REDBIRD NEWS - JUNE, 2005

 

1. Summer Stuff

2. NEW Fall Schedule

3. News About Redbird Writers

4. Other Faces/Places

5. How to: help/contact/report/get off the list

 

 

1. Summer Stuff

 

Studio closed May 27 to June 6

This issue of the Redbird News is being sent a few days early because the studio will be closed the week of Memorial Day. The boss is playing hooky. She'll return phone calls and emails soon after her return.

 

A Summer to Write

We have a special session of Shut Up and Write! scheduled for July-August. This is in response to teachers and those who have asked for a chance to attend this class in the summer, when they can breath a little easier and focus on writing. We'll cover the same material as we do in other sessions, but in five meetings rather than six, from 6 to 9 pm rather than 6:30 to 9 pm. If the weather's perfect and everyone's in the mood, we may take part of a class outdoors, perhaps to the gazebo, to share writings and talk about the craft. Register now.

 

There are a few spaces available in the summer Roundtable Critique Groups. If you have attended Shut Up and Write! and have been thinking about joining a roundtable, here's your chance. Notice that the fee is changing as of the July-August session, from $65 to $75. Those currently in the group are grandmothered at the old rate until the end of the year.

 

Kids camps are filling, but there are still spaces available in most sessions. See the list below.

 

To register for a class, use the flyer registration form, or print one from our web site, or just send a note along with your check -- we'll figure it out.  Be sure to list your phone number and/or email address.

 

Register now

 

Shut Up and Write!   Judy Bridges

         5 Tues   6-9pm   $295

         July 12, 19, 26, Aug 2, 9

 

Roundtable Critique Groups  

         4 meetings per session  $75  (check availability)                   

         Tuesday afternoons   12-2:30pm

         #4  July 5, 19, Aug 2, 16

         Wednesday evenings   6:30-9:00pm

         #4  July 13, 27, Aug 3, 17

                  

Kids Camps/Young Authors

         Mon-Fri               9am-2:30pm     $295

         Grd. 2-3             July 11-15                  

         Grd. 4-5-6         July 18-22

         Grd. 4-5-6          July 25-29                          

         Grd. 7-8             Aug 1-5 (waiting list) 

         Grd. 9-12           Aug 8-12   

Wrtiter/teachers/special guests: Judy Beehler, Joan Boyce, Kim Suhr, Katie Lance, Robert Vaughan, Shannon Jackson Arnold, Pam Parker, Anne Landre, Judy Bridges and others.

 

 

2. NEW Fall Schedule

 

You are the first to know... 

 

We just set the new fall schedule and excited to send you this preview. Details on most sessions are on the web site, more will follow.

You can register now.

 

Science Fiction/Fantasy   Aaron Schutz

         4 Wed   6:30-8:30pm    $115

         Sept 28, Oct 12, 26, Nov 9

 

Shut Up and Write!   Judy Bridges

         6 Mon   6:30-9pm    $295

         Oct 10, 17, 24, Nov 7, 14, 21

 

Self-Publishing   Kira Henschel

         2 Tues   Oct 11, 18   6:30-8:30pm   $55

 

Query Letters for Magazines  Kristine Hansen

         3 Thurs   Oct 20, 27, Nov 3  6:30-8:30pm   $85

 

Writing for the Web   Anne Landre

         2 Tues   Oct 25, Nov 1    6:30-8:30pm   $55

 

Write Your Own Obituary   Judy Bridges

         1 Mon   Oct 31   6:30-8:30pm   $25

 

Playwriting  Robert Vaughan

         1 Sat  Nov12   9am-4pm   $105

 

Roundtable Critique Groups  Judy Bridges        

4 meetings per session  $75  (check availability)

Tuesday afternoons   12-2:30pm

                   #5  Sept. 20, 27, Oct. 11, 25

                   #6  Nov 8, 22, Dec 6, 20

Wednesday evenings   6:30-9:00pm

                   #5  Sept 7, 21, Oct 5, 19

                   #6  Nov 2, 16, 30, Dec 14

 

 

 

3. News About Redbird Writers and Friends

Note: "R.W. and Friends" either attended Redbird workshops, or taught them, or support the studio in some special way. If you sent information and it did not appear, please forgive and send it again. Web sites are listed but not necessarily linked.

 

Shauna Singh Baldwin participated in an opening panel discussion for the Writers Union of Canada Annual General Meeting in Toronto on May 26, 2005. She is reading from her latest novel "The Tiger Claw" (Knopf Canada, 2004) at North York Library in Toronto on May 28. From June 3-5 she will be teaching a weekend course on creative writing at the University of Alberta at Edmonton. This course is part of the "Women's Words: Summer Writing Week" program in June 2005.

