Mikhail Bazankov. Project Director in Kostroma and chair of Kostroma Writers' Organization. He has spearheaded these visit and publishing projects and wanted both Kostroma and N.C. to have anthologies of poetry published as a way of enhancing mutual understanding. (For more information, see Kostroma Writers' Organization web pages -- in Russian).
Aleksei Bazankov. Managing Editor. He earns his living, in addition to being a senior lecturer in History at Kostroma University, typesetting and designing books on computer. He serves as the e-mail contact in Kostroma bam@kosnet.ru. Aleksei completed all the technical work on both Beaver Soul and the Kostroma Poetry Anthology.
Sharon Ewing. Editor-in-Chief. A published poet, Sharon has an MFA in Creative Writing from George Mason University, has taught writing at several D.C. area colleges and universities, including poetry workshops at George Mason, edited a collection of poems by nursing home residents, and conducted writing and poetry groups at senior centers. Sharon has been our source of D.C. area hospitality for all our incoming writer and painter visits (1991-98) from Kostroma, and she and her husband John were guests of Kostroma Writers' Organization in fall 1995. They read widely in Russian history and literature, and Sharon will be working with Judy and her class members in North Carolina. Sharon's article "Russia Revisited" was published in the Kostroma Writers' Organization Newspaper. Although they live in Alexandria, VA, they have a working relationship with the Kostroma/Durham Sister Cities Program.
| June-July 1999 | Approval from Kostroma Committee and Sister Cities board |
| June-Dec 1999 | Publicize and receive manuscripts (anonymous submission -- see Guidelines) postmarked by Dec. 21, 99 |
| Jan-Mar 2000 | Editing poems and writing grant to NC Arts Council (Sister Cities will be the non-profit org requesting grant; we propose to match it with contributions and book sales) |
| Apr-Sept 2000 | Translating, typesetting, design, printing in Kostroma |
| Fall 2000 | Anthology in print Durham reading & fund-raiser Possible trip by Judy, Sharon, and other NC writers to Kostroma for celebration there |
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Updated: April 27, 2001