Jeffery Evans
Song Lyrics
As Literature
Student Reading
At Rise!
Creative Writing
Contest
Jeffery Evans
Gay Activitist / Spoken Word Artist
April 23 (Monday), 12:30 p.m., Griffin Gate
Local word artist and hip hop recording artist Jeffery Evans is better known by his moniker
DJ Jeffa. His start-up company, 1640 Productions, promotes talented rap, hip hop, and def
jam artists on the local San Diego scene. Added to his phenomenally edgy and popular
lyrics, Evans is an openly gay artist and works alternately as a youth apprentice at the The
Storefront (a Hillcrest shelter and advocacy center for homeless gay youth) and a DJ
performer.
As a 22-year-old African American who came out to his family at age 12, Evans was not
only rejected by his family, he was turned out of his house and forced to live homeless. On
the streets and in his more recent occupation as a youth mentor, Evans has been witness to
the trauma, prostitution, drug abuse and hate crimes that daily afflict gay youth, and his
writing offers as intense and insightful a commentary on this invisible underclass as one
could wish.
Song Lyrics As Literature
April 23 (Monday), 1:30 p.m., Griffin Gate
Inspired by the unscripted absurd of the Living Theater, while staying true to all those poets,
from the Ionians to the Slammers, who explore the lyrical through oral performance, this is a
spontaneous celebration of language, of body language, of kinetics, and of action for
action’s sake. This is the deconstruction of the symbol and the construction of the symbol as
symbol of itself. This is where the word meets the scream, the poetic couplet, a slap across
the face. This is a celebration of language as it implodes and is reborn in both performer
and audience, the genesis of new meaning climbing out of the semiotic shadows. Here
through the sweat and energy of the «poeticians», words will be wrung out for futuristic
angles and spaces. This is a performance for the eyes and the ears and one that surely will
get under your skin.
Performers in Song Lyrics As Literature are members of Raul Sandelin’s ENGL 120 classes
and local musicians and songwriters Derek Shaw and Kent Johnson.
Student Reading
poetry, fiction, creative nonfiction, and drama
May 2 (Wednesday), 7:00 p.m., Griffin Gate
In this popular bi-annual event, the pride of Grossmont College's Creative Writing classes
take the lecturn by storm to share their original works of Poetry, Fiction, Creative Nonfiction
and Drama. The winners of this year's Festival Writing Contest will receive their coveted
awards and due adulation. Printed 'zines of the writing will be available, as well as an on-
line chapbook (published afterwards) to chronicle the event in words and pictures.
Whether you're an instructor, a student, or someone with a yen to hear new talent, you'll
leave this event wickering for more.
At Rise!
New works by new playwrights!
May 3 (Thursday), 12:30 p.m., Griffin Gate
Campus playwrights take it to the stage . . . a staged reading, that is, of their latest short
works. Student actors and aspiring directors team up with students enrolled in English 160:
Playwriting to strut and fret their hour upon the boardrooms of Grossmont College campus.
Not to be missed!
Creative Writing Contest
Short Fiction
The third annual Creative Writing Contest this year features short fiction. Winners will be
announced at the start of the May 2 Student Reading, and the 1st Place entry will be read at
the reading.
Download the CONTEST FLYER & GUIDELINES.
A W A R D S
1st Place
$150.00 prize; publication in The Acorn Review, and special presentation at the Student
Reading
2nd Place
$100.00 prize, and publication in The Acorn Review
Honorable Mentions
D E A D L I N E
All contest manuscripts must be submitted by Tuesday, April 10, 2007
R U L E S
You don't have to be enrolled in the Creative Writing courses to submit a story, but you
must be a currently enrolled Grossmont College student.
Short fiction manuscripts should be no more than 1,500 words (6 double-spaced, typed
pages--print on one side of the page only)
Do not put name on your short fiction. Instead, attach an index card with your name, the
title of your short fiction, phone number, and e-mail address.
Winner must be available to read his or her work as part of the Literary Arts Festival Student
Reading on Wednesday, May 2nd at 7 p.m. in Grossmont College Griffin Gate.
Submit work to Sydney Brown in 564-B by Tuesday, April 10. Work may also be submitted
to Sydney Brown's mailbox. Do not e-mail work.
If you want your short fiction manuscript returned, include a self-addressed stamped
envelope; otherwise, it will be "recycled."
For more information, contact Sydney Brown at 619-644-7523 or
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