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Chattanooga
Eastgate library will have a "Buy Local (authors)" month in September. One week will be devoted to published poets. If you would like to have your books sold at Olde Towne Books and do a signing at the library, please contact me at beckywooley@hotmail.com. The bookstore will not be taking any money for this and 30 percent of the Profit ONLY will be donated by each author to the Eastgate library which will be doing extensive advertising. All donations are tax deductible.
znaturalist@yahoo.com
http://znaturalist.blogspot.com/
http://www.chattanoogawritersguild.org/zimmerman.shtml
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Memphis
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Franklin
17th Annual Fall Writers Workshop
Featuring: Ted Swindley on the art of the playwright; Caroline Alexander, author and journalist, on Telling True Stories: The Art of Non-Fiction; and local author and Vanderbilt instructor Dr. Lorraine Lopez on How Dialogue Works in Fiction.
When: Saturday, September 18, 2010, from 8:45 AM to 3:30 PM
Where: Williamson County Public Library, 1314 Columbia Ave., Franklin, TN
Cost: $55, including lunch
Supports: Council For The Written Word (CWW), a non-profit organization dedicated to the encouraging, empowering and educating writers
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MONTHLY POETRY READING CONTINUES AT SCARRITT-BENNETT
Community Invited To Listen to and Discuss Work of Nashville Poet Leslie Collins
Nashville, Tenn., August 5, 2010 – Poet’s Corner at Scarritt-Bennett Center, a monthly poetry reading, will feature Nashville poet Leslie Collins on Thursday, August 26.
Collins’ work has been published in The Contributor. To read one of her poems, “Prayer for a Prisoner,” click here: http://nashvillecontributor.org/main/?p=15. Collins, a physician trained at University of Tennessee at Memphis, spends her free time painting and writing poetry.
The environment will be informal, and conversation between the poet and audience is encouraged.
WHAT: Poet’s Corner at Scarritt-Bennett
Featuring poet: Leslie Collins
WHEN: Thursday, August 26 (repeats the fourth Thursday of each month)
7 to 8 p.m.
WHERE: The Front Porch at Scarritt-Bennett
1000 19th Ave. S. (corner of Grand and 19th)
Free and open to the public. For more information, visit http://www.scarrittbennett.org/programs/pc.aspx.
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Nashville, TN 37212
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ONGOING
Master of Fine Arts in Writing
An exceptional low-residency writing program
in the Pacific Northwest
The Master of Fine Arts in Writing at Pacific University strives to help writers who have already demonstrated talent, skill, and dedication to become better writers. The program guides students in creating a quality portfolio of fiction, nonfiction or poetry and celebrates writing as an art that has the potential to make a difference in the world.
In twice-yearly residency sessions, students and writer advisors participate in workshops, develop study plans, and form relationships that facilitate the work that continues between residencies during the correspondence semester. The program features award-winning writers who work closely with students to support and inspire emerging craft and voice.
In the belief that writers can and must lead full and interesting lives, the program embraces students who have full-time jobs and other obligations.
More Information
Now accepting applications for the spring semester which begins with a residency in Seaside, Oregon, from January 6-16, 2011.
If you have any questions about the MFA program or the application process, please email the MFA assistant director, Colleen Sump, at colleensump@pacificu.edu or call (503) 352-1533.
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Memphis Writers Ensemble: A growing community of creative writers in the Memphis area. Weekly workshops, monthly readings, and occasional writer^s retreats. Facilitated by Valentine Leonard, Ph.D., and an affiliate of Amherst Writers and Artists. Check out www.valentineleonard.com for more information.
Mid-South Writers^ Association:Meets at 6:30 p.m. on the second Thursday of each month in Gillespie Hall at Memphis University School, 6191 Park Ave. Bring at least 10 copies of your work to be critiqued. Writers of all genres are welcome. Gillespie Hall is by the ball field and there will be a sign. Call 338-8990 or 327-3465 for more information.
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CONFERENCES & WORKSHOPS IN OTHER STATES
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CALIFORNIA
The first ever Independent Book Festival wants you and your submissions. Over 100 literary agents/managers, book buyers, publishers, reviewers, media specialists, regional and national segment producers for radio and television, celebrity authors and film producers will not only be in attendance, but judge the submitted self-published books. Many judges will also be giving workshops/lectures, panel discussions and hearing YOU pitch your book (all events open to writers published or not). Self-published authors will also be able to sell their books to the public. An awards ceremony honoring/celebrating the best of the best will take place on the final evening of this three day festival. To find out more about the event including submission deadlines and happy/hour mixers with the judges, please visit our website at
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FLORIDA
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7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival
January 17-22, 2011, Delray Beach, Florida
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January 17-22, 2011
Old School Square
Cultural Arts Center
Delray Beach, Florida
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Greetings!
