NOTICE: Due to graduate school and a residency at the Kerouac Project House, Your Scribbler, Darlyn Finch, and Scribbles, the newsletter, is on hiatus until March 1, 2007. This free, public service will begin again then!
Greetings, Scribblers! Hope you'll get out to the City Arts Factory Sunday, 11/5 at 1:30 pm to see VOCI - Out of the Box, with guest poet Crista Bell. Saw it Friday night and was blown away. Enjoy!
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The Jack Kerouac Project of Orlando and The 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 Restaurant
717 West Smith Street
College Park
(407) 835-0646
http://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.
Celebrations:
Two of the poems from Terry Godbey's poetry book, "Protestant" and "For This Life, We'll Be Serving Meat Loaf and Mashed Potatoes," have been nominated for a Pushcart Prize! Congratulations, Terry! Good luck!
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Terry Odell's novel, "What's in a Name?" has an April 2007 release date with Cerridwen Press, and one of the new 13 digit ISBNs. To learn more, go to Terry's website: http://www.blogger.com/www.terryodell.com
Way to go, Terry!
Terry Odell's "Frankie & Ryan" took first place in Romantic Suspense in a RWA chapter contest (IGO), and will be moving on to 'best of the best' with the other first place winners in each category. Whooooo-Hoooooo!
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Scribblers Sharing Info:
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Learn how to write fiction of any genre from Nancy J. Cohen, author of the Bad Hair Day Mysteries series and a member of the Central Florida Romance Writers of America. Sunday, November 5 at 2 p.m. at the Orlando Public Library, located at 101 East Central Blvd. Book sale and signing follows the program. Reservations required; please call 407.835.7481 to reserve your spot today!
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Jamie Morris presents ...
Three New Woodstream Workshops for December!
In Cocoa Village: On Tuesday, December 5th, we'll be offering a FREE two-hour program from 6:30-8:30 p.m. at the Central Brevard Library, in Cocoa. All are welcome to attend, when Woodstream Writing Workshops presents the Amherst Writers & Artists (AWA) workshop method.During this "hands-on" introduction, attendees will be given a quick over-view of AWA guidelines, then led in an abbreviated AWA workshop. Follow-up discussion will include the use of timed writing exercises and the value of positive feedback for writers at all levels.
To register, contact the Central Brevard Library, 321.633.1792, or Woodstream Writing Workshops, 407.644.5163 or Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com
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In Winter Park: a three-week Mini-Workshop at The Knowledge Shop: "Creative Writing for Everyone"During our mini-workshop, we will explore our unique writing voices in a supportive group. Working (or experimenting!) in a variety of genres, we will identify our strengths, discover new strategies, and learn how our "voice" engages readers.This AWA workshop is designed for writers at all levels. Participate in this dynamic and playful process! You'll increase both the skills you bring to your writing and the pleasure you take from it!Choose from day or evening sessions: Three Monday evenings, December 4th, 11th, and 18th, 6:30-9:00 p.m., or three Tuesday mornings, December 5th, 12th, and 19th,10:00 a.m.-12:30 p.m.Register through The Knowledge Shop, 407.671.9505, or on-line, http://www.theknowledgeshop.us/. Early Bird Special $99.00/ Regular Price $125.00.
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Altamonte Springs: One-Day
Writer's Retreat. Just in the "Nick" of time, we've got a holiday gift for you to give to YOU! Take a brief retreat from the madness and the malls for just one day--a single day of writing time.Project-in-progress? We've got a cozy nook for you to write in. Ready for something new? Curl up near the fire; we'll use prompts to help us start--and grow--new writing to carry into the brand-new year!Either way, we'll feed you well, cheer you mightily, and keep the coffee hot and strong all day long. Join us in our intimate, Altamonte setting--comfy couches, hidden hideaways, logs on the fire--while we create a little magic all our own.Date: Sunday, December 17th. Time: 9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m. Place: Private home, Altamonte Springs (directions upon registration) Cost: $80.00 for the fully catered day. Accepting 12 writers for this event, we have just 5 seats left.
