The Choosing America Project is looking for true short stories (1,500-4,000 words) that express the very essence of being an immigrant in America.We are interested in is eliciting gripping human interest stories that will reflect the diversity of the American immigrant experience, past and present.
Our concept is to disseminate this information to as many immigrants as possible in search of the best material. Please help us convey this information to writers, editors, students, professors, educators, seniors, colleagues and friends, community leaders and organizers as well as to community groups and organizations and to anyone who you believe can contribute to this project.
For more details please go to http://www.choosingamerica.com/
April Presenter: F.I. Goldhaber
Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Ferocious Promotion for Timid Authors by C. Hope Clark and Gwynne Spencer
How would you like to have hundreds of easy, low cost or NO COST ideas for helping your book find readers in your community and in the world at large?
Most authors love to write but are at a loss when it comes to promoting the books they have written—we were all taught to be humble, right?
This new e-book isn't like anything else you're likely to find. It doesn't tell you how to spend thousands and thousands of dollars promoting your book. It's not going to tell you to try to get on Oprah or Jerry Springer either. It's full of honest, low-profile ways to tastefully promote and sell your book the same way you wrote it—from the heart.
For a free sample chapter, go to www.fundsforwriters.com/ferociouschapter.htm
To order your copy today, go to http://www.fundsforwriters.com/ferocious.htm
It's only $7.95. Paypal, Visa/MC, money orders and checks accepted.
For more information, feel free to contact the authors:
C. Hope Clark: hope@fundsforwriters.com
Gwynne Spencer: gwynnespencer@aol.com
Most authors love to write but are at a loss when it comes to promoting the books they have written—we were all taught to be humble, right?
This new e-book isn't like anything else you're likely to find. It doesn't tell you how to spend thousands and thousands of dollars promoting your book. It's not going to tell you to try to get on Oprah or Jerry Springer either. It's full of honest, low-profile ways to tastefully promote and sell your book the same way you wrote it—from the heart.
For a free sample chapter, go to www.fundsforwriters.com/ferociouschapter.htm
To order your copy today, go to http://www.fundsforwriters.com/ferocious.htm
It's only $7.95. Paypal, Visa/MC, money orders and checks accepted.
For more information, feel free to contact the authors:
C. Hope Clark: hope@fundsforwriters.com
Gwynne Spencer: gwynnespencer@aol.com
Tuesday, May 19, 2009
Easy Editing Workshops
Why pay a professional editor when you can edit yourself?
Easy Editing Workshops will teach you the fundamentals of editing so that you can polish your manuscript for publication without wasting hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a professional editor.
After taking an Easy Editing Workshop, you’ll walk away with the confidence and skills to tackle your work with the critical eye of an editor.
Easy Editing Workshops will be offered at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels to meet all skill sets.
Registration is open for Beginner Easy Editing!
Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Tea Party Bookshop
Cost: $40
To reserve your space please contact either Heather Cuthbertson at HeatherJoyC@aol.com or Marilyn Ebbs at SmilingEeyore@aol.com with your name, address, and phone number. You can pay by check or cash at the time of the workshop or to register via PayPal (or pay with credit card) please visit www.HeatherCuthbertson.com or www.MSEbbs.com and click on EASY EDITING WORKSHOPS.
Don’t forget to be on the lookout for Intermediate Easy Editing on Wednesday, July 22 and Advanced Easy Editing on Wednesday, August 19.
Get past the slush pile and on the editor’s desk today!
Easy Editing Workshops will teach you the fundamentals of editing so that you can polish your manuscript for publication without wasting hundreds or even thousands of dollars on a professional editor.
After taking an Easy Editing Workshop, you’ll walk away with the confidence and skills to tackle your work with the critical eye of an editor.
Easy Editing Workshops will be offered at beginner, intermediate, and advanced levels to meet all skill sets.
Registration is open for Beginner Easy Editing!