We are honored to share a poem by Jane Hirshfield,  from
her book, Given Sugar, Given Salt. Jane will be offering her workshop, ENLARGING POEMS, at the Seventh Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival.
Waking This Morning
Dreamless After Long Sleep
But with this sentence:
"Use your failures for paper."
Meaning, I understood,
the backs of failed poems, but also my life.
Whose far side I begin now to enter--
A book imprinted without seeming reason,
each blank day bearing on its reverse, in random order,
the mad-set type of another.
December 12, 1960. April 4, 1981. 13th of August, 1974-
Certain words bleed through to the unwritten pages.
To call this memory offers no solace.
"Even in sleep, the heavy millstones turning."
I do not know where the words come from,
what the millstones,
where the turning may lead.
I, a woman forty-five, beginning to grey at the temples,
putting pages of ruined paper
into a basket, pulling them out again.
Jane Hirshfield is only one of the extraordinary lineup of poets teaching workshops at the 7th Annual Palm Beach Poetry Festival. Visit our website to learn more about Jane Hirshfield, read all the workshop descriptions, poet biographies, and see the schedule of events. Tuition covers all festival events.
Don't miss this opportunity to focus on your work with some of America's finest poets. Apply today!
warm regards,
Miles Susan
Miles Coon and Susan R. Williamson
Founder & Director Assistant Director
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GEORGIA
SCRIBBLERS’ RETREAT WRITERS’ CONFERENCE
November 11-13, 2010
New York Times bestselling author, Diana Gabaldon, has captured the hearts millions with her critically acclaimed novels. The adventure began in 1991 with The Outlander and has continued through five more New York Times-bestselling novels--Dragonfly in Amber, Voyager, Drums of Autumn, The Fiery Cross, and A Breath of Snow and Ashes--and presently has some seventeen million copies sold worldwide. An Echo in the Bone, released September 2009, is the seventh--but NOT the last!--novel in the series. The series, published in 24 countries and 21 languages. She has also written a graphic novel titled The Exile (set within the Outlander universe and featuring the main characters from Outlander), to be published by Ballantine in fall of 2010.
ST. SIMONS ISLAND, GA – Through the years, the abundant beauty of the Georgia coast has inspired artists of every stripe, including poets, novelists and playwrights.
In 1878, poet Sidney Lanier extolled the lush beauty of our coastal landscape, in his ode to "The Marshes of Glynn." Many others have written about coastal Georgia's towns and cities and their inhabitants. One of the best-known local authors was Eugenia Price, who wrote 14 historical novels about the Georgia and Florida coasts in the 1800s. During the 1930s, playwright Eugene O'Neill built a home and worked on Sea Island, where he wrote "Ah, Wilderness," his only comedy. Another writer of the period, Ben Ames Williams, also lived and wrote on Sea Island.
Contemporary writers can find similar inspiration - along with healthy doses of fellowship and professional guidance - during Scribblers' Retreat Writers Workshops. During two-day conferences, writers attend workshops, lectures and panel discussions led by ten world-class authors, editors, publishers and other literary professionals. Each conference begins with an Opening Ceremonies Banquet Thursday evening and ends with an Evening with the Authors cocktail reception Saturday evening.
Among our featured writers in November in addition to Diana Gabaldon are bestselling author Karen White, Adam Davies and Ciji Ware. Karen White’s books include - The Girl on Legare Street, The House on Tradd Street, The Color of Light, Learning to Breathe, The Memory of Water, Pieces of the Heart, On Folly Beach, The Lost Hours. Author/Professor Adam Davies, former Random House editor and author of The Frog King (soon to be a major motion picture), Goodbye Lemon, Mine All Mine. Adam's non-fiction has appeared in the New York Times. Author/JournalistCiji Ware is author of Right Sizing Your Life (voted one of the top books on retirement by the Wall Street Journal). She has also written the Island of the Swans, A Cottage by the Sea.
