PoetLuck at Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow

Eureka Springs PoetLuck at Writer's Colony at Dairy Hollow

Thursday, June 21st, 2007

June Poetluck at the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow will feature 2006/7 Eureka! Fellowship for Short Stories recipient Helen Kreiger, from New Orleans, on Thursday, June 21, 2007 at 6:30 pm at the colony, 515 Spring Street.

Helen Krieger has been writing since she was old enough to hold a pen. She has won the University of Dallas Rome Writing Award for essays on traveling Europe, the Dallas Psychoanalytic Award for her research on sexual guilt, and the Sydney M. Jourard Student Research Award. In 2002, after working as a staff and freelance writer for daily and weekly newspapers, Helen moved to New Orleans and, enlisting a partner, she began The Bywater Marigny Current, the first local newspaper for the neighborhoods. After Hurricane Katrina destroyed many of her stories and most of a 400-page novel she was working on, Helen decided to concentrate on her fiction, including rewriting the novel from scratch while she was evacuated, resulting in a much cleaner, 200-page, second draft. She is currently working on a set of short stories collectively titled, “Don’t Cry, Little Monster.” Set in New Orleans before and after the storm, they follow several characters trying to make sense of their personal relationships.

Also reading at Poetluck will be WCDH Alums Mary Mackie and Sherri Perry.

Poetluck is a potluck dinner and literary salon held the third Thursday of every month, February-November at The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow in Eureka Springs. The public is invited and writers in all genres (fiction and non-fiction, songwriting), readers and listeners are encouraged to attend. Share dinner, hear our featured resident writers for 20 minutes, and then read up to four minutes of your own original work.

Bring a potluck dish to share.

The Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow (WCDH) is a program of the Communication Arts Institute, a 501 (c)3 organization. For more information on this event or any of the other outreach programs offered by the Institute and WCDH, call 479-253-7444 or visit www.writerscolony.org.