The National Press Club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists, is teaming up with the Gerald Ford Library to look at where the news business is going and how to protect its core values.
The Dec. 3 event, The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism, will begin at 7:30 p.m. at the library, 1000 Beal Ave. in Ann Arbor. It is free and open to the public.
Speaking on the panel will be:
Jonathan Wolman, editor and publisher of the Detroit News;
Omari Gardner, news editor/digital media at the Detroit Free Press;
Marla Drutz, vice president and general manager WDIV-TV in Detroit; and
Vincent Duffy, news director, Michigan Public Radio.
The panel will be moderated by Gil Klein, a veteran national correspondent, former National Press Club president and director of the Club's Centennial Forums program.
This forum is part of a nationwide conversation the National Press Club is holding during its 100th anniversary to look at where the news business is going and what news consumers should be demanding. Schedules and video highlights of forums in other states can be found on the Club's Web site: www.press.org.
The next forum will be on Dec. 8 in Naples, Fla.
Sunday, November 30, 2008
Dec 11 2008 - How Journalists Use Twitter and Other Social Networks
PR and marketing professionals who want to learn valuable insights on how journalists use Twitter every day to interact with sources, search for story ideas and take "twitpitches" will discover proven techniques at a new audio conference from Bulldog Reporter's PR University: "Journalists Speak Out on Twitter for PR: How the Media Uses Social Networks." Attendees will come away with practical ideas about journalists actively using Twitter -- and how to successfully interact with them quickly and efficiently -- starting immediately.
This exclusive, dial in PR University audio conference takes place on Thursday, December 11th, at 1PM EST (noon CST, 11AM MST; 10AM PST).
This 90-minute interactive call will give communications professionals new tips and techniques on how journalists and PR people have used Twitter to generate story ideas and buzz -- plus how they connect with sources to find stories on such networks as Facebook and LinkedIn. It will also address which media outlets are consistently posting links to their online news stories on Twitter. Here are some of the immediately applicable techniques attendees will cover in this audio conference:
-- Getting Started: How to find and contact journalists using Twitter and
other social media
-- Jumping In: How to get started using Twitter and other social media
for media relations and other essential PR initiatives
-- Inside the world of Twitter: Essential elements of using Twitter that
will make your experience of Twitter more useful and valuable
-- How Twitter and other social media are changing the online world:
examples of stories and trends that happened exclusively as a result of
Twitter or other social media
-- The role Twitter, Facebook and other social media have played in how
PR people and the media communicate during a crisis
-- Where social media is going in 2009 -- and why you must be there if
you want to stay on top of emerging PR trends
Attendance at Bulldog Reporter's PR University audio conference costs $299 per telephone site. Participants in the 90-minute call will be able to pose specific questions for the panelists at several junctures during the discussion. Attendees of PR University conferences receive one credit toward PRSA accreditation maintenance. Registration also includes an up-to-the-minute conference manual and a full transcript. For more information on taking part in the event, go to our conference home page or phone toll free: 1-800-959-1059.
This exclusive, dial in PR University audio conference takes place on Thursday, December 11th, at 1PM EST (noon CST, 11AM MST; 10AM PST).
This 90-minute interactive call will give communications professionals new tips and techniques on how journalists and PR people have used Twitter to generate story ideas and buzz -- plus how they connect with sources to find stories on such networks as Facebook and LinkedIn. It will also address which media outlets are consistently posting links to their online news stories on Twitter. Here are some of the immediately applicable techniques attendees will cover in this audio conference:
-- Getting Started: How to find and contact journalists using Twitter and
other social media
-- Jumping In: How to get started using Twitter and other social media
for media relations and other essential PR initiatives
-- Inside the world of Twitter: Essential elements of using Twitter that
will make your experience of Twitter more useful and valuable
-- How Twitter and other social media are changing the online world:
examples of stories and trends that happened exclusively as a result of
Twitter or other social media
-- The role Twitter, Facebook and other social media have played in how
PR people and the media communicate during a crisis
-- Where social media is going in 2009 -- and why you must be there if
you want to stay on top of emerging PR trends
Attendance at Bulldog Reporter's PR University audio conference costs $299 per telephone site. Participants in the 90-minute call will be able to pose specific questions for the panelists at several junctures during the discussion. Attendees of PR University conferences receive one credit toward PRSA accreditation maintenance. Registration also includes an up-to-the-minute conference manual and a full transcript. For more information on taking part in the event, go to our conference home page or phone toll free: 1-800-959-1059.
Mags & Rags To Riches - Free Magazine Article Writing Workshop
During the festive run up, www.writelink.co.uk a creative writing community for freelance writers, is offering a free magazine writing workshop for aspiring writers hoping to tap into the lucrative magazine writing market.
MAGS & RAGS to Riches is a super mini workshop, offering tips and tricks on writing magazine articles that sell. Originally a top rate e-course designed as an on-line learning workshop it covers all aspects of writing for the lucrative magazine article market, including pitching, research, query letters and finding markets that pay.
Each lesson is followed by exercises to help hone skill and useful weblinks for further help.
Mags & Rags to Riches is completely free. It is delivered in 6 instalments by daily email. Signup here, but be quick! The offer finishes at Christmas!
www.writelink.co.uk/writingmagazine
MAGS & RAGS to Riches is a super mini workshop, offering tips and tricks on writing magazine articles that sell. Originally a top rate e-course designed as an on-line learning workshop it covers all aspects of writing for the lucrative magazine article market, including pitching, research, query letters and finding markets that pay.
Each lesson is followed by exercises to help hone skill and useful weblinks for further help.
Mags & Rags to Riches is completely free. It is delivered in 6 instalments by daily email. Signup here, but be quick! The offer finishes at Christmas!
www.writelink.co.uk/writingmagazine
Apr 25 2009 - African-American Children's Book Writers and Illustrators
"I bet I could write or illustrate a kids' book." Has this thought ever crossed your mind? Or are you a published author or illustrator that needs a boost? If so, register now for the history-making African-American Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (AACBWI) conference at the Hilton Charlotte University Place hotel.
AACBWI Provides Writers and Illustrators with Tools for Success
According to the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) report, Publishing in 2007, of the roughly 3,000 titles received by the CCBC in 2007 just 150 had "significant African or African-American content." In 2003, the ratio was similar when Charlotte writer Sabra Robinson founded AACBWI as an online forum to provide writers and illustrators with tools for career success. Today, the AACBWI forum boasts over 200 members.
AACBWI Historic Conference Open to All
Both AACBWI and its first conference are open to anyone interested in children's book writing and illustrating—not only people of color. To attend the conference, which includes a lunch buffet, all you need are the desires to network, increase your knowledge about the publishing business, and most importantly, strengthen your ability to write and illustrate books for children. You must also pay to register.
Manuscript & Portfolio Critiques
Conference presenters will critique participants' manuscripts or portfolios for an additional fee. Critiques are limited and first-come-first-serve. Register soon, while slots last.
Costs and Sponsorship
The conference ranges from $55 for AACBWI members to $125 for non-members who register early, plus critique fees. Fees for non-members increase after February 1, 2009.
Conference sponsors include the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI.org). Complete details about conference costs, student and senior discounts, and sponsorship packages are available at http://www.aacbwi.com/.
AACBWI Provides Writers and Illustrators with Tools for Success
According to the Cooperative Children's Book Center (CCBC) report, Publishing in 2007, of the roughly 3,000 titles received by the CCBC in 2007 just 150 had "significant African or African-American content." In 2003, the ratio was similar when Charlotte writer Sabra Robinson founded AACBWI as an online forum to provide writers and illustrators with tools for career success. Today, the AACBWI forum boasts over 200 members.
AACBWI Historic Conference Open to All
Both AACBWI and its first conference are open to anyone interested in children's book writing and illustrating—not only people of color. To attend the conference, which includes a lunch buffet, all you need are the desires to network, increase your knowledge about the publishing business, and most importantly, strengthen your ability to write and illustrate books for children. You must also pay to register.
Manuscript & Portfolio Critiques
Conference presenters will critique participants' manuscripts or portfolios for an additional fee. Critiques are limited and first-come-first-serve. Register soon, while slots last.
Costs and Sponsorship
The conference ranges from $55 for AACBWI members to $125 for non-members who register early, plus critique fees. Fees for non-members increase after February 1, 2009.
Conference sponsors include the Society of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators (SCBWI.org). Complete details about conference costs, student and senior discounts, and sponsorship packages are available at http://www.aacbwi.com/.
March 6-9 2009 - Ennis Book Club Festival
Some of the most recognisable names in Irish and international literature will participate in the Ennis Book Club Festival 2009, details of which were announced today. The County Clare capital will host the third annual festival from 6-8 March 2009.
The three-day programme of events, in association with Clare County Library, is expected to attract hundreds of book club members and book lovers from all over Europe and North America.
Festival organisers today unveiled a line-up that includes John Boyne, author of "The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas"; Salley Vickers, best selling British novelist and author of "Miss Garnet's Angel"; John Breen, author of "Alone It Stands"; Jennifer Johnston, Booker Prize nominated writer; Allan Guthrie, Scottish crime novelist; Mark O'Halloran, award winning writer and actor; and journalist and broadcaster Kevin Myers.
The Festival programme will feature author visits, readings, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, musical entertainment and chocolate tasting in various venues around Ennis.
One of the highlights of the weekend will be the Sunday Symposium during which the theme of ‘Reading Politics' will be explored by journalist and political analyst Conor O'Clery, Public Relations consultant Terry Prone and Labour politician Michael D. Higgins.
Meanwhile, students from Trinity College Dublin will stage an exclusive performance of "The Trial of Oscar Wilde" at Ennis Courthouse. The only other enactment of the trial, which led to Wilde's public disgrace and two year imprisonment for acts of "gross indecency", was held at Trinity College in April.
Other festival participants will include Gerry Stembridge; novelist, film director, playwright and co-author of the satirical radio show ‘Scrap Saturday'; Gerard Donovan; author of the Booker Prize nominated "Schopenhauer's Telescope"; Aifric Campbell, author of "The Semantics of Murder"; and Denis Sampson, broadcaster and author of a book on John McGahern entitled "Outstaring Nature's Eye".
Poetry will also feature prominently at the festival. Winner of the Rooney prize for Irish Literature, Medbh McGuckian; founder member of Aosdána and winner of the Marten Toonder prize for Literature, Micheal O'Siadhail, awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry in 1982 and in 1998 the Marten Toonder prize for Literature.; Dublin-based Russian poet, Anatoly Kudryavitsky; winner of the 2003 Cúirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam, Kevin Higgins; and poet and dramatist Rita Ann Higgins, whose many accolades include the Peadar O'Donnell Award, will all delight and challenge their audiences during the Festival.
According to Francis O'Gorman, Chairperson of the Ennis Book Club Festival: "The festival presents a unique opportunity for book club members from Ireland and beyond to get together to share their joy of reading, to meet authors, to discuss books, and to have a weekend break with friends."