Scribblers' Retreat Writers Conferences take place at the historic King and Prince Beach & Golf Resort, St. Simons Island's only oceanfront hotel. Workshop participants enjoy contemplative walks along the beach, and are within minutes of St. Simons's Island's beautiful lighthouse and pier village with its many shops and restaurants. Special rates are available for conference participants.
Conference fee, including ten writers' workshops, opening banquet and authors cocktail reception, is $395 per person. Conference fee, including the above and three nights at the King and Prince Hotel, is $795 per person, including taxes. Special group rates are available.
For information about Scribblers' Retreat Writers Conferences, please call toll-free
800-996-2904, or visit them online at www.scribblersretreatwritersconference.com.
KENTUCKY
SPALDING UNIVERSITY MFA
Check out the four-semester, brief-residency MFA in writing at Spalding University in Kentucky. Study abroad options available, http://spalding.edu/mfa
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MISSISSIPPI
The Gulf Coast Writers Association is accepting submissions for our Third Annual Anthology. Deadline is September 1st.
No entry fee. Authors of accepted stories are paid $25.
Previously published stories are fine. Length of 2500 words or less. Theme and Location must be U.S. Southern. Limit of 2 entries per author. We are also considering including a few very poems.
MONTANA
Front Range, an internationally-circulated annual literary journal, seeks submissions of high quality fiction, poetry and creative nonfiction beginning 1 August for our 6th (2011) issue. Deadline 7 November 2010. We report results by end of December, publish first week of March each year.
For Writers organizations: Please feel free to pass this along to your memberships.
We love Montana, and the Rocky Mountain West. We also love work from and about other places that juxtaposes our existence with that of the world at large.
Poetry: Up to 8 unpublished (preferably) poems, maximum 15 pages total, single or double-spaced, left justified.
Short Fiction: Up to 3 unpublished (preferably) stories, not to exceed 4,000 words each, double-spaced, following standard conventions of paragraphing.
Nonfiction: Up to 3 unpublished (preferably) creative nonfiction pieces, not to exceed 4,000 words each, double-spaced, following standard conventions of paragraphing.
Artwork: .JPEG files of paintings, drawings, or photography, each file saved with title of piece. Shock us, surprise us, or yank on our emotions. We publish two pieces in color each year (front/back cover); all others are converted to b/w. Color photos should be high res, at least 430 dpi.
While we have accepted previously-published work from established authors, this is normally by prior arrangement.
Please note requirement for separate identifying info and author/artist bio: Name, address, phone number/email of writer should appear on a separate cover sheet, no identification on the work itself. Please list title of each submitted poem or story on cover sheet. Artist/author bio should appear on cover sheet or in text of email.
Electronic submissions only, as separate email attachments in .doc, .docx or .rtf format (no other formats).
Simultaneous submissions accepted. All rights revert to author/artist upon publication. Payment in contributor copies.
Submit to: editor@frontrangeMT.org (preferred) or FrontRangeMT@hotmail.com
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Learn The Craft of Food Writing, The InternationalCulinary Center’s intensive food writing course, from the 14-time James Beard Award winning journalist, Alan Richman.
Developed for aspiring and active journalists, culinary professionals, and anyone who wants to break into the vast world of the food media, our curriculum offers real-world industry insights and valuable one-one-one feedback from the man Food & Wine Editor-in-Chief Dana Cowin called “one of America's greatest food journalists.”
In six sessions, you’ll explore the ingredients of good foodwriting and hone your skills as you learn to develop food reviews and features and craft compelling editor pitches that will get your foot in the door. Plus, enjoy visits from special guests for an inside look at the profession.
Combine your love of food and your passion for writing into a marketable skill—and maybe a whole new career. Enroll in The Craft of Food Writing starting September 23today.
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Eating, Writing, & Exploring New York
Eat These Words
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Alimentum editors want to take you out to eat and help you write the words you always wanted to write! Join Editor Paulette Licitra and Menupoemer Esther Cohen to enjoy two of the best all-time adventures: eating and writing. So many of us love to eat. And love to write. Together we'll combine the two: exploring food and words in one of the world's greatest cities.
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This is the first in a series of Eat These Words walking tours & writing workshops. The first of its kind. And for our very first outing we'll begin in Queens (with a touch of Manhattan) where the diversity of this great city shines in its cuisine.
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October 29th, Friday 4:30 pm-10 pm
Meet at Grand Central for a drink. Then we'll hop a train to Jackson Heights, Queens, home to a wealth of ethnic treats with an emphasis on Indian & Pakistani. We'll visit the food markets, have a dosa dinner, and write.
