Thursday, August 23, 2007

A Writer's Gathering 2007 - Saint Joseph's College - September 22, 2007

Saint Joseph's College will be hosting the first annual A Writer's Gathering 2007 on Saturday, September 22, 2007 in Rensselaer, Indiana in cooperation with Prairie Writer's Guild. This is billed as a day of inspirational speakers, writing workshops and the opportunity to network with fellow writers from around the state.

Susan Neville, who teaches writing at Butler University and is the author of Sailing the Inland Sea: On Writing, Literature, and Land, will be the keynote speaker.

Breakout sessions will be conducted by Brian "Fox" Ellis, Fred Berger, W.K. Buckley, John Groppe, Charles Kerlin, Maia Kingman, Bree Dunscombe and Scott Greeson. Breakout session topics are:

Storytelling Basics
Write Where You're At!
How A Poem Gets Started (or "Found")
Writing Fiction: A Mini Workshop
The Dynamics of the Sentence: Grammar and Poetry
An Introduction to Feature Writing
Why Writers Should Blog
The Mythic Approach To Screenwriting

Costs are $50 for the full-day gathering, meals and snacks. All sessions will be held in the Core Building. Take the main entrance to the curve to the right. Parking lot will be on your left.

To register, or for more information, you should contact Connie Kingman (awg07@saintjoe.edu)

Friday, August 10, 2007

Tipton Poetry Journal - Summer 2007



Issue #6 of the Tipton Poetry Journal has been published and is available
now in both print and online versions.

http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com/tpj6/tpj_issue6.html

Contributors include: A. Jay Adler, Dustin Joseph Anderson, Arlene Ang,
Sandy Sue Benitez, Ben Berman, Sam Byfield, Carol Carpenter, Dan Carpenter, David Cazden, Antonia Clark, Mark Comstock, Jack Conway, K.R. Copeland, David Allan Evans, Gail Gilliland, Ernestine Hayes, Paul Hostovsky, Joshua D. Kalscheur, Nita Karpf, Norbert Krapf, Jody Kuchar, Sarah Layden, Rohana McCormack, Beth Mink, Cheryl Soden Moreland, Michelle Morgan, Kristine Ong Muslim, Thomas Alan Orr, James Owens, Jeffrey Owen Pearson, Richard Pflum, Donald Platt, Priscilla Rhoades, Maureen A. Sherbondy, Cheryl Snell, Paul Sohar, Michael E. Strosahl, Ray Succre,David Thornbrugh, Laura A. Walker, Yun Wang and Alessio Zanelli.



Barry Harris, Editor
Tipton Poetry Journal
P.O. Box 804
Zionsville, IN 46077

http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com

Monday, August 6, 2007

Poetry in the Gallery - 7pm Thursday, August 9th

Poetry in the Gallery: Visions of Suburbia
Thursday, August 9 / 7:00 pm
Forefront Galleries

I will be among those poets reading this Thursday night at the Poetry in the Gallery event at the Indianapolis Museum of Art.

Local poets will read their poems inspired by suburban surrealism and the art of Emily Kennerk in the Forefront galleries. This event is copresented with the Writers Center of Indiana.

http://www.ima-art.org/kennerk.asp

Summer 2007 issue of the Tipton Poetry Journal

Issue #6 of the Tipton Poetry Journal has been published and print copies are in the mail. The online version should also be later this week at:

http://tiptonpoetryjournal.com

Contributors include: A. Jay Adler, Dustin Joseph Anderson, Arlene Ang,
Sandy Sue Benitez, Ben Berman, Sam Byfield, Carol Carpenter, Dan
Carpenter, David Cazden, Antonia Clark, Mark Comstock, Jack Conway, K.R.
Copeland, David Allan Evans, Gail Gilliland, Ernestine Hayes, Paul
Hostovsky, Joshua D. Kalscheur, Nita Karpf, Norbert Krapf, Jody Kuchar,
Sarah Layden, Rohana McCormack, Beth Mink, Cheryl Soden Moreland, Michelle
Morgan, Kristine Ong Muslim, Thomas Alan Orr, James Owens, Jeffrey Owen
Pearson, Richard Pflum, Donald Platt, Priscilla Rhoades, Maureen A.
Sherbondy, Cheryl Snell, Paul Sohar, Michael E. Strosahl, Ray Succre,
David Thornbrugh, Laura A. Walker, Yun Wang and Alessio Zanelli.