Workshops & Events

Transform your poems into a cohesive collection

Don’t stick your poems in a drawer!

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. Details…

Release your authentic voice

Lezlie Laws will introduce you to body awareness and deep breathing as tools that will help you find purposeful intention for your writing and develop the depth of concentration necessary for clear and creative writing to arise. Details…

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If you want to learn more about how social media like Twitter, Facebook, and blogging can support your writing career, as well as how you can make email work for you, like I have made MAD’s Monday Muse work for me,  I’ll be sharing the stage with Chris Hamilton for Social Networking for Writers, one of four all-day learning sessions put on by the Florida Writers Association in advance of their annual conference. Other sessions include: Warrior Writer with New York Times Bestselling author, Bob Mayer; Novel in a Day; From Query to Pitch; and Screenwriting: From Idea to Big Screen.

Unlike the full conference, you do not have to be a member of FWA to attend. Even better, the day’s proceeds go to support the Florida Writers Foundation efforts to promote literacy. Details…

Rock star facilitator Susan Lilley delivered the inspiration and participants in this past Sunday’s Poetry Alchemy created four poems (including the collaborative poem that appears after the jump), received more than 20 prompts they can use at home, and enjoyed camaraderie in the post-workshop happy hour. [read on…]

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Online Networking for the Confused

May 8, 2010

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 [...]

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Guest Post: Chris Hamilton

July 5, 2009

Writers block. If most people are most afraid of public speaking, and if the IRS can make grown men cower in fear, then the words writers block are enough to send writers into a helpless fetal position. What do you do when the words won’t come? Maybe the answer is to learn more about the [...]

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Florida Writers Association Conference

April 19, 2009

Here's the official description of what I'll be doing at the Florida Writers Association conference  taking place October 23-25 this year: Publishers are reducing costs across the board, including their publicity budgets for books. Chris Hamilton and Mary Ann de Stefano present a signature workshop that shows you the ropes of blogging, Facebook, and Twitter, [...]

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MAD presents at FWA

April 6, 2008

Usually I’m doing my one-to-one consulting thing, or doing admin only for group workshops,  but I’ll be presenting two workshops during the 7th Annual Florida Writers Association Conference, November 14 – 16: Managing Criticism: When you’re a writer, there’s no way to avoid criticism. Whether it comes from publishing professionals, your fellow writers, or your [...]

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FWA Orlando Chapter Plans Conference

December 4, 2005

Tim Dorsey and literary agent Kate McKean are among the talented presenters scheduled to appear at the 2nd annual Orlando Writers Conference on Saturday, Feb. 25, 2006, at the Maitland Arts Center. Popular Florida mystery novelist Tim Dorsey will deliver one of two keynote addresses. McKean, of Dystel and Goderich Literary Management in New York, [...]

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