To register or for more information, contact Woodstream Writing Workshops, 407.644.5163 or Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com
And be sure to visit our website, http://www.woodstreamwriters.com/ , for our full Winter Schedule with a variety of workshops in Lake Helen, DeLand, Mount Dora, Winter Park, Maitland, Altamonte, and Cocoa.
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You'll want to update your news of Florida Writers Association with the November 1 edition of the on-line Newsletter. At http://www.blogger.com/ , you can also read past issues for background refreshment. No password - anyone can access the FWA newsletter. It's a great way to get started for the culmination of 2006 with FWA. This issue includes news of the Conference next week, (November 10-12), Website information, kudos and congratulations, call for submissions for The Florida Writer Magazine, and other items Read it on-screen or print it, but don't miss it. See you at the Conference. ~ Dan
Dan Griffith President, Florida Writers Association
http://www.blogger.com/
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This month's meeting of Adventures in Christian Writing is Saturday, November 18, 2006, 9:30 a.m. at the Edington Ministry Center, First Presbyterian Church, Orlando. Room 310-B.
Your writing assignment for the September meeting, as suggested by Pat Elston: This is the month of Thanksgiving. Show your gratitude by writing a thank-you note to God. You may choose to do that as an essay, poem or whatever form you choose. Limit it to one printed page and be sure to bring a copy to be turned in after you have shared your writing with the group.
Our speaker for the November 18 meeting will be Susan Sienkiewicz. Her background includes being a caregiver for Alzheimer's patients, counseling abused women, and she now has a ministry with the homeless. She has just returned from a missionary trip to Africa and is in the process of writing a book.
We will be voting for new officers for 2007 at the November meeting.
If you know of any aspiring writers who would like to be informed of our meetings let me know. Send along their email addresses, their snail mail addresses and telephone numbers.
(No meeting in December. Next time will be January 20, 2007 with speaker Chuck Dowling.)
Joanna Adicks Wallace, President
Adventures in Christian Writing
joannaw@quixnet.net
407-841-2157
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Jackson Bryer will give a talk on Scott and Zelda Fitzgerald at 10:30 a.m.. on Monday November 13 at the Winter Park Public Library, in partnership with Rollins College and the Polasek Museum.
Ruth D. Edwards, MS
Coordinator, Lifelong Learning Institute
Winter Park Public Library
460 E. New England Avenue
Winter Park, FL 32789
407-623-3309, direct line
407-623-3489, fax
www.wppl.org/institute
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The incomparable Sarah Kate Moore's interview on Poetic Logic with Sara Schlossman was on October 27th, and your Scribbler missed telling you! Mea culpa!!!
To hear the program, go to the Poetic Logic archives through the link on sunscribbles.com.
You can also hear Sara Kate read when she joins fellow Scribbler/poet Matthew Miller in a reading at Urban Think! Bookstore on Saturday, November 18 from 7:00 PM - 8:30 PM
For Urban Think!'s November lineup, go to: http://www.urbanthinkorlando.com/events.html
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This fall, ACA's Lecture Series, Poets and Painters, presents readings and lectures by Central Florida artists. Lectures are free, open to the public, and held in Harris House Annex at 123 Douglas Street, New Smyrna Beach.
Wednesday, November 8 7 PM
Sweet Wild World
An award winning poet and author of five books, Bill White will read from his books of found poems which he wrote from Thoreau's Journals. His first book, All Nature is My Bride, was a Book-of-the-Month and Ecology Book Club selection. He has had poems published in more than 150 different quarterlies, reviews and literary magazines. White earned his doctorate from the University of Florida and was a creative writing professor at Virginia Tech for many years.