October 30th, Saturday 10 am-9 pm
Meet at Grand Central. We're off to Flushing, Queens, a neighborhood of 65 Asian communities. We'll tour the food malls and food supermarkets, meeting with merchants and cooks, sampling, and discovering one of the country's most dynamic immigrant communities.
For lunch: an Asian seafood buffet. We've uncovered the tastiest place in Flushing all picked out for you! Followed by writing at a Tea Parlor. What did we just eat and experience? Let's put on paper what our bellies, brains, and imaginations are churning.
You'll have a couple of hours free to shop, get a foot rub (we'll show you where, cheap & great!), or scribble some more on your own. Then dinner at a little known Chinese restaurant. The only place in the country with food from this obscure part of China. A major surprise and treat. After dinner, we'll write our good nights then take the train back to Manhattan.
October 31st, Sunday 10 am-2 pm
Today we're in Manhattan, and we'll meet downtown at a small museum devoted to Chinese culture in the USA. More time for writing.Then a Dim Sum lunch at a little-known restaurant run by Peruvian Chinese. After lunch, a reading by all of you. (We'll read something, too.) Then we'll bid farewell with heads, hearts, and appetites full. |
An unusual way to explore a city!
To hold your spot in our Eat These Words walking tour/writing workshop please write us to reserve: events@alimentumjournal.com
First come first reserved. Limit 15 people.
$750 per person...(A real NY bargain!)...includes:
· Walking Tour
· Writing Workshop
· Food artisans & Chef meetings
· All meals
Workshop fee is due by September 20th.
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NORTH CAROLINA
Asheville
Asheville Workshops: Writing classes, including fantasy, nonfiction, and grant writing, for beginning and experienced writers, will be held at The Writers^ Workshop of Asheville. Registration is in advance since class size is limited, at their Web site (www.twwoa.org,) or by mail: The Writers^ Workshop, 387 Beaucatcher Rd., Asheville, NC, 28805. For more information, contact WritersW@gmail.com- or call 828-254-8111
Brasstown
John C. Campbell Folk School, One Folk School Road,Brasstown, NC 28902,800-FOLK-SCH x 196,
www.folkschool.org
Charlotte
WRITING THE BREAKOUT NOVEL WEEKLONG INTENSIVE
WITH NY LITERARY AGENT DONALD MAASS
When: September 13 – 19, 2010
Where: Double Tree Guest Suites SouthPark, Charlotte, North Carolina
Limit: 35 students to ensure an intimate and productive environment
Cost: $1895 new students/$1795 returning; one scholarship available
Contact: www.free-expressions.com 1–866–497–4832
Lorin Oberweger, Editor-in-Residence and Program Director
Donald Maass, a top agent for fiction writers and author of Writing the Breakout Novel, leads participants through practical writing exercises that plumb depths of character, raise stakes both public and personal, add plot layers, heighten sense of time and place, strengthen point of view and voice, deepen themes, transform openings, and develop the brainstorming skills that produce consistently original stories.
This retreat and workshop includes:
· All meals and comfortable, private sleeping accommodations with private baths.
· Morning classes with Donald Maass, geared toward building students’ specific projects using concepts covered in his popular, Writing the Breakout Novel book and workbook.
· A private thirty-minute consultation with Donald Maass, who will read the first fifty pages of each student’s manuscript.
· A private consultation with Editor-in-Residence and Program Director Lorin Oberweger.
· Opportunities to confer with other professional writers on staff.
· Afternoon and evening writing time and voluntary critique groups.
· Group follow–up discussions and pitch practice with Donald Maass.
· Complimentary copy of the Writing the Breakout Novel Workbook.
SPECIAL OFFER for Tennessee writers and writing groups: Individuals who register for this workshop by July 15, 2010 may receive $75 off workshop fees. Just mention this email.
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Pennsylvania
Subject: Look Forward to a Fall YA Novel Workshop!
Summer's a busy time for everyone here at the Highlights Foundation, but that doesn't stop us from looking forward to our fall workshops. Those of you sweltering in this summer's record heat may be looking forward to fall, too, when the air turns crisp and leaves ripen to the color of apples. Fall is gorgeous here in northeastern Pennsylvania. That's part of why faculty members and participants alike vie for spots in our fall workshop lineup. Longtime Founders Workshop faculty member Rich Wallace likes to snag a fall slot for his young-adult novel workshop. Rich has the inside scoop on the prime time to visit here because he spent many years as a Highlights editor.
