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Literary & Other Opportunities
I am looking for women who are interested in forming a feminist photography collective. In addition to exchanging skills, critiquing each other's work, sharing dark room space, etc., we would visually document women's culture. I am particularly interested in producing images of women to offset the damage done us personally and culturally by pornography and advertising. Please call Louise at 371-2492 or leave 'a message at WSW, 321-3054.
CounterVision, a photojournal on cultural diversity in the community of women, is announcing a call for entries from women photographers. The deadline for submissions is November 30, 1982. A maximum of 10 unmounted, 8x10 black and white glossies will be accepted from each photographer along with an entry fee of $5.00. Please inclulde an SASE. For a more in-depth prospectus, write CounterVision, c/o Diana Duff, 3021 Rawson Street, Oakland, CA 94619, or call (415) 436-8030 leaving your name and address.
Emma's Daughters, a book about anarchist-feminist women, will be a mix of already-published material and original articles, poetry, fiction and artwork, with a major emphasis on anarcha-feminism today. Please send .submissions (typed, double-spaced, 3 copies) by February 1, 1983 with a self-addressed stamped envelope to editor Carol Ehrlich, 4502 Weitzel Ave., Baltimore, MD 21214.
A Real Professional Women's Theatre Company of Portland, Oregon is soliciting plays and other original materials for their upcoming theatrical season. Submit your work to: A Real Professional Women's Theatre Company, c/o Nancy S. Vanderburgh, 555 N.E. Fargo No. 1, Portland, Oregon 97212. Please include information on royalties, etc.
The Feminist Study Action Guide Project (FSAG), based in Berkeley. California, is currently looking for material to be published in an anthology of women's work, "I'm Not a Women's Libber, But...." With members across the country, FSAG is particularly interested in hearing from women who don't ordinarily consider themselves feminists. For more information about how to submit material, write Paula Ross, Editor/Coordinator, c/o Box WS, 1312 Addison St., Berkeley, CA 94702, or call (415) 848-4850.
Oven Productions and River City Music present
Holly Near
in concert with
Carrie Barton & Adrienne Torf
November 7th at 7:00 pm Ford Auditorium, 11000 Euclid Ave.
Tickets: $7.00 advance, $8.00 at the door (if available), $6.00 students, $3.00 under 12 and over 60, (work exchange available)
Outlets: Arabica (the Arcade, Coventry & Shaker Square)/Beren Books/Coventry Books/Kent Community Book Store/Six Steps Down/ Hemming-Hulbert Booksellers
or mail check made out to Oven Productions, P.O. Box 18175, Cleveland Hts. 44118.
Wheelchair accessible ASL interpreted
For more info, call Becky at 932-0977 or Mickey at 991-1780.
Pamphlets & Books
Invincible Spring, a book of poetry by Joyce A. Smith and Susan Schroeder dealing with women's issues, can be ordered from Beverly McClendon, 7607 Plum Street, New Orleans, LA 70118. Cost is $3.00 per copy, plus $.50 postage and handling.
The first issue of a new journal, The Collbate Woman, A Journal for Women Who Are Celibate or Considering this Liberating Way of Relating to Others, is out. The journal is published irregularly and is available for $4.00 (for a single issue) or $8.00 for a subscription (2 issues) from 3306 Ross Place, N.W., Washington, D.C. 20008. The editor, Martha Allen, welcomes articles, artwork, letters, experiences, ideas and theory.
Lesbian-Feminist Study Clearinghouse has 21 new articles available on such topics as sexuality, racism, literature and politics. Send for a free brochure to L.F.S.C./Women's Studies, 1012 Cathedral of Learning. University of Pittsburgh, Pittsburgh, PA 15260. -*
Working Women, a 128-page handbook of resources, rights and remedies for working women everywhere, can be ordered from Southern Exposure, P.O. Box 531, Durham, NC 27702. Single copies. $4: bulk order discounts available.
Jane Doe, an anthology of Northern Ohio women's poetry, is now available at Coventry Books and Six Steps Down. Price is $2.00, or call Laura at 238-6410 after 6 p.m. for mail order. Proceeds will go toward women's relief fund and a battered women's shelter.
Tell Them You Saw
Their Ad in What She Wants
NEW RELEASES!
AND
SPEED OF LIGHT by Holly Near
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a hearty fusion of snappy funk, rock, and rhythm and blues
Open Road
Out from Under: Sober Dykes and Our Friends is a new anthology of the stories and dreams of those of us involved with recovery from alcoholism or drug addiction. The editor has announced a call for material from women who are making clean and sober lives in lesbian communities as well as in the communities of our birth cultures and classes. It is a call for material from any woman who has become a clean or sober dyke; or who loves clean and sober dykes; or who wants to live in a community where there is strength and joy and the beginning of an end to victimization in lesbian lives. Articles or artwork in almost any style will be welcome. Send SASE for more details. Deadline: January 1, 1983. Send to 11 Broderick, No. 5, San Francisco, California 94117.
The Spiral Wimmin's Land Cooperative is a group of Lesbians cofounding/creating a rural Lesbian community in southeastern Kentucky. We are committed to understanding co-operative process and consensus decision making, cooperating to build and maintain ourselves and our community. For more information, send a self-addressed stamped envelope (an extra stamp or two) and a small donation (if you can) for printing costs. Subscription to the Spiral newsletter is $2.00 (more if you can, less if you can't). The newsletter is free to Lesbians in prison and Lesbians in mental institutions. Write: Spiral WLC, P.O. Box 337, Monticello, Kentucky 42833, or call (606) 348-5215.
The Women's International Resource Exchange (WIRE) reproduces published and unpublished accounts and analyses by and about women in the Third World, for feminist groups, church-based women's groups, union-affiliated women, women's studies departments, and human rights. Third World support and anti-imperialist solidarity groups. For a bibliography, write WIRE Service, 2700 Broadway, Room 7, New York, NY 10025.
Reserve Your Spot at
CASINO NIGHT
Dec. 4, 8pm at the Gear Foundation 2641 West 14th St. Cards Only BYOB
Call 621-3380 for reservations
sponsored by LLG.H.T. (Lesbians in Gear Hanging Together)
BLUE RIDER
by Cris Williamson a melodic array of ballads and songs in the tradition of Cris' classic LP Changer and the Changed
See Holly in Cleveland on Nov. 7! (For ticket information, call 216-991-1780)
Both Holly's & Cris' records available locally at:
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Coventry Books
• Melody Lane (Lakewood)
• Record Rendevouz
• Co-op Bookstore (Oberlin)
• Bookstore on W. 25th
• Record Revolution
(Parmstown Mall)
• Kent Community Store
• Good Karma Food Coop (Youngstown)
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