A Newsletter for the Woodstream Writing Community
http://www.woodstreamwriters.com/
Welcome to our first edition!
This newsletter offers us an opportunity to share our news with you--and your news with one another!
Each issue of The Newstream will feature three sections: In Join Us!, we'll let you know about upcoming Woodstream Writing Events.
Get your manila envelopes ready!!
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Join Us!
In addition to our series of weekly workshops, this spring we have a writing marathon and a writing intensive scheduled!
AWA workshops begin Monday, March 20th. Join us for ten weeks of writing on Monday evenings, Tuesday mornings, or Tuesday evenings. We meet in a cozy loft in Maitland. Workshops are limited to eleven writers. Cost is $295.
(Visit www.woodstreamwriters.com to learn more about AWA.)
Writing Marathon! C'mon. You know you want to!
More than just 26 miles of fast writing, at a Writing Marathon, we stretch our creative wings and FLY across an entire day of craft, prompts, and learning.
Writers of all levels, all genres, join us Saturday, March 18th, 9:00 a.m.- 9:30 p.m., in Altamonte Springs. Engaged by a wealth of writing prompts, you'll wonder where the day has gone--until you see the pages you've produced!
Fully catered, we supply breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, beverages, and after-dinner wine. Accepting sixteen writers; the cost is $110.
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Join our next Critique Intensive on Sunday, April 30th, 9:00 a.m.-7:30 p.m. Also fully catered--breakfast, lunch, dinner, snacks, beverages/wine--the cost is $125. Registering eight writers total, we have room for just three more.
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Memorial Day Weekend Writing Retreat--Here's a chance to be a writer, just a writer, for two-and-a-half wonderful days in May. From Friday evening through Sunday afternoon, we'll write amidst the simple luxuries of private rooms, our own comfortable meeting space, delicious, catered meals, and a lovely, natural, Central Florida setting.
Participants will enjoy camaraderie and concentration, organized exercises and scheduled quiet time. Critique and writing consultations will be available, too, but no matter how you use your time, you'll be sure to create good work and good community over the course of your retreat days.
The $425 cost includes two nights single occupancy lodging at Canterbury Retreat Center in Oviedo, Florida; all meals from Friday evening, May 26th, through noon on Sunday, May 28th; unlimited use of 48 natural acres (including nature trails and paddle boats!). We have room for fourteen writers.
All writers, all genres welcome.
Contact Jamie Morris at jamie@woodstreamwriters.com or 407.644.5163 to register or for more information on these or any other Woodstream Writing Workshop, Intensive, or Writer's Retreat.
Published, Lauded, and Applauded!
While J. R Davis has been busy working on his first novel, his wonderful poem ''Shades of Blue'' has been busy, too. It's been out and about getting itself published in the current quarterly issue (Jan-March) of The Training Wheel, the Las Vegas Metropolitan Police Department's training publication. Yay! J.R!
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Yes, Scribbles broke the news first, but thanks to Darlyn, we can add our congratulations to Woodstream Writer Estelle Lipp on her beautiful book of poetry, Heartspeak, available now in hard and soft cover: http://www.xlibris.com/bookstore We, too, are happy and proud, Estelle!
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m_whisenant@bellsouth.net . The New Writers Group is always free and open to the public.
What's your news? Woodstream Writers, past and present, share your triumphs! Write to jamie@woodstreamwriters.com, so we can laud and applaud you, too!
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How Now, Brown Cow?
Novelist and Woodstream-er Jody Rehman shares this helpful publishing hint: Joan and Glen West, publisher and editor, respectively, of the Creative Writers Notebook, offer a special hard copy newsletter. In each issue, a literary and/or publishing agency reveals what that agency looks for from writers, manuscripts, and agents: their expectations, requirements, guidelines for submissions, queries, etc. Subscription to this monthly newsletter is $12 a year. To subscribe, send your name and address with your $12 check or money order to Creative Writers Notebook, 1004 San Felipe Lane, The Villages, FL 32159. Thanks Jody!
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Jeff Davis looked up from his computer long enough to share one of his friend's experiences with publish-on-demand (self-publishing) company Lulu.com. Here's what Jeff''s pen-and-ink pal has to say:
"I looked around for print-on-demand publishers, vanity presses, etc. A lot of bad deals out there! The best is Lulu.com. It's a free, publish-on-demand service. You don't pay anything to have your book published. No up-front costs, no minimum orders. Copies are printed as they are ordered, and all your costs come out of sold copies. But Lulu doesn't do any editing. They print what you give them.
"Once I got the book finalized, I simply uploaded the file. I got a chance to check it over completely later and approve the final result. They did a great job. Everything was exactly like I wanted it; the process was fast and simple."
Visit www.lulu.com and see what you think.
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Daphne Slocombe, Program Director of Amherst Writers & Artists (www.amherstwriters.com) has this good news: literary agent Maya Rock is looking for new authors. Maya works for Writers House, a literary agency founded in 1973 ''with a vision for a new kind of literary agency, one that would combine a passion for managing a writer's career with an integrated understanding of how storytelling works . . . . developing the careers of novelists and non-fiction authors . . .''
Maya is looking for good fiction, especially historical. She is drawn to stories with strong heroines. She likes literary, YA, romance, memoir, self-help, inspirational, narrative nonfiction, and tales focused on people at the edges of society.
For more about Maya, see her site at Publishers Marketplace
http://publishersmarketplace.com or e-mail mrock@WritersHouse.com
For more about Writers House, visit www.writershouse.com.
Do you have a good publishing tidbit? Send it to us so we can share it in the next issue: jamie@woodstreamwriters.com.
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Well, that's all for this issue! Remember to let us know what's news,
and . . .
. . . keep up the good work!
Jamie Morris,
Woodstream Writing Workshops
http://www.woodstreamwriters.com/
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