OCTOBER 2, 2010

Writers’ Conference

“Writing Through Life, Life Through Writing”

Lake Region Writers Network (LRWN) presents its 2nd annual writers’ conference at M-State Fergus Falls.

Keynote speakers Victoria Kasten, Lin Enger, and Mark Vinz take conference attendees through the writing life, and workshop leaders help participants hone skills from writing to publishing.

We have:

Scholarship opportunities for teens and adults 60 and over.

An opportunity for published authors to show their work.

For more information, email Reba Gilliand at lakeregionwriters@gmail.com and put Conference in the subject line.

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AUGUST 10-11, 2010

Memior Writing Workshop

“Writing Your Personal Story”

Learn important techniques for effective memoir writing as you engage in writing your own story. Mark will address issues that often arise during the course of memoir writing such as truth telling and narrative techniques, but the majority of the workshop will be devoted to generating, editing, sharing, and responding to autobiographical writing.

Mark Vinz – Mark’s poems, stories, and essays have appeared in over 200 magazines and anthologies. He has won the New Rivers Press Minnesota Voices competition, the Milkweed Editions Seeing Double book competition, six PEN Syndicated Fiction awards, and three Minnesota Book Awards. His most recent book of poems is Long Distance. Vinz recently retired after 39 years in the English department and MFA in Creative Writing program of Minnesota State University Moorhead. His memoir-writing workshop is built upon insights gained from years exercising his craft as well as teaching writing to students.

$175 course fee includes workbook, lunch, and park day passes. To register, email http://www.firefly@arvig.net or phone Reba at Firefly – 218.862.5510 on or before June 27, 2010. Participants will receive more information upon registration.

Workshop takes place at Glendalough State Park in the Historic Lodge.
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JUNE 15-16, 2010

Memoir Writing Workshop

“Memory as Discovery”

Writing is an act of discovery. Dive into your writing and find out what you know. The workshop is a place to write, share writing, discuss elements of craft, and connect with other writers. In addition to group learning, students meet with Kate individually to delve more deeply into their writing and learn to take risks on the page.

Kate Hopper – Kate, award-winning writer and teacher, teaches creative writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals and magazines, including The New York Times. She is currently working on two books. Hopper writes about reading, writing, teaching and motherhood on her blog Mother Words: Mothers Who Write. She is Literary Reflections co-editor at Literary Mama.

$175 course fee includes workbook, lunch, and park day passes.  Participants will receive more information upon registration.

To register, email http://www.firefly@arvig.net or phone Reba at Firefly: 218.862.5510 on or before June 1, 2010.

Workshop takes place at Glendalough State Park in the Historic Lodge.

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DECEMBER 12, 2009
Fergus Falls Reading Event for Otter Tail Review, Volume Three
Victor Lundeen Company, 126 W. Lincoln Ave., Fergus Falls, MN
2:00 – 4:00 p.m.
Call 218-736-5433 for more information.

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OCTOBER 30, 2009
2009 National Book Awards at Concordia
Readings and conversations with authors
7:30 p.m. Centrum, Knutson Campus Center
Hosted by Kerri Miller, Minnesota Public Radio

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OCTOBER 20, 2009
Sci-Fi Author, Patricia Collins Wrede
Elbow Lake, MN — Thorson Memorial Library
6:30 p.m.

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OCTOBER 19, 2009
Sci-Fi Author, Patricia Collins Wrede
Workshop includes information, writing exercises, and answers to questions.
A Center for the Arts, 124 W. Lincoln, Fergus Falls, MN
6:30 p.m.
Ms. Wrede has published a number of books.
Sponsored by The National Endowment for the Arts’ Big Read Program.

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OCTOBER 17, 2009
Novelist Helm Matthews
The Spot in Fergus Falls
4:00 to 6:00 p.m.
Reading from Lilac, his latest novel.
The Arc Magazine heralded Mr. Matthews as a “literary talent on the rise.”

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OCTOBER 2009
Tom McGrath Visiting Writers Series
Minnesota State University Moorhead
King Hall Auditorium – 110
Free and open to the public:

October 15: Dean Hulse and Merrie Sue Holtan – 7:30 p.m. reading
October 21: Patricia Hampl – 4:00 p.m. Talk on the Writer’s Craft
October 22: Patricia Hampl – 4:00 p.m. reading

For further information, contact Thom Tammaro at 218.447.2199 or visit the website http://www.mnstate.edu/fine arts

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Do you have events to add to the calendar?
Send us an email with the information: lakeregionwriters@gmail.com