FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MARCH 9, 2023
𝗝𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 to Speak at WriterCon 2023 in Oklahoma City
Oklahoma City – Screenwriter/Educator Jon Meyers will be returning to WriterCon 2023 in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, as a guest speaker, September 1-4, 2023. He will be presenting this year on “How to Use Causational Storytelling to Write a Narrative Fiction Podcast.”
“I was told by numerous attendees that my sessions on writing ensembles last year were informative and engaging and consequently they wanted me back,” said Jon Meyers. “Considering that WriterCon is extremely well-run and so important to the careers of many writers, I am excited to be returning.”
Meyers announced last week that he will be the Executive Producer on a new mystery/comedy narrative fiction podcast, which he also wrote. “The new podcast will be launched early this summer and WriterCon is at the end of the summer, so it’s timed perfectly to teach folks about this unique form of storytelling,” Jon Meyers noted.
Meyers has named Hannah Bright Will of Burning Bright Productions in Louisville, Kentucky as the Audio Producer for the podcast. The podcast will star recorded performance actors from British Artistic Director Zannah Cardash’s Scriptwriters & Co’s acting troupe in Bath, United Kingdom. Cardash also runs the Scriptwriters & Co’s International Festival at the Rondo Theatre in Bath.
WriterCon 2023 in Oklahoma City features writing workshops, presentations, and networking/pitching opportunities with over 60 authors, agents, publishers, and marketing experts. It takes place September 1-4 at the Renaissance Waterford. Founded and organized by author/publisher William Bernhardt, you may register to attend WriterCon 2023 at www.writercon.com.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – SEPTEMBER 20, 2022
𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗖𝗙𝗙
𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮 – Meeting Alexander, a feature screenplay by Jon Meyers has been named an Official Selection of The 2022 Atlanta Comedy Film Festival.
“I’ve received some great notes and feedback on this script over the last year and a half, but to read the acceptance letter from Atlanta was especially validating,” said Jon Meyers. “I’ve attended ACFF in the past with my script Riding Aristotle, and the team at that festival is superb.”
Meeting Alexander is an ensemble rom-com period piece set in a rural Pennsylvanian liberal arts college in 1903. It is the prequel to Riding Aristotle, which was set five years later.
The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival is a unique forum for comedy screenwriters filmmakers and television producers from all over the world to showcase their creative works in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to the Screenwriting competition, The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival showcases Short Comedy Films, Comedy Television Episodes, Micro Short Films, and funny music videos from all over the world, The festival is run by filmmaker Caroline King for Film Festival Circuit, which runs multiple festivals in Atlanta, Portland, Houston, and Austin.
This year’s Atlanta Comedy Film Festival takes place on Sunday, November 13, 2022 at Atlanta’s RoleCall Theater. For more details, go to https://cinemalife.org/atlanta-comedy-film-festival/.
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JUNE 15, 2022
Jon Meyers To Read At VOICE & VISION
LOUISVILLE, Ky. (June 15, 2022) – Voice & Vision: Presented by Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, The Louisville Review & 21c Museum Hotel will feature four distinguished authors and poets as well as celebrate Pride Month for the upcoming edition of the popular annual summer reading series on Thursday, June 16, 2022, from 6:00 – 7:30 p.m. at 21c Museum Hotel, 700 West Main St., in downtown Louisville.
The June program features writers Jason Cooper, Jon Meyers, Jasemine “Jazzy J” Reed, and Robert Eric Shoemaker. Hosts Lynnell Edwards and Katy Yocom will read briefly from Creativity & Compassion: Spalding Writers Celebrate Twenty Years, an anthology of essays by the faculty of the Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing.
