Announcements

• PLAYWRITING COMPETI
T ION - The Write To Be Heard
Student Playwriting Competition is
offering area students in grades 8
through 12 within a 60-mile radius of
Buffalo the opportunity to write a
one-act play and have a public
performance at Shea's Smith Theatre.
The winning playwright will:
• Receive a $1,000 scholarship from
the Laura L. Adams Foundation.
• Have his/her play performed at
Shea's Smith Theatre.
• Receive a staged reading of his/her
play at Barnes and Noble Booksellers in
Amherst.
• Be actively involved in the
production and rehearsal process.
Competition Guidelines
• Students must submit it themselves.
No counselors, teachers, parents and no
collaborations.
• Not previously produced.
• Must be an original one act. No
screenplays, adaptations or musicals.
• Must be received by the Jan. 7,
2008.
• Typed 12 point, double-spaced,
single sided.
• Number all pages and staple.
• Title page must have your name,
complete home mailing address and

phone number, e-mail address (if you
have one) sponsoring teacher's name and
title, school mailing address and phone
number.
• Include a character list at the
beginning of the play.
• Three copies of each play. No
retur ns.
• Students can submit as many
original scripts as they want.
• 25 minutes or shorter preferred.
• The winning play becomes the
property of The Write to Be Heard.
The Write to Be Heard
3842 Harlem Road
Suite 400 # 204
Cheektowaga, N.Y. 14215
Visit www.margodavis.com and click
on W2BH. For more information,
contact Margo Davis at
W2BH@margodavis.com or Jennifer
Fitzery at jfitzery@sheas.org or
829-1152.
• CALL FOR SUBMISSIONS -
The Writer's Compass, a student-run
literary journal produced by Buffalo
State College, is currently accepting
submissions sent as attachments to
write2live@peoplepc.com. Include name,
school or university. Works accepted
include short stories, memoir, poetry,
non-fiction. Submission deadline is Oct.

31. For more information, visit
www.myspace.com/writerscompass.
• CALL FOR WORK - Impact
Artists' Gallery is seeking works for the
October exhibit "In Memoriam: Buffalo's
Trees." Photography, fibers, paintings,
drawings, sculpture and ceramics dealing
with trees and human interaction will be
accepted. The entry fee is $15. For more
information, visit the Tri Main Center,
Suite 545, 2495 Main St., Buffalo, or
call 835-6817.
• FILM PROJECT - Spotlight on
Hope was awarded a film project
commissioned by Gilda's Club, WNY.
The project involves interviews with
members of Gilda's Club as they tell
their personal stories and what the
organization has meant to them, their
families and friends. For more
information, visit
www.spotlightonhope.org or call
662-4517.
• WEB SITE - Broadway Fillmore
Alive (BFA) has redesigned their Web site
at broadwayfillmorealive.org. Broadway
Fillmore Alive's mission is to work
together with community groups,
businesses, residents, churches and other
organizations to help promote, preserve
and revitalize the Broadway-Fillmore area.