to Launch in February 2016
The inaugural Deckle Edge Literary Festival will be held February 19-21, 2016, in Columbia, South Carolina. The weekend-long festival will feature readings, book signings, panel presentations, exhibitors, writers’ workshops, activities for children and young adult readers, and a wide range of other literary events for many interests and all ages.
The Deckle Edge literary festival will gather and foster the diverse branches of our region’s literary community through an inclusive weekend of public events and programming for readers, writers, and lovers of the written word. While Deckle Edge has its roots in the storied tradition of South Carolina’s literary life, the festival is committed to forging new ground, challenging existing boundaries, and broadening the conception of the literary South.
The festival hopes to appeal to regional and national audiences while remaining a community focused effort, partnering with an extensive network of South Carolina literary and cultural organizations, including Richland Library, the University of South Carolina Press, Hub City Writers Project, the SC Center for Children’s Books & Literacy, Ed Madden and the Columbia Office of the Poet Laureate, South Carolina Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth, the Low Country Initiative for Literary Arts, Jasper Magazine, Richland County schools, and others.
Deckle Edge will be built on the strong foundation of the South Carolina Book Festival, a project of the Humanities Council SC, which announced the festival’s dissolution this past summer. The Humanities Council SC is now actively pursuing a variety of year-round statewide literary initiatives and has been supportive of the plans for Deckle Edge as a new literary event to be hosted in Columbia. “The SC Book Festival was a tremendous gift to readers and writers in the South, and we’re grateful to the Humanities Council SC for sharing their expertise with us as we create something new,” said Deckle Edge co-chair Darien Cavanaugh, “We would not have been able to move so quickly on launching Deckle Edge without their guidance and good will.”
Participating authors and specific panels have not yet been announced. While the festival will not be limited to local talent, programming will highlight a handful of New York Times bestselling authors from the Carolinas, some beloved favorites from past SC Book Festivals, and many voices not previously heard from at South Carolina literary events. “This is Columbia’s literary festival,” said Deckle Edge co-chair Annie Boiter-Jolley, “but it’s also joining the larger conversation about literature of and in the South. We look forward to sharing our vision with writers and readers, and to hearing from them as to what Deckle Edge might become in future years.”
As the festival goes through the process of applying for nonprofit status, One Columbia for Arts and History will be acting as its fiscal sponsor. Deckle Edge has also sought financial support through city and county tax grants, and is currently accepting tax-deductible donations through One Columbia. “Deckle Edge is the right literary event at the right time,” said One Columbia executive director Lee Snelgrove. “What Annie and Darien are building with their partnerships is very ambitious, but this city has already proven that ambition can be rewarded in our arts community. One Columbia is proud to be a partner in establishing this new literary festival.”
Visit the festival web site at www.DeckleEdgeSC.org to donate or to sign up for the festival mailing list, and e-mail info@DeckleEdgeSC.org for more information.
DEADLINE = MARCH 1
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Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a literary journal based in Columbia, SC and presented by Jasper Magazine in partnership with the University of South Carolina Press, Muddy Ford Press, Richland Library and One Columbia.
With a single, annual publication, Fall Lines is distributed in lieu of Jasper Magazine’s regularly scheduled summer issue. Fall Lines will accept submissions of previously unpublished poetry, essays, short fiction, and flash fiction from December 1, 2014 through March 1, 2015. While the editors of Fall Lines hope to attract the work of writers and poets from the Carolinas and the Southeastern US, acceptance of work is not dependent upon residence.
Please limit short fiction to 2000 words or less; flash fiction to 350 – 500 words per submission; essays to 1200 words; and poetry to three pages (Times New Roman 12 pt.)
Submit your work to Jasper Magazine’s Fall Lines – a literary convergence at https://jaspermagazine.submittable.com/submit.
While you are invited to enter up to five items, each item should be sent individually as a single submission. Please include with each submission a cover sheet stating your name, email address, and USPO address.
