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Grant-Writing Basics Workshop 
Tuesday July 14, 2009 from 9:00am - 5:00pm
Held at: Bell Southern Events
13211 Dedeaux Rd.
Gulfport, Mississippi
 This full-day workshop will take you step-by-step through the grant-writing process and help you write more persuasive grants.
 Topics Include:
 - Grant Research - Finding Funders
- What Funders are Looking For
- Writing a Needs Assessment
- Letters of Inquiry
- Project Budgets
- Proposal Writing
This is a perfect course for people with little or no grant-writing experience, or grant-writers who want to brush up on their skills.
 This course is presented by Coast Community Connect - Providing support services to nonprofits on the Mississippi Gulf Coast.
 To register, email CoastConnect@cableone.net
Space is limited. Register today!   $100.  Lunch included

Odyssey

 provides an intense workshop June 8 through July 17, 4 hours each morning, 5 days a week. 

Early application deadline is Jan 31st, regular April 8th.  Tuition is $1900, housing is $700 for a double and $1400 for a single.  Mount Vernon NH. 

"So you want to write a book?"
A Writing Workshop -- $50

July 18 Saturday         12 noon-4pm

Gestalt Institute, 1537 Metairie Road

 Taught by Anne  Teachworth

Let Anne take you from having a GOOD idea to writing a GREAT book.........

    Don't settle for wanting to be a writer.....     Become an AUTHOR!

We'll tell you how to get it done and help you get it published by us at Gestalt Institute Press

Attend this Writing Workshop led by  Anne Teachworth, Publisher, Gestalt Institute Press, and Author of Why We Pick The Mates We Do and numerous other articles, chapters.

Currently finishing her second book, History Repeats Itself Publisher of six books to date, Editor of four books, currently working on four more at her Gestalt Institute Press.

12 noon to 4 pm...Space Limited...no drop-ins 
$50 pre-registered only s
o call and pre-register
at 504 828 2267 and charge to VISA/MC/Amex

OR through PayPal at www.teachworth.com

OR email Anne at ateachw@aol.com for info

Coaching.....Editing.....and Publishing Available

The Mississippi Writers Guild

Writers Conference

August 14-15 2009

Riverwalk Casino Conference Facility, Vicksburg, MS – More information coming.

2010 Pen to Press Writers' Retreat

The dates for the 2010 Pen to Press Writers Retreat are May 25-29, 2010,

and the location will be in beautiful downtown New Orleans, Louisiana.

          Announcing a one of a kind writers' retreat that you simply can't pass up! Come excited and leave inspired, ready to improve your writing and get that manuscript published! 

          Pen to Press Retreats are five intense, hands-on, inspiring days that teach participants how to shape and present a saleable manuscript. You'll learn in a variety of settings, from workshops to one-on-one mentoring sessions to seminars. To that end, you will write and revise, have your manuscript critiqued, and revise some more. This is a remarkable opportunity to transform your writing!

          To top it off, throughout the last two days of each retreat, all of our participants are given exclusive, one-on-one time with agents and editors to whom they can pitch their work.

With this retreat under your belt, who can stop you? 

Activities

          Participants will be assigned to a class of 20 and a team instructor. (Our instructors are all successfully published authors, many New York Times and U.S.A. Today Best-sellers, award-winners, and all are excellent teachers.) With this group, you will spend five days working on specifics to improve your manuscript. During classes and panel discussions, you'll learn details about characterization, plot, dialogue, pacing, voice, marketing, pitching, contract negotiations, etc., all of it geared around your specific work.

          Agents and editors will be on hand the last two days of the retreat, and they'll be there to spend one-on-one time with you, our participants . . . writers who now have a polished pitch for a promising work!

          We've even established a payment plan to help participants who are accepted into the 2010 program stretch the cost of the retreat out over time.

Join Us

          Interested writers must submit a two page synopsis of a completed novel or novel in progress along with the first five pages of that novel.  From those submissions, a maximum of 160 participants will be selected.  

          To find out more about the 2010 Pen to Press Writers' Retreat, visit our website at www.pentopressretreat.com. There you'll find in-action videos and testimonials from past participants. So jump on over to the website and have a look. And we hope to see YOU at the 2010 PPW Retreat!

CHISHOLM TRAIL BOOK FESTIVAL 
OCT. 24TH, 2009
SIMMONS CENTER - DUNCAN, OKLAHOMA
 Authors will enjoy our author friendly Book Festival. Costs are $10. for each author before Sept. 1, 2009. After cut off date the fee will be $20. if there is space available. All set ups (table /chairs) are free - you just bring your books and display.  Set up begins at 7:30 a.m. until 9. Book Festival is from 9a.m. until 5p.m. There will be people available to assist in set up and take down if needed.
 Best Author Display awards will be given for best decoration of their space at 4 p.m., (2 authors per table each author display judged.) These are rectangle tables with black skirting. Your linen top will be your choice. At this festival there will be large cash awards to the winners (5) of the 8th grade essay contests from Stephens County, home schooled and public schools included. 
A free continental breakfast during set up time for authors will be provided. A Fund Raiser Lunch can be purchased on site.  The Hampton Inn has a block of rooms at a discounted price, $89. ($101.06 w/tax) for an author and spouse, an extra $10. for two individuals sharing this double bed room. BOK is the code word to get this room rate. 6:30 Oct. 23, in the conference room of the Hampton Inn, Reception for authors/sponsors. If you would be interested in being a part of this opportunity, contact me for a name registration with your ph. number/ address/ email address and genre of book.
Tonya Holmes Shook   shookum@pldi.net  580-439-6912

Free Expressions Seminars

 ... offers a unique program of editorial solutions and individual guidance to writers in any genre of fiction and creative nonfiction. We work with writers to:  help reach beyond their current artistic capabilities  teach critical self-editing skills and assist in achieving publishing success

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