We'll see if this occasions any more use...
Wednesday, November 23, 2011
Sunday, April 06, 2008
What about using this blog for sharing our current reading?
At our next BookClub meeting on Sunday April 13, I will propose this idea - to use TheBookClubBlog to share the books, magazine & journal articles, and whatever else we're reading or seeing (films, plays, performances, concerts, ...). It might serve a variety of valuable services: 1. an ongoing 'nomination list' 2. a continuing discussion of some of our books already read, but not exhaustively discussed or about which we have some continuing ideas 3. an ongoing sharing of each of our members' wide interests beyond the tip of the iceberg we get to share at our book discussions.
Please add your thinking on this proposal.
Please add your thinking on this proposal.
Sunday, January 01, 2006
Writing Course Taught by one of us
On Dec 14, 2005, at 11:34:21, Anne Earney wrote:
I'm going to be teaching another fiction workshop and thought some of might be interested or know someone who is. It's a non-credit course through the UMSL Continuing Education program, and you can take more courses in the same program to earn a certificate. Instructor bios are at the end of this email. Please email me with any questions about the course. The course is for all levels of writers (and all ages) who have a story or part of a novel ready to workshop. Please pass this on to anyone else you know who may be interested!
Thanks!
Anne
Back by popular demand, Joanne Drew and Anne Earney will co-teach an eight-week Advanced Fiction Workshop which will begin Saturday, January 21. Former students have given both of these instructors excellent evaluations on their instruction, so this will be an opportunity to get sound professional direction and guidance on your works in progress!!
Classes meet on Saturday mornings, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon. The first class session will meet in Room 75 J.C. Penney Conference Center.
Registration is limited to 16 students, so please register early!!
Advanced Fiction Workshop
January 21 - March 11
Have you written a story or begun a novel, but don't know what to do next to improve your work? This advanced fiction workshop will bring you valuable feedback on your work, including suggestions for revision and ideas about what to do next. Whether you plan to submit to publishing markets or are writing for personal satisfaction, this class will move your writing to the next level.
This course will follow a workshop format : students will submit a completed draft of a piece of fiction (a short story or novel chapter), to be read by other students and instructors and discussed in class. This is an opportunity to receive personalized, detailed feedback, including suggestions for revising and submitting. This will not be a lecture-based course on fiction technique, but a workshop that incorporates discussion of techniques appropriate for specific stories, to help writers refine their fiction and advance their skills. Published fiction may be assigned as readings to illustrate writing techniques that may be of use to writers, but the focus will be on students' work. All information will be tailored to fit the writer's specific needs.
Techniques for improvement will be offered, along with practical information such as:
formatting and submitting stories for publication
writing cover letters
finding appropriate markets and contests
resources for further learning
This is a great opportunity to have knowledgeable readers and writers closely examine your fiction and offer feedback, and to gain information about fiction markets tailored to the type of story you write.
Fee: $159 for this 8-week workshop.
For more information or to register please contact Nichelle at 314-516-5974 or hardyn@umsl.edu
Also, don't forget Intermediate Nonfiction Writing, taught by author Linda Senn and scheduled to begin in February! Find details at http://www.umsl.edu/~conted/arts-sciences/noncredit/nonfiction.html Spread the word about this great opportunity to your writing friends whose passion is nonfiction!!
(Please note that CE Offices will be closed from Sat., Dec. 24 through Mon., Jan. 2 and will re-open for business on Tue., Jan. 3)
Connie
Connie Jeffries
Manager, Continuing Education Programs
College of Arts & Sciences
University of Missouri-St. Louis
314-516-5045
314-516-5910 (Fax)
Joanne Drew received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Puget Sound and is currently a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UM-St. Louis. She has 15 years experience in professional writing and editing including positions as Features Editor at Washington Journal, a regional legal newspaper; Managing Editor at River Styx Literary Magazine, a St. Louis-based journal of poetry and fiction, and as Editorial Consultant for Quantum Loyalty Marketing. She currently teaches creative writing at UM St. Louis Continuing Education, Springboard to Learning, and Writers In The Schools (W.I.T.S). Her story Dirty River was published in Cross Currents Literary Review and she is currently working on her first novel.
