Book signing for Madelyn F. Young’s book “Views from an Empty Nest: Award-Winning Tales Written after Fifty” set for April 20, 2012 in Hot Springs [...]
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The 2012 Arkansas Literary Festival sponsored by the Central Arkansas Library System runs from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15 in Little Rock. Festival authors include Roy Blount Jr., Diana Southwood Kennedy, George Dohrmann, Deborah Crombie, Trent Stewart, Mary Monroe, Justin Torres, Greil Marcus, and more. Festival authors include winners of such awards as the [...] The book binding demonstration that was offered the busy weekend of March 10 will be repeated at the April 14 meeting of the Elkins Writer’s Group. The group meets at the Elkins Library the second Saturday of each month from 2-3 pm. For more information about the Elkins writers’ group, see their website at www.elkinswritersgroup.homestead.com The March 10 meeting of the Elkins Writers’ Group will feature a demonstration on binding books at home. The Group meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Elkins Public Library in Elkins, Arkansas from 2-3 p.m. It is open to writers of all ages. New writers bring the first two pages of their work [...] Velda Brotherton and Dusty Richards will be presenting their annual free workshop on Saturday, March 10 at Ozarks Electric Cooperative, 3641 West Wedington Drive, Fayetteville, Arkansas . Featured speakers include Doug Kelley, Linda Apple, Ruth Weeks, Claire Croxton, Pamela Foster, Jan Morrill, and Marilyn H. Collins. The workshop will begin at 9 a.m. with greetings from Western writer [...] Nancy Stanberry, treatment supervisor of the Northwest Arkansas Community Center will be the featured speaker at the Saturday, March 10 noon meeting of the Whodunits at Restaurant on the Corner at 3582 N. Highway 112, Fayetteville. Stanberry will speak about the Center’s minimum security facility for nonviolent female offenders. This innovative corrections program implements special rehabilitation [...] Jen Nipps has founded the Ada Writers Network, a writers’ group that will be meeting in Ada, Oklahoma. Writers within an hour’s drive are invited to attend. For more information, look for Ada Writers Network on Facebook and Twitter. Janis Kerney Janis F. Kearney, publisher, author, educator and literacy advocate, will present “Preparing, Pitching, Publishing & Promoting: How to Take Your Manuscript from A to Z” at the Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club Workshop on Saturday, March 17 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.), at the Coronado Community Center in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas. Kearney, born one of [...] Vicki Law of the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers sends this announcement: The entry deadline for the Sandy Writing Contest sponsored by Crested Butte Writers is The 2012 Sandy Final Judges are: Romance – Sue Grimshaw, Editor at Large & Category Specialist for Ballantine & Bantam Dell This word from Patty Stith, 2012 Conference Chair for the Oklahoma Writers’ Federation Inc. (OWFI): Wednesday, February 1 is the deadline for a lot of OWFI 2012 activites: contest entries are due, scholarship applications must be submitted by then and the one-on-one intensive reviews with book doctor Robyn Conley should be submitted by then. So, get [...] |
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