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Alice won Honorable Mention in the Carolina Woman 2014 Writing Contest
Click HERE to read the award-winning poem! Don't miss my coupon at the bottom of the Newsletter to Celebrate National Poetry Month!
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NC Literary Festival at NC State
Thursday April 3-Sunday April 6
Designed with everyone in mind, the festival includes author readings and discussions, performances, book signings, children's activities and book sales.
The Free event features spectacular writers such as Pulitzer Prize winners Junot Diaz, Richard Ford and Paul Muldoon; National Book Award winners James McBride and William T. Vollman; North Carolina writers Jaki Shelton Green, Allan Gurganus, Lee Smith and Elizabeth Spencer; best-selling authors Lev Grossman, Peter Straub, Karen Joy Fowler and R.L. Stine; NC State's Department of English faculty authors John Balaban, Wilton Barnhardt, John Kessel, Dorianne Laux, Thomas Lisk, Jill McCorkle, Sheila Smith McKoy, Juliana Makuchi Nfah-Abbenyi, Elaine Neil Orr, Jon Thompson, Cat Warren and Walt Wolfram; and many other writers. Check the NC Literary Festival website for details, including a full schedule, event locations, and parking information. Check the NC Literary Festival website for details, including a full schedule, event locations, and parking information.
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NC Writers' Network
The Spring NCWN Conference is at UNC-Greensboro Sat. April 12th. More info HERE
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Tongue & Groove
Tongue & Groove is an open mic and competition held on the 1st and 3rd Tuesday each month at Tir Na Nog in downtown Raleigh.
Sponsored by Amplified Art and Jacar Press and hosted by
Benjamin Molini (with help from his Lady Tuesday),
Tongue & Groove awards
prizes for best original poem, best original song, and audience favorite. List opens @ 7:30;
show starts @ 8.
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MAD Magazine Senior Editor Joe Raiola to Headline Seventh Annual
Triangle Area Freelancers Writers Conference
Triangle Area Freelancers (TAF) announces Write Now! 2014, its 7th annual symposium for current and aspiring professional writers, to be held on Saturday, May 3 at Wake Technical Community College Northern Campus, Building E, from 8 a.m. to 4 p.m.
MAD Magazine senior editor Joe Raiola will deliver the keynote address: "Still Ignorant After All These Years." In addition to his job at MAD, Joe is an accomplished comedy writer and performer, producer, and director, as well as the driving force behind New York's popular Theatre Within. During the afternoon, Joe will sit down with TAF founder Don Vaughan for an enlightening Q&A, entitled "Interview With A MAD Man!", and will participate in the conference's always popular "Ask the Freelancers!" roundtable.
For the first time, Write Now! Will be offering three sessions of interest to fiction writers: "The Building Blocks of Fiction: Novel Structure" (Jennifer Delamere), "Let's Talk About Dialogue" (Elisa Lorello), and "Working in Unity: The Science of Collaboration" (Clay and Susan Griffith). Additionally, Chapel Hill-based screenwriter and instructor Scott Myers will present "Breaking Into Hollywood: A Guide for Novice Screenwriters.
"Nonfiction sessions will include "Write Your Way Out of the Rat Race... and Into A Career You Love" (Linda Formichelli), "The Art of the Interview" (Don Vaughan), and "Finding Your Appropriate Voice (2011 Piedmont Laureate Scott Huler).
Registration for Write Now! 2014 is $69 ($59 for students with valid ID, and seniors 65 and older). Walk-in registration will be $80. Registration fee includes a continental breakfast during check-in, catered box lunch and beverages. For further information or to register via PayPal, Click Here
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This week spring finally arrived after a punishing winter-Hallelujah! Spring means Easter, end-of-tax-season, picnics, baseball, gardening and GAME OF THRONES, which premieres its fourth season this Sunday night. You can be sure I'll be watching every episode at least twice (maybe not in full costume). Which brings me to my random contest question: how are you celebrating spring? Email me here. The prizes are ususally autographed books from NC authors. Arthur Powers from Raleigh won last month's contest!
We were lucky to dance in the St. Patrick's Day Parade in fine weather and as promised, I've got pictures of me in my Irish dance costume with my school, Rince Go Halainn. Please Click Here to check out the interview Germ Magazine wrote up about me.
April is National Poetry Month and there are plenty of ways to celebrate this art form which is my life. Attending the free Nazim Hikmet Festival on Sunday April 13th (scroll down for more info) is one of them, writing a poem and then reading it at an area open mic (see listing of open mics) and you can also submit your poems to the Kakalak 2014 journal--an NC tradition!
 Celebrate Poetry Month! Kakalak 2014 Call for Entries!
