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The Newstream, December 2007
A Newsletter for the Woodstream Writing Community,
where we share our news with you--and your good news with one another!
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JOIN US: Woodstream Workshops for Winter|
PUBLISHED, LAUDED AND APPLAUDED: Rushmore Writer Rushes Ahead!|
HOW NOW, BROWN COW?: Rollins Launches Literary Journal|


JOIN US!
Upcoming Woodstream Writing Events

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Workshop Openings

We have just a few (cozy) spots left in our Maitland writing loft for winter!
Choose one of these Woodstream workshops,

12 Monday evenings: January 14th-March 31st
12 Tuesday evenings: January 15th-April 1st
8 Thursday mornings: NewWriters Workshop, January 17th-March 6th

Whichever you choose, as a Woodstream Workshop member you will

1) learn to reliably produce pages of fresh writing week after week.
2) find valuable critical approaches to apply to your own work and that of your peers.
3) discover what makes your voice strong, powerful, and unique.
4) submit a manuscript for extensive group feedback.
5) discuss your work in a private writing consultation with the workshop leader.

About her Tuesday morning AWA workshop, Pan Macmillan novelist Julie Compton says, "A good writing workshop is a wonderful thing . . . it can motivate you to do more than just put pen to paper. It can help a writer to see potential in things that might have otherwise been delegated to the bottom of the desk drawer . . . Thanks, Jamie!"

Visit www.woodstreamwriters.com or contact Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com or 407.644.5163 for more information.

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Writing Retreat for February, 2008
. . . in Crescent City: Writer's Critique Retreat

On Friday afternoon, February 22nd, eight experienced writers with works in progress will gather in a private home in beautiful, historic Crescent City, 45 minutes north of DeLand, to begin their short weekend devoted to writing, critique, and community-building.

In comfortable, quiet surroundings, we will enjoy the luxury of a day-and-a-half devoted entirely to our current writing projects! Included in the retreat schedule are private consultations with Jamie Morris, hours of writing time, and a group critique segment.

We will launch our writing voyage on Friday (2/22) and conclude at 7:00 p.m. on Saturday (2/23), with new pages written and new friends made. The cost for the retreat, $265, includes supper on Friday evening and all meals and snacks on Saturday.

Upon registration, directions and information about Crescent City lodgings will be given.
Register with Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com or 407.644-5163 for more information.

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Woodstream now offers writing coaching services with Jamie Morris.
A CRLA Master Writing Consultant, Jamie works with you on your novel or short story,
your poem or poetry collection, your memoir, your screenplay--your passion.

Jim Shipley, syndicated columnist and YA novelist says, "Jamie is a genius when it comes to the process of writing." Poet Peggy Miller says, "Jamie gives, most generously, guidance which reflects her depth of experience."

Standing at the start of your project? Need a boost mid-stream? Jamie Morris can help you find your voice, your vision, your way--all the way to completion. Contact Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com or 407.644.5163 for more information.

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PUBLISHED, LAUDED, and APPLAUDED!
Woodstream Writers' Latest Triumphs

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Book Publications

1) Julie Compton's publisher, Pan Macmillan, will release her first novel, Tell No Lies, in the UK on February 1, 2008. (The UK edition was displayed at the Frankfurt International Book Fair this October. )

St. Martin's Press will release Tell No Lies in the United States on May 13.
Macmillan has also sold Dutch publishing and translation rights to a Dutch publisher called Unieboek and the Spanish publishing and translation rights to a Spanish book club, Circulo de Lectores (part of the Random House Mondadori group).

Wahoo! Julie, we can't wait to start dog-earing those pages!!

2) A Woodstream "way-to-go!" to Nancy Wayman Deutsch who has just published Flights of Nancy, her short story collection available on Amazon!

Nancy, who has been variously a parent, teacher, psychometrist, fund-raiser, volunteer coordinator, museum docent, and dog co-dependant, has plenty to write about. Her short story collection is an armchair adventurer's ticket to the familiar and strange.

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Radio (and Headphone) Days

We are proud as presidential punch to congratulate Woodstream Writers John Pelkey and Stasha Boyd of Q Media Productions for receiving the National Association for Interpretation's (NAI) 2007Audio Division Award for the Mount Rushmore National Memorial's audio tour.




