Heads up poets n other authors, it's goin' on TODAY: Poetry at the library at Norge and this is a hot one, ya'all. 11 a.m. Featuring
Suzanne Rhodes
Joan Ellen Casey
Linda Ryan
Don Loop
Linda Partee
Ed Lull
The middle four are all reading for the first time in the Saturday Poetry Series. Joan Casey was one of the $750 winners in the Metro Project category of the PSV contest. Linda Partee's opening poem is very creative and powerful. New faces - new talents! And don't forget next week's Poetry Society of Virginia Annual Poetry Festival.
For those who don't want to make the drive to Norge, the Hampton Roads Writers host a workshop in the Traveling Pen Series. Here's all the scoop directly from HRW: Consider attending the (SATURDAY) May 7th Traveling Pen Writers’ Workshop. It’s from 10 AM - Noon, Hampton Main Library, 4207 Victoria Blvd., Hampton. Check-in begins at 9:45. The topic of this month’s workshop, of special value to all fiction writers, is entitled Realistic and Effective Dialogue in Fiction.
Workshop Description: This workshop will address the big picture, how to write conversations that are true to your characters’ sex, age, ethnicity, vocation, etc. and that capture and keep the reader’s interest. It will also address the detailed mechanics of dialogue format, grammar and punctuation, and how to avoid common mistakes. Bring in 2-3 pages of your own writing that contain a dialogue exchange between characters, for you to work on.
The workshop instructor is a well-published Colorado novelist, Beth Groundwater. She has published eight short stories, and her first mystery novel, A Real Basket Case was released by Five Star, an imprint of Gale/Cengage Learning, in March, 2007. The book garnered good reviews from Booklist, Kirkus Reviews, and other national reviewers and was nominated for the 2007 “Best First Novel” Agatha Award. The sequel, To Hell in a Handbasket, was released by Five Star in May, 2009, also to good reviews from Kirkus Reviews, Gumshoe Review, and other national publications. Beth’s science fiction novella, The Epsilon Eridani Alternative, was released by Virtual Tales in eBook and paperback in December, 2009. The first in her new Rocky Mountain Adventures series, Deadly Currents, was released in March, 2011. Visit her website at bethgroundwater.comand her blog at bethgroundwater.blogspot.com.
This low-cost* workshop offers a great opportunity to network with other local writers. I hope to see you there. If you plan to attend, please let me know as soon as possible so we can print enough handout material for everyone. *$13 for HRW members and $15 for nonmembers
I am posting on the poetry website a comprehensive notice from the Muse offering their stunning array of classes and workshops. Just go to the Chesapeake Bay Poets website and click on the Muse link in the LH column. ChesBayPoets.org
Monday evening three popular area poets will be reading from and signing their books at the Meyera Oberndorf Central Library in VB from 6:30 to 8:30. Danial Porvda (A Bird in the Hand Is a Dumb Bird), Frank Kazusko (The Man in the Moon Has no Testicles), and Jack Callan (Little River on the Milky Way) will each be be there for your entertainment and delight. Don't miss it.
Also to be found on the Chesapeake Bay Poets website is an exhaustive summary of all the amazing classes and workshops and readings offered by Norfolk's The Muse.
I'm sure there is more to expose, but I am out of time and must still smooth out the website so you can find all the information you want and I have promised. Fingers crossed...it ain't perfect quite yet. This week I am attempting to attach the Google calendar to this entry, I want to post it on the website as well, but it ain't there yet. Step by step. We'll see how it works.
Thanks for hangin' in there ya'all.
It it works, let it. If it don't, fix it or let it go. Same for machinery and for poetry.
Hoo ahhhhhhhhh
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pete, the mindworm
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