Commenting on the festival line-up, Ms. O'Gorman said: "The involvement of so many high profile authors, academics and literary figures will no doubt contribute greatly to what will be a diverse programme of events."
The inaugural Ennis Book Club Festival was held in 2007. Past participants include Patrick McCabe, Edna O'Brien, Ann Enright, Joanne Harris, Brian Keenan, Roddy Doyle, Diarmuid Gavin, Hugo Hamilton, Dermot Bolger, Fintan O'Toole, Theo Dorgan, Lorna Landvik and the late Nuala O Faolain.
Both previous festivals have attracted literary enthusiasts from all over North America and Europe, including members from many of Ireland's 150 Library Book Clubs and 300 Private Book Clubs.
For further details on the Ennis Book Club Festival 2009 see www.ennisbookclubfestival.com.
Alternatively email info@ennisbookclubfestival.com
The three-day programme of events, in association with Clare County Library, is expected to attract hundreds of book club members and book lovers from all over Europe and North America.
Festival organisers today unveiled a line-up that includes John Boyne, author of "The Boy In The Striped Pyjamas"; Salley Vickers, best selling British novelist and author of "Miss Garnet's Angel"; John Breen, author of "Alone It Stands"; Jennifer Johnston, Booker Prize nominated writer; Allan Guthrie, Scottish crime novelist; Mark O'Halloran, award winning writer and actor; and journalist and broadcaster Kevin Myers.
The Festival programme will feature author visits, readings, lectures, workshops, exhibitions, musical entertainment and chocolate tasting in various venues around Ennis.
One of the highlights of the weekend will be the Sunday Symposium during which the theme of ‘Reading Politics' will be explored by journalist and political analyst Conor O'Clery, Public Relations consultant Terry Prone and Labour politician Michael D. Higgins.
Meanwhile, students from Trinity College Dublin will stage an exclusive performance of "The Trial of Oscar Wilde" at Ennis Courthouse. The only other enactment of the trial, which led to Wilde's public disgrace and two year imprisonment for acts of "gross indecency", was held at Trinity College in April.
Other festival participants will include Gerry Stembridge; novelist, film director, playwright and co-author of the satirical radio show ‘Scrap Saturday'; Gerard Donovan; author of the Booker Prize nominated "Schopenhauer's Telescope"; Aifric Campbell, author of "The Semantics of Murder"; and Denis Sampson, broadcaster and author of a book on John McGahern entitled "Outstaring Nature's Eye".
Poetry will also feature prominently at the festival. Winner of the Rooney prize for Irish Literature, Medbh McGuckian; founder member of Aosdána and winner of the Marten Toonder prize for Literature, Micheal O'Siadhail, awarded an Irish American Cultural Institute prize for poetry in 1982 and in 1998 the Marten Toonder prize for Literature.; Dublin-based Russian poet, Anatoly Kudryavitsky; winner of the 2003 Cúirt Festival Poetry Grand Slam, Kevin Higgins; and poet and dramatist Rita Ann Higgins, whose many accolades include the Peadar O'Donnell Award, will all delight and challenge their audiences during the Festival.
According to Francis O'Gorman, Chairperson of the Ennis Book Club Festival: "The festival presents a unique opportunity for book club members from Ireland and beyond to get together to share their joy of reading, to meet authors, to discuss books, and to have a weekend break with friends."
Commenting on the festival line-up, Ms. O'Gorman said: "The involvement of so many high profile authors, academics and literary figures will no doubt contribute greatly to what will be a diverse programme of events."
The inaugural Ennis Book Club Festival was held in 2007. Past participants include Patrick McCabe, Edna O'Brien, Ann Enright, Joanne Harris, Brian Keenan, Roddy Doyle, Diarmuid Gavin, Hugo Hamilton, Dermot Bolger, Fintan O'Toole, Theo Dorgan, Lorna Landvik and the late Nuala O Faolain.
Both previous festivals have attracted literary enthusiasts from all over North America and Europe, including members from many of Ireland's 150 Library Book Clubs and 300 Private Book Clubs.
For further details on the Ennis Book Club Festival 2009 see www.ennisbookclubfestival.com.
Alternatively email info@ennisbookclubfestival.com
Dec 8 2008 - Poets Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl read from their work
Yale University poets Richard Deming and Nancy Kuhl, the editors of Phylum Press, will read at 7 p.m. Monday, Dec. 8, in the Prairie Lights bookstore at 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City. The reading, co-sponsored by the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop, is free and open to the public.
Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in Sulfur, Field, the Indiana Review and Mandorla, as well as "Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present." He is the author of "Let's Not Call It Consequence" and "Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading." He is a lecturer at Yale.
Kuhl is the author of the full-length poetry collection "The Wife of the Left Hand," and her chapbook, "In the Arbor," won the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in Verse, Fence, Phoebe, Puerto del Sol, the Cream City Review, The Journal and other magazines.
She is curator for poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, where she curates the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series. She is also the author of two exhibition catalogs, "Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts" and "Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women."
Phylum Press is "committed to the belief that poetry is a gift economy" and therefore gives away its books rather than selling them. The press produces a select number of chapbooks and pamphlets each year featuring the work of young, fugitive artists who are, through their poetics, "revisiting in vastly different ways the questions of lyric subjectivity after the various problematics have been brought to light."
For UI arts information and calendar updates, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa. To receive UI arts news by e-mail, go to http://list.uiowa.edu/archives/acr-news.html and click the link "Join or Leave ACR News," then follow the instructions.
Deming is a poet and a theorist who works on the philosophy of literature. His poems have appeared in Sulfur, Field, the Indiana Review and Mandorla, as well as "Great American Prose Poems: From Poe to the Present." He is the author of "Let's Not Call It Consequence" and "Listening on All Sides: Toward an Emersonian Ethics of Reading." He is a lecturer at Yale.
Kuhl is the author of the full-length poetry collection "The Wife of the Left Hand," and her chapbook, "In the Arbor," won the Wick Poetry Chapbook Prize. Her work has appeared in Verse, Fence, Phoebe, Puerto del Sol, the Cream City Review, The Journal and other magazines.
She is curator for poetry of the Yale Collection of American Literature at the Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library at Yale, where she curates the Yale Collection of American Literature Reading Series. She is also the author of two exhibition catalogs, "Intimate Circles: American Women in the Arts" and "Extravagant Crowd: Carl Van Vechten's Portraits of Women."
Phylum Press is "committed to the belief that poetry is a gift economy" and therefore gives away its books rather than selling them. The press produces a select number of chapbooks and pamphlets each year featuring the work of young, fugitive artists who are, through their poetics, "revisiting in vastly different ways the questions of lyric subjectivity after the various problematics have been brought to light."
For UI arts information and calendar updates, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa. To receive UI arts news by e-mail, go to http://list.uiowa.edu/archives/acr-news.html and click the link "Join or Leave ACR News," then follow the instructions.
How to Become an Amazon Best Selling Author - FREE Teleseminar
Best selling author Kathleen Gage will be hosting a special teleseminar on 09 December called "How To Turn Books into Amazon.com Bestsellers while Increasing Your Visibility, Revenue and Credibility".
Kathleen Gage is herself a best selling author and has worked with clients around the globe to successfully launch their Amazon.com book campaigns.
During this teleseminar Kathleen will give simple yet proven strategies that you can use immediately to sell more books, increase your visibility and credibility and open the door for you to make more money than before.
During this call attendees will learn:
- The #1 mistake that most authors make that prevents them from selling loads of books.
- What you must put into place before you launch your campaign.
- How to hit the ground running with your marketing campaign with a well thought out and detailed plan of action.
- The one thing you should do to immediately get started with your marketing campaign.
- How to determine whether or not this type of marketing campaign and book selling strategy is a good fit for your book.
- How to make 2009 your best year ever with Kathleen's "Vision for Future" Plan.
This content-rich teleseminar is a preview to Kathleen's brand new Amazon.com Bestselling Author and Book mentoring program that begins in January 2009.
For more details and to register for this FREE event please click the link below:
http://www.BecomingAnAmazonBestSeller.com
Kathleen Gage is herself a best selling author and has worked with clients around the globe to successfully launch their Amazon.com book campaigns.
During this teleseminar Kathleen will give simple yet proven strategies that you can use immediately to sell more books, increase your visibility and credibility and open the door for you to make more money than before.
During this call attendees will learn:
- The #1 mistake that most authors make that prevents them from selling loads of books.
- What you must put into place before you launch your campaign.
- How to hit the ground running with your marketing campaign with a well thought out and detailed plan of action.
- The one thing you should do to immediately get started with your marketing campaign.
- How to determine whether or not this type of marketing campaign and book selling strategy is a good fit for your book.
- How to make 2009 your best year ever with Kathleen's "Vision for Future" Plan.
This content-rich teleseminar is a preview to Kathleen's brand new Amazon.com Bestselling Author and Book mentoring program that begins in January 2009.
For more details and to register for this FREE event please click the link below:
http://www.BecomingAnAmazonBestSeller.com
Sunday, November 23, 2008
March 22-24 2009 - The Creative Writer's Workshop
The Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes Irene Graham, founder of the internationally successful "The Creative Writer's Workshop", as she presents two 3-Day workshops. Throughout this workshop you will explore right brain/left brain techniques that will enhance your creativity as you discover and deepen your unique writing voice. The Fiction Writing workshop will be held March 19-21 from 10am-5pm and the Memoir writing workshop will be held March 22-24 from 10am-5pm. Registration for each workshop is $530 for SCHF members and $545 for non-members.
Fiction Writing is a very successful workshop for new and established writers. It does not matter whether the participant has written previously, has a concept in mind, or are published. The workshop will help the participant to start and continue writing. There are now many participants writing novels and short stories from completing this workshop.
Memoir Writing helps you discover and enhance your unique writing voice as you define your experiences and learn how to write from the heart of personal understanding. You will discover how to think like a writer and draw upon the myriad of incidents that make up your life story and path.
Irene Graham studied many genres of writing (screenwriting, fiction writing, writing for children, autobiographical writing) in the UCLA extension program in Los Angeles in the late 80's. Throughout this same period on the West Coast, Irene was also studying and partaking in various workshops and training programs based upon complimentary methods of learning – particularly right brain/left brain education and psycho synthesis in education. Upon completion of this two year study period of writing and educational studies, Irene created The Creative Writer's Workshop in 1991. The workshop has since been taught with great success to hundreds of both new and established writers, artists, teachers, young adults and children throughout Ireland.
Irene, writer of three screenplays, is also an art photographer, utilizing traditional photography methods. She lives in County Wicklow in Ireland and is currently writing a book of short stories and a screenplay.
Space is very limited and reservations are required. Payment for workshops must be paid in advance. For more information or to register, please email creativewriting@ireland.com or call the SCHF office at 601-631-2997.
