Sentences with phrase «at writers conferences from»

He has been teaching writing workshops at writers conferences from Massachusetts to Mexico since 2005.

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The writer and speaker calls their weekends a «crazy chaotic show, from Friday to Monday,» as she flies between Christian conferences before joining her husband, Brandon, at their Free Methodist church plant for worship each Sunday.

Well today I have the chance to be at one of those conferences — Big Tent Christianity — primarily because I'm a poor writer from a small town whose publisher took pity on her and paid the way.

Fox tells the story from beginning to end: childhood in the German - American parsonage; nine grades of school followed by three years in a denominational «college» that was not yet a college and three year's in Eden Seminary, with graduation at 21; a five - month pastorate due to his father's death; Yale Divinity School, where despite academic probation because he had no accredited degree, he earned the B.D. and M.A.; the Detroit pastorate (1915 - 1918) in which he encountered industrial America and the race problem; his growing reputation as lecturer and writer (especially for The Christian Century); the teaching career at Union Theological Seminary (1928 - 1960); marriage and family; the landmark books Moral Man and Immoral Society and The Nature and Destiny of Man; the founding of the Fellowship of Socialist Christians and its journal Radical Religion; the gradual move from Socialist to liberal Democratic politics, and from leader of the Fellowship of Reconciliation to critic of pacifism; the break with Charles Clayton Morrison's Christian Century and the inauguration of Christianity and Crisis; the founding of the Union for Democratic Action, then later of Americans for Democratic Action; participation in the ecumenical movement, especially the Oxford Conference and the Amsterdam Assembly; increasing friendship with government officials and service with George Kennan's policy - planning group in the State Department; the first stroke in 1952 and the subsequent struggles with ill health; retirement from Union in 1960, followed by short appointments at Harvard, at the Center for the Study of Democratic Institutions, and at Columbia's Institute of War and Peace Studies; intense suffering from ill health; and death in Stockbridge, Massachusetts, in 1971.

Ruth Holroyd, freelance writer, reports from the conference debate at The Food Matters Live which addressed the subject of «Creating a healthier food environment: stimulating and meeting demand»

Video: Guardian sketch writer Simon Hoggart speculates on what to expect from Liberal Democrat leader Nick Clegg's closing speech at the party's conference

(The week after I visited him in Iowa City, Damasio was a keynote speaker at a conference with the poet Jorie Graham, a longtime friend from her days at the Iowa Writers» Workshop.)

Furthermore, from my participation in European Medical Writers Association conferences over the years, I've yet to run into a Singapore - based medical writer working at another pharmaceutical company apart from four of us at Novo Nordisk.

At the conference, science communicators, researchers, science writers, press officers, and librarians from all over the world will meet and take part in a playful but serious discussion about how to develop science communication.

If there's one thing I learned at the Muse and the Marketplace writer's conference in Boston last weekend, it's that every story is, in its essence, The Odyssey (yes, the Homer one you read in high school), and has to be about a journey in which the protagonist (in the case of the following story, that would be me) yearns for something, sets out to find it, and ends up in a different place from where she started.

A graduate of the creative writing programs at Florida State and the University of Memphis, his work has won awards from the Kentucky Arts Council, the Key West Literary Seminars and the Sewanee Writers» Conference.

As a freelance recipe developer and writer, Jeanne has spoken at blogging conferences, covering topics from the legal aspects of blogging to recipe writing and editing.

Just like you wouldn't expect comedy super-pros Sarah Silverman and Giovanni Ribisi to play straight - men to Seth MacFarlane in the writer / director / star's Old West send - up A Million Ways to Die In the West, you can't exactly expect straight answers from them at a press conference, either.

With experiences as a TA, an event panelist, a presenter at conferences from UofT to Harvard, and a writer of a self - authored film blog, Kamran would like to share with others his profound interest in the profilmic in the hopes of inspiring, in them, a similar love for film.

He received a Graduate Certificate in Accounting and Finance from Columbia University Graduate School of Business, and attended Breadloaf Writers» Conference at Middlebury College.

At a writer's conference, writers meet literary agents and editors from publishers.

Prior to graduating from Hofstra law school, Nadeen majored in English with a Mass Communications minor at Clark Atlanta University and was a very active participant in the English department's annual Writers Conference.

For example, instead of posting a photo and quote from a presentation at the San Francisco Writers Conference, film a small segment of the presentation and ask your followers for feedback on it.

As writer Denise Barnes recently remarked to me at the Romantic Novelists Association annual conference, where I was a guest speaker, there's not that big a leap from writing themed collections of short stories to producing a novel.

The Gateway to Publishing Conference & Convention (Gateway Con), presented by the St. Louis Writers Guild, will be held Friday afternoon through Sunday, June 15 — 17, 2018, at the Renaissance Hotel in St. Louis, MO, across from Lambert International Airport.

If there's a takeaway from my ramblings, maybe it's to spend time with writers you emulate, whether it's at workshops, seminars, conferences, blogs, or even on Facebook and Twitter.

I just returned from speaking at the San Francisco Writers Conference, one of my favorite events each year.

