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The Newstream, Fall/Winter 2008
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!: West Coast Creative Writing Incubator|
PUBLISHED, LAUDED, AND APPLAUDED: It's Raining (Woodstream Writers') Books|
HOW NOW, BROWN COW?: Send It Out! Send It Out!|

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Woodstream Events and Services

NEW for 2009!!! . . . in Dunedin: The Creative Writing Incubator!
FOUR, ONE-DAY CREATIVE WRITING WORKSHOPS to be held at
the Dunedin Fine Arts Center on Florida's Beautiful Gulf Coast

In these stand-alone, day-long creative writing workshops, held once a month at the colorful, inspiring Dunedin Fine Arts Center just north of Saint Petersburg, writers at all
levels of experience will find their unique voices emerging as we create in a variety of short literary forms. Together, we will feather our creative nest with memoirs, stories, poems, and essays, all the while, exploring what makes good writing--of any ilk--tick.

Experienced writers, expect to jumpstart a new project or unstick a work-in-progress.
Newer writers, expect to amaze yourself at your ability to give (beautiful!) language
to your inner stories and thoughts.

Join us for one, two, three, or all four of these stand-alone writing workshops:
9:30 a.m.-4:30 p.m., Saturdays, January 17th, February 14, March 14, & April 4.
New exercises and new themes will be explored each month!
Per workshop cost: $135 for DFAC members, $165 for non-members
Contact either DFAC or Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com to register

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Workshops for Winter: Starting January, 2009
. . . in Maitland: Weekly and Bi-Weekly Workshops

This winter, Woodstream is offering five weekly workshops:
. . . Two 8-week workshops for writers at all levels, any genre, and
. . . Three Bookwriter's Workshops for writers with book-length projects-in-progress.

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 and others' writing,
3. discover what makes your voice strong, powerful, and unique,
4. discuss your work in a private writing consultation with the workshop leader.
In addition, as a BookWriter's Workshop member, you will have the opportunity to
and submit a manuscript for extensive group feedback.


About her Woodstream 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!"


*Eight-week workshops, AWA-style,
Choose from 8 CONSECUTIVE Monday evenings, 6:30-9:00 p.m., Jan. 5-Feb. 23,
OR eight ALTERNATE Wednesday mornings, 10 a.m.-12:30 p.m., Jan. 14-April 22.
Cost for either 8-week workshop: $295.


* BOOKWRITER'S WORKSHOPS
Choose from 8 ALTERNATE Tuesday evenings, 6:30-9:30 p.m., as follows:
Section I meets alternate Tuesdays, January 6th-April 14th,
Section II meets alternate Tuesdays, January 13th-April 21st,

OR 8 ALTERNATE Wednesday mornings, 10:00 a.m.-1:00 p.m., Jan. 7-April 15.

In each of these workshop/critique groups, seven writers will meet in our Maitland loft
to develop and discuss their projects-in-progress.

Together, we will create supportive community, writing together, sharing new work
for group critique, and closely examining extended portions of one another's
manuscripts. Members will be writing in all genres and need only have a book-length
project in mind to apply.

Join us! Get your book off the ground and onto the page this winter!
Cost: $495

Contact Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com or 407.644.5163 to register for any of these
workshops.

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Woodstream Writing Coaching, Critique, and Editing Services

Jamie Morris and Tom Wallace have joined forces to offer writers a full range of
services: From brainstorming through final edit, Jamie and Tom give writers the
support they need to take their work to the next level.

What writers are saying:

"Tom's expertise has been invaluable in shaping my novellas and short
stories. His enthusiasm and attention to detail are fantastic."
--E. G. Hallowell, fiction writer, former journalist, and co-founder of the
North American Center for African Writers.

"Jamie's ability to edit for structure and rhythm are supreme. She
tightens and polishes at the sentence level while giving relevant suggestions about
the development and organization of narrative and scenes. As coach and editor, Jamie
keeps me on course!"
--Alan Zemel, fiction writer

Contact Jamie@WoodstreamWriters.com or 407-644-5163 or Tom Wallace at 407-332-0122,
or visit http://home.earthlink.net/~tommyflorida for more information.


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PUBLISHED, LAUDED, and APPLAUDED
Woodstream Writers' Latest Triumphs


MAKING BOOK

1) The Poetry Ensemble of Orlando has recently sent their first poetry anthology, CONNECTIONS, to press. We'd like to congratulate poets Estelle Lipp, Leslie Halpern, Russ Golata, Alice R. Friedman, and Robert A. Osborne, on their accomplishment!

CONNECTIONS (ISBN 9780615259130) will be on sale at the Florida Writers Association Conference, November 14-16, and the Ensemble will be signing books at Borders in Winter Park on Wednesday, December 10 at 7:30 p.m.

Contact Russ Golata at blacksox@att.net for more information.


2) JL Rehman would like to announce the debut titles from her brand-spanking-new Central Florida press, Partners In Crime Publishers! DEATH IMPRESSIONS (ISBN 9781607710011), the first in a heartstopping crime fiction novel series by JL Rehman, and MORE GALL THAN HONEY (ISBN 9781607710004), a book of poetry by R.B. Henderson, will both be released in early November.

For more information go to www.partnersincrimepublishers.com.

3) Julie Compton's TELL NO LIES (St. Martin's Minotaur, May '08) "is part Scott Turow, part Jodi Picoult: a psychological and legal thriller that's not so much a whodunit as a whydunit--why assistant DA Jack Hilliard sacrifices his values and comfortable family life for ambition and desire."

Check out the great review of TELL NO LIES in this month's issue of ORLANDO MAGAZINE. Jay Boyar's Verdict: "Suspenseful and genuinely sexy."

