Afternoon Workshops

GLVWG WORKSHOPS 2013

 

Members are free: Register HERE
Non Members are $15.00.  
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Afternoon Workshop Saturday January 26th, 2013: Indie Publishing: A Walkthrough Createspace Print on Demand (POD) Bart Palamaro Createspace  is Amazon's POD for independent authors.  USE of Createspace is free, but you have to pay for your own books if you want copies.  Generally the average novel will cost about $5.00 ea. to the author plus shipping. Creating a print book is significantly different from an eBook.  Margins, pages, gutters, headers and footers all become critically important, because your words will occupy an actual physical object, the pages and covers of your book.  They must fit, look good and above all, be readable.  Cover art and implementation is also critical and much more demanding than for an ebook. Fortunately, Createspace provides a comprehensive set of tools to accomplish your goal of an attractive, readable print book.   This workshop will walk you through formatting your MSS for Createspace, and the iterative testing/correction process that results in a professional looking product. We will touch on the cover creation process, but that is really a subject for another workshop.

Afternoon Workshop, Saturday June 22nd 1:30 PM Marilyn Hazelton Focus the Moment, Enlarge the Moment During the afternoon session, participants will experiment with writing tanka and haiku, inspired by examples provided. The writing preparation will include developing vocabulary and useful questions. Writers are encouraged to bring a page of writing from a project they are developing as the basis for their writing that afternoon.    Time permitting, there will be discussion about how participants’  tanka and haiku experiences can help them deepen detail in their work Marilyn Hazelton is a teaching artist with the Pennsylvania Council on the Arts.  Her work includes residencies in France, Japan and Morocco. A regular presenter at Haiku Society of America meetings in Manhattan, she is Poet-in-Residence at The Swain School in Allentown. She received an Arts Ovation Award from the Allentown Arts Commission in 2006, in the category of Literary Arts. Her writing has been published in a number of journals and venues.  Marilyn edits red lights, an international tanka journal.