We will begin with a brief walking tour led by museum manager Karen Gillenwater to see Portia Munson’s installation The Garden in the 21c Louisville video lounge. Created over a period of twenty-three years, Portia Munson’s expansive, site-specific installation envelops the viewer in a kaleidoscope of floral dresses, furnishings, stuffed animals, fake flowers, and other objects of artifice. Baskets filled with flowers, dressing tables laid with the accoutrements of femininity, a repurposed church announcement sign chockfull of bunnies, a decorated Derby hat, and lamps fashioned from dolls, are among the thousands of details that draw and disperse the viewer’s attention, and suggest an atmosphere both fanciful and funerary. This is a woman’s bedroom, envisioned as a fantastical memorial to excess, a shrine-like site at once mournful, celebratory, and disquieting.
We hope you’ll join us for a wonderful celebration of the interrelatedness of the literary and visual arts with complimentary light snacks. This is the first time in two years that the series will take place fully in person. The previous two seasons were held on Zoom due to the pandemic.
| About the Readers |
| Jon Meyers is a screenwriter, blogger, educator, and novelist. He is the only US Moderator at Into The Script, UK’s foremost online screenwriting advice/writing craft hub. He is a screenwriting panelist for LitCon in New York, where he also serves as Literary Fiction Genre Manager. He teaches First Year writing, Intro to Lit, Writing Across the Disciplines, and Intro to Cinema at Western Kentucky University. He has a B.A. in Film, an M.A. in English, and an M.F.A. in Screenwriting.Jon’s scripts have won an award or two—including Riding Aristotle, which was an Official Selection of the Atlanta Comedy Film Festival and Meeting Alexander, a Second Rounder at the Austin Film Festival. He will be reading an excerpt from his first novel, The World Awaits Your Creative Genius, which should be released later this year. For more details go to www.JonMeyersScripts.com |
| Chairwoman of nonprofit org The Buttafly Center Jasemine “Jazzy J” Reed began to hone her skills as a performer in Louisville’s spoken word poetry scene in 2015. She self-published her first chapbook of poetry, Atonement…Thoughts & Reflections of A Poet, and began a career as a teaching artist for Jefferson County Public Schools and local Black homeschool Co-Ops. Mrs. Reed is 2019 Graduate of Spalding University’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing and founder of Reedmywords Inc, an agency that provides creative and formal writing services to youth and adults.In 2020, Mrs. Reed co-wrote and directed her first stage play/poetic short film, Stray, a community advocacy project against gun violence in urban communities. She is currently running year-round writing programs and activities in Creative Writing & Things (Shawnee Learning Center), a local writing hub in the inner city of Louisville. |
| Robert Eric Shoemaker is a poet and interdisciplinary artist. Eric holds a Ph.D. in Humanities from the University of Louisville and an MFA in Creative Writing & Poetics from Naropa University. Eric works in magical poetics, queer theory and poetry, public history, translation, and gender and sexuality. Eric has released three books: Ca’Venezia (2021), We Knew No Mortality (2018), and 30 Days Dry (2015). Other work has been seen with Plath Profiles, Signs and Society, Asymptote, Jacket2, Entropy, Gender Forum, Exchanges, Columbia Journal, Bombay Gin, and others. Follow him at reshoemaker.com and find him on social media @Robert.E.Shoe. |
Please note that Dianne Aprile was originally scheduled to appear for as part of our June reading, but she will now read in the July 21st program of Voice & Vision.
About the Hosts
The season’s Voice & Vision series runs the third Thursday of every month May through August. Writers from all area universities, community writers’ groups, Spalding alumni, and independent writers are welcome to participate. If interested in taking part in a future reading, inquire with series coordinator Amy Foos Kapoor at akapoor@spalding.edu. Sena Jeter Naslund and Katy Yocom, associate director of Spalding’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing, direct the series.
