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Workshop - this Saturday!
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 WORDS
AND WATERCOLORS SAT. DEC. 5,
1-3:30 PM ~ $50.
Words and Watercolors:
Using your inner voice to create Mandala messages. Do you know you
have a wise woman within? Are you wondering what she wants to say? Join
Katherine Meyer to explore you inner muse with words and watercolors.
You might be amused an amazed at your own wisdom! (The cost of this
workshop includes art supplies - bring your writing materials with you). Call 513.272.1171 to reserve your spot. |
Podcast News
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Writing in Longhand -- Host Jenny Stanton interviews long-time WWfaC writer, humorist and storyteller Antonia Glosby. In this episode, Antonia shares writing about a wide range of topics including potentially illegal plants in a garden and an essay from a dog's point of view.
Antonia shares with listeners her thinking process -- "writing in her head" and her writing process -- "I write everything first in longhand." She has captured her life through a catalog of her writing pieces which now number 250 plus. Thankfully, she has no plans to stop.
CLICK HERE to listen.
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Online Anthology
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 The Tuesday morning class is piloting a new project: The Online Anthology. At the end of every writing semester, we invite class members to submit a piece of writing to be kept at the writing center. They are kept in binders and available to anyone who wants to read them, but to improve accessibility, we are in the process of putting this one on our website. Additionally, each writer's piece will be featured in a blog entry. CLICK HERE to subscribe to our blog. Click here to read the anthology and please be sure to check back. It will be updated in the next week or so with more pieces!
Speaking of the internet...
Do you have a LinkedIn Profile? If so, please consider adding information about your WWfaC classes to your profile. That would help us spread the good word!
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In the Community
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SUBMISSIONS TO THE
LICKING RIVER REVIEW
The Licking River Review seeks poetry,
fiction, creative nonfiction, and artwork for its 2009-2010 issue. Submissions
are accepted September through December. Submit up to five poems, or
up to 5,000 words of prose. Send to: Licking River Review, English
Department, Northern Kentucky University, Highland Heights, Kentucky 41009,
Attn: Donelle Dreese. Include a SASE. Or, send to lrr@nku.edu
SUBMISSIONS TO 2010
"BOOK OF POEMS & DRAWINGS ON PEACE & JUSTICE
Poems on the subject of Peace and Justice can be submitted to: Saad Goshn - saad.goshn@uc.edu or 216 Erkenbrecher Ave, Cinti 45229.
Submissions are limited to 3 poems and/or 1 drawing (b&w). Submission
deadline is Feb. 15, 2010.
There is a copy of last
year's "For a Better World", which includes some of our writers,
in our library. You could be in next year's, and participate in the
Open Reading at SOS Art 2010.
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WRITING PROMPT
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 I love the dark hours of my being. My mind deepens into them. There I can find, as in old letters, the days of my life, already lived, and held like a legend, and understood. Then the knowing comes: I can open to another life that's wide and timeless. So I am sometimes like a tree rustling over a gravesite and making real the dream of the one its living roots embrace: a dream once lost among sorrows and songs. ~ Ranier Maria Rilke ~
Read the above poem and consider the following prompts:
1. Do you love the dark hours? What are they like?
2. Go outside (you might want to bundle up first). Write down the first five things you hear. Is there "another life that's wide and timeless" calling to you in those five observations? See if you can write a poem, or a prose poem or even a letter in that voice.
3. What keeps you from loving your own dark hours?
4. As always, obey your crazy muse.
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