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Carnival of Books

Saturday, September 29^th

10 am – 4 pm

Turnage Theatre

150 West Main Street  Washington, NC

Event free to the public

Children’s Story Time                         Programs for Writers              Face Painting  Discussions

          Crafts                                              Mini Workshops                              Open Mic and more…

Join us for our celebration of books and writers.

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Workshop Schedule

•  10:15: “The Synergy of Yoga & Poetry” with Malaika King Albrecht

     Yoga creates opportunities for deep insights, while writing provides a container for what you discover. Practicing yoga, you find your breath, and through writing, you find your voice. Yoga can inspire and nourish your writing. Come experience the synergy as the benefits of yoga and writing complement each other beautifully.

     Ms. Albrecht is the award-winning author of three poetry books, and her works have been also been featured in many literary magazines and anthologies. She is also the founding editor of Redheaded Stepchild, an online magazine that only accepts poems that have been rejected elsewhere. Ms. Albrecht lives in Ayden, NC, with her family and is the Executive Director of Rocking Horse Ranch Therapeutic Riding Program.

• 11:15: “SHOW, Don’t Tell” with Marni Graff

     SHOW—Don’t Tell is taught in every writing class. Learn the basics of this simple rule and how to easily follow it in Marni Graff’s workshop.

     Marni Graff is the award-winning author of The Nora Tierney English Mysteries, and The Trudy Genova Manhattan Mysteries. She is also the Managing Editor of Bridle Path Press, an author’s cooperative based out of Baltimore, MD, and writes the crime review blog, Auntie M Writes. Her creative nonfiction has been seen in Southern Women’s Review, Fine Line Anthology, and Shelf Pleasures. Having grown up in Floral Park, NY, she currently resides in rural North Carolina.

•  12:15: “Passing the Torch: The relevance of poetry now, and an intro to Poets Laureate of the United States” with Jeanne Julian.

     Poems still speak to us, beautifully, in an age of cynicism and commercialism. A writer’s personal observations about why and how poetry can enter our lives will be followed by a few notes on our current Poet Laureate, Tracy K. Smith, and her predecessors. “Poetry can help us make sense of the contemporary moment,” Smith says. (Who couldn’t use a little of that right now?) Each participant will receive a
short folio of selected poems by some of our national Laureates.

       Jeanne Julian is a poet and photographer who lives beside the Croatan National Forest in North Carolina. She belongs to a number of writing and photography groups in coastal North Carolina, and was a featured reader at the 12 th Annual Carolina Mountains Literary Festival in 2017. Her first chapbook, Blossom and Loss, was published in December of 2015. She has two chapbooks and a full-length collection in the works.

•  1:15: “A Writer’s Quick Guide to Researching Setting” with Adrienne Dunning
  

     Great characters make for great reading, but so does setting. Done well, a story’s setting can transport a reader to new lands and cities. Learn some quick tips on how to get your setting spot on that you can implement immediately which will carry your readers off to a stunning and unforgettable environment!

     Adrienne Dunning loves creating endearing and feisty characters full of humor and just a little awkwardness to keep them real. Although a possible mystery series is under exploration, her current works are primarily aligned with the contemporary romance/chick-lit genres. An internationally-selling author of three published works, she is heavily active in her local NaNoWriMo chapter, and her debut novel, Seeking Solace, was the resulting product of a NaNo project. Her books are distributed by ViridianFire Publications. Simply a Southern gal who has fun playing poorly at golf when not crafting stories, she lives in coastal North Carolina.

• 2:15: “Chapbooks” with Michael Worthington

Hands-on fun workshop on preparing chapbooks (folded paper booklets) including saddle-bond chapbooks traditionally used for poetry and single-sheet chapbooks used for promotional
brochures and children's pocket books. Participants will have opportunity to fold their own chapbooks.

Michael Worthington is a full-time writer of YA novellas after retiring from teaching college for thirty years. Usually, his pug sleeps on the recliner’s footrest while he types away on his laptop, looking out the window at his ornamental Bradford Pear tree.

•  3:15: Open Mic Hour
  

For more information contact Sherri Hollister at pwgcritique.group@gmail.com