“The Twelve Chairs” Comprehensive Poetry Course

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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.

Jennie Jarvis Speaks at FWA Orlando meeting

 

Join us Wednesday, October 1st at 6:30 p.m. when former screenwriter turned literary writer and FWA Faculty Chairperson, Jennie Jarvis, shows you how to make the most of your writer’s conference experience, before, during, and after. You will learn how to prepare a plan to use your time to best effect, how to network, and how to follow-up after the conference. The meeting is free and open to the public. Contact Rik at: usabookcoach@gmail.com.

 

Jennie Jarvis worked in the film and television industry around the world. She served as a script analyst, producing coverage for producers, investors, actors and writers. She has operated as a freelance script consultant for over fifteen years working with clients worldwide, and she wrote and directed a number of short narrative and documentary films. Major credits include The Matrix: Revolutions, Accepted, American Idol, and more.

As a published writer, she co-owns 5writers.com and has won awards for her screenplays, essays, poetry and short fiction and appeared in Writer’s Digest Magazine and The Florida Writer. She is the Faculty Chairperson for the Florida Writer’s Association Annual Conference, and she teaches writing at Full Sail University in Winter Park, Florida.

She is represented by Saritza Hernandez of The Corvisiero Literary Agency. Her recently released textbook, Crafting the Character Arc: A Practical Guide to Character Creation and Development is published by Beating Windward Press.

Jennie Jarvis

Page 15’s 3rd Annual High School Writing Anti-Heroes Contest

Tell us a story.

If your story is chosen, you’ll get to see your name in print in our fully illustrated, totally awesome, annual anthology of Orlando high school writing. You’ll get real-world publication experience, work with editors, and have original artwork created to match your story. You’ll receive a copy of the book, a t-shirt, and of course, a party.

Guidelines:

The main character of your story should be an anti-hero. Think: Walter White, Dexter, Maleficent, Holden Caulfield. Antiheroes don’t fit the traditional role of “good guy.” In fact, they may have more bad qualities than good. Your job is to make the reader care about them. Give them a goal and put something in the way of that goal to drive the conflict of yours tory. Make sure you’ve got a complex character, compelling conflict, and a solid beginning, middle, and end. Then send it our way!

Send your name, grade, school, parent or guardian name, phone number, and your story to page15contest@gmail.com

Dead line is October 17! See the full guidelines list here.

Young Adult Book Bash at Bookmark It

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Four local award-winning Young Adult Fiction writers will take the stage at 7 p.m. on Monday, Sept. 29 at Bookmark It’s FREE monthly book club located in the APEX meeting space at  East End Market, 3201 Corrine Dr, Orlando, Florida 32803. Perfect for fans of YA fiction and educators looking for in-school visits by writing professionals, the evening will include a brief presentation by each author, lively panel discussion, refreshments, and door prizes!

Authors include:

Christina Farley, author of newly released Silvern, as well as Gilded (readers aged 12+)
Amy Christine Parker, author of newly released Astray, preceded by Gated (ages 12+)
Christina Benjamin, author of The Geneva Project: Truth and newly released Secrets (ages 12+)
Jaimie M. Engle, author of Clifton Chase and the Arrow of Light (ages 8-12)

 More info at www.bookmarkitorlando.com/events