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Workshop Spotlight: We're Pleased to Present...

Rebecca Carron & Brad Cook

Anne and Me LV.jpg        Brad Cook

Workshop: “Feed Your Head:
What Good Writers Should Read To Become Great Writers”

 Location: Barnes & Noble-Crestwood
9618 Watson Road, Crestwood, MO 63126

Get map and directions.

Date: Saturday, August 2, 2008
Time: 10 AM until noon

SLWG members attend for FREE; $5 fee for non-members
Please register in advance

 

PROGRAM OVERVIEW: Why do we read the classics? Is it because they are the best, the most popular, works from their era?  Or is it because of the emotions they conjure as we read them, and reread them, throughout the years? The problem is that one person’s classic may be another person’s drudgery.  This discussion has kept scholars’ quills in feverish motion. What makes a classic a classic? Join us for a workshop that feeds your head and your imagination with inspiration, not from us, but from those writers who have come before us, those writers whose words and ideas have compelled us all to put pen to paper.


REBECCA CARRON is the St. Louis Writers Guild Vice President of Programs.

Rebecca earned her Ph.D. in English Literature in 2004 from Saint Louis University, after earning both a B.A. and an M.A. in literature from Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.  Her senior year at SIUE, she was editor in chief of the school’s Alestle student newspaper.

She has taught classes in developmental writing, freshman composition I and II, technical writing, and literature at Saint Louis University, St. Louis Community College, Southwestern Illinois College, and Southern Illinois University at Edwardsville.  For a time, she worked as a copyeditor at the Belleville News-Democrat.

Dr. Carron specializes in poetry, fiction, essays, technical writing, and the occasional letter to Congress.

Her first novel, The Full Moon Hotel, is available through Amazon.com and barnesandnoble.com.  She is currently working on a new on-line edition of her journal Divine Whine.

 


BRAD COOK is the St. Louis Writers Guild Historian.

Brad wrote his first book in elementary school and credits those works with starting his love of writing. He tried his hand at playwriting but found his passion lay in the epic novel.

Brad has finished the first in a series of books and now is in search of an agent and publisher.

His love of literature didn’t manifest in school, for he was the student who didn’t read, but paid enough attention in class to answer the test questions. However, the discussions of symbolism, character motivations, and the authors’ intent led him to start reading those books and going back to reread the ones he had passed through.

Now he is an avid reader of the classics and would like to thank all his English teachers for inspiring this workshop.

 


 

Spotlight: We’re pleased to present…

TWO Open Mic Nights
Every Month!

Wired Coffee

Every 2nd Tuesday, from 7 to 9 PM
OPEN MIC NIGHT
AT WIRED COFFEE

Family-friendly venue.

WIRED COFFEE
3860 S Lindbergh
Sunset Hills, MO 63127

Loud Mouth

Every 3rd Tuesday, from 8 to 10 PM
LOUD MOUTH
OPEN MIC NIGHT- AT THE MACK

For off-the-cuff, push-the-envelope writers—over age 18.

THE MACK
4615 Macklind
St. Louis, MO 63109

   
Map of 3860 S Lindbergh Blvd
Saint Louis, MO 63127-1373, US
Map of 4615 Macklind Ave
Saint Louis, MO 63109-2926, US


Five minutes for poetry; seven minutes for prose.

Register in Advance, especially if you want to read!

 

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