Wednesday, November 15 7 PM
Getaway Girl
Terry Ann Thaxton's first book of poetry Getaway Girl (Story Line Press) won the 18th Annual Frederick Morgan Poetry Prize, formerly the Nicholas Roerich Prize. She holds a Masters of Fine Arts in Writing degree from Vermont College, and has published in numerous journals including Rattle, Connecticut Review, Comstock Review, Hayden's Ferry, West Branch, Tampa Review, Cimarron Review, and others.
Thaxton has received grants from the Barbara Deming Memorial Fund for Women, Youth Service America, the Florida Humanities Council, and United Arts of Central Florida. She is Assistant Professor of English at the University of Central Florida, where she teaches creative writing.
She also directs UCF's Literary Arts Partnership: Autobiography of a Community, which provides creative writing workshops to alternative populations throughout central Florida, including the Coalition for the Homeless, The Center for Drug-Free Living, PACE Center for Girls, and elementary, middle, and high schools, prisons, and domestic violence shelters. Thaxton works with 20-25 college students each semester, to design and teach creative writing workshops at several locations for the under-served. UCF students see first-hand how their knowledge of good citizenship and creative writing can enhance the lives of the under-served in our community.
The workshops improve reading and writing skills of the participants, thus improving their self-confidence, enabling them to recognize their own value as citizens, and increasing their chances of succeeding academically and/or gaining employment. At the conclusion of each 10-week workshop session, the college students and the participants create a publication of what has been written by the participants and present a public reading of their work. This project helps to develop literacy in our community through expressive writing for adults and youth who might otherwise not have the confidence or resources to attend college, and fosters self-confidence and empowerment in the participants and the students.
The Lecture Series continues with poet M.B. McLatchey (November 29) and painter Jo Sinclair (December 8).
For more information, phone Mary McBride, Community Programs & Operations Manager, Atlantic Center for the Arts at Harris House, 386-423-1753.
Kelle Groom
Grants Administrator & Communications Coordinator
Atlantic Center for the Arts
1414 Art Center Avenue
New Smyrna Beach, FL 32168
t. 386-427-6975
f. 386-427-5669
kgroom@atlanticcenterforthearts.org
www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org
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CLARIFICATION:
Debra Tate, a freelance writer I mentioned in the last Scribbles, writes:
When I emailed you about the expense for my kids, the cost of each therapy session for the kids that is not covered is $65. This is why I need the free-lance work because my daughter needs several sessions a week for several months, and so does my son. That figure didn't have anything to do with the amount I would charge per writing job since each job is different.
I cannot tell, but I'm wondering if people reading the mention about me will think I charge $65 for a session to meet with them, or per job. Please advise if this is clear. To me, it seems like we're saying I'm charging $65 per wriritng session, especially because the amount comes right after a sentence about me seeking free-lance work.
I so much appreciate your kindness in putting this in Scribbles. If you think this needs a clarification so people don't think I'd charge $65 just to meet with them, or whatever, please print what you think would clarify this.
Thanks much.
Debra Tate
Phone: 407-736-2445
Email: debra.tate@siemens.com
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New FWA Chapter Forming
Stephen Withrow would like to invite you to the inaugural meeting of the new Longwood Chapter of the Florida Writers Association on Saturday, Dec. 3 at 2:00PM at his home at 896 Bucksaw Place in Longwood. Contact Stephen at stephen@stephenfwithrow.com
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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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Calls for Submissions:
The 2007 Mount Dora Annual Writers Contest Submission deadline is January 5, 2007 and contest rules can be found at: www.mountdoralibrary.com
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The 7th Annual Writer's Digest Short Short Story Competition is accepting entries! We're looking for fiction that's bold, brilliant ... but brief. Send us your best in 1,500 words or less. But don't be too long about it; the deadline is December 1, 2006.
The Grand-Prize winner will receive $3,000 (that's $2 or more per word). For guidelines, prizes and to enter online, go to: http://www.writersdigest.com/contests/shortshort/
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Thanks for your attention!
Darlyn Finch
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