There is a five dollar reading fee for each short story; for up to three poems; for up to three flash fiction submissions; or for each essay.
Publication in Fall Lines will be determined by a panel of judges and accepted authors will be notified in May 2015, with a publication date in June 2015. Accepted authors will receive two copies of the journal.
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The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form, running parallel to the east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians and the softer, more gentle coastal plain.
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Jasper Celebrates Fall Lines
Jasper is pleased to announce that Fall Lines -- a literary convergence is on the streets after two exciting celebrations of its release.
On Sunday, we launched Fall Lines with a celebration and reading hosted by our partner the Richland Library Many thanks to Tony Tallent not only for facilitating the partnership but also for hosting and feting us so well Sunday afternoon.
The Fall Lines Team -- left to right, Ed Madden of Jasper, Lee Snelgrove of One Columbia, and Tony Tallent of Richland Library with Cindi Boiter of Jasper seated (not pictured Jonathan Haupt of USC Press and Bob Jolley of Muddy Ford Press)
Left - Nicola Waldron, winner of the Broad River Prize for Prose; Right - Mary Hutchins Harris - winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry -- both sponsored by Richland Library Friends
The next day we were back on the podium with an extended reading hosted by Sara Cogswell at her beautiful gallery on State Street in West Columbia, Gallery West.
photo by Will South
Pick up your copy of Fall Lines at any of the Richland County Library branches, the One Columbia office on Lady Street, Jasper Studio in the historic Arcade at 1332 Main Street, Frame of Mind, Gallery West, and selected boutiques, galleries and venues in Columbia -- or order it online at Amazon.com or BandN.com. And look for the Fall Lines e-book coming soon from Richland Library.
Many thanks to Roe Young of Roe Young State Farm, Tom Mack of the SC Academy of Authors, and the Richland Library Friends.
Fall Lines
Announcing the Winners of Jasper's Fall Lines Writing Prizes
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The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form, running parallel to the east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians and the softer, more gentle coastal plain.
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Jasper is delighted to announce the winners of the Fall Lines Poetry and Prose Writing Prizes sponsored by the Richland Library Friends and published in the inaugural issue of Fall Lines – a literary convergence.
Congratulations to Nicola Waldron, winner of the Broad River Prize for Prose for her piece "Dig and Delve," and to Mary Hutchins Harris, winner of the Saluda River Prize for Poetry for her poem, "Accidentals." A check for $250 accompanies each prize.
Work by Waldron and Harris will appear in Fall Lines along with poetry and prose by such award winning writers as Christopher Dickey, Josephine Humphries, and SC Poet Laureate Marjory Wentworth, as well as Aida Rogers, Ray McManus, Susan Levi Wallach, Susan Laughter Meyers and more. Fall Lines is edited by Cynthia Boiter with poetry editor Ed Madden.
With a single annual publication, Fall Lines is distributed in lieu of Jasper Magazine’s regularly scheduled summer issue via a partnership between Jasper Magazine and Richland Library, the University of South Carolina Press, One Columbia, and Muddy Ford Press. The South Carolina Academy of Authors and Roe Young State Farm Insurance Agency also serve as generous sponsors of the literary journal.
Fall Lines will release on Sunday, June 8th with a 4 pm reception and reading at the Richland Library.
Fall Lines - new Columbia-based literary journal CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS
Fall Lines
a literary convergence
Fall Lines – a literary convergence is a new literary journal based in Columbia, SC and presented by Jasper Magazine in partnership with Richland Library, the University of South Carolina Press, Muddy Ford Press, and One Columbia.
With a single, annual publication, Fall Lines is distributed in lieu of Jasper Magazine’s regularly scheduled summer issue. While a limited issue of three thousand copies of Fall Lines will be printed, Fall Lines will be available in its entirety in a downloadable e-format via RichlandLibrary.com.