Fiction Writing is a very successful workshop for new and established writers. It does not matter whether the participant has written previously, has a concept in mind, or are published. The workshop will help the participant to start and continue writing. There are now many participants writing novels and short stories from completing this workshop.
Memoir Writing helps you discover and enhance your unique writing voice as you define your experiences and learn how to write from the heart of personal understanding. You will discover how to think like a writer and draw upon the myriad of incidents that make up your life story and path.
Irene Graham studied many genres of writing (screenwriting, fiction writing, writing for children, autobiographical writing) in the UCLA extension program in Los Angeles in the late 80's. Throughout this same period on the West Coast, Irene was also studying and partaking in various workshops and training programs based upon complimentary methods of learning – particularly right brain/left brain education and psycho synthesis in education. Upon completion of this two year study period of writing and educational studies, Irene created The Creative Writer's Workshop in 1991. The workshop has since been taught with great success to hundreds of both new and established writers, artists, teachers, young adults and children throughout Ireland.
Irene, writer of three screenplays, is also an art photographer, utilizing traditional photography methods. She lives in County Wicklow in Ireland and is currently writing a book of short stories and a screenplay.
Space is very limited and reservations are required. Payment for workshops must be paid in advance. For more information or to register, please email creativewriting@ireland.com or call the SCHF office at 601-631-2997.
Nov 26 2008 - The Changing Universe of Journalism
Join author and media relations specialist Mark Hunter LaVigne, APR, as he moderates a panel of industry veterans on both sides of the media fence. Discussion will focus on the current state of traditional news media in our "challenging times" with the shifting role of social media, changing audiences and uncertain economic times.
Ira Basen has been a producer at CBC Radio for more than 20 years. In 2007, he produced the award winning series "Spin Cycles" which has been studied in PR classes around the world. He is currently working on a new radio series about the impact of the "you-powered universe" on journalism, politics and PR.
David Milliken, Senior Vice President of CNW Group, has 37 years of experience, first as a reporter and senior newspaper editor, then as an executive for more than 25 years with CNW Group. His current role has been meeting with and assessing the media's constantly evolving needs.
DATE: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
TIME: 5:15 p.m. - Registration and Cocktails 6:00 p.m. - Presentation and Workshop 7:30 p.m. - Q&A and Networking
LOCATION: Park Hyatt Hotel, 4 Avenue Road
COST: $60 CPRS Toronto members $80 Non-members $35 Student members
Hors d'oeuvres and light refreshments will be provided. A cash bar will be available.
Spaces are limited. Register today through CPRS Toronto's secure website at: www.cprstoronto.com/pd/events.aspx
Ira Basen has been a producer at CBC Radio for more than 20 years. In 2007, he produced the award winning series "Spin Cycles" which has been studied in PR classes around the world. He is currently working on a new radio series about the impact of the "you-powered universe" on journalism, politics and PR.
David Milliken, Senior Vice President of CNW Group, has 37 years of experience, first as a reporter and senior newspaper editor, then as an executive for more than 25 years with CNW Group. His current role has been meeting with and assessing the media's constantly evolving needs.
DATE: Wednesday, November 26, 2008
TIME: 5:15 p.m. - Registration and Cocktails 6:00 p.m. - Presentation and Workshop 7:30 p.m. - Q&A and Networking
LOCATION: Park Hyatt Hotel, 4 Avenue Road
COST: $60 CPRS Toronto members $80 Non-members $35 Student members
Hors d'oeuvres and light refreshments will be provided. A cash bar will be available.
Spaces are limited. Register today through CPRS Toronto's secure website at: www.cprstoronto.com/pd/events.aspx
Dec 3 2008 - Annual PR Day Conference
The Public Relations Society of America (PRSA) Houston Chapter will host its 2008 annual PR Day conference on Wednesday, December 3, 2008, beginning at 9:00 a.m., at the Westin Oaks Hotel, 5011 Westheimer Rd., Houston, Texas, 77056. This event was rescheduled following Hurricane Ike. More than 30 public relations, communications and journalism industry experts will be on hand to present sessions in accordance with the conference theme: "Ch-Ch-Change – Leading it, living through it and loving it!" Former Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs, Victoria Clarke, is scheduled to deliver the luncheon keynote address, followed by a Q & A, and subsequently, a media panel discussion which includes local television, radio and print journalists.
Victoria Clarke is widely respected as one of the nation's most innovative communications strategists. Clarke currently leads Comcast's integrated strategic communications and government affairs efforts, and serves as a frequent correspondent for the ABC Network. Clarke has advised many of the nation's well-known executives, has served as President of Bozell Eskew and as Vice President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, where she helped develop the first television ratings system and the cable industry's first on-time guarantee. She most recently served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Clarke was previously the Press Secretary for former President Bush's 1992 re-election campaign, an advisor to Senator John McCain (R-AZ), and an Assistant U.S. Trade Representative.
PRSA organizers are expecting more than 150 local and regional communications professionals to attend the conference which will feature some of the finest public relations and communications professionals, educators and experts – including social scientists, futurists, journalists, bloggers, chief marketing officers and technologists, as well as specialists in interactive and marketing communications, technology, research and measurement – that will present at this year's PR Day conference. Session topics include: creative media strategies, do-it-yourself blogs, government relations, integrated communications, minority targeted public relations, coaching and career transition, event management, crisis communications, broadcast communications, the power of brand, new professionals and more. Event organizers recently reduced the registration costs to an "Early Bird" price format, which is in effective through November 22. For a complete schedule and registration information, visit www.prsahouston.org.
PRSA Houston also will celebrate and thank 2008 supporters and volunteers at a Holiday Party, immediately following the conference. The annual PR Day conference is an all-volunteer initiative, bringing together leadership from within the Houston chapter's active membership and other partners. This year's committee is led by Chairs Jennifer L. Evans, Tricia Rudisill Bentley and Sherry Franke, APR. Committee members include: Lydia Baehr; Sabra Batts; Nancy Beaty; Anne Deuermeyer; Lisa Dimond Vasquez; Lainie Gordon, APR; Bridgette Hall; Lindsay Isaacs; Anna Kaplan; Ariana Montelongo; Kelly Papinchak George, APR; Scott Scheffler, APR; Susan Schmaeling, APR; Ron Trinidad; Jennifer Walker; and Tanisha Warner.
"This year's PR Day Conference represents an outlet for PR professionals to expand their knowledge, meet some of the best names in the communications industry, network with their peers, and be introduced to the latest innovative products and advanced solutions," said Priscilla Tinsley, 2008 President of the Public Relations Society of America Houston Chapter. "Practitioners from entry to senior levels will find value in this conference and will immediately be able to apply the information learned in their day-to-day jobs."
Major sponsors for the one-day conference include Comcast, CenterPoint Energy, Brookwoods Group, Business Wire and Vollmer PR. In addition to sponsorships and an EXPO arena with more than a dozen exhibitors, scholarship funds were raised to support current or recent college students, with a focus in communications. Thanks to the generosity of Shell Oil Company, The Ammerman Experience, Spectra Energy and Toby Stark Public Relations, a record 15 student scholarships have been awarded to cover full-day registration costs for PR Day. For more information on the scholarship recipients, visit www.prsahouston.org.
Victoria Clarke is widely respected as one of the nation's most innovative communications strategists. Clarke currently leads Comcast's integrated strategic communications and government affairs efforts, and serves as a frequent correspondent for the ABC Network. Clarke has advised many of the nation's well-known executives, has served as President of Bozell Eskew and as Vice President of the National Cable & Telecommunications Association, where she helped develop the first television ratings system and the cable industry's first on-time guarantee. She most recently served as Assistant Secretary of Defense for Public Affairs. Clarke was previously the Press Secretary for former President Bush's 1992 re-election campaign, an advisor to Senator John McCain (R-AZ), and an Assistant U.S. Trade Representative.
PRSA organizers are expecting more than 150 local and regional communications professionals to attend the conference which will feature some of the finest public relations and communications professionals, educators and experts – including social scientists, futurists, journalists, bloggers, chief marketing officers and technologists, as well as specialists in interactive and marketing communications, technology, research and measurement – that will present at this year's PR Day conference. Session topics include: creative media strategies, do-it-yourself blogs, government relations, integrated communications, minority targeted public relations, coaching and career transition, event management, crisis communications, broadcast communications, the power of brand, new professionals and more. Event organizers recently reduced the registration costs to an "Early Bird" price format, which is in effective through November 22. For a complete schedule and registration information, visit www.prsahouston.org.
PRSA Houston also will celebrate and thank 2008 supporters and volunteers at a Holiday Party, immediately following the conference. The annual PR Day conference is an all-volunteer initiative, bringing together leadership from within the Houston chapter's active membership and other partners. This year's committee is led by Chairs Jennifer L. Evans, Tricia Rudisill Bentley and Sherry Franke, APR. Committee members include: Lydia Baehr; Sabra Batts; Nancy Beaty; Anne Deuermeyer; Lisa Dimond Vasquez; Lainie Gordon, APR; Bridgette Hall; Lindsay Isaacs; Anna Kaplan; Ariana Montelongo; Kelly Papinchak George, APR; Scott Scheffler, APR; Susan Schmaeling, APR; Ron Trinidad; Jennifer Walker; and Tanisha Warner.
"This year's PR Day Conference represents an outlet for PR professionals to expand their knowledge, meet some of the best names in the communications industry, network with their peers, and be introduced to the latest innovative products and advanced solutions," said Priscilla Tinsley, 2008 President of the Public Relations Society of America Houston Chapter. "Practitioners from entry to senior levels will find value in this conference and will immediately be able to apply the information learned in their day-to-day jobs."
Major sponsors for the one-day conference include Comcast, CenterPoint Energy, Brookwoods Group, Business Wire and Vollmer PR. In addition to sponsorships and an EXPO arena with more than a dozen exhibitors, scholarship funds were raised to support current or recent college students, with a focus in communications. Thanks to the generosity of Shell Oil Company, The Ammerman Experience, Spectra Energy and Toby Stark Public Relations, a record 15 student scholarships have been awarded to cover full-day registration costs for PR Day. For more information on the scholarship recipients, visit www.prsahouston.org.
Sunday, November 16, 2008
Dec 2 2008 - Journalism's Future and Values
The National Press Club, the world's leading professional organization for journalists, and Indiana University's School of Journalism are teaming up to look at the future of the news media and how to protect its core values.
The Dec. 2 event will be held in Indianapolis at 5 p.m. in the Lilly Auditorium of the Indiana University-Purdue University Library, 755 W. Michigan St. It is free and open to the public.
This NPC Centennial Forum on The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism will feature leading Indiana journalists:
Dennis Ryerson, editor and vice president of the Indianapolis Star
Bob Zaltsberg, editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times
Cheryl Jackson, visiting professor of broadcast journalism at Indiana University and former WRTV-6 news reporter in Indianapolis
Emily Metzgar, assistant professor of journalism at Indiana University specializing in the impact of social media on the political process
The panel will be moderated by National Press Club President Sylvia Smith, Washington correspondent for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
"In these tumultuous times for journalism, I am pleased to be able to bring this forum to Indianapolis in alliance with a great journalism school," Smith said.
