Last week we said the Poetry group meets every 1st and 3rd Sunday afternoons.
Wrong. That's when the Fayetteville Writing Circle meets.
The next POETRY ROUNDELAY will be at 12:30 p.m. (new time) on Sunday, May 31 from 2-4 pm at the VWS.
WRITERS' NIGHT OUT
This Thursday we will be reading
our work for the Ozark Harvest Radio.
and
We will be planting our new flowers!!
So wear your grubby clothes (it's radio) and bring your spades and shovels.
Jessie will serve
lasagna, Italian breads and salad.
From the Director . . .
Leave Your Children More than Stuff!
In 2007, my mother wrote her memoir. Although this consisted of personal remembrances of her childhood, she wrote to document life in her Ozark mountain community of Friley, Arkansas, of which little now remains.
My mother recorded this culture through relating common occurrences, like the arrival of a neighbor with a "turn" of corn for my great-grandfather's gristmill; childhood dramas, like the time her doll's face melted in the rain and my grandmother replaced its ruined head with a cloth one; and neighborhood traumas, like the typhoid epidemic that took several young family members. But my mom was true to her theme of presenting daily life in this area and era, now lost in the flow of time.
My friend, Debbie Quigley-Smith, plans to leave each of her children and grandchildren a book of poetry and a quilt. "So they will know me," she says. Just as a fabric scrap in a quilt reminds us of Grandma's apron, Debbie's writing will become another element of family memory.
Memoir is currently popular, and many terrific memoirs have become huge commercial bestsellers, such as Jeannette Walls' The Glass Castle. But not all of us want to write best-sellers. Some of us just want to hand down our stories in our increasingly fragmentated extended families. Kids once listened to Grandpa's stories as they hoed the corn beside him. Now, Grandpa is across the country or around the world.
I love my mom's memoir. I have it in hard copy and also stored in the "Cloud," because I cherish it.
If you're wanting to leave your children more than stuff, if you're wanting to give them the personal treasure only you can give, our Heirloom Writing workshop on May 1 in Rogers is for you. No previous writing experience is necessary. As our teacher Elizabeth Mack says, "The only experience necessary is life."
Comedy Writing Secrets by Mel Helitzer Want to write for sitcoms or need to add humor to your writing?
Tina Fey, Geeorge Carlin, Jerry Seinfeld, Jeff Foxworthy and other comedians give tips for writing comedy.
What I like in a good author is not what he says, but what he whispers.
~Logan Pearsall Smith
Meet a Village Writer Maryanne Humm
At the age 77, Maryanne Humm found two suspense novels she had started fifteen years earlier. She began working on her plots and found a slot for dog lovers.
Maryanne lives with her Shih Tzu in Bella Vista. She's a great supporter of our Rogers/Bentonville workshops and has a story in our Crystal Bridges anthology about a. . .what? Shih Tzu!
Eureka Springs Rogers/Bentonville Fayetteville Little Rock Maumelle
How to Have A Yard Sale
Live Music
ChorusGirls
Massages
Great Stuff
Lots of Shoppers
Sophisticated
Characters
Our yard sale was so much fun and so successful, we're planning to do it again in the fall. If you missed the party this time, plan to be with us at the next one.
And--START SAVING YOUR STUFF!!
Save the Date!
The Second Annual
All Write Now! Writers' Conference
Saturday, July 11, 2015
Presented by The Southeast Missouri Writers' Guild and the Heartland Writers Guild
Includes contests in: Poetry, Fiction, Non- fiction, and Flash Fiction.
We are planning with SHROUD publisher Tim Deal for a Speculative Fiction conference in Eureka Springs in late fall.That's any fiction with supernatural, fantastical, or futuristic elements.
So you creepy people, get ready.
Saturday's Memoir Workshop with Pat Carr was full of happy writers!
May 2 - First Page/Character May 3 - Fayetteville Writing Circle - 1-3 June 6 - Dialogue & Setting June 13 -Blogging 9-2 July 11 - The Word and the Sentence August 1 - Subtext, High Events, Closings September 5 - Self-Editing
Workshops are from 9-4 with an hour for lunch.
Fee $45 each with a 10% discount if the whole program is paid in advance.
The MISSION of the Village Writing School is to foster a vibrant literary community in Arkansas and
to provide resources for ALL writers who seek to improve their craft.
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THANK YOU TO OUR 2015 FRIENDS: Tandy Belt, Wendy and David Carlisle, Jean Elderwind,Crow Evans, Alice French, Valerie Fondetti, Linda Harrison-Gracia, John & Nancy Grosella, Gary Guinn,Nancy Harris, Kate Lacy, Shirley Lamberson, Judith McCartan, Richard Schoe, Shiva Shanti, Greg Sherar, Cris Senseman, Judith Ulch,
Brent Wendling
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