Gearing up for Novel in a Month, Summer 2013!

Hi Writers!

I'm getting ready for the first Novel in a Month class this year! We begin July 3 (Weds) and then switch to Thursday nights through August 1.

If you are doing Camp Nanowrimo, this might be the support you need to get you to the end.

If you have a trunk novel that needs to be completed, this class can help.

If writing a book is on your bucket list, check that item off by the end of the month!

Read the long description here.

If you're sold already, email me at andersm@wou.edu for more information.

Hope to see you this summer, writers!

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Free Workshop: The Self-Publishing Revolution

Hi!

Here is a fantastic workshop by my pal, Scott Carter. If you write short stories or novels and want to make money with them, this is essential information. 

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Faculty, staff, and friends: You're Invited!

Ready to take on the summer? Time to get some publishing done? Give yourself a head start by joining us for an inspiring brown-bag presentation by our own Scott Carter:

The Self-Publishing Revolution:How to Create a One-Person Publishing Empire from Your Laptop 

Wednesday, June 2611:30am—1:00pmWillamette RoomWerner University Center

In the last few years, the publishing industry has undergone a revolution unrivaled since the invention of the Guttenberg Press.  With the rise of online bookstores, ebooks, and print-on-demand technology, a writer can reach a worldwide audience at virtually no hard costs -- as long as the writer has the skills to do it.  Scott Carter, an instructional technologist at WOU and key support person for our online course offerings, is also an accomplished fiction writer and Oregon Book Award winner.  He has sold books to traditional publishers like Simon and Schuster as well as published novels under his own press.  In this 90-minute presentation, he will talk about the pros and cons of both traditional and independent publishing, as well as lay out all the nuts and bolts a writer needs to know to take advantage of the exciting opportunities that exist today.

We hope you will join us for this exciting presentation, offered for free as a part of the MSEd Information Technology Summer Institute. 
For more information, contact: Mary Bucy, bucym@wou.edu

Noveling in the Summertime!

This is the first noveling class for 2013!

I've timed the class to be at the same time as Summer Session at WOU and OSU, and with Camp Nanowrio. We're going to have a great time!
maren

Summer Session of the Novel in a Month Class!

Hi!

Do you have an idea for a novel?
Do you want to participate inNaNoWriMo, but want to do it with the support of a (for-credit) class?
Do you need one more credit this term?

Then the Novel in a Month Class is the class for you!

The class will be held at Rick's Place Cafe in Monmouth at the following times:

one Wednesday and Thursdays 7:00 to 8:30 pm
July 3 (Wednesday) July 11, 18, 25, and August 1(Thursdays) (concurrent with Camp NaNoWriMo.org)
Registration Fee: $70(includes required text)

(1) Credit Fee: Additional $50(see form below)

If you are interested in this class, please fill out thisformand email it back to me atandersm@wou.eduor snail-mail it to me at:

NIAM
c/o Maren Bradley Anderson
PO Box 305
Monmouth, OR 97361

If you mail the form, you may include your check, or you can bring money to the first day of class.

If you are interested in taking the class for course credit, please visit this email me at andersm@wou.edu.  

Class size is limited to 20. Early registration is recommended!
* Do you have a great idea for a book, but haven't gotten around to writing it?
* Perhaps you have no idea, but do possess a deep, burning desire to write.
* Maybe you are convinced you don't have time to write a novel.
Really, who has time?
Lots of people! Every November, hundreds of thousands of people participate inNational Novel Writing Monthby pledging to write 50,000 words of a novel in thirty days.
In fact, our instructor, Maren Bradley Anderson, has "won" NaNo for three years by writing over 50,000 words in thirty days.
Write Your First Novel In Thirty Daysis a 7-week class aimed at people who want to write a novel by participating in the deadline-driven, community-supportive atmosphere. The class will focus on:
* preparation for writing a book-length first draft (including idea generation),
* completion of the book-in-a-month challenge,
* and end with a workshop on what to do with a freshly written novel.
The emphasis of this class is not quality, but quantity. Without a completed first draft, the writer cannot revise a better second or third draft. In this class you will get that elusive first draft.
Youcanwrite the first draft of a novel in just thirty days!

I hope to see you this Fall, fellow writers.
Maren Bradley Anderson teaches literature and writing at Western Oregon University. She has won numerous awards for her writing, including having a film she wrote chosen for the Mid-Valley Video Festival in Salem. She has written three novels' first drafts in 30 days each. She lives on an alpaca farm near Monmouth, Oregon.

Learn to Edit Your Novel in a Month

The May Edition!

• Have you got a "trunk novel" sitting around, just waiting for you to spit-shine it to perfection? 
• Did you finish NaNoWriMo, but don't know what to do with the completed first draft? 
• Have you sent out the first chapters of your book over and over and keep getting rejections that complain about the quality of the writing? 

Then this class is for you!

Writers often have completed manuscripts lying around in drawers which the writers do not know how to edit into better drafts. This class will teach you how to edit you own writing for smoother, more readable prose.

The emphasis of EIAM (Editing in a Month) is quality, not quantity. The idea is that after a completing a  first draft, a writer needs to be able to revise it into a better second or third draft. EIAM helps writers re-work that first draft. This class is aimed at people who want to edit a novel by participating in a deadline-driven, community-supportive atmosphere.
At the end of the class, you will have at least fifty pages of edited manuscript (more than enough to send as samples to editors at major publishing houses) and the knowledge to spit-shine the rest of your book. 

The last class will feature a  discussion about what to do now that you have an edited novel.

Pre-requisite: One completed manuscript, first or second draft (novel or memoir OR 50 pages of narrative fiction).
Where: Rick's place cafe, 123 Main Street, Monmouth, Oregon
When: Thursday nights, 7:00- 8:30 PM, April 25, 2013, through May 30. Non-credit fee: $70 (includes required text)
(1) College course credit available for an additional $50
Email andersm@wou.edu for further information. 

Praise from a former student

http://ameliael.wordpress.com/2012/08/01/to-succeed/

I just found this. Thank you, Amelia!
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2-23-13 Wild Women Recite! reading info

Airlie Press and River Gallery present the 12th Annual Wild Women, Recite! reading.

On Saturday, Feb. 23, Stephanie Lenox and Maren Anderson will read from their work as the central event of the ongoing Wild Women show at the River Gallery.

Doors open at 7:00 pm. Reading starts at 7:30 pm.

River Gallery 

184 S. Main St., Independence, OR

Light refreshments, no cover.

The reading will be followed by an open mic and book signing.

Stephanie Lenox is a Salem poet whose book Congress of StrangePeople (Airlie Press, 2012) includes a section of poems based on the “federation of freaks,” the group of humans born into the world with a variety of highly obvious abnormal physical characteristics, who are often condemned to earn their living by exploiting these features. With delicate tact and enormous craft, Stephanie places these poems side by side with character sketches and stories from her own family, and arrives at the “congress of strange people” that, in the end, includes us all.  

Maren Bradley Anderson teaches literature and writing at Western Oregon University and raises alpaca in Oregon's Willamette Valley. Her most recent work is the novel Liz A. Stratton Closes the Store: A Novel about Sex and Politics. With wit and passion, Maren modernizes the ancient Greek tale of Lysistrata, transposing it into the story of one Liz A. Stratton, who finds herself running for president, promoting her feminist strategy for ending war, and trying to deal with a budding romance of her own.

Wild Women Recite! Poster 2-23

here is the beautiful poster for Wild Women Recite!

Feel free to print and plaster!

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