5 Days to Register for the Saturday Seminar A La Carte Option

There are only five days left to register for the Antioch Writers' Workshop A La Carte options.


The Saturday Seminar A La Carte option will take place July 7, 2011, 8 a.m.-4 p.m. The cost is $125 registration plus $25 tuition. This option can be taken alone or in combination with the Full Week Experience, the Morning Only Classes, or the Evening Only Classes. Participants can choose three of the following sessions to attend:

Drawing from your life experience for fiction, essays, creative-non fiction, or memoirs--led by instructor Brady Allen.

Brady Allen

Brady Allen teaches writing at Wright State University and is the author of Back Roads and Frontal Lobes (2012), a collection of tales in the genres of horror, crime, the road story, soft sci-fi, dark fantasy, surrealism, existentialism, and even some plain ol' realism. He has published over thirty short stories in magazines, journals, and anthologies in the U.S, England, and Ireland, and has received honorable mentions for a couple of them in the Year's Best Fantasy and Horror volumes from St. Martin's Press, as well as an Individual Artist Fellowship in fiction from the Ohio Arts Council for three others. Learn more at  www.bradyallen.com.

How to research and incorporate fact in your fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, or memoirs--led by Dayton Daily News journalist Joanne Smith.

Joanne Huist Smith is a native of Dayton. She grew up in the Old North Dayton Neighborhood and attended the St. Adalbert's Catholic Elementary School on Valley Street. Joanne graduated from John H. Patterson Cooperative High School, then earned a bachelor's degree in English at Wright State University. She joined the staff of the Dayton Daily News as a reporter in 1997. During her tenure with the newspaper, Joanne has covered Greene and Warren counties, focusing on education and communities. She currently covers Montgomery County government.

How to brainstorm ideas for your fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, or memoirs--led by instructor Rebecca Morean.  

Rebecca Morean

Author of the novel In The Dead Of Winter, under the name Abbey Pen Baker, Rebecca Morean is also a frequent contributor to Salon.com, an instructor of English at Sinclair Community College, and President of the Antioch Writers' Workshop Board of Directors.

How to find publishing markets for your fiction, essays, creative non-fiction, or memoirs--led by essayist and Sinclair Community College English instructor Kate Geiselman.

Kate Geiselman

Kate Geiselman's essays have appeared atSalon.com, The Rumpus, McSweeney's Internet Tendency, and elsewhere online. Several of her essays about teaching have aired on NPR stations on The Story with Dick Gordon, an American Public Media production. Her first short story, "She's not There," was the winner of the Dayton Daily News/Antioch Writer's Workshop short story contest, and her first novel is in progress. She teaches writing at Sinclair Community College.

Register for this A La Carte option today on our A La Carte registration page.

Social Networking and the New Author

Social networking is pervasive in today's world. So pervasive, that according to a recent article on The Atlantic, even Flannery O'Connor and Charles Dickens have a Twitter account. Authors are learning to embrace the new media, and it provides new ways for emerging authors to promote themselves.  "I've used Twitter and Facebook to promote my work," said last year's Dayton Daily News / Antioch Writers' Workshop contest winner, Kate Geiselman. "It's not all about self-promotion; it is about the mantra that 'stuff begets stuff.'" Kate has published two essays in The Rumpus, one at Salon.com, and has a forthcoming essay in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. For a complete list of publications and links to her work, visit her website, kategeiselman.com. Kate Geisleman credits her recent successes to social media, and to what she learned at the Antioch Writers' Workshop. "The smallish publications and contacts have consistently led to bigger/better things. Twitter and Facebook can be used to take advantage of that momentum." This year at the Antioch Writers' Workshop, the Professional Connections Series-Talks includes topcis such as How to Pitch/Query, and a session addressing when and why to self-publish.  The Antioch Writers' Workshop is also on Twitter and Facebook. To keep up-to-date with all of the exciting events and information, Like us on Facebook or follow @AntiochWritersW on Twitter.

AWW Alumni / Faculty News -- Kate Geiselman

Kate Geiselman - 2010 Dayton Daily News / Antioch Writers' Workshop Contest Winner

Winner of last year's Dayton Daily News / Antioch Writers' Workshop contest Kate Geiselman has published two essays in The Rumpus, one at Salon.com, and has a forthcoming essay in McSweeney's Internet Tendency. For a complete list of publications and links to her work, visit her website kategeiselman.com. Geiselman credits her recent successes to social media, blogging, and her experience at AWW.

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