Date: Wednesday, June 24
Time: 5:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Where: Tea Party Bookshop
Cost: $40
To reserve your space please contact either Heather Cuthbertson at HeatherJoyC@aol.com or Marilyn Ebbs at SmilingEeyore@aol.com with your name, address, and phone number. You can pay by check or cash at the time of the workshop or to register via PayPal (or pay with credit card) please visit www.HeatherCuthbertson.com or www.MSEbbs.com and click on EASY EDITING WORKSHOPS.
Don’t forget to be on the lookout for Intermediate Easy Editing on Wednesday, July 22 and Advanced Easy Editing on Wednesday, August 19.
Get past the slush pile and on the editor’s desk today!
Tuesday, May 12, 2009
April Meeting Notes: Sage Cohen
Poetry is available to everybody.
What does it mean to live and write the poetic life? A poetic life is a life of receptivity where we observe, feel, and consider our lives and our world, treating things as “we are” and not as “they are.”
How can we be more receptive?
1) Welcome accidents and mistakes
2) Free-write
3) Write to different styles of music
4) Invite topics (don’t judge or dismiss what comes as a topic)
Pay attention! All we need is to be a little curious. “Being” is the space where poetry happens. Tune in to your being and start writing. Don’t try to force it—write what resonates with you.
Poetry lives on the edge where comfort and discomfort meet. Pain (such as with bad relationships, etc) is a natural starting place because it demands our attention. If you feel discomfort, let poetry give you an outlet to your discomfort (impatience/anger) and find out what is underneath. Or discover something new in what is familiar in your life and circumstances—it’s not “where” we are, it’s “who” we are in any given moment.
Sage Cohen is author of Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry, forthcoming from Writer’s Digest Books, and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World, Queen of Wands Press. Her poems appear in journals and anthologies including Poetry Flash, Oregon Literary Review, blueoregon.com and San Francisco Reader. In 2006, she won first prize in the Ghost Road Press poetry contest.
Sage has served as managing editor and monthly columnist for Writers on the Rise since 2006. She teaches Poetry for the People, an online poetry class, and has taught at the Willamette Writers and Pacific Northwest Writers Association conferences. This year, Maria Schneider, Editor of Writer’s Digest, decreed Sage the official Poet Laureate of The Writer’s Perspective blogroll. Sage holds a MA in creative writing from New York University where she was awarded a New York Times Foundation fellowship. Visit her at http://www.sagesaidso.com/.
What does it mean to live and write the poetic life? A poetic life is a life of receptivity where we observe, feel, and consider our lives and our world, treating things as “we are” and not as “they are.”
How can we be more receptive?
1) Welcome accidents and mistakes
2) Free-write
3) Write to different styles of music
4) Invite topics (don’t judge or dismiss what comes as a topic)
Pay attention! All we need is to be a little curious. “Being” is the space where poetry happens. Tune in to your being and start writing. Don’t try to force it—write what resonates with you.
Poetry lives on the edge where comfort and discomfort meet. Pain (such as with bad relationships, etc) is a natural starting place because it demands our attention. If you feel discomfort, let poetry give you an outlet to your discomfort (impatience/anger) and find out what is underneath. Or discover something new in what is familiar in your life and circumstances—it’s not “where” we are, it’s “who” we are in any given moment.
Sage Cohen is author of Writing the Life Poetic: An Invitation to Read and Write Poetry, forthcoming from Writer’s Digest Books, and the poetry collection Like the Heart, the World, Queen of Wands Press. Her poems appear in journals and anthologies including Poetry Flash, Oregon Literary Review, blueoregon.com and San Francisco Reader. In 2006, she won first prize in the Ghost Road Press poetry contest.
Sage has served as managing editor and monthly columnist for Writers on the Rise since 2006. She teaches Poetry for the People, an online poetry class, and has taught at the Willamette Writers and Pacific Northwest Writers Association conferences. This year, Maria Schneider, Editor of Writer’s Digest, decreed Sage the official Poet Laureate of The Writer’s Perspective blogroll. Sage holds a MA in creative writing from New York University where she was awarded a New York Times Foundation fellowship. Visit her at http://www.sagesaidso.com/.
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