About Spalding University’s Sena Jeter Naslund-Karen Mann Graduate School of WritingSpalding’s Naslund-Mann Graduate School of Writing houses three low-residency graduate writing programs: the nationally distinguished MFA in Writing program, the Master of Arts in Writing (MAW), and a graduate certificate in writing. Built on a commitment to excellence in a noncompetitive, supportive atmosphere, all three programs offer fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, writing for children and young adults, screenwriting, and playwriting, with professional writing available in the MAW and certificate. |
| Semesters begin in the spring, summer, and fall with a residency in Louisville or abroad; then, faculty and students return home for an independent study focused on the student’s writing. Students may customize the residency location, season, and pace of their studies. See spalding.edu/Writing for more information. |
| About The Louisville ReviewThe Louisville Review (TLR) is a nationally recognized and award-winning literary journal that is published bi-annually. TLR was founded in 1976 at the University of Louisville, later housed at Spalding University, and is now an independent, nonprofit publication.Author and co-founder of Spalding’s MFA program Sena Jeter Naslund continues to serve as TLR’s editor.The Louisville Review strives to import the best writing to local readers, to export the best local writers to a national readership, and to juxtapose the work of established writers with new writers and also champions the interrelatedness of the arts. TLR accepts submissions of unpublished poetry and short fiction.More About TLR |
 About 21c Museum Hotel Louisville21c Museum is a multi-venue museum located in nine cities. One of the largest contemporary art museums in the U.S., and North America’s only collecting museum dedicated solely to art of the 21st century, each property features exhibition space open free of charge to the public, combined with a boutique hotel and chef-driven restaurant.It was founded in 2006 by Laura Lee Brown and Steve Wilson, philanthropists, preservationists, and collectors committed to expanding access to contemporary art as a means of catalyzing revitalization and civic connection. |
| 21c presents a range of arts programming curated by Museum Director and Chief Curator Alice Gray Stites, including both solo and group exhibitions that reflect the global nature of art today, as well as site-specific, commissioned installations, and a variety of cultural events.The organization collaborates on arts initiatives with artists and organizations worldwide, including Speed Art Museum, North Carolina Museum of Art, MASS MoCA, Contemporary Art Museum Houston, The Barnes Foundation, Contemporary Arts Center, Cincinnati, Creative Capital Foundation, Creative Time, and others. |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – MARCH 8, 2021
Jon Meyers Named Literary Fiction Genre Manager
Amsterdam, New York – March 8, 2021 – LitCon, a yearly live online literary convention, has named screenwriter Jon Meyers as their first Literary Fiction Genre Manager for their 2022 literary conference. Meyers participated in the 2021 conference as a featured panelist on two screenwriting panels last weekend.
LitCon features craft discussions with published authors in multiple genres: Fantasy, Science Fiction. Horror, Poetry, Mystery/Thriller, Young Adult, Children’s Books, Screenwriting – and now, Literary Fiction.
“Although I was invited as a screenwriter, and I will still be returning as a screenwriter in 2022, our pre-conference discussion somehow veered off into the novel I will be finishing later this year,” Meyers said. “My novel – which I started in Dr. Nancy Dinan’s Advanced Fiction course — doesn’t really fit into any of LitCon’s existing genres, so we were talking about the best fit for me next year. One thing led to another, and they not only added Literary Fiction, but handed over what that will look like to me.”
LitCon was birthed as a result of attendees from several other book conventions wanting to see these craft and publishing conversations continue — despite many other conventions going by the wayside. LitCon allows attendees to network with fellow authors, publishers, service providers, book bloggers, and most importantly readers. Previous virtual conventions with which LitCon’s board has worked saw between 800 and 2,000 participants — plus online traffic in the thousands during the weekend of the events.
“Jon Meyers was an invaluable member of our screenwriting panels during LitCon 2021,” said LitCon founding board member Alison Weaverdyck, who publishes under the name of Phoebe Darqueling. “I look forward to working with him next year as our Literary Fiction Genre Manager.”
