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What’s Happening at Redbird
Studios in Milwaukee
YOUNG AUTHORS
See the web site for descriptions and registration
forms
www.redbirdstudio.com/YoungAuthors
To writers awaiting The Redbird Review
- Young Author Edition:
We are awaiting delivery of the books
and will mail them to you as soon as possible.
YOUNG AUTHORS ROUNDTABLE -
Grades 7-12
with Kim Suhr, Director of Young Author
Programs
SUNDAY AFTERNOONS (2nd Sundays)
1:00-3:00pm
$65 includes all 4 meetings in session
Jan-Apr Session: Jan 14, Feb 11, Mar 11,
Apr 1
YOUNG AUTHORS' SUMMER PRO-
GRAM -- Dates for '07
Mon-Fri 9am-2:30pm $325 ($100 deposit)
Students entering: Grades 7-9 July 9-13
Grades 4-5 July 16-20
Grades 6 July 23-27
Grades 9-12 July 30-Aug 3
4. ADULT PROGRAMS
WRWA 2007 Calendar
January 1 Al P. Nelson Feature Article Contest Opens
January 12 Site Committee Meeting at Holiday Inn, Manitowoc, 10 a.m.
January 15 Florence Lindemann Humor Contest Opens
Jan 15-Mar 15 Spring Conference featured on Home Page
February 15 Spring Newsletter Sub
March 15 Lindemann and Nelson Contests Close
March 15 Jade Ring Contest Opens
Mar 15-May 15 Spring Conference and Jade Ring Contest Featured on Home Page
April 1 Deadline for entries for SOAR Scholarship from WRWA
April 2 Spring Conference Flyers Mailed
April 21 Northwest Area Writers’ Conference, Amery, WI
May 4 Board Meeting at the Holiday Inn, Manitowoc, 1 p.m.
May 5 Spring Conference at the Holiday Inn, Manitowoc
May 6-Jun 15 Jade Ring Contest and Fall Conference Featured on Home Page
May 10 Jade Ring Contest Postcard Reminders Mailed
May 15 Summer Newsletter Submission Deadline
June 15 Jade Ring Contest Closes
June 15-Sep30 Fall Conference Featured on Home Page
July 30 Fall Newsletter Submission Deadline (note change)
September 18 Deadline for Fall Conference Registration with WRWA
September 28 Board Meeting at Voyageur in Reedsburg, 1 p.m.
Sept. 29-30 Fall Conference at Voyageur in Reedsburg
November 1 Winter Newsletter Submission Deadline (note change)
Dec 1—Jan 15 Round Robin Group Featured on Home Page
Please submit calendar items to the Newsletter Editor for consideration. We’d like
to include contests and regional conferences sponsored by WRWA affiliated
clubs that are open to all members and other events of broad interest to
WRWA members. #
See the web site for descriptions and registration forms
www.redbirdstudio.com
SHUT UP AND WRITE!
Our premier seminar, with Judy Bridges
Eight Mondays 6:30-8:30pm $345 ($100 deposit)
Jan/Feb Session Jan 8, 15, 22, 29, Feb 5, 12, 19, 26
Mar/Apr Session Mar 12, 19, 26, Apr 2, 9, 16, 23, 30
THE GROUND FLOOR WRITERS' ROUNDTABLE
A workshop/roundtable group, with Jo McReynolds-
Blochowiak.
Meets on the ground floor of our building. W/C access. All
levels welcome. No pre-requisite.
2nd & 4th Thursdays 12:30-2:30 pm $85 (Rm 103, Marian
Center)
Jan-Feb: dates tba
POETRY ROUNDTABLE
A "home port" for poets, with John Lehman.
First Thursdays 6:30-8:30pm $85
Jan-Apr Session: Jan 4, Feb 1, Mar 1, Apr 5
WRITING FICTION FOR TEENS AND YOUNG READ-
ERS:
The Secrets of Getting Published with Debbie Lynn Jacobs
A workshop for adults writing for teens and younger readers
Saturday, Feb 17, 9:30am-3pm $85
ROUNDTABLE CRITIQUE GROUPS with Judy Bridges and
Robert Vaughan
Dedicated writers receive supportive feedback and build a
network of writing friends.
Pre-requisite: Shut Up & Write! or equivalent
Returnees get first dibs in wait listed classes, then "Shut Up"
grads, then new friends.
Tuesday Afternoons with Judy Bridges 12-2:30 $85 (waiting
list)
Jan-Feb: Jan 16, 30, Feb 13, 27
Wednesday Evenings (The Inkslingers) with Judy Bridges
6:30-9 $85 (waiting list)
Jan-Feb: Jan 10, 24, Feb 7, 21
Thursday Evenings with Robert Vaughan 6:30-9 $85 (4 mtgs.