"We are excited to work with the National Press Club in honor of its 100th year," said Bradley Hamm, dean of Indiana University's School of Journalism. "We look forward to celebrating the Club's history and to discussing the future of journalism at the Indiana Centennial Forum."
This forum is part of a nationwide conversation the National Press Club is holding during its 100th anniversary to look at where the news business is going and what news consumers should be demanding. Schedules and video highlights of forums in other states can be found on the Club's Web site: http://www.press.org/.
The next forum will be on Dec. 3 at the Gerald Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The event begins with a preview of the Club's centennial documentary, "The National Press Club: A Century of Headlines," which follows the history of American journalism through the lens of one of its leading institutions. Everyone who attends this forum will get a copy of the documentary.
The Dec. 2 event will be held in Indianapolis at 5 p.m. in the Lilly Auditorium of the Indiana University-Purdue University Library, 755 W. Michigan St. It is free and open to the public.
This NPC Centennial Forum on The First Amendment, Freedom of the Press and the Future of Journalism will feature leading Indiana journalists:
Dennis Ryerson, editor and vice president of the Indianapolis Star
Bob Zaltsberg, editor of the Bloomington Herald-Times
Cheryl Jackson, visiting professor of broadcast journalism at Indiana University and former WRTV-6 news reporter in Indianapolis
Emily Metzgar, assistant professor of journalism at Indiana University specializing in the impact of social media on the political process
The panel will be moderated by National Press Club President Sylvia Smith, Washington correspondent for the Fort Wayne Journal Gazette.
"In these tumultuous times for journalism, I am pleased to be able to bring this forum to Indianapolis in alliance with a great journalism school," Smith said.
"We are excited to work with the National Press Club in honor of its 100th year," said Bradley Hamm, dean of Indiana University's School of Journalism. "We look forward to celebrating the Club's history and to discussing the future of journalism at the Indiana Centennial Forum."
This forum is part of a nationwide conversation the National Press Club is holding during its 100th anniversary to look at where the news business is going and what news consumers should be demanding. Schedules and video highlights of forums in other states can be found on the Club's Web site: http://www.press.org/.
The next forum will be on Dec. 3 at the Gerald Ford Library in Ann Arbor, Mich.
The event begins with a preview of the Club's centennial documentary, "The National Press Club: A Century of Headlines," which follows the history of American journalism through the lens of one of its leading institutions. Everyone who attends this forum will get a copy of the documentary.
Nov 20-23 2008 - Cat Writers' Association Book Signing Extravaganza
The international Cat Writers' Association Inc. will hold its 15th Annual Conference in Atlanta, GANovember 20 through the 23, 2008. The once yearly conference features two days of professional seminars with nationally known speakers and is open to anyone interested in pet writing.
If you will be in Atlanta area between November 21 and 23, this will be your opportunity to meet the authors of your favorite cat books! The Cat Writers' Association members will participate in a BOOK SIGNING EXTRAVAGANZA at the CFA International Cat Show on November 21, 22 and 23.
Books will be available for purchase! Or, bring your own copy and have it signed by an attending author!
Currently, the following authors are scheduled to attend on Saturday,
Nov 22:
1:00-2:00pm Carole Stevens Bibisi
Caroline Coile
Vic DiGenti
Deb Eldredge
Ellen Tucker
2:00-3:00pm Stephanie Galindo
Janiss Garza
Michael Gordon
Dena Harris
Dusty Rainbolt
3:00-4:00pm Linda Mohr
Natalia Krawetz
Sandy Robbins
Clea Simon
Betsy Stowe
4:00-5:00pm Shara Smock
Barbara Stretton
Debra White
Amy Shojai
For more information about the Cat Writers' Association and the 2008 conference visit http://www.catwriters.org.
If you will be in Atlanta area between November 21 and 23, this will be your opportunity to meet the authors of your favorite cat books! The Cat Writers' Association members will participate in a BOOK SIGNING EXTRAVAGANZA at the CFA International Cat Show on November 21, 22 and 23.
Books will be available for purchase! Or, bring your own copy and have it signed by an attending author!
Currently, the following authors are scheduled to attend on Saturday,
Nov 22:
1:00-2:00pm Carole Stevens Bibisi
Caroline Coile
Vic DiGenti
Deb Eldredge
Ellen Tucker
2:00-3:00pm Stephanie Galindo
Janiss Garza
Michael Gordon
Dena Harris
Dusty Rainbolt
3:00-4:00pm Linda Mohr
Natalia Krawetz
Sandy Robbins
Clea Simon
Betsy Stowe
4:00-5:00pm Shara Smock
Barbara Stretton
Debra White
Amy Shojai
For more information about the Cat Writers' Association and the 2008 conference visit http://www.catwriters.org.
Nov 19 2008 - Aurora University To Host Native American Author
Native American poet and screenwriter Sherman Alexie will present "The Business of Fancydancing: Poems, Stories, Punch Lines and Highly Biased Anecdotes" at Aurora University Wednesday, Nov. 19.
Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Native American, will speak at 7 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium in the Institute for Collaboration at 407 S. Calumet Ave. in Aurora.
The public is invited. Admission is free. Reservations are required. Call (630) 844-4924 or e-mail artsandideas@aurora.edu.
Alexie's program is part of AU's 2008-2009 Celebrating Arts and Ideas series. Sponsors are Nicor, gold sponsor; City of Aurora, Harris Aurora, Human Resource Management Systems, LLC, Old Second National Bank, and Sodexo, silver sponsors; BFC, Sikich, and Comcast bronze sponsors; and The Beacon News, media support. Before his appearance, Alexie will talk to AU students in three classes.
Also, the public is invited to "Who is Sherman Alexie?" a community symposium led by an AU faculty panel. The symposium is at 1:30 p.m. in The Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, 1400 Marseillaise Place in Aurora. Alexie was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, Wash.
The author of 20 books, he adapted his book "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" into the movie "Smoke Signals." It is believed to be the first movie made by American Indians about American Indians. "Smoke Signals" won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Filmmaker's Trophy in 1998 and was distributed by Miramax films.
The film also received the Christopher Award presented to works that affirm "the highest values of the human spirit." His second movie, an adaptation of his book of poems, "The Business of Fancydancing," was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In 1999, The New Yorker called Alexie one of the top writers for the 21st century.
Alexie, a Spokane/Coeur d'Alene Native American, will speak at 7 p.m. in Crimi Auditorium in the Institute for Collaboration at 407 S. Calumet Ave. in Aurora.
The public is invited. Admission is free. Reservations are required. Call (630) 844-4924 or e-mail artsandideas@aurora.edu.
Alexie's program is part of AU's 2008-2009 Celebrating Arts and Ideas series. Sponsors are Nicor, gold sponsor; City of Aurora, Harris Aurora, Human Resource Management Systems, LLC, Old Second National Bank, and Sodexo, silver sponsors; BFC, Sikich, and Comcast bronze sponsors; and The Beacon News, media support. Before his appearance, Alexie will talk to AU students in three classes.
Also, the public is invited to "Who is Sherman Alexie?" a community symposium led by an AU faculty panel. The symposium is at 1:30 p.m. in The Schingoethe Center for Native American Cultures, 1400 Marseillaise Place in Aurora. Alexie was raised on the Spokane Indian Reservation about 50 miles northwest of Spokane, Wash.
The author of 20 books, he adapted his book "The Lone Ranger and Tonto Fistfight in Heaven" into the movie "Smoke Signals." It is believed to be the first movie made by American Indians about American Indians. "Smoke Signals" won the Sundance Film Festival Audience Award and Filmmaker's Trophy in 1998 and was distributed by Miramax films.
The film also received the Christopher Award presented to works that affirm "the highest values of the human spirit." His second movie, an adaptation of his book of poems, "The Business of Fancydancing," was shown at the Sundance Film Festival in 2002. In 1999, The New Yorker called Alexie one of the top writers for the 21st century.
Nov 19 2008 - Proven Public Relations Writing Secrets
PR and marketing professionals who want to learn inside tips for writing more powerful press materials and helping their company score more front-page and primetime coverage will discover practical techniques at a new audio conference from Bulldog Reporter's PR University: "Write Like a Journalist: Media Wordsmiths Share Proven Copywriting Secrets for Earning More Ink." Attendees will come away with the fundamentals of news sense and compelling story telling -- plus easy techniques to help "think like a journalist" and dramatically boost hit rates.
This exclusive, dial in PR University audio conference takes place on Wednesday, November 19th, at 1PM EST (noon, CST, 11AM MST; 10AM PST). The panel includes working journalists, newsroom writing coaches and PR wordsmiths who successfully pitch copy that is credible, compelling and results-oriented.
This 90-minute interactive call will give public relations professionals practical ideas on what you must know about a target and subject before they pitch -- and how to use these details to strengthen their copy. It will also address the new do's, don'ts and nevers of writing a press release, including common writing mistakes to avoid -- and the fundamentals of good, crisp writing. Here are some of the immediately applicable techniques attendees will cover in this audio conference:
-- New Media Trends: How the Internet and business pressures have changed journalistic writing and reporting -- and what these developments mean to PR copy
-- What really motivates editors and reporters to cover a news story
-- Easy news writing exercises and regimens designed to streamline the writing process
-- Leads That Sell: How to craft the first 25 words of your pitch as a journalist would
-- How to craft quotes and news-bites that journalists can't resist because they contain the words and imagery journalists use themselves
-- Best Practices: Anatomies of stellar press releases and email pitches... plus the magic elements you must make part of every document you craft
Registration also includes an up-to-the-minute conference manual and a full transcript. For more information on taking part in the event, go to our conference home page or phone toll free: 1-800-959-1059.
This exclusive, dial in PR University audio conference takes place on Wednesday, November 19th, at 1PM EST (noon, CST, 11AM MST; 10AM PST). The panel includes working journalists, newsroom writing coaches and PR wordsmiths who successfully pitch copy that is credible, compelling and results-oriented.
This 90-minute interactive call will give public relations professionals practical ideas on what you must know about a target and subject before they pitch -- and how to use these details to strengthen their copy. It will also address the new do's, don'ts and nevers of writing a press release, including common writing mistakes to avoid -- and the fundamentals of good, crisp writing. Here are some of the immediately applicable techniques attendees will cover in this audio conference:
-- New Media Trends: How the Internet and business pressures have changed journalistic writing and reporting -- and what these developments mean to PR copy
-- What really motivates editors and reporters to cover a news story
-- Easy news writing exercises and regimens designed to streamline the writing process
-- Leads That Sell: How to craft the first 25 words of your pitch as a journalist would
-- How to craft quotes and news-bites that journalists can't resist because they contain the words and imagery journalists use themselves
-- Best Practices: Anatomies of stellar press releases and email pitches... plus the magic elements you must make part of every document you craft
Registration also includes an up-to-the-minute conference manual and a full transcript. For more information on taking part in the event, go to our conference home page or phone toll free: 1-800-959-1059.
