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Two tickets to Paradise

Little Corn Island Nicaragua

Two Central Florida Yoga powerhouses combine forces to offer the trip of a lifetime as Gracious Living Lifestyle Retreats presents: DESIGN-YOUR LIFE! – A Vegan Superfood Yoga Meditation Adventure Retreat from February 20-27, 2016 in Little Corn Island, Nicaragua.

Lezlie Laws of LifeArt Studio will facilitate creativity coaching at this signature retreat. Practice yoga every day; deepen meditation practice; eat delicious and nutritious food prepared to revitalize your mind, body, and spirit. And every day, Lezlie will introduce strategies for constructing the life (and the art) you were born to create. (For an entire year of creative exploration with Lezlie, click here.)

Grace Van Berkum, founder of Gracious Living Lifestyle Retreats, will teach yoga and show participants ways to enjoy life, create health, and gain focus and clarity on living vibrantly and productively.

All of this will take place on the stunningly beautiful Little Corn Island with accommodations at the Little Corn Island Hotel. Find all the details here.

Click here to see a video of Lezlie Laws inviting you Inside LifeArt Studio.

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Matthew Salesses & Kristen Arnett at the Shakes

Matthew Salesses

Functionally Literate presents:

Matthew Salesses & Kristen Arnett

Saturday, January 16th, 7pm, Free Lowndes Shakespeare Center 812 E. Rollins Street

 

Invite a friend on Facebook or via email.

 

Free and open to the public.

 

Beer & wine by donation.

Books for sale by Bookmark It bookstore. Book signing to follow reading.

Afterparty after.

 

 

 

 

 

 

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ABOUT THE READERS

 

 

Matthew Salesses is the author of The Hundred-Year Flood, an Amazon Best Book of September and a Kindle First pick, and a season’s best selection at Buzzfeed (twice), Refinery29, and Gawker. His other books include I’m Not Saying, I’m Just Saying, Different Racisms, and The Last Repatriate. Matthew was adopted from Korea and has written about adoption, race, and parenting for NPR’s Code Switch, The New York Times Motherlode, Salon, The Toast, The Millions, the Center for Asian American Media, The Rumpus, and The Good Men Project, among others.

 

Kristen Arnett is a fiction and essay writer who has held fellowships at Kenyon Review, Tin House, and Lambda Literary Foundation. She was awarded Ninth Letter’s 2015 Literary Award in Fiction and was named an honorable mention for Glimmer Train’s Short Story Award for New Writers. Her work has either appeared or is upcoming at Normal School, Tin House Flash Fridays/The Guardian, Ninth Letter, Salon, The Rumpus, and elsewhere. She is currently finishing up her first short fiction collection.

 

ABOUT THE SERIES

 

 

Functionally Literate is Burrow Press’ quarterly reading series that pairs the best writers in Central Florida with visiting writers from all over the world. Past Functions have hosted a slew of talented visitors, including NY Times-bestselling author Jeff VanderMeer, Chicago-based writer Lindsay Hunter, Irish poet Annemarie Ni Churreain, and the award-winning Portuguese novelist Jacinto Lucas Pires. The series has been recognized in Orlando Weekly’s Best of Orlando Awards, and, in summer of 2014, launched a literary variety show on 91.5 WPRK.

 

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Print: burrowpress.com Web: burrowpressreview.com Flesh: functionallyliterate.org

 

Burrow Press is a program of the Urban Think Foundation, a 501c3 nonprofit organization dedicated to enriching Central Florida’s cultural landscape by developing and growing educational and creative literary arts programs.
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How Writers Become Authors

gerald schiffhorst

Winter Park author and veteran UCF English professor Gerald Schiffhorst  is conducting a workshop this winter, How Writers Become Authors.  Intended  for fiction and non-fiction writers at all levels who want to develop greater skills, the six-week course will focus on Unblocking, Describing, Crafting, Revising, Editing, and Publishing.  It will meet on Saturdays from 1-2:30 p.m. from Feb. 6 through March 12,  2016, at the Winter Park Public Library. Fee: $30. To register or find out more, contact the instructor at schiffhorst@yahoo.com. 

(This course will be repeated in the summer from June 16-July 21.)

 

**Gerald Schiffhorst is the author of a recently published novel, Friends and Brothers, available on Kindle, and he has had two stories published in the Provo Canyon Review.

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Patricia! Lezlie! You!

Stop Talking, Start Writing Your Life Story

The start of a new year is the perfect time to begin a life story writing project, and Patricia Charpentier wants to help you do just that. We love to tell our stories — the funny ones, the heartbreaking ones, the unbelievable ones — because in sharing our stories, we connect with others. But at some point, we need to stop just telling our stories and start writing them.

In “Stop Talking, Start Writing Your Life Story,” you learn:

  • How to overcome procrastination and begin writing your stories
  • How to fend off the inner critic and find your seat of inspiration
  • How to identify core story ideas
  • How to painlessly organize your writing
  • How to conquer perfectionism

If you’re ready to stop talking and start writing your life story, then join Patricia and a lively band of writers on Saturday, January 16th from 1 to 4 pm.

Make plans to stay after the workshop for wine, cheese and good conversation.

Faculty

Workshop facilitator Patricia Charpentier is an author, speaker, teacher, editor and founder of Writing Your Life. She has motivated and guided hundreds of people to leave written legacies for their families. Learn more at http://writingyourlife.org.

Registration

Workshop registration in the amount of $35 per participant is required to reserve your seat for this event.

Please note that this fee is nonrefundable. If plans change and you are unable to attend this event after reserving a seat, contact info@lezlielaws.com to discuss transferring your registration to another LifeArt Studio event.

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Walden Community School – 4595 Howell Branch Road Winter Park, FL 32792 – View Map

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