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Check out your email for an announcement re: VOCI DANCE and Crista Bell! Not to be missed! Trust me!
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The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando andThe Burry Man Writers Center presents:
SLOW RIDE
to benefit the Kerouac House Writers Residency
Monday, November 6th @ 7 pm @ Taste Restaurant
A reading of "Slow Ride", a new short play by Joseph Reed Hayes, with music by the current Kerouac House resident, Christopher Watkins (aka Preacher Boy). Chris will also do a reading of work he has been writing while at KHouse. Proceeds to benefit the Kerouac House Writers Residency project. In the grand Kerouac collaborative tradition.
You'll be one of the first, anywhere, to see this new play in any form. Be there for the premiere of a new song by the amazing Preacher Boy, written exclusively for this performance. Come explore Taste's fabulous list of wines by the glass and feast from their Small Plate Menu.
Tell your friends! Get there early for the best seats -- this one will be the talk of College Park!
Taste Restaurant717 West Smith StreetIn College Park(407) 835-0646http://www.blogger.com/www.tastecp.com(map http://tinyurl.com/j765q)$8 Donation Taken at Door
Christopher Watkins is a poet and songwriter. His poems are appearing or have appeared in The George Washington Review, Euphony, Talking River, Red Rock Review, and the anthology "In Our Own Words: A Generation Defining Itself" (MWE Press), among others. As a songwriter, he has released five albums under the name Preacher Boy, and has received a gold record for his songwriting work with Grammy-winning artist Eagle-Eye Cherry.Visit http://www.blogger.com/www.preacherboy.com for more info.
"One of the best contemporary bluesmen on the current scene." - Sing Out!
"Preacher Boy is a songwriter of startling originality." - Mojo
"Some of the most innovative roots music on the scene today."- Blues Access Magazine
Joseph Reed Hayes works for print and online publications worldwide. His plays have been performed in two critically-acclaimed productions at Orlando Fringe and in New York, California, Wisconsin, Texas and the UK. For more information visit him online at www.jrhayes.net/plays.
"A play by Joseph Reed Hayes is a welcome oasis of cultural smarts." - Orlando Weekly
"Hayes' work is appealing and sometimes downright lyrical." - Orlando Sentinel
"Joseph Hayes' sense of dialogue and structure, his wit and awareness of the foibles of our society and the humanism that fill the pages of his work make him a true dramatist." - David Amram
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We'd rather not talk about it, but we all have them. The rejected stories. The stories that don't quite work. The stories we've stuck in a drawer and would rather forget about. Why not give one of your orphaned stories a chance for a new life? Bring it to Suzy Spraker's REVISION AS WRITING workshop on Saturday, November 4 for revision rescue.
Suzy Spraker is a fiction writer who has been published in The Greensboro Review, The Southern Review, Fiction, Confrontation, and the Berkeley Fiction Review. She teaches creative writing at the University of Central Florida.
Writers often see revision as a kind of punishment for not getting the story right the first time, but review is a natural step in the writing process. In this workshop, Suzy Spraker will help you make friends with revision. You'll practice strategies for characterization, structure, and scene and learn how revision is an opportunity for your story. Bring a story or chapter to work on.
Time is short. Register today.
Download workshop details: http://www.madaboutwords.com/061104SS.pdf
Or contact Mary Ann: info@MADaboutWords.com or 407-963-4450 For information about other upcoming writing workshops: http:// www.madaboutwords.com/061022news.html
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The Orlando Poetry Troupe will perform original poetry, themed Free Speech in Americaat the Orlando Museum of Art in the auditorium at 1st Thursdays in November. Orlando Poetry TroupeOrlando Museum of Art2146 N Mills Avenue , OrlandoThursday, November 2, 2006, 7:30 p.m.Cost: $9 for non-members
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Please keep Debra Tate in mind if you hear of any free-lance writing work anywhere. She needs help with serious medical bills for her two children, and is a serious, talented professional writer looking for any kind of free-lance or part-time writing work to help pay for this. It's $65 a session. She's written numerous articles for Siemens' employee magazine, and has lots of other articles for other clients she can provide. Contact: Debra Tate
Phone: 407-736-2445
Email: debra.tate@siemens.com
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HOW TO WORK WITH A FREELANCE EDITOR
On Wednesday, November 1, the Florida Writers Association Orlando Chapter hosts a presentation by freelance editor, Tom Wallace.
Wallace wrote and edited extensively in the corporate world, an experience that drove him crazy enough to begin his current career. As a freelance editor, his clients have included novelists, screenwriters, journalists, academicians, entrepreneurs, psychologists, ex-cons, and comic book creators. Whether you want to do business as a freelance editor, or with a freelance editor, or just pick up some tips on self-editing, this event is for you. How can you find the right freelance editor for your material? What do you need to know about the writer/editor relationship? What’s the difference between copy editing and content editing? What makes editors so darn nitpicky? If you want the answers to these and all your editing questions, ask Tom Wallace. He’s our answer man in November.
Join us on Wednesday, November 1, from 6:30 to 8:30 PM at the University Club of Winter Park, located at 841 Park Ave. North. That’s on the corner of Park and Webster, just north of the heart of downtown Winter Park. Come to the side entrance where you’ll see the long ramp. The meeting is free and open to the public.
For more information, contact Tom Wallace at tommyflorida@earthlink.net, or at 407-332-0122.
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Poets Kelle Groom and Rick Campbell are scheduled to do a reading from 1 pm-2 pm and a master class from 2:45 -4:15 on VCC's East Campus on Thursday, Nov 9.
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