On Sunday, October 19 at 2 p.m., join us in the Albertson Room at Orlando Public Library for some fun and a learning opportunity. In this workshop you will discover how to construct strong, complex characters and detailed story lines that will capture the imagination of readers and keep them turning pages. Bring your new or working idea for a story and you will get a plot and character intensive with three published young adult authors who will help you deepen and refine what you already have or get you started on the right track.
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OCLS Writers Group
On Sunday, October 12, at 4 p.m. join your fellow writers for critique, discussion, and camaraderie at Orlando Public Library, 101 E. Central Blvd, Magnolia Room. Writers of all genres and experience are welcome.
We will be critiquing at this meeting. If you have a piece (less than 1200 words) to be critiqued, please email it to Sarah no later than October 6th at fisk.sarah@ocls.info. Remember: In order to be eligible for critique, you must have attended at least one Writers Group meeting in the past.
If you would like to receive the critique pieces to read before the meeting, please email Sarah before October 6th.
Functionally Literate: A Literary Function
Functionally Literate is Burrow Press’ quarterly-ish reading series that aims to connect, entertain, and possibly intoxicate, Orlando’s community of writers, bookworms, lit nerds, and the intellectually curious. Each Function pairs the best writers in Central Florida with visiting writers from all over the world.
NY Times Bestselling Author of the Southern Reach Trilogy, Jeff Vandermeer will be presenting, along with local author Usman T. Malik.
The event is Saturday, Nov. 15 at Lowndes Shakespeare Center at 812 E. Rollins St. at 7 p.m. and is free!
Find the link to their site here.
“The Twelve Chairs” Comprehensive Poetry Course
Beginning this fall, get the deep instruction in poetry you’ve always wanted and couldn’t find. Al Rocheleau says his workshop will help you gain the ability to work in different styles and understand the many methods great poets employ.
Mr. Rocheleau will aid you in turning your reminisces into memorable poems to help prepare you for publication in magazines and journals. To reserve your chair, or for more information contact Al Rocheleau at 407-592-4527 or e-mail ARRO40@aol.com to get started on gaining the craft, scope, and voice of a successful, working poet.
Al Rocheleau’s poems have appeared in over 40 magazines in the United States, Canada, the U.K., France, Austria, and Poland. His work has been read on WMFE, an affiliate of National Public Radio, and can be seen at internet sites as diverse as the Surratt House Museum in Washington, D.C., and the Saint Bernadette Institute of Sacred Art in New Mexico. His teaching articles are archived in resource databases of numerous colleges, high schools, and middle schools. He lives in Orlando, FL.
To see reviews of his book, On Writing Poetry, click here.