Fall Lines will accept submissions of previously unpublished poetry, essays, short fiction, and flash fiction from January 1 through March 1, 2014. While the editors of Fall Lines hope to attract the work of writers and poets from the Carolinas and the Southeastern US, acceptance of work is not dependent upon residence.
Please limit short fiction to 2000 words or less; flash fiction to 350 – 500 words; essays to 1200 words; and poetry to three pages (Times New Roman 12 pt.) Submit your work via email to Editor@JasperColumbia.com with the words “Fall Lines” in the subject heading along with the category (above) of the item being submitted. While you are invited to enter up to five items, each item should be sent individually as a single submission. Please include with each submission a cover sheet stating your name, age, email address, and USPO address. There is no fee to enter.
Publication in Fall Lines will be determined by a panel of judges and accepted authors will be notified in May 2014, with a publication date in June 2014. Accepted authors will receive two copies of the journal.
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The Columbia Fall Line is a natural junction, along which the Congaree River falls and rapids form,runningparalleltothe east coast of the country between the resilient rocks of the Appalachians andthesofter, more gentle coastal plain.
Jasper Goes to the Library - Tuesday with Laurie McIntosh!
Starting in December at the Richland Library and six of its branches, don’t be surprised to smell turpentine in the circulation department or hear singing in the stacks because Jasper is going to the library!
Jasper Goes to the Library is a new outreach program presented in a partnership between Jasper Magazine and Richland Library. Once a month for six months and at six different library branches, artists from six different arts disciplines will present an hour long program of performance and demonstration. Disciplines include dance, theatre, the literary arts, music, visual arts, and film.
It was a brainstorm that originated with Heather Green, manager of Richland Library Wheatley. “I had really begun thinking about how Richland Library could partner with our community artists to have the biggest impact on our community,” Green says. “Although we are considered a metropolitan area, many of our residents do not have access and exposure to the many arts resources we have right here in Columbia. I decided to contact (Jasper editor) Cindi Boiter to get the ball rolling on a Richland Library/Jasper partnership. My initial ideas were small – that Jasper could come to Richland Library Wheatley, which is my location, and present something arts related. Cindi blew my small ideas wide open suggesting that Jasper and the Library collaborate for a series of presentations – from performing arts to visual arts. So in one afternoon meeting, my little idea grew into a wonderful partnership.”
Local visual artist Tim Floyd is also one of the six selected artists and arts groups to participate in the inaugural program and is scheduled to present and demonstrate on January 7th in 2014 at the Ballentine branch of Richland Library. For Floyd, who will be talking about creative solutions and demonstrating how to make an encaustic painting, it makes perfect sense for an arts magazine like Jasper to design a series of arts events which will allow working artists to share their talents with their community in free and public spaces. “Libraries are the knowledge hub of a community. Showing original art and process is important for the encouragement of others,” Floyd says. “Maybe one person will get a spark and go out and create something.”
The programs will all take place on the first Tuesday of the month starting on December 3rd with visual artist and writer Laurie McIntosh who will be talking about and reading from her art book, All the In Between – My Story of Agnes, at the Wheatley Branch. McIntosh’s book is an annotated catalogue of an art series she completed commemorating the life and death of her mother. Other presenters include the musical duo of Todd Mathis (guitar) and Cully Salehi (viola) who will perform at the North Main Branch on February 4th, films from The 2013 2nd Act Film Festival presented by Jasper Magazine on March 4th at Richland Library Northeast, Columbia City Ballet Company on April 1st at the Southeast branch, and the South Carolina Shakespeare Company on May 6th at the Cooper branch.
“Columbia has so many wonderful resources. We should all be partnering more to maximize our message that all residents/communities deserve to have quality education and information—no matter their socioeconomic standing,” says Green. “I am so excited that Richland Library and Jasper are partnering up to further promote the arts in Columbia. Six months of Jasper artists in our libraries? That sounds pretty awesome to me!”