On the weekend of October 7—10, eight participants will join Rich for Writing Novels for Young Adults. The following brief Q & A with Rich will give you a taste of what you will gain from working closely with this prolific professional author and experienced editor.
Q & A WITH RICH WALLACE
HF: What do you think is the main difference between the way a professional author such as yourself approaches the writing of a novel and the way a less-experienced writer approaches the work?
RW: Well, from the people I've worked with over the years, it certainly isn't a matter of devotion or intensity. It's probably stick-to-itiveness. The biggest thing is to be able to see the work as a whole made up of many parts, and then learning how to effectively link those parts. Writing a novel is a long haul, so maintaining your concentration and recognizing that frustration will be a near-daily occurrence are two big keys.
HF: How do you separate the winning book ideas from those that just aren't strong enough?
RW: It's usually a matter of gauging my level of enthusiasm for a project. I've had some "great" ideas that I just couldn't see myself remaining passionate about for the many months it would take to execute them. If you lose steam over the course of a novel, it will inevitably show in the finished product. I know I have a good one when I can't wait to sit down and write every day, even after I'm well into the process.
HF: What are the main benefits of writing workshops?
RW: For me, it's learning how other people approach their creative work. I learn a great deal from the participants, because we spend a lot of time as a group talking about our daily writing routines, how we approach characters, how we "listen" to our own written dialogue, how we outline and organize, what time of day we find ourselves to be the most creative and productive, what we love to read, and on and on. I have a lot to say about those topics and many more because I've been doing this for a long time and found some success; but we all approach writing in our own way, and often a light goes on and I think, "that would work for me, too."
With more than twenty novels to his credit, Rich Wallace understands what it takes to craft a book that will appeal to young readers and will also catch an editor's eye. His books delve deeply into the nitty-gritty detail of young-adult life—the struggles, the emotions, the friendships, and the triumphs. It amazes me that it's possible to sit one-on-one with a writer of Rich's caliber and have him critique your work. He brings to every critique not only his experience as an award-winning writer, but also his many years as an editor known for a careful eye and a strong sense of story. But critiques are just part of the experience writers have when they attend Writing Novels for Young Adults. If you would like to be one of the eight special people who will gather with Rich October 7-10 at the home of the Founders of Highlights for Children, contact Jo Lloyd at 570-253-1192 or e-mail jalloyd@highlightsfoundation.org.
Highlights Foundation Founders Workshops take place near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. You'll stay in your own cozy cabin, surrounded by 1,300 wooded acres and hiking trails. Workshop fee includes individual cabins; all meals (provided by a top-notch chef); airport pickup service, if needed; and an intimate teaching setting in the living room of the Founders of Highlights for Children.
This October, the Highlights Foundation has had the unexpected good fortune of scheduling a new workshop with legendary children's book editor and author Patricia Lee Gauch. Since this workshop is a late addition to our fall schedule, we wanted to spread the news! Starting Your Novel (October 10-13, 2010) will take place at the home of the Founders of Highlights for Children in northeastern Pennsylvania. Patti will guide eight lucky students in one-on-one as well as workshop sessions as they lay out a plan both for their novels and for the process of "getting it done." If time allows, writers will even craft their first chapters.
Former vice president and editor at large of Philomel Books, Patti is now a fulltime writer and lecturer. She has authored more than forty picture books and novels for young readers. Patti edited three Caldecott books, including Owl Moon by Jane Yolen and John Schoenherr and So You Want to Be President?by Judith St. George and David Small. She has worked with many well-known authors and artists, including Eric Carle, Patricia Polacco, Brian Jacques,Andrew Clements, T.A. Barron, and Loren Long.
With room for only eight students, we anticipate that this workshop will fill quickly. If this sounds like the workshop you've been looking for, don't wait. Contact Jo Lloyd at 570-253-1192 or e-mail jalloyd@highlightsfoundation.org and reserve your spot for Starting Your Novel today.
Highlights Foundation Founders Workshops take place near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. You'll stay in your own cozy cabin, surrounded by 1,300 wooded acres and hiking trails. Workshop fee includes individual cabins; all meals (provided by a top-notch chef); airport pickup service, if needed; and an intimate teaching setting in the living room of the Founders of Highlights for Children.
Please feel free to share this e-mail with others who might find it of interest.
Subject: Do You Write for Children? Ask Yourself, What If?
