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March 2005
Bringing authentic voices of city in their most honest form
By Jeff Syroney
Stacy Sims' first novel, Swimming Naked, was published by Viking in April of 2004 and is being released in paperback on February 28, 2005 . Chapter 3 of that novel is featured in this month’s “The InkTank.” The Chicago Tribune called it "a fresh, edgy, brutally moving first novel" where "Sims works toward a stunningly beautiful climax while bringing painful pictures into excruciating focus." The Cleveland Plain Dealer said, "Sims' writing borders on sublime as it delivers an unsentimental, deeply moving testament to the power of love and forgiveness." Swimming Naked was also a selected by Border's for their national Original Voices Program. Sims was a monthly columnist for Cincinnati Magazine in 2003 and had published articles in Yoga for Everybody and Northern Ohio Live. Prior to her writing career, Sims worked in communications and in the arts. She was a publicist for the Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati , and created educational programming for the Museum of Contemporary Art in Cleveland and also produced and managed traveling art exhibitions for her own company, Exhibition Management, where she worked with
leading artists and museums around the country and abroad.
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Currently, she owns Pendleton Pilates and is at work on her second novel, They Shoot Horses. She lives in downtown, Cincinnati . Sims will be reading and signing books at Joseph Beth Booksellers in Rookwood Commons on Wednesday, March 9th at 7:00 pm and at the West Chester Barnes and Noble on Friday, March 11th at 7:00 pm . If you would like Stacy to attend your group or book club, you may contact her at info@pendletonpilates.com.
This month, The InkTank opens up and features a new weekly serial called “The Citizen.” The story is about urban Cincinnati during times of civil unrest and national catastrophe through the eyes of a schizophrenic Clifton resident. It’s alternate title is “Bicycles, Crazy Trains, Sweaty Gray Dogs, and Rejections at the Border: A Memoir of a Schizophrenic Summer.”
Author Steven Lansky is a writer, editor, producer, announcer, teacher, actor, and activist. He teaches Creative Writing, both Poetry and Fiction at Miami University in Oxford, Ohio.
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He published a chapbook of urban poems in 2002, Main St. with an afterword by Mike Henson. The first edition is nearly completely sold out. Lansky has performed often at the Riverbank Poetry Series and values his strong connection to the writers of the region that includes Hamilton and Fairfield . He had a summer radio program on WAIF Cincinnati in 2002, co-hosting “Audio Anarchy” and “Hard Rain in Deep Elem.” As a part of his studies he traveled to St. Petersburg , Russia where he attended fiction and playwrighting workshops with (among others) Marina Shron, Denis Johnson, Josip Novakovich, and Jonathan Ames. He served as a fiction editor for Oxford Magazine at Miami University and for THIS: A Serial Review, a Cincinnati based prize-winning literary arts journal. In 2000 he served as a judge for Cincinnati ’s School for the Creative and Performing Arts Corbett Mayerson Awards for Creative Writing. In 1999, he presented a staged reading of “Temporary Situation” at the 5/3 Bank Theater of the Aronoff Center as part of the Cincinnati Playwright’s Initiative.
He is a member of Artists for the Drop Inn Center since 1998 and he has designed and taught the literature of the homeless at the college level. He is a regular slam poetry performer, winner of numerous readings. He served as host of Night Music, a weekly radio program on 89.7 WNKU from 1989-1998 where he performed poetry and hosted many musical and literary guests.
He was named volunteer of the year at WNKU in 1994. He received Cincinnati Arts Allocation Committee Grants in 1989 and 1990 and was named Poet Laureate of Over-the-Rhine in 1985 and 1986. He is a member of the Southern Appalachian Writer’s Cooperative since 1985.
Links
• Click to read “The Citizen” Forward, Entry 1
• Click to read Stacy Sims “Swimming Naked”
• Click to read more about Inktank
Contact Information
· citizen@queencityforum.com
· jsyroney@inktank.org
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