{"id":187,"date":"2013-05-02T05:06:10","date_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:06:10","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/?p=187"},"modified":"2013-05-02T05:06:10","modified_gmt":"2013-05-02T12:06:10","slug":"young-playwright-reads-at-may-wordfest","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/young-playwright-reads-at-may-wordfest\/","title":{"rendered":"Young Playwright reads at May WordFest"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday. May 7, <b>Jeremy Snyder<\/b> will be reading from his play, &#8220;Bird of L.A.&#8221; The 13-year old Mt Solo Middle School student is one of six finalists in the Oregon Children&#8217;s Theater playwriting competition. The theme for the competition was bullying, and Jeremy took his idea for the play from the bullying behavior he has observed among seagulls at the beach.<\/p>\n<p>Read more about Jeremy and the OCT Competition at: \u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/tdn.com\/news\/local\/junior-playwright-melds-his-two-passions-wildlife-and-theater\/article_650313ec-935c-11e2-9fe6-001a4bcf887a.html\" target=\"_blank\">http:\/\/tdn.com\/news\/local\/junior-playwright-melds-his-two-passions-wildlife-and-theater\/article_650313ec-935c-11e2-9fe6-001a4bcf887a.html<\/a><\/p>\n<p>Jeremy has performed on stage, most recently in the local production of &#8220;Peter Pan.&#8221;<\/p>\n<p><b>Beverlee Ruhland<\/b> will read from her work, titled, <i>Seeker<\/i>, the first in\u00a0a planned\u00a0series called <i>The Winds of Change<\/i>, about a boy who discovers an artifact, a shining medallion and chain, amid the ruins of something that is not natural, and he begins a journey to learn the truth about himself and what it will mean to become a man in his world.<\/p>\n<p>After years of technical and scientific writing, Beverlee began writing stories about her family. One of the stories was\u00a0published in <i>The Salal Review<\/i>, and then she began writing fiction, publishing <i>Eye of the Dreamer<\/i>in 2010.<\/p>\n<p><b>Janet Lynn Rubert<\/b> will read from her work, \u2018<i>Til Summer&#8217;s End, <\/i>described as \u201ca sensually vivid women\u2019s fiction novel, dotted with humor, romantic twists, deep character analysis, vivid imagery and musical metaphors.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>Janet, a fifth generation Longview native, has had poems published, and has written for several newspapers, and most recently for the <i>Cowlitz County Historical Quarterly<\/i>.<\/p>\n<p>WordFest is a monthly gathering of readers and writers who meet the first Tuesday of each month, 6:00-8:00 pm., at The Brits, 1427 Commerce Avenue, in Longview, 6:00-8:00 PM.<\/p>\n<p>The events are free and open to the public. There is an open mic period following the presentations.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>On Tuesday. May 7, Jeremy Snyder will be reading from his play, &#8220;Bird of L.A.&#8221; The 13-year old Mt Solo Middle School student is one of six finalists in the Oregon Children&#8217;s Theater playwriting competition. The theme for the competition<span class=\"ellipsis\">&hellip;<\/span><\/p>\n<div class=\"read-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/young-playwright-reads-at-may-wordfest\/\">Read more <span class=\"screen-reader-text\">Young Playwright reads at May WordFest<\/span><span class=\"meta-nav\"> &#8250;<\/span><\/a><\/div>\n<p><!-- end of .read-more --><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-187","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-upcoming-events"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=187"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":189,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/187\/revisions\/189"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=187"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=187"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.alan-rose.com\/wordfest\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=187"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}