As someone who has shown an interest in attending the Highlights Foundation's Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing, we'd like to ask you a question: What if?
What if nine children's publishing professionals invited you to spend a weekend with them learning the ins and outs of the publishing business?
What if they offered to share decades of hard-earned expertise with you? What if they would give you tips on avoiding or getting out of the slush pile? Answer your questions about contracts and rights? Help prepare you for your part in marketing your book?
What if a professional editor and writing coach would evaluate your manuscript (up to 10 pages) and give you specific steps to ready it for submission?
What would you say?
If you would say "yes" then you're ready for A Crash Course in the Business of Children's Publishing. On the weekend of October 15-17, 2010, explore the ins and outs of children's magazine and book publishing with our expert faculty:
Clay Winters, president of Boyds Mills Press and former president of Putnam/Grosset Books for Young Readers;
Larry Rosler, Boyds Mills Press editorial director;
Andy Boyles, science editor, Boyds Mills Press and Highlights;
Kim T. Griswell, senior editor, Boyds Mills Press;
Joan P. Hyman, copy editor, Boyds Mills Press;
Tim Gillner, art director, Boyds Mills Press;
Joëlle Dujardin, senior editor, Highlights;
Debra Hess, senior editor, Highlights; and
Margaret Mosomillo, Manager, Pre-media and Print Production for Highlights and Boyds Mills Press.
Each of these professionals will share honestly and openly what they've learned during decades of publishing children's books and magazines. Senior editor Kim T. Griswell will evaluate your manuscript so you'll know where it stands before you send it out. All nine publishing pros will answer your questions and help you understand the confusing maze of the publishing world.
This workshop is limited to twelve participants. To register, or for more information, contact Jo Lloyd at 570-253-1192 or e-mailjalloyd@highlightsfoundation.org.
Subject: Editors Look for Voice--Have Your Found Yours?
When Boyds Mills Press senior editor Kim T. Griswell opens a submission and starts to read, one of the things she wants to find is a story with voice. Voice makes a manuscript rise to the top of her submissions pile, and voice keeps her reading long into the night. Last year, Kim developed a five-day workshop for the Highlights Foundation for writers who want to understand voice and to discover their own voices. We'll be offering it again this fall (October 20-24).
"Beginning writers usually don't think much about voice. When they do, they're not quite sure what it is. But somewhere along the path to publication, most writers discover that voice is something editors look for. That it is, in fact, a critical element of great writing. Whatever it is . . .
If you don't know what voice is, it's tough to define, but here's my definition: 'A writer with voice has the ability to illuminate the ordinary.'
Take this line from Margaret Mahy, for example: 'The morning was already laced with the voices of birds.' Though the elements are essentially the same as many lines you may have read—it is morning; there are birds—Mahy illuminates the scene with lacing the morning with their voices. Wow! That, my writing friends, is voice.
Those of you who join me in October for Finding Your Voice will spend five days immersed in voice—the voices of some of my favorite published writers and, most of all,your own voices. You will discover how other writers 'illuminate the ordinary,' and you will learn that you have the power of illumination within you, just waiting to be turned on." —Kim T. Griswell, Senior Editor, Boyds Mills Press
This workshop is limited to nine attendees. To reserve your spot for Finding Your Voice, contact Jo Lloyd at 570-253-1192 or e-mailjalloyd@highlightsfoundation.org.
Highlights Foundation Founders Workshops take place near Honesdale, Pennsylvania. You'll stay in your own cozy cabin, surrounded by 1,300 wooded acres and hiking trails. Workshop fee includes individual cabins; all meals (provided by a top-notch chef); airport pickup service, if needed; and an intimate teaching setting in the living room of the Founders of Highlights for Children.
Please feel free to share this e-mail with others who might have an interest.
Highlights Foundation, Inc.
814 Court Street
Honesdale, PA 18431
Phone: (570) 251-4500
E-mail: contact@highlightsfoundation.org
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Virginia
Residencies
Kimmel Harding Nelson Center for the Arts Residency Program: The KHN Center for the Arts offers an average of nineteen two- to eight-week long residencies to writers year round that include free lodging and studio space and a $100 per week stipend. Deadlines are March 1st for the following July–December and September 1st for the following January–June. Director of Development Julie Fisher tells TWA that several Tennessee writers have been through the program. See http://www.khncenterforthearts.org/ for more information.
To submit news about your writing Workshops Conferences & Events, email events@tn-writers.org .
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