Nov 18 2008 - Pitt to Host Critically Acclaimed Poet and Novelist Jackie Kay for Reading
Poet and novelist Jackie Kay will deliver a literary reading at 8:30 p.m. Nov. 18, in the University of Pittsburgh's Room 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. The event is free and open to the public.
Kay is the author of the poetry collections "The Adoption Papers" (Bloodaxe Books, 1991) and "Other Lovers" (Bloodaxe Books, 1993), the novel "Trumpet"(Picador, 1998), and the short story collections "Why Don't You Stop Talking" (Picador, 2002) and "Wish I Was Here"(Picador, 2006). Her awards and distinctions include the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for "The Adoption Papers," the Somerset Maugham Award for "Other Lovers," and the Guardian Fiction Prize for "Trumpet". In 2007, she was named the winner of the Arts Council England's Decibel Writer of the Year Award for "Wish I Was Here".
Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961 to a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother. As an infant, she was adopted by a Caucasian couple and raised in a suburb of Glasgow. Her early childhood experiences inspired "The Adoption Papers", which dramatizes her experiences through the creation of three different narrators: an adoptive mother, a birth mother, and a daughter. She has studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Sterling University, where she earned a BA degree in English in 1983. Kay is currently a professor of creative writing at New Castle University.
The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of English in the School of Arts and Sciences, Women's Studies Program, Cultural Studies Program, and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, contact Marianne Novy at
412-624-6516.
Kay is the author of the poetry collections "The Adoption Papers" (Bloodaxe Books, 1991) and "Other Lovers" (Bloodaxe Books, 1993), the novel "Trumpet"(Picador, 1998), and the short story collections "Why Don't You Stop Talking" (Picador, 2002) and "Wish I Was Here"(Picador, 2006). Her awards and distinctions include the Saltire Society Scottish First Book of the Year Award and the Scottish Arts Council Book Award for "The Adoption Papers," the Somerset Maugham Award for "Other Lovers," and the Guardian Fiction Prize for "Trumpet". In 2007, she was named the winner of the Arts Council England's Decibel Writer of the Year Award for "Wish I Was Here".
Kay was born in Edinburgh, Scotland, in 1961 to a Nigerian father and a Scottish mother. As an infant, she was adopted by a Caucasian couple and raised in a suburb of Glasgow. Her early childhood experiences inspired "The Adoption Papers", which dramatizes her experiences through the creation of three different narrators: an adoptive mother, a birth mother, and a daughter. She has studied at the Royal Scottish Academy of Music and Drama and Sterling University, where she earned a BA degree in English in 1983. Kay is currently a professor of creative writing at New Castle University.
The event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of English in the School of Arts and Sciences, Women's Studies Program, Cultural Studies Program, and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, contact Marianne Novy at
412-624-6516.
March 7-8 2009 - "Writing to Sell" - a Series of Writer Workshops
The Southern Cultural Heritage Foundation welcomes Michael Garrett, an internationally published author, as he presents a series of five writer workshops that will give you a jump start into the next level of writing. The workshops will be held March 7-8. Registration for each workshop is $60 for both SCHF & MS Writers Guild Members and $65 for non-members.
Pursuing a life-long dream of writing can be incredibly frustrating. Even the most talented authors face constant rejection. Thousands of hopeful writers strive to be professionally published while few ever realize their dream. Here, in five compact powerful workshops, you'll learn many of the secrets to breaking into print.
The following is the workshop schedule: Fiction Writing for Beginners (Saturday, 9am-12pm); How to Become a Published Author (Saturday, 1pm-4:00pm); Creating your Novel (Saturday, 6pm - 9pm); Writing Your Opening Scene (Sunday, 9am – 1pm); Short Story and Novel Feedback (Sunday, 1pm-4pm).
MICHAEL GARRETT is an internationally respected author and editor. He is the Editorial Associate of the Writer's Digest School, and since 1986 has presented highly acclaimed writing workshops at major colleges and universities across the nation. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Kentucky's Green River Writers. He served as Stephen King's first editor. In a professional capacity he has edited the works of such greats as Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, Lawrence Block and many others. His own work has been widely published since 1979, in periodicals ranging from Twilight Zone magazine to his novel, Keeper, which sold out its initial printing. His works have been published in England, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Finland and Russia.
Space is limited and reservations are required. For more information or to register, please call the SCHF office at 601-631-2997 or email info@southernculture.org.
Pursuing a life-long dream of writing can be incredibly frustrating. Even the most talented authors face constant rejection. Thousands of hopeful writers strive to be professionally published while few ever realize their dream. Here, in five compact powerful workshops, you'll learn many of the secrets to breaking into print.
The following is the workshop schedule: Fiction Writing for Beginners (Saturday, 9am-12pm); How to Become a Published Author (Saturday, 1pm-4:00pm); Creating your Novel (Saturday, 6pm - 9pm); Writing Your Opening Scene (Sunday, 9am – 1pm); Short Story and Novel Feedback (Sunday, 1pm-4pm).
MICHAEL GARRETT is an internationally respected author and editor. He is the Editorial Associate of the Writer's Digest School, and since 1986 has presented highly acclaimed writing workshops at major colleges and universities across the nation. He currently serves on the Advisory Board of Kentucky's Green River Writers. He served as Stephen King's first editor. In a professional capacity he has edited the works of such greats as Joyce Carol Oates, Harlan Ellison, Lawrence Block and many others. His own work has been widely published since 1979, in periodicals ranging from Twilight Zone magazine to his novel, Keeper, which sold out its initial printing. His works have been published in England, Germany, Japan, Italy, the Netherlands, France, Poland, Czechoslovakia, Spain, Finland and Russia.
Space is limited and reservations are required. For more information or to register, please call the SCHF office at 601-631-2997 or email info@southernculture.org.
Sunday, November 9, 2008
Feb 27-28 2009 - Much Ado About Books Event
The Jacksonville Public Library Foundation will be hosting the Ex Libris Gala and Much Ado About Books events in a festive weekend to take place February 27–28, at the Jacksonville Main Library downtown.
As in years past, Much Ado About Books will include author panel discussions, book sales and signings, writing workshops, the interactive Children’s Chapter and celebrity readings, and a multitude of associated activities, all hosted throughout the Jacksonville Main Library. Admission to this book festival is free to the public.
Kicking off the weekend, Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author, will host “Novel Discussions: A Workshop for Writers” on Friday. The book festival workshop will include two morning and two afternoon sessions featuring authors Marisa Carbone Finotti, Anne LeClaire, Paul Malmont, and Carla Neggers.
Bestselling novelist David Baldacci will be the keynote speaker at a brunch held on Friday, where he will present The Young Writers Awards. On Saturday, bestselling novelist, award-winning playwright, television writer and documentary film writer Adriana Trigiani will present a luncheon highlighting her new novel Very Valentine. Both the brunch and luncheon are ticketed book festival events.
Bestselling and award-winning authors Carla Neggers, C.J. Box, Tracy Brown, Janet Cheatham Bell, Anne LeClaire, John Stauffer, Paul Malmont and Alex Flinn will also participate in the upcoming Much Ado About Books festival.
Celebrity panel moderators and Children’s Chapter readers include Mayor John Peyton, with exciting additions to be announced. Children and families are invited to explore the Children’s Chapter free of charge from 9:00 a.m. until noon in the Children’s Library on February 28, which will feature prominent children’s authors, hands-on activities, celebrity readings, costumed characters and book signings.
Proceeds from ticketed events including the Ex Libris Gala and Much Ado About Books author luncheons support the identified annual priorities of the Jacksonville Public Library system, through the Library Foundation.
For more information regarding this book festival, visit http://www.muchadoaboutbooks.com/, or call the Library Foundation office at 904-630-1995.
As in years past, Much Ado About Books will include author panel discussions, book sales and signings, writing workshops, the interactive Children’s Chapter and celebrity readings, and a multitude of associated activities, all hosted throughout the Jacksonville Main Library. Admission to this book festival is free to the public.
Kicking off the weekend, Steve Berry, New York Times bestselling author, will host “Novel Discussions: A Workshop for Writers” on Friday. The book festival workshop will include two morning and two afternoon sessions featuring authors Marisa Carbone Finotti, Anne LeClaire, Paul Malmont, and Carla Neggers.
Bestselling novelist David Baldacci will be the keynote speaker at a brunch held on Friday, where he will present The Young Writers Awards. On Saturday, bestselling novelist, award-winning playwright, television writer and documentary film writer Adriana Trigiani will present a luncheon highlighting her new novel Very Valentine. Both the brunch and luncheon are ticketed book festival events.
Bestselling and award-winning authors Carla Neggers, C.J. Box, Tracy Brown, Janet Cheatham Bell, Anne LeClaire, John Stauffer, Paul Malmont and Alex Flinn will also participate in the upcoming Much Ado About Books festival.
Celebrity panel moderators and Children’s Chapter readers include Mayor John Peyton, with exciting additions to be announced. Children and families are invited to explore the Children’s Chapter free of charge from 9:00 a.m. until noon in the Children’s Library on February 28, which will feature prominent children’s authors, hands-on activities, celebrity readings, costumed characters and book signings.
Proceeds from ticketed events including the Ex Libris Gala and Much Ado About Books author luncheons support the identified annual priorities of the Jacksonville Public Library system, through the Library Foundation.
For more information regarding this book festival, visit http://www.muchadoaboutbooks.com/, or call the Library Foundation office at 904-630-1995.
Jan 2009 - Search Engine Marketing Bootcamp for PR Professionals
PR and marketing professionals who want to learn valuable insights, tips, and tools of search engine public relations will discover practical strategies at a new workshop from Bulldog Reporter's PR University: "Search Engine Marketing Bootcamp for PR Professionals." Attendees will come away with actionable steps on how to distribute their releases directly to prospects and investors, boost website traffic, attract more visitors to their corporate blogs, videos and social media postings and directly sell more products and services -- starting immediately.
These four one-day PR University workshops take place nationwide this January 2009: Monday, January 12th, San Francisco; Wednesday, January 14, Chicago; Friday, January 16, Washington D.C.; Monday, January 19, New York. The presenter is top-rated new-PR-technology trainer Mike Moran, Co-Author, "Search Engine Marketing, Inc." and Author, "Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules."
This intensive hands-on workshop will give public relations professionals practical techniques and inside tips on how to use SEM in today's PR strategies and how to sell search campaigns to top management. It will also address how search engines work to find websites and PR and marketing materials, and what one can do to influence organic and paid search results. Here are some of the valuable and immediately applicable techniques attendees will cover in this workshop:
-- How to integrate search into every PR program
-- Keep your SEM program accountable: How to set measurable goals
-- How to create powerful searchable keywords for your company and
products
-- How to optimize press releases and other PR materials to increase
communication directly to a marketplace
Registration fees for this workshop are $995 for the first participant with special rates for any additional participants. All registrations received before Wednesday, December 31, 2008, are reduced by $100.
