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Posts Tagged ‘Writers Resources’
Women WRITE Now!
Monday, March 14th, 2011| Women WRITE Now! A seminar for women writers and women who want to write |
Do you want:  ~ advice about how to find an agent? ~ to find out how to sustain/improve your writing life? ~ to connect with experts in social media and self-publishing? ~ to understand the fast paced changes happening in the book industry? |
Marita Golden’s E-Newsletter – February 2011
Thursday, February 17th, 2011Finding Time to Write!
The voice on the phone was tinged with desperation and confusion. The question was sincere and very simple: how do I get back my “flow” how do I regain the ability to write regularly and with power? The writer had attended a weeklong writing workshop where her novel was praised as compelling and skillful. Buoyed by the response to her writing she returned home but found that within a few weeks she had “lost” the ability to keep writing, that the inspiration that had carried her through the uncharted waters of the first 100 pages was now gone, faded, a distant memory she could no longer conjure or even remember. Her 9-5 and the demands of her life as wife and mother now seemed to have colonized all the time she once had used to write. The story was in her heart, filled her mind, but suddenly she just wasn’t’ “feeling” the story and now couldn’t find the time to write and felt guilty and depressed.
Marita Golden’s E-Newsletter – August 2010
Friday, August 6th, 2010Next Generation of Black Writers
From Left to Right - Abdul, Nkenge, Marita, Stacia, & Jalal
Remember these names-Abdul Ali, Jalal Naeem, Stacia Yearwood, and Nkenge Feagin. These are writers who represent the best of the next generation of Black writers. Each one has been accepted by the MFA Graduate Creative Writing Program at American University and will begin the program in September. There writers, two poets and two fiction writer are symbols of the promise and healthy of the future of African American writing.