The 2014 edition will present approximately 100 pages of poetry and 20 pages of art from the region's finest poets and artists. All poems and images used (with the exception of cover art) will be selected from the contest entries received. All of the information you need is right HERE Submit by April 30, 2014.
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Check out this Month's Blog Posts
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 When attributing dialogue "said" is all that needs to be said.
Avoid trendy speech in dialogue. By the time the story is published, the catchphrase may no longer be trendy, and your work will date itself.
Nothing is as dull or as useless as a dialogue of agreement.
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Wake County Open Mics
Royal Bean Coffee House (Literary Open Mic)
1st Thurs of every month
Next one is Thurs April 3rd
Time: 7-8:30pm
Organizer: Maureen Sherbondy
Fuquay Varina Third Thursdays Open Mic Reading Series (Literary Open Mic)
STARS Theater and Arts Center, 123 E. Vance St.
Thurs April 17th
3rd Thursday of every month, 6-8:30pm
Organizer: Jan B. Parker
Amplified Voices Poetry Open Mic (poetry and music)
Amplified Art Gallery, City Market, 325 Blake St. Downtown Raleigh
4th Tuesday of the month, April 22nd, 7:00-9:00 pm
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Free Critique Session with Belea T. Keeney and Alice Osborn
Location: Center for Excellence, 3803-B Computer Dr. Ste. 106 Raleigh NC 27609
Saturday, April 5, 2014 Time: 9:30am-12:30pm
Refreshments served
Fee: FREE, but you must register prior to the session. Limit 20.
**Hurry, there are only a few spaces left!**
Registration:Click Here How do you know your manuscript is publication-ready? Come join  us at this critique session with experienced editors/authors Belea T. Keeney and Alice Osborn so you can get your novel or memoir off of the ground. After your individual 20-min session you'll walk away knowing what's working and what's not working with your masterpiece-in-progress. Please bring 5 double-spaced pages for the editors. Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival
Location: Page Walker Arts and History Center, 119 Ambassador Loop, Cary, NC 27543April 13, 2014 Time: 1-6pm
OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
Looking for Irish poetry? You'll find it in Cary at the sixth annual Nazim Hikmet Poetry Festival. This FREE Festival will be honoring the Irish poet Seamus Heaney -a poet, playwright, translator and lecturer and the recipient of the 1995 Nobel Prize in literature. Our invited speaker Rand Brandes is his official bibliographer. Poets Betty Adcock, John Balaban, and Gibbons Ruark will join Rand Brandes during the panel discussion on the life and poetry of Seamus Heaney. All four knew Heaney personally. There'll be live Irish Music by Hibernian Irregulars. Click Here for more info.
Write Like a Rock Star with Alice Osborn (Course # ENC-2-045-001)
Location: Osher Lifelong Learning Institute (OLLI), NC State,  Summer Semester 2014
McKimmon Center, 1101 Gorman St., Raleigh, NC 27695, Room: 11/12
Wednesday, April 30th and May 7. 9-10:30am. Two sessions.
Fee: $20 OLLI Membership
To Register Click Here
Want to learn how to rock your writing so it's memorable and powerful? In this nuts-and-bolts class we'll lay the foundation of good creative writing to include: the use of sensory images, characters, dialogue, description, and scene so your stories will pop from the page into your reader's heart. Once the groundwork is laid, you'll build the scaffolding with a narrative arc to make your words not only sing, but become remarkable moments for your readers. The instructor will provide gentle and compassionate feedback for writers interested in memoir and fiction. Recommended for anyone who has ever wanted to write down their stories and share their creativity with others.
