Wisconsin Authors needed

Authors needed to attend Local Author Book Fair

Where: Germantown Library Meeting Room- Germantown, Wisconsin

When:   Saturday, November 21, 2015

                Open to public from 10am-2pm (Authors should arrive at 9am to set up.

Who:     Need both fiction and non-fiction writers. Would like a variety of genres 

                represented, including children’s books and poetry. (Sorry, no erotica per library

                request)

I hope to include a children’s “story hour,” as well as a young author table, where kids can write a story of their own (helped by “Books Bunny” the writing rabbit!) Kids can show their story to the authors for a “treat.” (This will get a parent to your table to see your work!)

Will work in time for author readings if there is enough author interest.

Coffee, hot cocoa, and cookies will be served

What you need to bring: Books to sell, bag of treats for kiddies, and your smile! We hope to bring in a good number of community readers and plan to do extensive local advertising of the event. The event’s proximity to the holidays should encourage holiday gift-buying and the children’s activities should get some moms (and deer hunter widows) in the door. Participation cost is only $15 to put toward the refreshment table, advertising flyer printing, and the cost of “Books Bunny,” who doesn’t work for free, unfortunately.

If interested, please email Mary Zinda at info@maryzinda.com or call 282-224-4786

Laurel Mills visits Readers Realm in Montello, September 27

 

AWARD-WINNING AUTHOR AND POET TO VISIT READERS REALM 

 Sunday, September 27^th from 1 to 3 p.m.

 

Author and winner of the Posner Poetry Award, Laurel Mills, will do a reading from her new book of poetry Hidden Seed during an appearance at Readers Realm Gallery of New and Gently-Used Books on Sunday, September 27^th from 1 to 3 p.m.

 

Laurel Mills, who grew up in Maine and now lives in Wisconsin, is the author of five award-winning collections of poems, including “Rumor of Hope”, which won the Encircle Publications chapbook contest. She is also the author of three novels: “Taking Flight”, “Racing Toward Providence”, and “Undercurrents”, all from Intaglio Publications.  Her work has been published in many magazines, such as “Ms.”, “Yankee”, “Kalliope”, and “Calyx”, and in several anthologies, including “Boomer Girls: Poems by Women from the Baby Boom Generation”.

 

Mills holds a bachelor's degree in English and a master's degree in Humanities, and is Senior Lecturer Emerita at the University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley, where she taught English and edited the literary magazine “Fox Cry Review”.   She regularly teaches dynamic and nurturing creative writing workshops for both beginning and experienced writers of fiction or poetry. She has taught at The Clearing: A School of the Arts and Humanities; the University of Wisconsin-Oshkosh; The University of Wisconsin-Fox Valley; The School of the Arts at Rhinelander; Fox Valley Technical College, and many other places, where she always earns high praise from her students.

 

About her new book of poems, “Hidden Seed”, author Knute Skinner said, “Laurel Mills writes on a potentially sentimental subject, love for a developmentally disabled child. To her great credit, she succeeds brilliantly. She handles the subject forthrightly but with admirable tact, using metaphor and understatement at just the right times and allowing her sensitive observations of nature to convey much of the emotion indirectly.  In addition, she has an honest and interesting story to tell, from the moment of the daughter’s conception to the moment when the mother realizes that her daughter, now a young woman, has achieved an important measure of independence from her. The sequence of poems makes a compelling narrative, and I found it, unlike many contemporary collections of poems, impossible to put down for even a minute.”

 

Mills will be available to sign her books after the reading.  

Readers Realm Gallery of New and Gently-Used Books, Gifts and Whimsy is located in an historic church at 147 E. Montello Street in Montello.  For more information, contact Readers Realm at 608-297-2200 or readersrealm@outlook.com.

CELEBRITY SATURDAY: MARGARET ROZGA

FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE

From the desk of Kathie Giorgio, Director, AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop LLC:

 

WAUKESHA – Need inspiration for new poems? Look no further than your favorite things! Paintings, photographs, pottery, music, and other art forms offer the details and vision to provide just what you are looking for. AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop welcomes special guest lecturer MARGARET ROZGA with her workshop, WRITING EKPHRASTIC POEMS.