For more information on taking part in this one-day intensive workshop, go to the conference home page, print our 4-page brochure or call 1-800-959-1059
These four one-day PR University workshops take place nationwide this January 2009: Monday, January 12th, San Francisco; Wednesday, January 14, Chicago; Friday, January 16, Washington D.C.; Monday, January 19, New York. The presenter is top-rated new-PR-technology trainer Mike Moran, Co-Author, "Search Engine Marketing, Inc." and Author, "Do It Wrong Quickly: How the Web Changes the Old Marketing Rules."
This intensive hands-on workshop will give public relations professionals practical techniques and inside tips on how to use SEM in today's PR strategies and how to sell search campaigns to top management. It will also address how search engines work to find websites and PR and marketing materials, and what one can do to influence organic and paid search results. Here are some of the valuable and immediately applicable techniques attendees will cover in this workshop:
-- How to integrate search into every PR program
-- Keep your SEM program accountable: How to set measurable goals
-- How to create powerful searchable keywords for your company and
products
-- How to optimize press releases and other PR materials to increase
communication directly to a marketplace
Registration fees for this workshop are $995 for the first participant with special rates for any additional participants. All registrations received before Wednesday, December 31, 2008, are reduced by $100.
For more information on taking part in this one-day intensive workshop, go to the conference home page, print our 4-page brochure or call 1-800-959-1059
Nov 13-15 2008 - Creating a Usable Past: Writers, Archives and Institutions
The Harry Ransom Center, a humanities research library and museum at The University of Texas at Austin, will webcast the Fleur Cowles Flair Symposium, "Creating a Usable Past: Writers, Archives and Institutions," from Nov. 13 to15.
The symposium events will be webcast at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/webcast/.
International participants and speakers range from authors Lee Blessing, Tim O'Brien, Denis Johnson and Amy Tan to National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia, Bodleian Library Associate Director Richard Ovenden, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Director Frank Turner, Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library Director Stephen Enniss and Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley.
The symposium will examine the role of archives in preserving and contributing to our understanding of culture. Panel topics include "Writers on the Future of Reading," "Building the Archive," "The Archive on the Market," "Transforming the Archive," "The Changing Shape of Archives" and "Looking Forward to Preserve the Past."
The schedule of events is available at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/flair/schedule/.
"The belief in the value of studying the creative process continues to be at the heart of the work of research libraries," said Staley. "During the Flair Symposium, writers, archivists, dealers, agents and scholars will seek to understand better the forces that create, protect, provide access to and interpret literary archives."
The symposium is held in conjunction with the Ransom Center's exhibition "The Mystique of the Archive," which uses the lens of the Harry Ransom Center to explore both the archiving of our culture and the culture surrounding archives. Drawing on the Center's extensive holdings of the imaginative creations of writers and artists, the exhibition illustrates the diverse nature of archives and their myriad uses.
The Flair Symposium, held biennially at the Ransom Center, honors the ideals set forth by Fleur Cowles and her landmark "Flair" magazine.
The symposium events will be webcast at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/multimedia/webcast/.
International participants and speakers range from authors Lee Blessing, Tim O'Brien, Denis Johnson and Amy Tan to National Endowment for the Arts Chairman Dana Gioia, Bodleian Library Associate Director Richard Ovenden, Beinecke Rare Book and Manuscript Library Director Frank Turner, Emory's Manuscript, Archives and Rare Book Library Director Stephen Enniss and Ransom Center Director Thomas F. Staley.
The symposium will examine the role of archives in preserving and contributing to our understanding of culture. Panel topics include "Writers on the Future of Reading," "Building the Archive," "The Archive on the Market," "Transforming the Archive," "The Changing Shape of Archives" and "Looking Forward to Preserve the Past."
The schedule of events is available at http://www.hrc.utexas.edu/flair/schedule/.
"The belief in the value of studying the creative process continues to be at the heart of the work of research libraries," said Staley. "During the Flair Symposium, writers, archivists, dealers, agents and scholars will seek to understand better the forces that create, protect, provide access to and interpret literary archives."
The symposium is held in conjunction with the Ransom Center's exhibition "The Mystique of the Archive," which uses the lens of the Harry Ransom Center to explore both the archiving of our culture and the culture surrounding archives. Drawing on the Center's extensive holdings of the imaginative creations of writers and artists, the exhibition illustrates the diverse nature of archives and their myriad uses.
The Flair Symposium, held biennially at the Ransom Center, honors the ideals set forth by Fleur Cowles and her landmark "Flair" magazine.
Dec 6 2008 - Book Publishing Workshop - Nashville, TN
Many people want to write a book. Some people have a fascinating life story to tell, some have the ability to write poetry that can move your soul, but few people have the information and know how to transform their writing talents into a book.
On Saturday, December 6, 2008, The National Writers' Empowerment Conference & Book Expo will be hosting a Book Publishing Workshop. The workshop will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Holiday Inn Select, Nashville Opryland-Airport, 2200 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, TN 37214. The cost for the workshop is $125.00 which includes workshop material, lunch and a book publishing training manual.
Guest speakers include author and book publishing consultant Renee Bobb. She has published nine books to date. Two of her most popular books include, Turning Your Dreams Into Reality, the Proven Way to Successfully Start Your Own Business and The Self-Publishing Process, The Beginners guide to Book Publishing Success. One of the highlights of Renee's career is having the opportunity to host and produce her own TV Talk Show called “The Author's Review”, which airs on the Public Broadcast Station in Richmond , VA , Charlottesville , VA and Staten Island , NY . Her show reaches over 2 million households.
Renee's TV Show has won the 2006-2007 Broadcast of Excellence Award for Charlottesville Comcast Cable. In December of 2009 "The Author's Review" will air on Channel 19 in Nashville, TN. Renee has recently launched “The Renee Bobb Radio Show” which airs every Tuesday on www.BlogTalkRadio.com/TheReneeBobbShow. Because of the success Renee has experienced as an author, it is her goal to share her success strategies and the book publishing process with others.
Participants will also hear from Tanya Brockett, Lead Editor of Hallagen Publishing, and other local author who have written and published books.
This book publishing workshop is designed to give individuals practical steps on how to successfully publish their books. Individuals will learn how to break into the publishing market, the seven steps to publishing success, how to market their books for success, how to prepare a manuscript for publishing, and much more.
As beginners in the publishing industry, many of the past workshop participants have found this workshop to be extremely educational and informative, as well as motivational. Additionally, the participants found value in having book publishing information provided by years of experience rather than just textbook theory.
On Saturday, December 6, 2008, The National Writers' Empowerment Conference & Book Expo will be hosting a Book Publishing Workshop. The workshop will be held from 10:00 AM to 2:00 PM at Holiday Inn Select, Nashville Opryland-Airport, 2200 Elm Hill Pike, Nashville, TN 37214. The cost for the workshop is $125.00 which includes workshop material, lunch and a book publishing training manual.
Guest speakers include author and book publishing consultant Renee Bobb. She has published nine books to date. Two of her most popular books include, Turning Your Dreams Into Reality, the Proven Way to Successfully Start Your Own Business and The Self-Publishing Process, The Beginners guide to Book Publishing Success. One of the highlights of Renee's career is having the opportunity to host and produce her own TV Talk Show called “The Author's Review”, which airs on the Public Broadcast Station in Richmond , VA , Charlottesville , VA and Staten Island , NY . Her show reaches over 2 million households.
Renee's TV Show has won the 2006-2007 Broadcast of Excellence Award for Charlottesville Comcast Cable. In December of 2009 "The Author's Review" will air on Channel 19 in Nashville, TN. Renee has recently launched “The Renee Bobb Radio Show” which airs every Tuesday on www.BlogTalkRadio.com/TheReneeBobbShow. Because of the success Renee has experienced as an author, it is her goal to share her success strategies and the book publishing process with others.
Participants will also hear from Tanya Brockett, Lead Editor of Hallagen Publishing, and other local author who have written and published books.
This book publishing workshop is designed to give individuals practical steps on how to successfully publish their books. Individuals will learn how to break into the publishing market, the seven steps to publishing success, how to market their books for success, how to prepare a manuscript for publishing, and much more.
As beginners in the publishing industry, many of the past workshop participants have found this workshop to be extremely educational and informative, as well as motivational. Additionally, the participants found value in having book publishing information provided by years of experience rather than just textbook theory.
Nov 21-22 2008 - Washington University and Cinema St. Louis to present Fifth Annual Children's Film Symposium
Washington University's Center for the Humanities and Program in Film & Media Studies, both in Arts & Sciences, will host their Fifth Annual Children's Film Symposium Friday and Saturday, Nov. 21 and 22.
Presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis, the festival will feature five screenings as well as introductions and post-show discussions by a half-dozen of the films' creators.
All events are free and open to the public. The first screening, Pixar Shorts, will take place in the auditorium of the Saint Louis Art Museum. All other events take place in Brown Hall Auditorium, located near the intersection of Forysth Boulevard and Hoyt Drive.
For more information, please call the Center for the Humanities at ( 314 ) 935-5576.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21
Auditorium, Saint Louis Art Museum
Pixar Shorts ( 2007 )
Introduction and Q&A by Jeremy Lasky
Pixar Shorts features a dozen rare theatrical shorts spanning the history of Disney/Pixar, the studio responsible for such modern family classics as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. Introducing the screening will be Jeremy Lasky, a director of photography for Pixar, who also will conduct a post-show Q&A.
Noon, Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
Matchmaker Mary ( 2008 )
Q&A with Tom Whitus and Jilanne Barnes
Shot in Lee's Summit, MO, this family-friendly tale stars Dee Wallace, a former Kansas City resident best known for her role as Mary in E.T.: The Extra Terrestial; and Katherine McNamara, a 12-year-old Lee's Summit native making her screen debut. The story centers on Mary Carver, a sixth grader ( played by McNamara ) who attempts to broker romance between two lonely people she meets at an animal shelter, where all three are adopting puppies. Following the screening will be a Q&A session with director Tom Whitus and with costar Jilanne Barnes.
2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
The Flyboys ( 2008 )
Post-show discussion with Lisle Moore
Directed by Rocco DeVilliers and featuring Stephen Baldwin and Tom Sizemore, this rollicking adventure won best film at the 2008 Sedona Film Festival. The story follows two small town boys ( played by Jesse James and Reiley McClendon ) whose courage is tested when they accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob. Followed by a talk with producer Lisle Moore.
