Category: Events

The Triumph of Crowds by Brigid McLeer is the winner of the third Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers. The award will presented, with a reading of the winning play directed by Fiona Templeton, on Monday, December 5th, at 8:00pm at the New Ohio Theatre, 154 Christopher Street, New York NY 10014. Entrance is free; contributions are welcome.

M. NourbeSe Philip will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics, “Ga(s)p: Breath, Community and Poetry,” at the Pratt Institute MFA in Writing on Friday, December 2, 2016, at 6:00 pm in Higgins Hall Auditorium, 61. St. James Place, Brooklyn Campus.

Videos of Dorothy Wang’s and Dawn Lundy Martin’s Leslie Scalapino Lectures in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University are now available.

Nathaniel Mackey will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at the University of California in Berkeley on Tuesday, November 8, 2016, at 7:00 pm in the Maude Fife Room (Wheeler 315).

The third cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Playwrights, with publication by Litmus Press and production by The Relationship, opens soon! The winner of the biennial award will receive a $2,500 cash prize; print publication of the winning text by Litmus Press; a staged reading of the piece in New York this… Continue reading Call for entries for the 3rd cycle of the Leslie Scalapino Award for Innovative Women Performance Writers

Dawn Lundy Martin will deliver the 2016 Leslie Scalapino Lecture in Innovative Poetics at Naropa University as part of this year’s 2016 Spring Symposium: “How to Grieve and Dream at the Same Time: Discuss”on Monday, March 14, at 7:30pm.