Of those 10 expressions of interest 9 came from agents and editors I met and pitched at the Atlanta Writers Conference ---- only one came from a cold - call query.

Best advice I ever got was from the speaker at a writers conference who went up to the podium, looked out at the audience and said, «What are you people doing here?

LiterarySalon: Learning Prose from Pros - episode # 3 Bestselling true crime author and former investigative reporter Caitlin Rother will keynote at next week's Santa Barbara Writers Conference and no doubt talk about her...

Several years ago Susan met Connie Mariano, MD, at a writers conference and sold her memoir, White House Doctor (about her experiences as Bill Clinton's personal physician, with a Foreword by Bill Clinton), to Marcia Markland from St. Martin's.

BEST ENCOUNTER AT A WRITING CONFERENCE: A slightly wild - eyed writer sat across from me with a haphazard stack of papers and proceeded to pitch me the proposal he had stayed up all night working on at Kinko's after his own printer had run out of inAT A WRITING CONFERENCE: A slightly wild - eyed writer sat across from me with a haphazard stack of papers and proceeded to pitch me the proposal he had stayed up all night working on at Kinko's after his own printer had run out of inat Kinko's after his own printer had run out of ink.

TW: The «Book Proposal Bootcamp» workshop, which I teach frequently at writers» conferences and elsewhere, gives an overview of the whole process from book idea to book tour, but with a central focus on the actual proposal, which is essentially a business plan for a book.

Registration is now open for the 2017 Mendocino Coast Writers» Conference (MCWC), a vibrant, interactive gathering of award - winning authors and aspiring writers, held from August 3 to August 5, at the Mendocino Middle School in Mendocino, CaliWriters» Conference (MCWC), a vibrant, interactive gathering of award - winning authors and aspiring writers, held from August 3 to August 5, at the Mendocino Middle School in Mendocino, Caliwriters, held from August 3 to August 5, at the Mendocino Middle School in Mendocino, California.

You'll meet all kinds of people at a writers» conference who can help you get to the next step on your writing journey — including fellow writers, freelance editors, agents, and representatives from magazine and book publishers.

You can also meet acquisitions editors from small presses at some writers» conferences (such as Mount Hermon and the SoCal Christian Writers» Confewriters» conferences (such as Mount Hermon and the SoCal Christian Writers» ConfeWriters» Conference).

Well, we got the idea from a panel of authors at a Romance Writers conference where authors were talking about writing together on a series.

Since 1972 writers from around the world have gathered each June at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference to rub elbows with fellow storytellers, celebrate well - known authors, and network with publishing professwriters from around the world have gathered each June at the Santa Barbara Writers Conference to rub elbows with fellow storytellers, celebrate well - known authors, and network with publishing professWriters Conference to rub elbows with fellow storytellers, celebrate well - known authors, and network with publishing professionals.

I know at least one writer who has received an offer from there unagented (the smart cookie thanked the editor for the offer and got herself an agent to negotiate the deal points, stat), and they regularly take pitches at writing conferences I've attended.

If you fall into the latter group, Jami Gold offers some tips to help slow writers that she learned from Courtney Milan at the RWA14 writers conference.

But truthfully, I get more that is helpful to me in terms of writing craft from the Bay to Ocean Writers Conference at Chesapeake College.

After digesting what many of the presenters at the Willamette Writers conference said on the use of social media, I thought I'd get some feedback from the TKZ on their views.

At a recent writer's conference, amid all the workshops and networking, I had the opportunity to speak with two different editors from major publishing -LSB-...]

I received an email newsletter from IngramSpark, telling me they will be featured as an exhibitor at the San Francisco Writer's Conference.

Look at photographs from a romance writer's conference, or a Christian writer's conference.

The key messages here, presented at the conference by Writers Digest's Phil Sexton, are that «hybrid authors» — engaged in both self - publishing and traditional publishing — make more money from writing, engage in more social - media tactics to support their writing, and are the least impressed with traditional publishers.

I'm newly returned from the beautiful state of Colorado and a time of service and teaching at the Colorado Christian Writers Conference.

You're at a writers» conference, and you finally have a chance to sit in front of the literary agent you know would be perfect to represent your books and an editor from your favorite publishing house... And you're so nervous that you can barely put two words together, much less spit out the elevator pitch you -LSB-...]

I came across a handout from a class on backstory at last year's National Romance Writers of America Conference.

Sandra Beckwith is a popular speaker, presenter, and panelist at writers» conferences from coast - to - coast.

That particular tip was captured from a panel of agents at the Writer's Digest Conference in NYC.

It all started at the San Francisco Writers Conference in February, where the predominate message on how to get published was nearly 180 - degrees from that of last year's cConference in February, where the predominate message on how to get published was nearly 180 - degrees from that of last year's conferenceconference.

I just returned from an action - packed weekend at the DFW Writers» Conference in Dallas and boy - howdy did I have a great time.

I'm at a writers conference today, so I've pulled out a great guest post from the archives, which originally appeared as part of the writing resources series.

2) Second, I connect with fellow writers at RWA Chapter meetings and local and national conferences, in a long - standing brainstorming group, and twice weekly to write and share works in progress with a group of fellow writers from all genres at our local library.