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

Mark Sableman

MarkSableman

Workshop: “Contracts, Copyrights, and the Quirks
of Protecting Your Creativity in the Electronic Age.”

Have you ever wondered how to protect your work once you have written it?

Or, how to make sure that you are paid what your work is worth?

Mark Sableman’s workshop can help you decide upon the best ways to copyright your work and to negotiate the sale of the rights to your work – in print or electronic media.

If you would like to know more about the legal aspects of the writing business, please join us:

Kirkwood Community Center, 2nd floor
111 S. Geyer Rd.,
Kirkwood, MO 63122
Get map and directions

Date: Saturday, August 7, 2010
Time: 10 AM until noon

All are welcome.
This event is FREE to SLWG members and $5 for non-members

Please register in advance
 

MARK SABLEMAN is a partner with Thompson Coburn LLP in St. Louis, Missouri. He is an honors graduate of Georgetown University Law Center, where he was Articles Editor of the Georgetown Law Journal.

Mark’s litigation practice focuses in the area of media, Internet, technology and intellectual property law. He has tried media, intellectual property and technology cases in federal and state courts. He also counsels clients on Internet and intellectual property issues, and utilizes many expeditious and ADR dispute resolution techniques.

Mark is author of More Speech, Not Less: Communications Law in the Information Age, published by Southern Illinois University Press in 1997, and many articles in law reviews and trade publications. He also teaches Internet Law and Censorship and Free Expression as an adjunct professor at Washington University School of Law. He has been listed in Best Lawyers in America since 1997.




Writers in the Park
Writers Festival and Mini-Conference
Free Admission to All

August 28th, 2010
10 a.m. – 2 p.m.

Kirkwood Park
Lions Amphitheater
111 S. Geyer Road
Kirkwood, MO 63122

Get map and directions

Please register in advance
Pre-registrants" names will be entered
into a drawing for an attendance prize.
Must be present to win.)

Our festival in Kirkwood Park will honor the proud tradition of the St. Louis Writers Guild conferences of the 1940s and 1950s.

Workshops start at 10 am with breakout sessions every hour.

And stick around for readings suitable for all ages in the amphitheater starting at noon.

The day includes a children’s workshop for writers ages 8-14 and a booth where members can sell their books. Food will be available for purchase.

Scheduled Speakers

Querying an Agent
Writing for Young Adults
Cole Gibsen
Author of Katana

Querying a Publisher
Mystery Writing
Judy Moresi
Author of Widow"s Walk

Children’s Writing Workshop
writers ages 8-14
Faye Adams
Author of Chester the Lonely Crow

Memoir/Biography Writing
Peter Green
Author of Dad’s War with the United States Marines

Editing Essentials
Mary Menke
Essayist and owner of WordAbilities LLC

Sci-fi/Fantasy Writing
Jaclyn Devey
2009 SLWG Short Story Contest winner

Writing for the Internet
David Lucas
Internet Columnist

Romance Writing
Dr. Rebecca Carron Wood
Author of Full Moon Hotel

Sell YOUR Book at the Big Read Festival & Writers in the Park,
download Book Rental Form


Visit Us at Our Open Mics
For more information visit our Open Mic page

SECOND TUESDAY
Open Mic Night
at Wired Coffee

Open Mic Night at Wired Coffee

 

OPEN MIC NIGHT AT WIRED COFFEE takes place from 7 to 9 pm on the Second Tuesday of every month. This event is family-friendly and offers readings of poetry and prose.

 

Please Pardon Our Dust

Pardon our dust

St. Louis Writers Guild is remodeling our formerly
Loud Mouth Open Mic Night.

Our Grand Reopening Is Tentatively Scheduled
for September 2010!!

If you would like to volunteer to help redefine edgy, please contact SLWG at info@stlwritersguild.org, or visit with us at one of our special summer events.

Please keep watch here on our website for details
of our ALL-NEW, totally revamped
edgy open mic night.

And please join us the second Tuesday of each month for our continuing Wired Coffee open mic Still “Family Friendly”, with great food and even greater company.