Written and performed by John Pelkey, and produced by Stasha Boyd, Mount Rushmore Audio Tour: Living Memorial features narration, music, interviews, sound effects, and historic recordings. The tour and accompanying brochure and map are currently translated into Spanish, German, and Lakota. Over 12,000 people have participated in the audio tour to date.

Our warmest congratulations to John and Stasha!

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Live Performances

1) The Orlando Poetry Troupe has been performing in and around the Orlando area
for the past two years.  Their upcoming performances include Sunday, December 2nd,
2 p.m., at the Chambrel Retirement Home in Longwood, and Sunday, December 9th,
also at 2 p.m., at WONDERFUL Maya Books & Music in downtown Sanford.

Call 407-977-1272 or visit www.orlandopoetrytroupe.wetpaint.com for more information.

2) Congratulations to Woodstream sweetheart Calypso Jewel who received rave reviews 
for her reading at the Kerouac House's Final Soft Exposure Night on November 14th.
Calypso, who's shy almost everywhere but in her writing, writes about everything she thinks
of: men & women, drugs, music, history, religion, myth.

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Periodical Publications

She's not just writing them, she's writing about them: Novelist Julie Compton let us know
that she's writing a book column for Lake Mary Life Magazine.

Julie invites anyone who lives in the magazine's readership area (Lake Mary, Heathrow, 
Sanford, Longwood) that has something of interest to include in the column to contact her
at Julie@LakeMaryLifeMagazine.com.

Thanks, Julie, and another tip of the Woodstream Writing Hat!

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Contest Contenders

1) Great good news from Mount Dora!  Susie Jaillet, a Woodstream alum, won Honorable
Mention in The Villages' Short Story Contest this year.  

Look for Susie's story, "Mother Vivian and Mr. W.," as well as Bill Donnelly's "Diptheria"
and Jody Rehman's "Attempt to Contact" in The Villages' book The Second Annual Journal
of the Creative Writers' Notebook.

Three cheers from us for the Donnelly Group!

2) Closer to home by a few miles, our own (and lovely) Estelle Lipp won in the short story
category of the 2008 POW! (Promoting Outstanding Writers) Writing Competition with
"Samuel's Shoes." 

Estelle was kind enough to let us know that suggestions she received from her Woodstream
Workshop helped make her "Samuel" a winner!

Thanks, Estelle.  We never forget that "Estelle" means "star"!   

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HOW NOW, BROWN COW?
Publishing Information, Tips, and Opportunities


1) Thanks to Sunny Hudson for letting us know about Freelance Writing Organization
International, whose website, www.fwointl.com, made Writer's Digest Top 101 Writing
Resourse Sites list.  

Started in 1999, FWOI's site provides free writing resources and writing links in a database
filled with international writing websites.  

Take a gander.  Let us know if you find something right up your international alley!

2) Tuesday Morning's ray of sunshine, Alice Friedman, told us recently about ByLine, a
monthly magazine that offers advice and encouragement to newer writers.  

In addition to presenting articles on the craft and business of writing, since its founding in
1981, ByLine has published--and paid for--the first work of hundreds of poets and writers of
fiction and nonfiction. 

ByLine sponsors monthly contests designed to motivate writers by providing deadlines, competition and cash prizes. For details, visit www.bylinemag.com.

3) Writing from Rollins College, Woodstream's own Boy Wonder, Luke Kupscznk, wants us to
know that a group of Rollins' professors and students are starting an interdisciplinary,
national journal called Specs.

In his invitation for Woodstreamers' submissions, Luke included the Specs mission statement: 

Specs is a journal of contemporary culture and arts at Rollins
College. Our aim is to create sympathetic interfaces between artistic
and critical practices. 

Specs invokes the spirit of John Dewey, for whom thinking begins in flux, in the
"peculiar combination of the understood and nonunderstood." 

The editors are excited by specialty, an excess of detail, fragments, narratives,
meta-narratives, and more, and we seek a range of audiences and
contributors, including thinking people everywhere. 

We invite submissions of critical and/or creative work for the print and web
issue, and welcome cultural criticism, fiction, non-fiction, poetry,
art, and pieces that blur genre boundaries.

You can find more at their website - www.specsjournal.org or you can e-mail 
editors@specsjournal.org or lkupscznk@rollins.edu

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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