 

In this class, you’ll discuss the work of poets who provide a range of ekphrastic models and look at images in a variety of styles before drafting poems inspired by those images. You’ll consider how your own drafts respond to the art and to those models, and where your work explores productive new ground. The possibilities are endless! Though not required, participants are encouraged to bring a piece of visual art or a recording of music, to inspire themselves and others.

 

MARGARET ROZGA is a poet, playwright and professor emerita of English at UW Waukesha. She has published three books and was awarded a Creative and Performing Artists and Writers Fellowship by the American Antiquarian Society. Her poems have appeared in Nimrod, Burdock, New Verse News, Extract(s) and other journals. A Pushcart Prize nominee, Dr. Rozga also enjoys creating in concert and her work has appeared in many arenas, including a collaborative exhibit at the Ukrainian Museum of Modern Art in Chicago.

Celebrity Saturdays are a great chance to broaden your knowledge of what it takes to be successful and to learn from writers who are already knee deep in an author’s life. Margaret Rozga’s workshop will be held on Saturday, September 12^th, 2015. This event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and costs $85, which includes a lunch catered by Waukesha’s own Café de Art.

 

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching, editing, and marketing services. A schedule of classes, with online registration, is available at www.allwritersworkshop.com or by calling (262) 446-0284. AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street, Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha, as featured in Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel. 

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Waukesha WI 53188
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The Masters Review Short Story Contest deadline July 15

$20 entry fee

Spread the Word: Short Story Award for New Writers $2000 + publication and consideration by Curtis Brown Agency Submissions for our anthology closed this spring and we were blown away by the quality of the writing, the heart behind the stories, the straight up talent behind your work. We want to see more. Acknowledge more. The Masters Review Short Story Award for New Writers is open NOW through July 15 and will pay $2000 and publication to the best short story. Second and third place stories will be paid $200 and $100 respectively and considered for publication. No guidelines. Just your best writing under 6000 words. If you haven’t published a novel, you qualify. Inspired? Awesome. You can SUBMIT HERE.

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POETRY EVENT in APPLETON WI MAY 30

 

 

The Mill: A Place for Writers 

"Mill Saturday Event."

 

This workshop will consist of:

 

--presentation of short poem forms

--examination of short poems by authors, such as Lorine Niedecker, Cid Corman, Jonathan Green, and Tom Montag

--time for participants to write and discuss their work

 

What is "very short"? For our purposes, poems with a maximum of 30-35 syllables.

 

When: Saturday, May 30, 2015, 1-4 PM

Where: Monte Alverno Retreat Center, 1000 N. Ballard Rd., Appleton WI 54911. Class size limited to 12.

Total Cost: $55 (nonrefundable deposit of $25). Please send check for $25 to: The Mill, PO Box 861, Appleton WI 54912.

Deposit Due: May 25

 

**Please bring your own writing utensils and paper. Other class materials provided.

For more information, contact Karla Huston at info@karlahuston.com or Steve Polansky at smpolansky@hotmail.com

Jade Ring and Lindemann Humor Contests now open!

Wisconsin Writers Association Contests Submission Deadline: July 31st

Spring to Your Contest WiWrite.org Quick Links Enter Jade Ring Online Enter Florence Lindemann Online Print Entry Form Full Contest Rules

