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Day at the Bay Mini-Conference with FWA

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Faculty & Workshops

All-Day Workshops
  • The Ingredients of Best-selling Thrillers and Suspense Novels, David C. Edmonds
  • Historical Fiction, D.L. Havlin
Morning Workshops
  • The Language of Screenplay, Tammy Gross
  • Memoir: Write Your Life, Patricia Charpentier
Afternoon Workshops
  • What Will Become of Us? An Exploration of Post-apocalyptic Fiction, Michelle Parker Randall
  • The Intuitive Writer, Vic DiGenti

Faculty who teach half-day workshops are available for 15-minute appointments when not teaching. Appointments are $25. All-day faculty will not be available for appointments.

When
  • May 7, 2016
  • Check-in and registration begins at 8:30 AM
  • Bookstore will be open from 9:00 AM – 4:15 PM
  • Closing and door prizes from 3:45 PM – 4:00 PM
Location
  • Clarion Inn
  • 9331 Adamo Drive, Tampa FL 33619
  • Phone: 813-621-5555 | Website
Registration Fee

Includes continental breakfast, lunch and snacks

  • $89. Florida Writers Association Member
  • $109. Non-Member
  • $54.50 Non-Member Guest *

Online registration closes May 4, 2016. Onsite registration available.

* Available to members only. Bring a guest who isn’t a member of FWA, and your friend gets in at half the non-member price. You must include your non-member guest when you register for the mini-conference in order to qualify for this special pricing.

What's Happening

Memoir – Write Your Life

Write Your Life

Join Patricia Charpentier, owner of Writing Your Life and author of the multi-award winning book, Eating an Elephant: Write Your Life One Bite at a Time, in a fun, hands-on workshop on May 7th that helps you take steps toward writing the most important story of your life. Click here for details.

Whether you write your life experiences for yourself, your family, or the general public, you want your stories to be interesting and impactful. Explore both popular and unique approaches to writing this all-important story as you discover techniques to breathe life into people, places, and events. Learn how to bring your story down to size, make your project manageable, and deal with the internal critic that never has much good to say about anything.

Walk away from the workshop knowing: · how to painlessly organize your work · how to come up with story ideas · how to bring your writing to life.

No previous writing experience is required, and Patricia’s motto is, the only way to do this wrong is to not do it all!

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How Writers Become Authors

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How Writers Become Authors: A summer workshop for writers of fiction/non-fiction with Gerald J. Schiffhorst, Ph.D.

Eight Thursday evenings from June 16-August 4, 2016

7-8:30 p.m.

Winter Park Public Library

460 E. New England Ave. (3rd floor meeting room

 

Do you have ideas for a story or article but keep putting off writing? Need help revising and polishing your work? Wonder what to do with something you have written? This workshop will provide the essential tools to deal with such issues and will help you become more professional as a writer (and future author). These tools include exploring various sentence patterns as well as writing and revising short narrative and descriptive pieces.

KEY SKILLS: Unblocking.  Describing.  Crafting.  Revising.  Editing.  Publishing.

Cost: $30* for eight weeks (includes course materials).

*Non-refundable and payable (in cash) on the first day of class.

Please contact the instructor about your intention to register:

schiffhorst@yahoo.com

The Instructor: Gerald Schiffhorst, professor emeritus of English at  UCF, is the co-author of The Practical Handbook for Writers.  He has published four other books as well as fiction, articles and reviews and has taught writing for the past 45 years.

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Bookmark It is Everywhere!

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Your Scribbler could not be more thrilled to share Kim Britt’s exciting news:

“Over the past 2 years Bookmark It has grown from short story to novella, expanding our collection and services to meet the needs and requests of our authors and customers. And now we offer yet another plot twist…Bookmark It is becoming a series !

 

We are excited to announce 3 new locations coming over the summer.  On May 1 we will be delivering a specially curated selection of titles into Infusion Tea, 1600 Edgewater Drive, a popular College Park eatery and art co-op.  Then quickly following on June 1 we will be moving across the street in our home-community of Audubon Park into The Lovely, a fun, eclectic shop showcasing local artisans and vintage collectors located at 2906 Corrine Drive.  Finally in late summer (date still tbd) we will be taking up a residency in downtown Orlando’s contemporary art space, The Gallery of Avalon Island, a member of the 501(c)3 Downtown Arts District and a long-standing community partner of Bookmark It !  But don’t worry, we’ll still be found at East End Market inside local farm grocer and craft beer/wine purveyor, Local Roots, where we’ll continue to offer our delicious selection of cookbooks.

 

Each location will be host to any number of literary happenings, from workshops and bookclubs to launch parties and readings, giving us 4 times the opportunities to shine the spotlight on Central Florida’s growing literary arts community.

 

Here are a few examples of what to expect:

 

  • A new Author VarieTEA reading series at Infusion Tea which will showcase both local and visiting author’s works.

 

  • A return of our popular Wine&Sign Fridays at The Lovely, an informal meet n’ greet where you can discover new writers and kick off your weekend with a celebratory glass and lively conversation.

 

  • Our unique Bookclub with an Author, will be moving to Infusion Tea, where local published writers lead the discussion of titles within their own genre, offering an insider’s peak into the writing process.

 

  • Little Local’s Story Time where your little ones will meet the creators of their soon-to-be-favorite stories.

 

Add to these a continuing calendar of community-partnered programming with such organizations as Orange County Library System, Urban Think Foundation, area schools and other art-based initiatives and you can look for Bookmark It to be popping up everywhere!

 

Follow our story as it unfolds, at www.bookmarkitorlando.com, on Facebook https://www.facebook.com/bookmarkitorlando/ and on both Twitter and Instagram at bookmarkit_shop.

 

Thank you for supporting Independent booksellers and happy reading !

 

Kim Britt

Owner, Bookmark It, Inc.

3201 Corrine Drive, Suite 201

Orlando, FL 32803

kim@bookmarkitorlando.com

www.bookmarkitorlando.com