Cochise College announces two open-mic readings in association with this year’s Cochise Community Creative Writing Celebration. These events are free and open to the public. Writers are encouraged to bring work to read aloud.
The first reading will take place Saturday, Jan. 14, from 2 to 4 p.m. at The Oliver House at 24 Sowles Avenue in Old Bisbee. To get to the Oliver House, turn on Howell Avenue, go past the Copper Queen Hotel and the YMCA, to the parking lot by the Episcopal Church. At the far end of that parking lot is a marked walkway to The Oliver House.
The second will take place Saturday Jan. 28 also from 2 to 4 p.m. at the Mona Bishop Room of the Sierra Vista Public Library, located at 2600 East Tacoma off Coronado Drive, south of Highway 90 Bypass. Refreshments will be available at the Café Sierra in the library.
The Creative Writing Celebration will be held on Friday, March 30, at the Ethel Berger Center, on Friday evening on the Douglas Campus of Cochise College, and Saturday, March 31, at the Sierra Vista Campus of Cochise College.
The event is co-sponsored by Cochise College, University South Foundation, Inc., City of Sierra Vista Leisure and Library Services, Cochise College Foundation’s Diane E. Freund Memorial Writing Celebration Fund, and this year received a National Endowment for the Arts Challenge America Grant.
There’s a writing contest in four categories — short story, creative nonfiction, poetry and children’s magazine fiction — in conjunction with the Celebration. The deadline for contest entries is Feb. 24. People who enter the writing contest must also be registered for the Creative Writing Celebration.
For further information, visit the Creative Writing Celebration website, or contact Leslie Clark at 417-4112 or creativewriting@cochise.edu.