Correspondence Course with Alice Osborn for Fiction and Memoir
* Do you want to write your book? * Do you have a dream of getting published? * Do you need help navigating the publication maze?  This correspondence class is perfect for memoir and fiction writers who want a one-on-one writing/editing session with Alice, but don't necessarily live in North Carolina or need more accountability with their writing practice. Writers submit 1 piece per month based on Alice's emailed writing prompt, up to 20 pages, double-spaced. Then the hand-written critique is emailed back to the participant. With published author Alice Osborn as your writing coach you'll improve your writing and get published this year! Year-long class begins April 15, 2014-April 15, 2015
Editor and Author Alice Osborn will * Help you with the writing process * Be your accountability partner * Strengthen and tone your writing * Help you with marketing and publishing your book Also included are 6 accountability chats and 12 video modules to help motivate your writing practice. $1200 for 12 months (that's only $100/month!) or $600 in two payments
***ONLINE CLASS***
Find Your Character's Motivation Through Finding Nemo
April 21-May 4, 2014 Tuition: $30 (basic member) and $20 (premium member)Register Online via www.SavvyAuthors.com or
What does your fictional character really want? How do  you create memorable characters so fresh and clever your reader will always remember them? Finding Nemo has created one of the most believable characters in twenty-first century film. In this workshop we'll study Nemo to tell us how to create riveting and complex main characters who will drive our story and connect with our readers. We'll also examine Joseph Campbell's The Hero's Journey, depicted in The Hero with a Thousand Faces, to learn how this film reflects the Hero's Journey and how studying Nemo can inform our own fictional characters. Wonderland Book Club
Co-sponsored by the NC Writers' Network Presents Author Elisa Lorello, She Has Your Eyes
Location: Center for Excellence, 3803-B Computer Dr. Suite 106, Raleigh, NC
Friday, May 2, 2014 Time: 10:00-noon To Register Click Here  Join us to welcome back novelist and former NC State professor Elisa Lorello to Raleigh, North Carolina. The heartfelt sequel to Kindle bestsellers Faking It and Ordinary World has Andi and David settled happily into Andi's Northampton home, but David wants more. He wants them to get married. Their discussion is put on hold when Wylie, a fifteen-year-old girl, shows up in their backyard, bearing news that takes  David's mind off the future and sends it spiraling into the past. Reeling from David's news, Andi receives a startling announcement of her own, one that leads to a relationship with her estranged mother. As Andi and her mother get closer and Wylie weaves her way into their lives, Andi finds solace in an old comfort: her ex-fianc�. With the past threatening to eclipse their future, the timing for a wedding is all wrong. But if Andi knows anything about timing, it's that there's no time to waste. Women Writers of the Triad Present Second Saturday at the Tate Street Coffee House with featured poets Alice Osborn and Claudine Moreau
Location: Tate Street Coffee House, 334 Tate Street, Greensboro, NC 27403Saturday, May 10, 2014 Time: 7-9pmOPEN TO THE PUBLIC Enjoy an evening of poetry with Claudine Moreau (Dark Machines) and Alice Osborn, who will read her old favorites from previous collections as well as new selections from her upcoming collection, Heroes without Capes. The open mic follows the two featured readers. Women Writers of the Triad is a group of women writers dedicated to supporting all writers-women and men. For more information, visit http://wwot.org.
Dream It, Do it: 2nd Annual Women's Writing Retreat with Alice Osborn Location: Bend of Ivy Lodge, Marshall, NC outside of Asheville 3717 Bend of Ivy Rd. Marshall, NC 28753
Friday-Monday August 8-11, 2014 4-Day, 3-Night Retreat!
LATE EARLY BIRD RATE:
Pay $150 now, Balance of $550 by June 15, 2014 (TL $700;
savings of $100) (Reg. $800, all inclusive) WOW! This is a GREAT DEAL!!!
Immerse yourself in a weekend of writing without interruption in the mountains of Western Carolina. This is your answer to, "I'll write when I can find the time!" Come and fulfill your purpose, which is to write. Empowered women are powerful writers-grab your power so you can dream and accomplish your dreams of writing your story! Together over the course of this weekend, we'll delve into our stories of defining moments, healing and self discovery. This is called "Living the Writing Life!"
There'll be plenty of time for reflection and individual writing during the day, and on Saturday night we'll share our work over  marshmallows and fellowship. Bend of Ivy Lodge is an intimate retreat setting surrounded by woods, rivers and streams that will foster community and creativity. Relax by the waterfall, hear the call of herons and walk the many trails on the converted tobacco farm property.
Participation limited to 15 women writers of any genre and experience. If you haven't already worked with Alice, please submit a two-page writing sample with your registration to Alice Osborn to best accommodate your experience at this retreat. You'll be treated to eight organic meals and snacks. Bring your hearts, your pens and paper. All writers receive a 10-minute consult with Alice Osborn. |
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Want to Get Published the Right Way? Contact Alice TODAY!
919-971-9414
9660-138 Falls of Neuse #294
Raleigh, NC 27615
Alice Osborn, M.A. is the author of three books of poetry: After the Steaming Stops (Main Street Rag, 2012), Unfinished Projects (Main Street Rag, 2010) and Right Lane Ends (Catawba, 2006) and is the editor of the anthology, Tattoos (Main Street Rag, 2012); she is an editor-for-hire and writing coach. Her writing has appeared in Raleigh's News and Observer, Soundings Review, The Pedestal Magazine, and in numerous journals and anthologies. She serves on the Board of Trustees for the North Carolina Writers' Network. She lives in Raleigh, North Carolina, with her husband, two children and three birds. When she's not writing, she's probably practicing dancing or playing a fiddle or guitar. Visit her website: www.aliceosborn.com. |
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For Poetry Critique and Evaluation for 1 hour with Alice in honor of National Poetry Month! Email me HERE
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