5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
The Making of WALL-E ( 2008 )
Reception for Jeremy Lasky
Peak behind the scenes of WALL-E, the recent theatrical offering by Disney/Pixar. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton, whose previous credits include A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, the computer-animated tale follows a wide-eyed robot ( whose name stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" ) as he travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend — and the only friend he's ever had. Followed by a reception for Pixar's Lasky.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
King of the Hill ( 1993 )
( PG-13, for mild profanity and one implied sexual situation. )
Attendees include Ron Yerxa and Carrie Houk
Based on the memoir by Washington University alumnus A.E. Hotchner and adapted and directed by Steven Soderbergh, King of the Hill stars Jesse Bradford as 12-year-old Aaron Kurlander. Separated from his parents and younger brother, Aaron must fend for himself while living in a run-down hotel in Depression-era St. Louis. Attendees will include producer Ron Yerxa and local casting direct
Presented in conjunction with Cinema St. Louis, the festival will feature five screenings as well as introductions and post-show discussions by a half-dozen of the films' creators.
All events are free and open to the public. The first screening, Pixar Shorts, will take place in the auditorium of the Saint Louis Art Museum. All other events take place in Brown Hall Auditorium, located near the intersection of Forysth Boulevard and Hoyt Drive.
For more information, please call the Center for the Humanities at ( 314 ) 935-5576.
SCHEDULE OF EVENTS
7 p.m. Friday, Nov. 21
Auditorium, Saint Louis Art Museum
Pixar Shorts ( 2007 )
Introduction and Q&A by Jeremy Lasky
Pixar Shorts features a dozen rare theatrical shorts spanning the history of Disney/Pixar, the studio responsible for such modern family classics as Toy Story, Monsters, Inc. and Finding Nemo. Introducing the screening will be Jeremy Lasky, a director of photography for Pixar, who also will conduct a post-show Q&A.
Noon, Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
Matchmaker Mary ( 2008 )
Q&A with Tom Whitus and Jilanne Barnes
Shot in Lee's Summit, MO, this family-friendly tale stars Dee Wallace, a former Kansas City resident best known for her role as Mary in E.T.: The Extra Terrestial; and Katherine McNamara, a 12-year-old Lee's Summit native making her screen debut. The story centers on Mary Carver, a sixth grader ( played by McNamara ) who attempts to broker romance between two lonely people she meets at an animal shelter, where all three are adopting puppies. Following the screening will be a Q&A session with director Tom Whitus and with costar Jilanne Barnes.
2:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
The Flyboys ( 2008 )
Post-show discussion with Lisle Moore
Directed by Rocco DeVilliers and featuring Stephen Baldwin and Tom Sizemore, this rollicking adventure won best film at the 2008 Sedona Film Festival. The story follows two small town boys ( played by Jesse James and Reiley McClendon ) whose courage is tested when they accidentally stow away aboard an airplane owned by the mob. Followed by a talk with producer Lisle Moore.
5 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
The Making of WALL-E ( 2008 )
Reception for Jeremy Lasky
Peak behind the scenes of WALL-E, the recent theatrical offering by Disney/Pixar. Written and directed by Andrew Stanton, whose previous credits include A Bug's Life and Finding Nemo, the computer-animated tale follows a wide-eyed robot ( whose name stands for "Waste Allocation Load Lifter Earth-Class" ) as he travels to the deepest reaches of outer space in search of a newfound friend — and the only friend he's ever had. Followed by a reception for Pixar's Lasky.
7:30 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 22
Brown Hall Auditorium
King of the Hill ( 1993 )
( PG-13, for mild profanity and one implied sexual situation. )
Attendees include Ron Yerxa and Carrie Houk
Based on the memoir by Washington University alumnus A.E. Hotchner and adapted and directed by Steven Soderbergh, King of the Hill stars Jesse Bradford as 12-year-old Aaron Kurlander. Separated from his parents and younger brother, Aaron must fend for himself while living in a run-down hotel in Depression-era St. Louis. Attendees will include producer Ron Yerxa and local casting direct
Nov 20 2008 - IABC Offers Social Media Tips, Training in Online Media
Communications maven Steve Crescenzo offers professional communicators tips on leveraging social media at a luncheon and workshop Nov. 20 at the Forum Conference Center in One Cleveland Center, 1375 E. 9th St. downtown. The luncheon focuses on "Ten Things Social Media Can Do for You, Your Organization and Your Career -- No Matter What Industry You Are In -- Right Now," while the workshop covers "Effective Online Communication 2.0 ... Without Hallucinations."
Event registration, sponsored by IABC Cleveland, begins at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon runs from noon to 1:30 p.m. and the workshop takes place from 1:30-4:30 p.m. The luncheon costs $30 for IABC members, $40 for non-members and $10 for students, while both the luncheon and workshop is priced at $130 for members, $140 for non-members and $30 for students. Online registration is available at http://www.iabccleveland.com.
Most organizations have been unable to keep up with the pace of change in the online world. Crescenzo will explain how to take advantage of the myriad multimedia and social media opportunities available in his fun and informative discussion.
The seminar use dozens of real-life case studies. You'll see how successful organizations are using various online tools to reach, engage, motivate and educate their various audiences. Workshop participants will learn:
-- To use and write for the latest tools such as blogs, podcasts and interactive video to help achieve business goals
-- To coach executives on using the new tools and overcoming their fear of social media
-- To build successful web sites and intranets based on the "Holy Trinity" of modern online communication: interactivity, multimedia and informational content
-- The five things you must do to communicate successfully in a Web 2.0 world
Through his work as a consultant, writer and seminar leader, Crescenzo has helped thousands of communicators in North America, South America and Europe improve their print, electronic, face-to-face and social-media communication efforts. He has twice been rated the top-rated speaker at IABC's International Conference.
Event registration, sponsored by IABC Cleveland, begins at 11:30 a.m. The luncheon runs from noon to 1:30 p.m. and the workshop takes place from 1:30-4:30 p.m. The luncheon costs $30 for IABC members, $40 for non-members and $10 for students, while both the luncheon and workshop is priced at $130 for members, $140 for non-members and $30 for students. Online registration is available at http://www.iabccleveland.com.
Most organizations have been unable to keep up with the pace of change in the online world. Crescenzo will explain how to take advantage of the myriad multimedia and social media opportunities available in his fun and informative discussion.
The seminar use dozens of real-life case studies. You'll see how successful organizations are using various online tools to reach, engage, motivate and educate their various audiences. Workshop participants will learn:
-- To use and write for the latest tools such as blogs, podcasts and interactive video to help achieve business goals
-- To coach executives on using the new tools and overcoming their fear of social media
-- To build successful web sites and intranets based on the "Holy Trinity" of modern online communication: interactivity, multimedia and informational content
-- The five things you must do to communicate successfully in a Web 2.0 world
Through his work as a consultant, writer and seminar leader, Crescenzo has helped thousands of communicators in North America, South America and Europe improve their print, electronic, face-to-face and social-media communication efforts. He has twice been rated the top-rated speaker at IABC's International Conference.
Sunday, November 2, 2008
Nov 13 2008 - Historian And Writer Doris Kearns Goodwin To Lecture At Shu
Sacred Heart University's Student Affairs Lecture Series will host Doris Kearns Goodwin on Thursday, November 13th, at 7 P.M. She will discuss her latest work, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln. The event commemorates the Bicentennial of Abraham Lincoln's birth, which is being observed nationwide in 2008-2009.
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $5 for SHU students, staff and faculty ( limited to 1 per person ). The lecture will take place in the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield.
A world-renowned historian, Mrs. Goodwin is a former aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a one-time Harvard professor. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a widely respected expert on the American presidency.
Mrs. Goodwin has been reporting on politics and baseball for over two decades. She is the author of several books and has written for leading national publications. She is a commentator for NBC, and a consultant and on-air personality for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ken Burns' The History of Baseball. She was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.
Her most recent work, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, published in October 2005, joined the best-seller lists on its first week in publication, and soon reached #1 on the New York Times Best-Seller List. Team of Rivals won the 2006 Lincoln Prize for an outstanding work about the president and/or the Civil War, the inaugural New York Historical Society Book Prize, the Richard Nelson Current award and the New York State Archives History Makers Award.
Website: www.sacredheart.edu
Tickets are $15 for general admission and $5 for SHU students, staff and faculty ( limited to 1 per person ). The lecture will take place in the Edgerton Center for the Performing Arts, 5151 Park Avenue, Fairfield.
A world-renowned historian, Mrs. Goodwin is a former aide to President Lyndon B. Johnson and a one-time Harvard professor. She is a Pulitzer Prize-winning author and a widely respected expert on the American presidency.
Mrs. Goodwin has been reporting on politics and baseball for over two decades. She is the author of several books and has written for leading national publications. She is a commentator for NBC, and a consultant and on-air personality for PBS documentaries on Lyndon B. Johnson, the Kennedy Family, Franklin Roosevelt, and Ken Burns' The History of Baseball. She was the first female journalist to enter the Red Sox locker room.
Her most recent work, Team of Rivals: The Political Genius of Abraham Lincoln, published in October 2005, joined the best-seller lists on its first week in publication, and soon reached #1 on the New York Times Best-Seller List. Team of Rivals won the 2006 Lincoln Prize for an outstanding work about the president and/or the Civil War, the inaugural New York Historical Society Book Prize, the Richard Nelson Current award and the New York State Archives History Makers Award.
Website: www.sacredheart.edu
Nov 12-19 2008 - University of Pittsburgh Calendar of Events
11/12 Kathy Johnston-Keane, a doctoral candidate in Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture, will deliver a lecture titled "Caravaggio, Spanish Citizen and 'Italian' Painter: Evidence of Iberian-Italian Cultural Hybridization in Baroque Art" at noon, 203 Frick Fine Arts Building, 650 Schenley Dr., Oakland.. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of the History of Art and Architecture. For more information, call 412-648-2400 or visit www.events.haa.pitt.edu/index.php.
11/12 Peter de Vries, a doctoral candidate in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences, will deliver a lecture titled "The Apocalyptic Genre Considered by the Light of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics" at noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Religious Studies. For more information, visit www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/events/.
11/12 Jessica Enoch, a professor in Pitt's Department of English, will deliver a lecture titled "There's No Place Like the Childcare Center: Rhetorics of Domestic Space in Post-World War II America" at noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Women's Studies Program. For more information, visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu.
11/12 Takyiwaa Manuh, director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana at Legon, will deliver a lecture titled "Confronting Gender-Based Violence in Africa: Legislative Actions and Inactions" at 4 p.m., Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the Good Afternoon Africa Lecture Series sponsored by Pitt's African Studies Program in the University Center for International Studies. For more information, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/Africa.
11/13 Mason Kim, a doctoral candidate in Pitt's Department of Political Science, will deliver a lecture titled "Globalization and Social Protection in South Korea and Singapore" at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Mason Kim at myk2@pitt.edu or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/news/overlunch.html.
11/13 Árpád von Klimó, a professor in Pitt's Department of History, will deliver a lecture titled "From Nationalism to 'Third Worldism'? The Changing Self-Image of Catholics in Hungary and Italy During the Cold War" at 3 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of History. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.
