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It's not to late to enter the contests or attend the workshop -- deadline extended to October 11!

FALL 2008 WORKSHOP 

Saturday, October 11, 2008

Holiday Inn - Southwest

11160 Southwest Freeway

Houston, Texas 77031

Robert Cremins is an experienced writer and teacher of writing.  Originally from Ireland, he has published two novels, Send in the Devils and A Sort of HomecomingHomecoming was translated into French and named a novel of the year by the L.A. Times

A frequent contributor to the books pages of the Houston Chronicle, Robert has also contributed work to the Dallas Morning News, the Irish Times, and the B.B.C. 

Robert has taught many writing workshops for Inprint here in Houston and is currently finishing up a series of writing skills books for high school students for Dallas-based educational publisher, Applied Practice. 

A graduate of the U.K.'s best-known writing program at the University of East Anglia, Robert became the chair of the English department at Houston's Strake Jesuit college prep.  He is now a full-time free-lance writer at work on his third novel.

Come find out about …

  • E-Mailing Hemingway at 3 A.M.

  • Your Style on Steroids

  • The Mango Method

  • The Question(s) of Structure

  • Jane Austen’s Fastball

  • In Short—the Story

  • Novels—the Big Picture

  • Learning from the Sopranos

  • Learning from the Ancients

  • Don’t Write and Drive

  • Research and Find

  • Market Watch

… And other topics!

Plus questions and answers. You ask. Robert

Cremins will answer. Better than Jeopardy!!

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FBWG CONTEST

12523 FOLKCREST WAY

STAFFORD TEXAS 77477-3529

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Address: ____________________________________________

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Workshop Fee (Includes Morning Coffee and Lunch)

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Event supported by Poets and Writers Magazine, Inc.

Workshop refunds cannot be offered due to the fact that commitments must be made to the Holiday Inn. If you cannot attend and have paid, we will issue you a rain check for our next event, provided you notify us before five days before the workshop. If you are a no-show, we cannot offer a rain check as we will already have been charged for your luncheon by the hotel. 

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Contest Entries:

Novel: $25 per ________

Short stories: $15 per ________

Personal Essays: $10 per _______

Book Reviews: $10 per ______

3 Poems: $10 per ________

Lifetime Achievement Novel: $25 per ______

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Membership:

Full Membership (thru 12/30/09): $35 ________

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Total check is for: ________

Make Check Payable to FORT BEND WRITERS GUILD

You can bring contest entries with you to the workshop (in a sealed envelop and prepared according to instructions) if you pay in advance by PayPal and you can register for the workshop and pay at the door by check or cash.

However, if you plan on attending, please email rogerpaulding@rogerpaulding.com as soon as possible to let him know so there will be adequate food for all at the luncheon.

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Pay dues, contest entries, workshop registration by PayPal. 

Fort Bend Writers Guild

12523 Folkcrest Way

Stafford, TX USA 77477

info@fortbendwritersguild.org

MAP TO WORKSHOP LOCATION

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Workshop Fee: $50

This event supported by Poets and Writers Magazine, Inc.

2008 FALL WRITERS CONTESTS

$500 GRAND PRIZE NOVEL

The Spring Contest Winners are in! The $300 Grand Prize winner and other Spring Contest Winners were announced at the end of the Spring Workshop. Winners are posted on the CONTESTS page.

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"Secrets of Marketing Fiction"
April 5, 2008
Holiday Inn - Southwest
Houston, Texas

Ron Rozelle, author of award-winning Into That Good Night (Farrar, Straus, Girous), spoke on the Secrets of Marketing Fiction. Ron was a finalist for the PEN American West Creative Nonfiction Prize and the Texas Institute of Letters Carr P. Collins Award. His first novel, Windows of Heaven, set in Galveston during the hurricane of 1900, was released by Texas Review Press in July of 2000. Chosen as Barnes and Nobles' Houston-area Featured Author for November, Ron lives in Lake Jackson, TX and teaches creative writing and English.

 

Summer 2007 Workshop

"The Insider's Guide"
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Holiday Inn - Southwest
Houston, Texas

Jason P. Heimberg is a professional screenwriter with eight scripts n development, including Ace Ventura 3, Kingpin 2, and Truth & Art (aka T&A). He has worked with Jason Alexander (co-author of Truth & Art), Gary Ross, and Jerry Bruckheimer. Mr. Heimberg is the co-author of The Official Movie Plot Generator, featured in Newsweek as well as on Fox News, CNN, and National Public Radio. A graduate of James Madison University with a law degree from George Washington University, Jason Heimberg currently teaches Basic Screenwriting in the Rice Continuing Education program.

2007 Spring Workshop

"The Key to Selling Your Manuscript:

Empowering Character's Emotions"

March 24, 2007

Holiday Inn-Southwest, Houston, Texas

 

Margie Lawson holds a Master of Science degree in Counseling Psychology with a two-year concentration beyond her master's degree in psychiatric counseling and nonverbal communication. Her resume includes college professor, clinical trainer, sex therapist, Director of an Impotence Clinic, hypnotherapist and keynote speaker. She merges her two worlds, psychology and writing, by analyzing writing craft as well as the psyche of the writer.  Margie lives near Denver.

 

 

 

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