| WV Writers will host the 24th State Writers Conference June 8-10
At Cedar Lakes Conference Center, Ripley, West Virginia
West Virginia's Children's Book author Cheryl Ware will instruct on
"Developing a Memorable Character; "Children's Writing Markets"; and
"Writing for Children of All Ages." Ware has published three "middle"
school novels: Flea Circus Summer (1997), Catty-Cornered (1999),
Venola in
Love (2000). Her picture book, Roberta Price Has Head Lice, will be
published in May 2001. She is now at work on a picture book about
Mother's
Day.
Fiction workshops will be led by WV Writers Fiction Award winners,
Belinda
Anderson and Geoff Fuller. Fuller has won awards for novels, essays,
short
stories, sudden fiction and has published in Now and Then,
ProCreation, and
Writer's Digest. He will lead Flash Fiction workshops as he does with
Pamelyn Casto, for "CoffeeHouseforWriters.com" Anderson, a former news
reporter, a WVW writing award winner, and adjunct faculty at
Greenbrier
Community College Center (Bluefield State College) will have her short
story collection, The Well Ain't Dry Yet, published by Mountain State
Press. She will show writers how to explore mythic structure and
archetypes, in "Protagonist with a Thousand Faces: Fiction Writer as
Myth
Maker."
In Dramatic Writing, Nancy Wright, actor turned writer, has had plays
many
produced, including: Becoming . . . Somebody (Gallery Players, NYC);
In 25
Words or Worse (The Riant Theatre & Love Creek Productions, NYC); and
Zo353's
Story (Generic Theatre, Norfolk, and The New Jersey Rep). Zoe is
featured
in The Best Stage Scenes 1999. A winner or finalist in many
competitions,
e.g., Siena International Playwriting Competition, she will look at
"Why
Mke It a Play?"; "Art of Monologue"; "Plotting"; "Playing With
Characters";
"Tapping Fears and Dreams."
"Writing A Local Column" and manuscript preparation's "Writer House
Rules"
will be led by Dolly Withrow, Writing Services, Inc. Since 1987 she
has
done workshops for Fortune 500 companies, utilities, governments,
banks.
She has authored two books: From the Grove to the Stars (1991) and The
Confident Writer (1997), a grammar-based writing textbook. published
by
McGraw Hill. She is a columnist for The Jackson Herald, and has
published
nationally in Mature Outlook and Country Journal.
Completing the poetry track are Earl Randy Keener, who will lead a
Haiku
workshop; and Wilma Acree, exploring "Specificity, Sound,
Spontaneity".
Keener, a musician-poet, has won many WV Writers awards for individual
poetry, poetry collection, and essay. He has read at festivals
sponsored by
universities, such as Bucknell University. Acree's poems have appeared
recently in Pudding Magazine, Crazy River, Appalachian Heritage. Her
chapbook, Wilma Acree's Greatest Hits 1985-2000, was published in
March by
Pudding House's Greatest Hits series of Chapbooks. A former President
of
WVW, Inc., she leads the Ohio Valley Literary Group.
For futher information and conference updates, click on WVW's
webpage below.
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Map and travel directions are at Cedar Lakes' webpage, click below
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