Anne Earney has a BS in Psychology from Truman State University ('96) and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction ('05). This is her third year teaching in the Continuing Education program at UMSL. Anne's fiction awards include first place in the 2005 Night Train Firebox Fiction Competition, the 2004 Flyway Iowa Sweet Corn Contest, the 2003 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, and a partial scholarship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming inNight Train, Kaleidowhirl, Interstice, Big Ugly Review, Flyway and Pangolin Papers, and in two anthologies, Triskaideka, a Cave Hollow Press anthology of Missouri writers and For Here or To Go: Stories About the Service Industry. One of her stories has been translated and published in a Turkish journal, Dushe-yazmi, and another was commissioned for inclusion in an art show in Boston. She recently served as guest editor for the online flash fiction magazineflashquake. She writes features articles on the arts and a column on mixed drinks for Sauce Magazine.
I'm going to be teaching another fiction workshop and thought some of might be interested or know someone who is. It's a non-credit course through the UMSL Continuing Education program, and you can take more courses in the same program to earn a certificate. Instructor bios are at the end of this email. Please email me with any questions about the course. The course is for all levels of writers (and all ages) who have a story or part of a novel ready to workshop. Please pass this on to anyone else you know who may be interested!
Thanks!
Anne
Back by popular demand, Joanne Drew and Anne Earney will co-teach an eight-week Advanced Fiction Workshop which will begin Saturday, January 21. Former students have given both of these instructors excellent evaluations on their instruction, so this will be an opportunity to get sound professional direction and guidance on your works in progress!!
Classes meet on Saturday mornings, 10:00 a.m.-12:00 Noon. The first class session will meet in Room 75 J.C. Penney Conference Center.
Registration is limited to 16 students, so please register early!!
Advanced Fiction Workshop
January 21 - March 11
Have you written a story or begun a novel, but don't know what to do next to improve your work? This advanced fiction workshop will bring you valuable feedback on your work, including suggestions for revision and ideas about what to do next. Whether you plan to submit to publishing markets or are writing for personal satisfaction, this class will move your writing to the next level.
This course will follow a workshop format : students will submit a completed draft of a piece of fiction (a short story or novel chapter), to be read by other students and instructors and discussed in class. This is an opportunity to receive personalized, detailed feedback, including suggestions for revising and submitting. This will not be a lecture-based course on fiction technique, but a workshop that incorporates discussion of techniques appropriate for specific stories, to help writers refine their fiction and advance their skills. Published fiction may be assigned as readings to illustrate writing techniques that may be of use to writers, but the focus will be on students' work. All information will be tailored to fit the writer's specific needs.
Techniques for improvement will be offered, along with practical information such as:
formatting and submitting stories for publication
writing cover letters
finding appropriate markets and contests
resources for further learning
This is a great opportunity to have knowledgeable readers and writers closely examine your fiction and offer feedback, and to gain information about fiction markets tailored to the type of story you write.
Fee: $159 for this 8-week workshop.
For more information or to register please contact Nichelle at 314-516-5974 or hardyn@umsl.edu
Also, don't forget Intermediate Nonfiction Writing, taught by author Linda Senn and scheduled to begin in February! Find details at http://www.umsl.edu/~conted/arts-sciences/noncredit/nonfiction.html Spread the word about this great opportunity to your writing friends whose passion is nonfiction!!
(Please note that CE Offices will be closed from Sat., Dec. 24 through Mon., Jan. 2 and will re-open for business on Tue., Jan. 3)
Connie
Connie Jeffries
Manager, Continuing Education Programs
College of Arts & Sciences
University of Missouri-St. Louis
314-516-5045
314-516-5910 (Fax)
Joanne Drew received her Bachelor of Arts in English Literature from the University of Puget Sound and is currently a candidate for the Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing from UM-St. Louis. She has 15 years experience in professional writing and editing including positions as Features Editor at Washington Journal, a regional legal newspaper; Managing Editor at River Styx Literary Magazine, a St. Louis-based journal of poetry and fiction, and as Editorial Consultant for Quantum Loyalty Marketing. She currently teaches creative writing at UM St. Louis Continuing Education, Springboard to Learning, and Writers In The Schools (W.I.T.S). Her story Dirty River was published in Cross Currents Literary Review and she is currently working on her first novel.
Anne Earney has a BS in Psychology from Truman State University ('96) and a Master of Fine Arts in Creative Writing with an emphasis in fiction ('05). This is her third year teaching in the Continuing Education program at UMSL. Anne's fiction awards include first place in the 2005 Night Train Firebox Fiction Competition, the 2004 Flyway Iowa Sweet Corn Contest, the 2003 Lorian Hemingway Short Story Competition, and a partial scholarship to the Summer Literary Seminars in St. Petersburg, Russia in 2004. Her fiction has been published or is forthcoming inNight Train, Kaleidowhirl, Interstice, Big Ugly Review, Flyway and Pangolin Papers, and in two anthologies, Triskaideka, a Cave Hollow Press anthology of Missouri writers and For Here or To Go: Stories About the Service Industry. One of her stories has been translated and published in a Turkish journal, Dushe-yazmi, and another was commissioned for inclusion in an art show in Boston. She recently served as guest editor for the online flash fiction magazineflashquake. She writes features articles on the arts and a column on mixed drinks for Sauce Magazine.
