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Maitland Poets & Writers Readings

Event: Maitland Poets & Writers Readings
Location: Lake Lily Park
840 Lake Lily Drive
Maitland , FL 32751
Website: http://www.pamaitland.org/mpw
When: two Sundays a month during the Maitland Farmer’s Market; other PAM special events
Director/Organizer: Vanessa Blakeslee, 407-310-2464 or vblakeslee@gmail.com
Maitland Poets & Writers Reading Series runs on two Sundays a month at Lake Lily Park in Maitland, plus other special events in which the Performing Arts of Maitland takes part. The event has two available time slots (11 a.m. and noon) for featured writers and poets to read from their work. The Performing Arts of Maitland sponsors local songwriters, singers and musicians every Sunday from 10 am to 1 pm at the Maitland Farmer’s Market, and the Maitland Poets & Writers Readings take place between the music acts.
On the Sundays in which Maitland Poets & Writers hosts readings in Lake Lily Park, we also offer creative writing workshops (limited to 12 participants) from 1:00 to 3:30 p.m. at the Cottage at Lake Lily. The workshops are led by your reading host and MPW Director, Vanessa Blakeslee, and follow the Amherst Writers & Artists™ method. Please contact Vanessa for information on how to register for a workshop. No fee to attend, but PAM asks workshop participants to make a donation. Maitland Poets & Writers Workshop proceeds solely benefit Maitland Poets & Writers and enable Performing Arts of Maitland to continue to bring literary opportunities to the community.

Pre-registration for Sunday workshops is required – come join the fun!
Upcoming Featured Readers:
May 16th
11 am Tod Caviness
Noon-Stacy Barton
May 30th:
11 a.m.-Suzy Spraker
Noon-Dale Slongwhite
June 6th:
11 a.m.-Calypso Strawn
Noon Chris McClelland
June 20th:
11 a.m. – Gerry Wolfson-Grande
Noon – Russell Mangum
Vanessa Blakeslee is a graduate of the MFA in Writing program at Vermont College of Fine Arts. In 2009 she received grants and fellowships from the United Arts of Central Florida, the Virginia Center for the Creative Arts and the Writers’ Colony at Dairy Hollow. Her short fiction is forthcoming in The Bellingham Review, The Saranac Review, and Harpur Palate. In 2010 her poetry will appear in The Sow’s Ear Poetry Review, Southern Poetry Review, and Hiram Poetry Review, among others. She is currently at work on a novel.
Please visit www.vanessablakeslee.com for more information.

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Creative Writing Summer Camp for Kids and Teens

Once again, Dale Slongwhite is offering 1/2-day, week-long writing workshops for kids and teens. She has booked one week in Altamonte Springs and one week in Winter Park. She is looking for a venue in Oviedo for a third week. If you have any connections, please give her a call. This creative writing summer camp is for kids who enjoy writing. For more information, check out her website at www.writelines.net; give her a call at 407-803-8840; or watch the YouTube video. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6OsJa15F2ko

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Writing Your Life – Summer Schedule

May 2010
 
Feedback Group – a small group of writers who desire to have their work read and receive feedback in a positive and supportive environment – meets on the third Saturday of every month from 9:00 a.m. until noon – group limited to the first twelve participants to register – $60 for four months
 
June 2010
         
Get Started Writing Your Life Story – four-week workshop designed to help
those who wish to write their life stories but don’t know where or how to begin – focus will be on organization of material, deciding on topics, the basics of well-written stories and many other subjects – class meets on Tuesdays, June 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. – $60 for the four-week session
 
          Keep Writing Your Life Story – four-week workshop designed for those who
have been writing their life stories and wish to learn more about improving their skills  as a writer – topics may include effective uses of voice, tone, sentence structure, narration and so forth – class meets on Thursdays, June 3rd, 10th, 17th and 24th from 4:30 – 6:30 p.m. – $60 for the four-week session
 
July 2010
 
Bringing Your Ancestors to Life – four-week class on combining your genealogical research and various writing techniques to create a captivating narrative focused on your family history – learn to characterize people based on limited information, to effectively establish historical settings and develop plot lines of your ancestors experiences – class meets on Thursdays, July 8th, 15th, 22nd and 29th – $60 for the four-week session
 
August 2010
 
       Check www.writingyourlife.org for other sessions to be scheduled during the month of August – these will include three-hour focus workshops concentrating on individual aspects of writing – one topic per three-hour session – subjects may include writing dialogue, editing, developing scenes, descriptive writing and so forth
 
 
For more information on any of these workshops and classes, contact Patricia Charpentier at writingyourlife@cfl.rr.com or 321-279-1791. 
 
 
All classes and workshops are held at the Marks Street Senior Center at 99 E. Marks Street at the corner of Marks Street and Magnolia Avenue
in downtown Orlando.

Celebrations

Born to Fly

Here’s a sneak peak at the cover of the Born to Fly wordless book to stop child trafficking–with story by Diana Scimone and illustrations by artist Leah Wiedemer: http://bit.ly/9Vorl7  It’s wordless so it doesn’t have to be translated into thousands of different languages and will reach kids, teens, and adults all over the world (including central Florida–yes, we have a child trafficking problem here, too).  Diana is working on the companion curriculum now and hopes to begin distribution later this year.  More at www.born2fly.org and Diana’s blog, www.dianascimone.com.