BREAKING NEWS!

We’ve just added another MAD-tastic workshop to the schedule. On August 7, write and learn at Kerouac House with groovy writer in residence, Emily Carr. Space is limited. Register early. Details…

CHAPBOOK IN A DAY
Transform your poems into a cohesive collection

In this workshop, Terry Godbey, who once won two chapbook contests within 24 hours, will share her tips on chapbook publishing, contests and markets, and arranging poems to best advantage. Everyone will leave with two chapbooks of their own work, with suggested titles, as well as a better understanding of how to order poems. Details…

BREATHE, MOVE, WRITE
Release your authentic voice

Lezlie Laws brings a unique combination of qualifications to her workshop experiences. She holds a PhD from the University of Missouri, has taught writing and literature for over forty years, and is a serious student of ashtanga yoga, a precise and tangible metaphysical methodology for developing greater clarity in the way we see and know ourselves. A certified yoga teacher, she practices and teaches at College Park Yoga. At Rollins College, she has been refining a course in Yoga, Writing, and Meditation, showing young writers how cultivating awareness of breath and body can open passageways to imaginative and heart-felt stories told with a clear, authentic voice. Details…

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Mary Ann de Stefano (who remembers when high tech meant black-and-white TV with rabbit ears and three channels) will be among the presenters at the University of North Florida Writers Conference in Jacksonville, Florida on August 6, 2010.  Her talk, Online Social Networking for the Reluctant and Confused, is designed to make even the techno-phobes comfortable. She’ll demystify online social networking and show writers how they can use free social networking tools to support their writing careers.

“… present tense is not a reason I categorically reject a novel submission. But it often becomes a contributing reason, because successful present tense novel writing is much, much more difficult to execute than past tense novel writing. Most writers, no matter how good they are, are not quite up to the task.” Read on to learn some of what’s required to carry  it off.  [via Editorial Ass]

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It’s a good thing for writers, but is it good for readers?

“Aspiring authors have never had more or better options for self-publishing the manuscripts currently gathering dust in their desk drawers or sleeping in seldom-visited corners of their hard drives.”

via Laura Miller – Salon.com.

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