Friday, December 30, 2005
January BookClub Discussion
Genie is in New England but asked me to send this to our BookClub.
Date: 1/8/06
Time:2:30 PM
Book: Aging Well by George Vaillant
Place: Genie Bonte 1066 Brooksgate Manor Drive Kirkwood 63122
314-821-8768
Dinner at Gianino's on S. Lindbergh at 5:00 PM.
Please call me by 10 PM Saturday the 7th so I can give the restaurant a count.
Happy New Year and look forward to seeing everyone.
Date: 1/8/06
Time:2:30 PM
Book: Aging Well by George Vaillant
Place: Genie Bonte 1066 Brooksgate Manor Drive Kirkwood 63122
314-821-8768
Dinner at Gianino's on S. Lindbergh at 5:00 PM.
Please call me by 10 PM Saturday the 7th so I can give the restaurant a count.
Happy New Year and look forward to seeing everyone.
Thursday, August 18, 2005
August Meeting
Bookclub Discussion and Dining
Date: Saturday 8/20/05
Discussion Time: 2:30 PM
Place: Eugenie Bonte
1066 Brooksgate Manor Dr.
Kirkwood, MO
314-821-8768
Dinner: 5:00 PM
Gianinos
3735 S. Lindbergh
821-4140
Book: Betsey Brown
Please call me by 9:00 PM Friday so I can give the restaurant a guestimate. They are flexible and open at 4:00 PM on Saturday if for some reason we run out of talk which is highly unlikely.
Date: Saturday 8/20/05
Discussion Time: 2:30 PM
Place: Eugenie Bonte
1066 Brooksgate Manor Dr.
Kirkwood, MO
314-821-8768
Dinner: 5:00 PM
Gianinos
3735 S. Lindbergh
821-4140
Book: Betsey Brown
Please call me by 9:00 PM Friday so I can give the restaurant a guestimate. They are flexible and open at 4:00 PM on Saturday if for some reason we run out of talk which is highly unlikely.
Friday, July 29, 2005
TheBookClubBlog
TheBookClubBlog
Hope to see everyone later today!
July 2005 Book Club
Saturday, July 30
Hosts, Wilbur and Kay Rittenhouse
314-725-0448
Lunch 12:00 noon Cicero’s (http://www.ciceros-stl.com/menu.aspx), 6691 Delmar, in the U-City Loop ( at Kingsland and Delmar--beaucoup de parking in city lot to north behind building)
Please RSVP by 6:00 pm Friday at above number or to writtenhouse@kcnet.com
Discussion 1:30 pm, Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux. Commerce Bank meeting room, Delmar and Leland (one block east, and across street from Cicero’s. Meeting room is accessed ONLY through always-locked glass door on Delmar sidewalk, just east of ATM. Bank parking tends to fill up with the usual Loop walkers and gawkers. You will probably want to park in the middle of the city lot, and walk a half block to both Cicero’s and Commerce Bank.
If there is any possibility you will arrive after 2:00 pm you will need to call Wilbur and Kay. We will be down some stairs and through 3 doors, so are not likely to hear unexpected latecomers.
Hope to see everyone later today!
July 2005 Book Club
Saturday, July 30
Hosts, Wilbur and Kay Rittenhouse
314-725-0448
Lunch 12:00 noon Cicero’s (http://www.ciceros-stl.com/menu.aspx), 6691 Delmar, in the U-City Loop ( at Kingsland and Delmar--beaucoup de parking in city lot to north behind building)
Please RSVP by 6:00 pm Friday at above number or to writtenhouse@kcnet.com
Discussion 1:30 pm, Dark Star Safari, by Paul Theroux. Commerce Bank meeting room, Delmar and Leland (one block east, and across street from Cicero’s. Meeting room is accessed ONLY through always-locked glass door on Delmar sidewalk, just east of ATM. Bank parking tends to fill up with the usual Loop walkers and gawkers. You will probably want to park in the middle of the city lot, and walk a half block to both Cicero’s and Commerce Bank.
If there is any possibility you will arrive after 2:00 pm you will need to call Wilbur and Kay. We will be down some stairs and through 3 doors, so are not likely to hear unexpected latecomers.
Sunday, May 22, 2005
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