The first WE WRITE! event of 2014 will take place on March 29 at Monroeville Public Library from 9:30 AM - 3:00 PM. The $30 registration fee includes lunch. Registration is required. Call the library at 412-372-0500, ext. 4 for more information or send a check for $30, made out to "Monroeville Public Library Fund" to the library at 4000 Gateway Campus Blvd., Monroeville, PA 15146 to guarantee your spot.
Register early — seating is limited!
Three talented speakers will inspire writers of any genre and experience to new levels of excellence, creativity and success.
PSYCHIC DEVELOPMENT FOR WRITERS
This session is guaranteed to enhance your creativity. Psychic development is not just for a gifted few. It's for everyone human, and especially for you as a storyteller. This workshop will help you discover your innate skills of clairvoyance, clairaudience, and clairsentience. By exercising your higher sense mechanisms, you widen your inspirational channel, empowering you to create stories that resonate more deeply with readers. Come prepared with a specific project in mind to strengthen your imaginative abilities.
Lee Allen Howard writes supernatural fiction. Besides editing fiction and non-fiction, Lee serves as a book publishing consultant. His publications include The Sixth Seed, Desperate Spirits, Night Monsters, and Death Perception. He blogs about writing on his writer's site: leeallenhoward.com. Lee also discusses metaphysical and spiritual issues at buildingthebridge.wordpress.com. He works as a Spiritualist medium and healer.
HOW TO READ LIKE A WRITER
Attentive reading is one of the most powerful self-directed learning tools any writer can use, and library books make this resource free. Helen-Faye Rosenblum's examples will unlock the secrets of the masters for your benefit. She will show you how the writer's point of view can influence readers, consciously or not; how to explore a story from many points of view to see how the parts work together; and how writers can use others' examples to refine their own work.
Helen-Faye Rosenblum, veteran reviewer, is the award-winning author of two novels. She has also written dramas, and served as a reviewer and critic for radio stations and publications including the Cleveland Plain Dealer and the Pittsburgh Press. Her CMU Osher Life Long Learning Institute classes are always wait-listed.
INSPIRING OTHERS - THE CHICKEN SOUP WAY
Did you ever wonder how to get an inspiring true story into print in one of the series of anthologies, such as Chicken Soup for the Soul? There is a formula. In this workshop, learn how to take a great story and transform it into a dynamic tale ready for publication. No matter how good your story is, it won't go very far without 5 crucial elements. Submission guidelines for Chicken Soup for the Soul anthologies will be covered, as well as current story callouts. Gather your stories and discover the secret to sharing them with the world!
Hana Haatainen Caye is agency principal for Speechless, a copywriting and voice-over business. She has won awards for her poetry, short stories, and blog, and has authored over 30 children's books, including her soon-to-be released biography of Abraham Lincoln. She is multi-published in the Chicken Soup For the Soul anthologies. Known mostly as blogger Green Grandma, Hana is the author of Vinegar Fridays and her "Ask Green Grandma" column is a regular feature in Green Child magazine. she has published over 50 magazine articles in various publications. Hana teaches writing locally and at writers' conferences, and leads two monthly writing groups in Pittsburgh. Find her online at www.WordsinyourMouth.com and www.greengrandma.org.