Meyers has a B.A. in Film, and an M.A. in English. He graduates this summer with an M.F.A. in Screenwriting. Meyers also serves as the only US moderator at IntoTheScript, formerly Bang2Write, England’s foremost online screenwriting community. Renowned for its “no nonsense, detailed writing and career advice,” IntoTheScript is an online craft and writing tip resource for professional writers, with an emphasis on screenwriting and novel writing. Meyers also occasionally serves as an hourly host for DePaul’s Scott Myers’ monthly 24-hour online screenwriting marathon at ZeroDraftThirty.
LitCon 2022 will take place March 4-6, 2022. Registration has already opened for LitCon 2022 at: https://tinyurl.com/yckwadkt . For more details, go to LitCon.org .
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FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE – JANUARY 6, 2020
Jon Meyers Named Moderator/Segment Host in United Kingdom
Exeter, Devon, Great Britain – January 6, 2020 – Bang2Write, England’s foremost online screenwriting community, has namedscreenwriterJon Meyers as the first US Moderator of B2W’s collaborative hub, Bang2Writers.
Bang2Writers is an online resource for professional writers, with an emphasis on screenwriting and novel writing, run by novelist/script editor/screenwriting instructor Lucy V. Hay of Bang2Write. Renowned for its “no nonsense, detailed writing and career advice, Bang2write was picked as one of the “Top 100 Websites for Writers” by The Write Life in 2017, 2018, and 2019. It is also in Feedspot’s “Top 10 Screenwriting Blogs,” placing Number One in the United Kingdom.
“Jon Meyers is such an engaged and helpful member of the B2W community, we recently asked him to become the first US moderator of the group,” says Hay. “We look forward to him taking over our Monday Mini Win feature, and he has already assisted members with queries and helped facilitate discussion. He is a valued member and is recommended most highly.”
Meyers is also one of the twenty-four hourly hosts of DePaul’s Scott Myers’s monthly screenwriting marathon. He is excited to add the Bang2Writers moderator position to his online presence. “Lucy is so selective and protective of her online brand,” says Meyers. “I am beyond ecstatic that she has chosen me to take over the Monday segment – plus serve as the only daily moderator based in the US. Since I’m already known as an encourager, I think my unique brand of positivity will be a good fit for the weekly segment celebrating writing victories and career advancements of other writers.”
For more information on Lucy V. Hay, go to www.bang2write.com and www.lucyvhayauthor.com.
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𝗙𝗢𝗥 𝗜𝗠𝗠𝗘𝗗𝗜𝗔𝗧𝗘 𝗥𝗘𝗟𝗘𝗔𝗦𝗘 – 𝗡𝗢𝗩𝗘𝗠𝗕𝗘𝗥 𝟮𝟬, 𝟮𝟬𝟭𝟵
𝗦𝗰𝗿𝗶𝗽𝘁 𝗯𝘆 𝗝𝗼𝗻 𝗠𝗲𝘆𝗲𝗿𝘀 𝗦𝗲𝗹𝗲𝗰𝘁𝗲𝗱 𝗳𝗼𝗿 𝗔𝗖𝗙𝗙
𝗔𝘁𝗹𝗮𝗻𝘁𝗮 – Riding Aristotle, a feature screenplay by Jon Meyers has been named an official selection of The 2019 Atlanta Comedy Film Festival.
“I’ve received some great notes and feedback on this script over the last year, but to read the acceptance letter from Atlanta was mind-blowing,” said Jon Meyers. Meyers will be attending ACFF in Atlanta in December.
Riding Aristotle is an ensemble rom-com period piece set in a rural Pennsylvanian liberal arts college in 1908. Meyers is currently finishing Meeting Alexander, the prequel to Riding Aristotle, set five years earlier.
The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival is a unique forum for comedy screenwriters filmmakers and television producers from all over the world to showcase their creative works in Atlanta, Georgia. In addition to the Screenwriting competition The Atlanta Comedy Film Festival showcases Short Comedy Films, Comedy Television Episodes, Micro Short Films, and funny music videos from all over the world, The festival is run by filmmaker Caroline King for Film Festival Circuit, which runs multiple festivals in Atlanta, Portland, Houston, and Austin.