All Writers Workshop welcomes Ann Garvin December 5

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

 

CELEBRITY SATURDAY: ANN GARVIN              

 

WAUKESHA – Plotting is afoot for AllWriters’ December Celebrity Saturday! There are lots of ways to tell a story, but expert plotting is the best way to keep your readers turning pages. AllWriters’ Workplace & Workshop welcomes special guest lecturer ANN GARVIN with her workshop, THE MOST COMPELLING WAY TO TELL A TALE: PLOT AND COHESION.

 

In this workshop, you’ll examine the numerous ways plotting is used to achieve cohesion. This approach will not only help with structure but also with resisting the mid-draft slump, and it can ultimately save time. Moving forward, we’ll discuss how plotting will help you find the most compelling way to tell your story. Whether you’re working on a novel, short story, essay, poem or memoir, each work must tell a compelling story and maintain the energy of that story all the way through to the end. This is a workshop for students with just a germ of an idea or a whole complicated manuscript.

 

ANN GARVIN is an Easterner who lives in the Midwest and a fiction writer who makes a living as a scientist and educator in the Masters of Fine Arts position at Southern New Hampshire University. While working as a nurse, she completed her PhD in exercise psychology at UW–Madison, publishing extensively in the area of exercise, mental health, and media and later became a prize-winning short story writer. Her experience proved a perfect backdrop for her novels On Maggie’s Watch and The Dog Year. She is a featured writer for Unreasonable.is, where she is devoted to helping people find health and tell their stories, and fundraises for www.girleffect.org and animal rescues.

 

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, December 5^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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234 Brook St., Unit 2
Waukesha WI 53188
Phone: (262) 446-0284
www.allwritersworkshop.com

Southeast Wisconsin Festival of Books and Clothesline Project

This Saturday, November 7  3:30 pm at

Kathie Giorgio & Sarah Xerta: Shouting the Truth in Poetry and Fiction

What happens when a poet and a novelist team up to raise their voices, together lifting up the truth through lyricism and narration?  Against the moving backdrop of The Clothesline Project*, t-shirts featuring brave statements about violence against women and designed by women affected by that violence, novelist Kathie Giorgio and poet Sarah Xerta weave a dramatic reading of truth and testimony, and discuss the role of writing as witness. 3:30 PM Saturday, November 7 University of Wisconsin-Waukesha Northview Hall Room N140 For driving directions, campus map and a complete schedule of events, please visit http://www.sewibookfest.com/   *THE CLOTHESLINE PROJECT "Bearing Witness to Violence Against Women for 25 Years" presented by The Women's Center

Wisconsin Book Festival in Madison October 22-25

ABOUT THE FESTIVAL

We couldn't be more excited about the incredible slate of authors and events we have planned. From October 22nd through the 25th, Madison will play host to more than 70 events. There is certainly something for every reader. We are delighted to be hosting a wide array of authors; we will see prize-winners, debuts, laureates, luminaries. 

This year’s lineup includes:

• 2013 Pulitzer Prize winner for fiction Adam Johnson for Fortune Smiles

• New York Times best-selling author Azar Nafisi for The Republic of Imagination

• Pulitzer Prize-winning biographer David Maraniss for Once In a Great City

• The New Yorker copy editor Mary Norris for Between You and Me

• Wisconsin’s own master storyteller Nickolas Butler for Beneath the Bonfire

• Caldecott medalist and beloved children’s book author Kevin Henkes for Waiting

• Acclaimed journalist Evan Thomas for Being Nixon

• Former Secretary of Labor Robert Reich for Saving Capitalism

• National Book Award winner Timothy Egan for The Big Burn

• 2015–16 Wisconsin Poet Laureate Kim Blaeser

And if you can't make the four-day celebration in October, looks for more stand alone events throughout the fall. October 30th, we will be hosting many more events throughout the fall, including evenings with Sarah Vowell, Tim Flannery, and Bonnie Jo Campbell.  We look forward to seeing you at an event this fall.

Best,

Conor Moran
Director

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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AllWriters’ Assistant

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www.summerhanford.com

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234 Brook St., Unit 2
Waukesha WI 53188
Phone: (262) 446-0284
www.allwritersworkshop.com
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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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