11/13 Ben Edwards, a professor in Dickinson College's Department of Geology, will deliver a lecture titled "The Importance of Being Pillowed: Using Glaciovolcanism to Constrain Terrestrial Paleoclimate" at 4 p.m., 203 Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. This event is part of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science Fall 2008 Colloquium Series. For more information, visit www.geology.pitt.edu/colloquium.html.
11/13 Russell Banks, author of "The Reserve" (Harper Collins, 2008) and "Cloudsplitter" (Harper Collins, 1999), will deliver a literary reading at 8:30 p.m., David Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series. For more information, contact Jeff Oaks at oaks@pitt.edu.
11/14 Ellen Nerenberg, a professor in Wesleyan University's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will deliver the Nicolas C. Tucci Lecture titled, "Murder, Real and Represented: The 'Caso Cogne' and Contemporary Italian Narrative" at 5 p.m., 144 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures and European Studies Center. For more information, contact Monika Losagio at 412-624-5221 or losagio@pitt.edu.
11/18 Jackie Kay, poet and author of "The Adoption Papers" (BloodAxe Books, 1991), will deliver a literary reading at 8:30 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Women' s Studies Program and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu.
11/12 Peter de Vries, a doctoral candidate in Pitt's School of Arts and Sciences, will deliver a lecture titled "The Apocalyptic Genre Considered by the Light of Ricoeur's Hermeneutics" at noon, 2628 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of Religious Studies. For more information, visit www.religiousstudies.pitt.edu/events/.
11/12 Jessica Enoch, a professor in Pitt's Department of English, will deliver a lecture titled "There's No Place Like the Childcare Center: Rhetorics of Domestic Space in Post-World War II America" at noon, 2201 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Women's Studies Program. For more information, visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu.
11/12 Takyiwaa Manuh, director of the Institute of African Studies at the University of Ghana at Legon, will deliver a lecture titled "Confronting Gender-Based Violence in Africa: Legislative Actions and Inactions" at 4 p.m., Kurtzman Room, William Pitt Union, 3959 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the Good Afternoon Africa Lecture Series sponsored by Pitt's African Studies Program in the University Center for International Studies. For more information, visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/Africa.
11/13 Mason Kim, a doctoral candidate in Pitt's Department of Political Science, will deliver a lecture titled "Globalization and Social Protection in South Korea and Singapore" at noon, 4130 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is part of the Asia Over Lunch Lecture Series. For more information, contact Mason Kim at myk2@pitt.edu or visit www.ucis.pitt.edu/asc/news/overlunch.html.
11/13 Árpád von Klimó, a professor in Pitt's Department of History, will deliver a lecture titled "From Nationalism to 'Third Worldism'? The Changing Self-Image of Catholics in Hungary and Italy During the Cold War" at 3 p.m., 3703 Posvar Hall, 230 S. Bouquet St., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of History. For more information, visit www.pitt.edu/~pitthist/news/lectures/index.html.
11/13 Ben Edwards, a professor in Dickinson College's Department of Geology, will deliver a lecture titled "The Importance of Being Pillowed: Using Glaciovolcanism to Constrain Terrestrial Paleoclimate" at 4 p.m., 203 Thaw Hall, 3943 O'Hara St., Oakland. This event is part of the Department of Geology and Planetary Science Fall 2008 Colloquium Series. For more information, visit www.geology.pitt.edu/colloquium.html.
11/13 Russell Banks, author of "The Reserve" (Harper Collins, 2008) and "Cloudsplitter" (Harper Collins, 1999), will deliver a literary reading at 8:30 p.m., David Lawrence Hall, 3942 Forbes Ave., Oakland. This event is part of the Pittsburgh Contemporary Writers Series. For more information, contact Jeff Oaks at oaks@pitt.edu.
11/14 Ellen Nerenberg, a professor in Wesleyan University's Department of Romance Languages and Literatures, will deliver the Nicolas C. Tucci Lecture titled, "Murder, Real and Represented: The 'Caso Cogne' and Contemporary Italian Narrative" at 5 p.m., 144 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Department of French and Italian Languages and Literatures and European Studies Center. For more information, contact Monika Losagio at 412-624-5221 or losagio@pitt.edu.
11/18 Jackie Kay, poet and author of "The Adoption Papers" (BloodAxe Books, 1991), will deliver a literary reading at 8:30 p.m., 501 Cathedral of Learning, 4200 Fifth Ave., Oakland. This event is sponsored by Pitt's Women' s Studies Program and the Pittsburgh Consortium for Adoption Studies. For more information, visit www.wstudies.pitt.edu.
Nov 8 2008 - International Writing Program's Falkner reads from new novel
Brian Falkner, the New Zealand author who is in residence this fall in the University of Iowa International Writing Program ( IWP ), will read from and discuss his new novel, "The Tomorrow Code," in a free event at 1 p.m. Saturday, Nov. 8, in the Prairie Lights bookstore at 15 S. Dubuque St. in downtown Iowa City. "The Tomorrow Code" was released internationally on Oct. 28.
Falkner's main characters, teenagers Tane and Rebecca, aren't sure what to make of a message they receive -- a sequence of 1s and 0s. Working to decode it, however, they conclude that the message contains lottery numbers -- numbers that win the next random draw.
Suddenly they are rich, but who sent the numbers? And why? More messages follow, and slowly it becomes clear: The messages are being sent back in time from Tane and Rebecca's future. Something there has gone horribly wrong, and it's up to them to prevent it from happening. As they follow the messages' cryptic instructions, they begin to suspect the worst -- the very survival of the human race may be at stake.
Falkner's first book, "Henry and the Flea" ( "The Flea Thing" in later release outside New Zealand ), was nominated for the Esther Glen Medal and listed as a notable book by the Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand. Since then he has published two more highly successful books for young readers, "The Real Thing" and "The Super Freak."
Read a recent UI feature about Falkner at http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/september/091708falkner-iwp.html, and visit his Web site at http://www.brianfalkner.com.
The Web site for "The Tomorrow Code" is http://www.tomorrowcode.com/.
Biographies of the writers in residence this fall at the IWP are accessible at http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/index.html.
For UI arts information and calendar updates, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa.
Falkner's main characters, teenagers Tane and Rebecca, aren't sure what to make of a message they receive -- a sequence of 1s and 0s. Working to decode it, however, they conclude that the message contains lottery numbers -- numbers that win the next random draw.
Suddenly they are rich, but who sent the numbers? And why? More messages follow, and slowly it becomes clear: The messages are being sent back in time from Tane and Rebecca's future. Something there has gone horribly wrong, and it's up to them to prevent it from happening. As they follow the messages' cryptic instructions, they begin to suspect the worst -- the very survival of the human race may be at stake.
Falkner's first book, "Henry and the Flea" ( "The Flea Thing" in later release outside New Zealand ), was nominated for the Esther Glen Medal and listed as a notable book by the Children's Literature Foundation of New Zealand. Since then he has published two more highly successful books for young readers, "The Real Thing" and "The Super Freak."
Read a recent UI feature about Falkner at http://www.news-releases.uiowa.edu/2008/september/091708falkner-iwp.html, and visit his Web site at http://www.brianfalkner.com.
The Web site for "The Tomorrow Code" is http://www.tomorrowcode.com/.
Biographies of the writers in residence this fall at the IWP are accessible at http://iwp.uiowa.edu/writers/index.html.
For UI arts information and calendar updates, visit http://www.uiowa.edu/artsiowa.
Nov 18 2008 - 31st Annual National Press Club Book Fair and Authors' Night
Supreme Court Justice Antonin Scalia, veteran journalists Helen Thomas and Roger Mudd, and professional wrestler Bret Hart will join 90 other authors at the 31st Annual National Press Club Book Fair on Nov. 18.
The fair, which is open to the public, will also feature Senator Mel Martinez, Kerry Kennedy, youngest daughter of Robert Kennedy, sports author William Nack, Russell Baker and Jim Wooten, (featuring the work of their friend and colleague, the late David Halberstam) James Reston, Jr., former "Dukes of Hazzard" star, former Rep. Ben Jones, adventure author Stephen Coonts and historian Eleanor Herman.
Renowned artist, Wendell Minor, whose illustrations have graced over 2000 books, including the covers of bestsellers for David McCullough, has designed and commemorative poster for this year's event. Mr. Minor will be in attendance along with Loretta and Linda Sanchez (the first-ever sisters in the House of Representatives), Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Senator Jim DeMint, celebrity chefs including Bon Appetit editor-in-chief Barbara Fairchild, Kennedy family chef Neil Connolly, and "Made in Spain" star Jose Andres.
All authors will be in present to sign their books. However, no outside books are permitted. Admission is $5 for non-members. Club members are admitted at no charge.
For more than three decades, Washington-area residents have stocked up on holiday gifts at this prestigious event. Guests will find everything from historical authors dressed in period costume to cookbook authors with samples of their favorite recipes. The National Press Club Book Fair offers something for everyone.
A portion of the proceeds from the event benefit the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, the Club's 501(c) 3 organization, which runs a world-class research facility for journalists and provides extensive training to journalists to prepare them to meet the challenges of a changing profession.
The National Press Club is located at the corner or 14th and F and two blocks from Metro Center. The event is open from 5:30 p.m. -8:30 p.m. For a complete list of authors, to register, and for more information, go to www.press.org.
The fair, which is open to the public, will also feature Senator Mel Martinez, Kerry Kennedy, youngest daughter of Robert Kennedy, sports author William Nack, Russell Baker and Jim Wooten, (featuring the work of their friend and colleague, the late David Halberstam) James Reston, Jr., former "Dukes of Hazzard" star, former Rep. Ben Jones, adventure author Stephen Coonts and historian Eleanor Herman.
Renowned artist, Wendell Minor, whose illustrations have graced over 2000 books, including the covers of bestsellers for David McCullough, has designed and commemorative poster for this year's event. Mr. Minor will be in attendance along with Loretta and Linda Sanchez (the first-ever sisters in the House of Representatives), Congresswoman Barbara Lee, Senator Jim DeMint, celebrity chefs including Bon Appetit editor-in-chief Barbara Fairchild, Kennedy family chef Neil Connolly, and "Made in Spain" star Jose Andres.
All authors will be in present to sign their books. However, no outside books are permitted. Admission is $5 for non-members. Club members are admitted at no charge.
For more than three decades, Washington-area residents have stocked up on holiday gifts at this prestigious event. Guests will find everything from historical authors dressed in period costume to cookbook authors with samples of their favorite recipes. The National Press Club Book Fair offers something for everyone.
A portion of the proceeds from the event benefit the Eric Friedheim National Journalism Library, the Club's 501(c) 3 organization, which runs a world-class research facility for journalists and provides extensive training to journalists to prepare them to meet the challenges of a changing profession.
The National Press Club is located at the corner or 14th and F and two blocks from Metro Center. The event is open from 5:30 p.m. -8:30 p.m. For a complete list of authors, to register, and for more information, go to www.press.org.
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