Pat Averbach, newly elected president of Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends, had her poem "Final Meal Requests of Condemned Prisoners" published in the June 2010 edition of The Muse. She will also have published a long feature article about the Jewish community in Second Life, a 3D cyber world, working title "My Life as a Virtual Jew." It will appear in the fall 2010 edition of Lilith Magazine. Pat writes, "They tell me that a photo of my avatar will probably be on the cover. Imagine, finally being a cover girl at my age."

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Dan MastersonDan Masterson's poem, "Sunday Dinner" was featured on Garrison Keillor's Writer's Almanac on Sunday, July 18. To go to the page click on http://us.mg4.mail.yahoo.com/dc/launch?.gx=1&.rand=cfiah46037837

Masterson has frequently taught workshops at the Chautauqua Writers' Center and was the Center's Author in Residence in 2009.

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Go to http://gallery.me.com/georgia_court#100104 to see photos from Chautauqua Literary Arts Friends' annual party held July 8 at the home of Bob and Monika Gardner.

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Writers’ Center Program Director Clara Silverstein’s third cookbook, A White House Garden Cookbook,Clara Silverstein was published in June by Red Rock Press. The book follows the first year of Michelle Obama’s vegetable garden at the White House from spring planting through Thanksgiving and into the new year. Filled with ideas to get children excited about eating and cooking locally grown vegetables, this book makes it fun to plan healthy family meals. Recipes come from White Houses past and present as well as the community and school gardens that are inspiring children nationwide.

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Chautauquan Susan Rowan Masters was awarded an Individual Artist Grant from the New York State Council on the Arts, sponsored by the Arts Council for Chautauqua County. The funding is for adaptation of her book THE SECRET LIFE OF HUBIE HARTZEL into a half hour reader?s theatre radio play. 

HUBIE HARTZEL, hardcover published by J.B. Lippincott (Harper and Row, 1990) was reviewed by national publications as an outstanding novel for middle grade readers. The book's humor, plot arc, and theme - of a young boy's struggle to overcome a class bully - lends itself to adaptation for media, as a piece of artful entertainment but also as part of the national campaign in public schools against bullying. (Many states presently have mandated programs to counteract bullying.) The adaptation will be given a pilot production with a cast of child actors on the Arts Council's radio station WFRA, and then developed for national distribution on public radio and distributed to schools for in-school readings and broadcast.

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