St. Stanislaus School benefit, 9 to 4 in Kolbe Hall, Adams. Bake sale, snack bar, games, Chinese auctions, money raffle, crafts, and pierogi.
Blackinton Union Church, 1373 Massachusetts Ave., North Adams; 10 to 2. Crafts table, bake sale, Chinese auction, the Christmas table, and kid's grab bag. Lunch $4, $2 kids.
First Congregational Church, North Adams, 9-2.
Nov. 28 Becket Federated Church, Route 8, holiday bazaar from 9-3. Lunch, crafts, baked goods, holiday and other items. Information: Mary Peltier, Parish House, 413-623-5217.
Dec. 5
Holiday Fair at First Congregational Church, 25 Park Place, Lee, from 10 to 3; handcrafted items, raffles, children's shop, bake sale, cut Christmas trees and lunch from 11 to 1. Includes angel-themed goods from SERRV. Information, 413-243-1033 or www.ucc-lee.org.
Dec. 12-13
North Adams Country Club, crafts 9-4; food from That's a Wrap from 11-2. Information: Sheryl Morehouse at 413-822-3329.
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RICHMOND, Mass. — Upstreet, the literary journal named the bronze medal winner in the anthologies category of the 2009 Independent Publisher Book Awards (IPPY), includes two local authors in its award-winning fourth issue.
Karen Chase founded and ran the Camel River Writing Center at her home in Lenox from 1991 to 2004. She has taught at The Frost Place and has been a Rockefeller Bellagio Fellow. Her work has appeared in the Norton anthologies, Billy Collins’s Poetry 180, The New Yorker, Gettysburg Review, and The Yale Review. Her first book of poems, Kazimierz Square, was shortlisted by ForeWord Magazine as Best Indie Poetry Book of 2000. Her second collection, BEAR, was released in May 2008. Her nonfiction book, Land of Stone: Breaking Silence through Poetry (Wayne State University Press, 2007) was named a Bronze Medal winner in the category of psychology/mental health by the judges of the 2008 Independent Publishers Book Awards. Two of her poems, “The Hint” and “Ursa Major,” appear in upstreet number four.
Frank Tempone, a fiction writer and essayist, is the founder of Word Street, the Pittsfield drop-in tutoring and writing center. He has been a secondary school teacher for fourteen years. He holds an MFA in Writing from Vermont College of Fine Arts, and his work has appeared in Another Chicago Magazine, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, 580 Split, and other publications. He was Fiction Editor for upstreet number one, and Prose Editor for number two, and conducted the author interview for both issues. He lives in Dalton. His personal essay/memoir, “Everlasting,” appears in upstreet number four.
upstreet is produced annually by Ledgetop Publishing of Richmond, which was founded four and a half years ago by editor and publisher Vivian Dorsel. Each issue contains fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, and an author interview. The fifth issue of upstreet will be available at the end of June 2009.