Welcome to the Wisconsin Writers Association's 2015 contest season! We invite you to enter the Jade Ring categories and the Florence Lindemann humor contest. Each year, writers from across the state hone their skills and present their work to exceptional judges. Now we offer the opportunity to get personal feedback from each judge, making entering a contest not only a measure of your skill, but a way to get important insight as to your strengths and weaknesses as an ever-evolving writer. Enter often and enter early to get the most out of this contest season!  Judges Poetry: Sarah Busse Sarah Busse (Sarah Sadie) is co-editor of Cowfeather Press and one of two Poets Laureate of Madison, Wisconsin (2012-2015), where she lives with her family. Her poems and books have won multiple prizes, including the Posner and Niedecker Prizes (CWW) and a Pushcart. A new chapbook, Do-It-Yourself Paper Airplanes, was published by Five Oaks Press in spring 2015, and a second full-length collection, We Are Traveling Through Dark at Tremendous Speeds is forthcoming from Lit Fest Press in the fall. These days you can find her at @sarahsadie1313 and sarahsadiesadiesarah.tumblr.com , or out on her screen porch, with a fresh mug of coffee and a blank page before her. Nonfiction: Richard "Dick" Radtke   Richard Radtke is the author of six novels; two collection of short stories; and a memoir, Persistence of Vision. His work has appeared in the Wisconsin Academy Review; Prime Times; Julien's Journal; Writers of Wisconsin anthology; Lines in the Sand; and the Wisconsin Writer's Jade Ring Anthology.   Dick served as a lecturer at the University of Wisconsin-Madison School of Journalism and Mass Communication, and operated his own writing and editing firm, Dick Radtke Public Relations. His business writing included contributions to a wide spectrum of consumer trade and general publications. He is the author of more than 50 books and papers on financial management and related subjects. He lives in Madison, Wisconsin with his wife Clare and their dog Rocky. Fiction: Pam Hayry Pam is an 8th grade teacher in Spencer.    Florence Lindemann: Diana Schramer Diana is the owner of Write Way Copyediting. Diana Schramer is a freelance copy editor and owner of Write Way Copyediting LLC. She has edited numerous books, fiction (including paranormal and sci-fi) and nonfiction (including memoir, spirituality, religion, wellness, addiction and recovery, and true crime). She also edits personal essays, blog posts, newsletters, and business-related documents. Diana is a member of and is the south-central region coordinator for Wisconsin Writer's Association, Inc. and a member of American Copy Editors Society (ACES) and National Association of Independent Writers and Editors (NAIWE). For more information about Diana and to follow her blog, please visit www.writewaycopyediting.com.

Ann Garvin speaks in Waukesha June 6

From the desk of Kathie Giorgio, Director, AllWriters' Workplace & Workshop LLC:

 

CELEBRITY SATURDAY: ANN GARVIN              

 

WAUKESHA – Expert plotting is the best way to keep readers turning pages, all the way to the end. Whether you have just the germ of an idea or a whole complicated manuscript, this workshop will illuminate for you the numerous way structure is used to achieve cohesion and will help you find the most gripping way to tell your story. On Saturday, June 6^th, Ann Garvin will illustrate the most compelling way to tell a tale. AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop welcomes special guest lecturer ANN GARVIN with her workshop, THE MOST COMPELLING WAY TO TELL A TALE: PLOT AND COHESION.

 

Whether you are working on a novel, short story, essay, or memoir, each work must tell a compelling story and maintain the energy of that story all the way through to the end. There are lots of ways to tell a story, but expert plotting is the best way to keep readers turning the pages. Plotting also helps with cohesion, resisting the mid-draft slump and can ultimately save time. This workshop examines the numerous ways structure is used to achieve cohesion and will help you find the most compelling way to tell your story. This workshop is for writers with just a germ of an idea or a whole complicated manuscript.

 

ANN GARVIN’s decades of teaching health and studying what makes people tick proved a perfect backdrop for her novels On Maggie’s Watch and The Dog Year. Her teaching position as an adjunct in the Masters of Fine Arts position at Southern New Hampshire University allows her to marry her love of people, story, and writing and help others do the same. She is a featured writer for www.Unreasonable.is, where she writes on entrepreneurs, health, and how to save the world. Ann is devoted to helping people find health and tell their stories, and fundraises for www.girleffect.org and animal rescues. Ann, a natural storyteller, is a sought-after speaker and educator at conferences where writing, health, and human nature are discussed.

 

Celebrity Saturdays are a great chance to broaden your knowledge of what it takes to be successful and to learn from writers who are already knee deep in an author’s life. Ann Garvin’s workshop will be held on Saturday, June 6^th, 2015. This event runs from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and costs $85, which includes a lunch catered by Waukesha’s own Café de Art.

 

AllWriters’ Workplace and Workshop offers on-site and online writing courses in all genres and abilities of creative writing, as well as coaching, editing, and marketing services. A schedule of classes, with online registration, is available at www.allwritersworkshop.com or by calling (262) 446-0284. AllWriters’ is located at 234 Brook Street, Unit 2, in historic downtown Waukesha, as featured in Milwaukee’s Journal Sentinel. 

Summer Hanford

AllWriters’ Assistant

summer@summerhanford.com

www.summerhanford.com 

Summer Hanford on Facebook 

234 Brook St., Unit 2
Waukesha WI 53188
Phone: (262) 446-0284
www.allwritersworkshop.com
Please "like" Author Kathie Giorgio on Facebook, and follow KathieGiorgio on Twitter!