You can visit Julie at the Altamonte Springs City Library on Saturday, October 25, at 10:00
a.m., and at the Orlando Public Library on Saturday, November 8, at 2:00 p.m. She'll
be discussing and answering questions about her debut novel, TELL NO LIES, and writing and publishing in general. (She'll even be dishing her homemade St. Louis Gooey Butter Cake in honor of the novel's setting) If you get a chance, stop by, have some cake, and say hi! Books will be available for sale.

For more information, see www.julie-compton.com

4) Accomplished in several genres, Woodstream Writer (and good neighbor) Nancy Deutsch announces the publication of her latest book, a poetry collection titled BETWEEN THE LINES (ISBN 9780595528523).

"Silence that cell phone, turn off the TV, then, settle into your favorite reading corner, open this book, and let yourself fall between the lines of this delightfully multifaceted poetry collection."

Good work, Nancy! We'll continue to visit Nancy at http://wayworm.blogspot.com. Why not join us?


5) Lara Zielinsky's a hot property! She was selected to appear at the 2nd Annual Over the Rainbow GLBT Bookfest & Expo in Ft. Lauderdale last month and was also a guest on GAY ORLANDO TALK on WPRK, 91.5 FM, Rollins College's radio station!

Way to go, Ms. Z.!
For more information, visit Lara's blog/press release:
http://www.lzfiction.net/2008/08/event-over-rainbow-bookfest-expo.html


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NEWSPRINT/REPRINT

1) Novelist-in-progress Susan Bartlett took a few minutes out to write a "Being There" piece for THE ORLANDO SENTINEL. Susan's article, about her time in Holland this summer, was published in THE SENTINEL in July and can be viewed http://www.orlandosentinel.com/services/newspaper/printedition/sunday/travel/orl-bthere0608jul06,0,4069065.story.

Wonderful "news," Susan!!

2) Byte-sized congrats to Woodstream's right-hand computer man, Danny Thompson, who wrote a personal training manual titled GENERIC HEALTH AND FITNESS PERSONAL TRAINERS' MANUAL in 1995. Since its 1998 release on bay.com, Danny's manual has been downloaded more than 100,000 times!

Go grab your own copy at http://www.geocities.com/bodycoach2/manual/manual.html


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POEMS, POETS, and PERFORMANCES

1) Alice Friedman's poem "Big Bird, Alice Cutts Wainwright, 1908-1991" will appear in REMEMBERING FACES, AN ANTHOLOGY OF WOMEN CELEBRATING WOMEN, available soon.

2) And while you're waiting to read her in print, make sure to toddle out to hear Alice and her Poetry Ensemble of Orlando cohort, Estelle Lipp, Leslie Halpern, Russ Golata, and Robert A. Osborne, when they present their terrific performance poetry this fall and winter.

You can see them Wednesday, November 19, at 8:30 p.m. at Austin's Cafe in Winter Park; Sunday, December 7, at Chambrel retirement center in Longwood; Tuesday, December 9, at 11:30 a.m. at the Maitland Senior Center; Sunday, December 14, at 2 p.m., at the Jeannine Taylor Gallery in Sanford; and Wednesday, January 14, at 6:30 p.m. at Infusion Tea on Edgewater Drive in College Park.


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

1) Partners in Crime Publishing, launched in October of this year by publisher JL Rehman, is a niche market publishing company that specializes in crime fiction, thriller, mystery, and audio books. Each PIC cover is custom-created by a skilled graphic artist, with all artwork and photography produced in-house. Well-formatted text gives your book a professional look.

Have a crime book ready to go? Contact infopicp@picp.us or visit www.partnersincrimepublishers.com.
Tell 'em Jamie sent you.

2) And speaking of JL Rehman, Woodstream's favorite publisher/mystery writing pal . . . JL tells us that Writers One Flight Up and PULSE MAGAZINE (a full color advertiser-supported periodical, promoting lifestyle and culture in Mount Dora, Eustis, and Tavares, Florida), announce their first writers' contest.

The contest is open to prose entries of 750 words or less, each of which will be based on one of ten prompts found on the PULSE MAGAZINE contest link at www.writersoneflightup.com. For more info--or to submit your entry--contact .

Deadline is November 30th, 2008, and the winning submission will be selected by Writers One Flight Up and will be published in the January, 2009, Issue of PULSE.

3) Thanks to personal essayist and long-time Woodstream Writer Kay (Kaymouse) Adrid who let us know that PURE INSPIRATION MAGAZINE, "a full-color, quarterly publication which publishes high-quality inspirational articles," is looking for our true-life stories!

"The editors consider feature articles that uplift, illumine, and encourage people to live with greater joy, hope, courage. [They] do not adhere to any particular religious bent, but wish to show our similarities rather than our differences."

Visit pureinspirationmag.com for more of their submission guidelines.

4) Thanks, and a puff of the cigar, to poetry mogul Russ Golata who gives us a heads up on a new quarterly online poetry journal titled "USE THESE WORDS" that is actively seeking submissions.

Contact usethesewords@gmail.com to learn about submission guidelines.

5) Russ tipped us on the following, as well: The Emerson Institute for Freedom and Culture seeks both scholarly and creative submissions addressing the nature of freedom and its role and influence on culture.

Essay writers in particular will want to visit http://www.emersoninstitute.org/ and take a gander at their submission guidelines, which state, in part, "Articles and essays on any topic relating to freedom, culture, society, the arts, or any of the theories or related theories listed in the Mission Statement are welcome. Essays are less formal than articles and typically do not include a
bibliography. Authors should strive to make their essays or articles accessible to the intelligent layperson. Interdisciplinary content and experimental structures are acceptable, the former being in fact strongly encouraged."


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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 Writers