 

Judy Beehler has completed a year of intense study in which she earned an advance diploma of the Association Montessori Internationale (AMI). A long-time teacher in Wauwatosa schools, Judy is also developing "Meet Zooey," a creative approach to inspiring young writers.

 

Elaine Bergstrom's story, Out of the Mist, appeared in the June issue of Milwaukee Magazine, in a special fiction section of stories with Milwaukee roots.

 

Debra Brenegan and friends are teaching a poetry camp for youth entering 6th-12 grades. It's at Woodland Patterns Bookstore, June 20-24.(contact Julie Strand, 414-263-5001).

 

Anne Bingham After having been accepted in July, 2002, Anne Bingham's poem, A Woman Clothed with the Solar System, finally has been printed in Issue 99 (Spring, 2005) of the science fiction magazine, Space & Time . She wonders if this is the local record for length of time between acceptance and publication. She also wonders if, since she actually got paid for it (and the check cleared!), she can now call herself a professional poet.

 

Richard Carter was awarded first place in the Al P. Nelson Feature Article contest at the Wisconsin Regional Writers Association (WRWA) conference in Black River Falls. 

 

Doris Hayes was accepted for a Fulbright-Hays Educators Group Project Abroad. She'll visit and study in Thailand, Laos and Vietnam for 5 weeks this summer, then share her insights with educators at schools and in conferences. She hopes to have articles and photographs published about this project, as she did after her last Fulbright-Hays trip to Japan.

 

Shannon Jackson Arnold's recent publication include: The lead story on Native Art in the Wisconsin Gallery and Art Museum Guide (a custom publication by Wisconsin Trails); a short blurb on the Waukesha Art Crawls in Wisconsin Trails; two short upfront pieces in Milwaukee Home (on downtown Waukesha and artist Mark Lajiness).

 

Stacey Kannenberg and Linda Desminowich won the 2005 Adding Wisdom Award from Parent-to-Parent and a Silver Addy for illustrations from the American Advertising Awards for their  book, "Let's Get Ready For Kindergarten!"  The book was featured in the Midwest Book Review, May 2005 on line magazine under "Small Press Bookwatch," "Children's Shelf." Stacey and Linda are currently completing illustrations for Let's Get Ready For First Grade!  And, through their Cedar Valley Publishing, they published a new title, Daddy, Where are You? by Barbara Rockaway, about a little boy who is learning to communicate in new ways with his deceased father. (cedarvalleypublishing.com)

 

John Lehman has been asked to do a reading of his one-person show, "A Brief History of My Tattoo,"  at The Cornerstone Theater in Milwaukee next fall, with a short run of the actual production later in the season.

 

Mara Ptacek is encouraging poets to submit work to Wisconsin Fellowship of Poets (WFOP) Triad Contest. Three categories are open for submission June 1 to August 1. (www.wfop.org)

 

John Rondy's feature article about Milwaukee High School of the Arts, They're Artists, Students, & Successful, appeared on the cover of Shepherd Express, May 19-25.

 

Aaron Schutz's story, Red Arrow Replay, appeared in the June issue of Milwaukee Magazine, in a special fiction section of stories with Milwaukee roots. Aaron is teaching a course in Science Fiction and Fantasy writing at Redbird this fall.

 

Soulstice Theatre (here at the Marian Center) will present two exciting projects in June: "Virtual Reality" by Alan Arkin, June 2,3,4,9,10,11 and Visit by Sheila Quinn Simpson -- author of "Apology" -- on June 4th. Call 414-431-3187 for reservations.

 

Julie Vance is Editor in Chief/Publisher of Milwaukee Yoga Magazine. She is getting ready to publish another issue of the magazine and is welcoming submissions -- and advertisers. (milwaukeeyogamagazine.com)

 

 

 

4. Other Places/Faces

 

 

GREAT LAKES WRITERS WORKSHOP, ALVERNO COLLEGE

SPECIAL 20TH ANNIVERSARY PROGRAM featuring: Jacquelyn Mitchard, Shannon Jackson Arnold, Judy Bridges, Judith Harway, Carolyn Kott Washburne, Bill Nelson, Jo McReynolds-Blochowiak, John Gile, Susan Larkin and John Lehman.

Friday-Saturday, June 24, 25

Alverno College Telesis Institute

414-382-6218

 

16TH ANNUAL WRITERS' INSTITUTE, UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN - MADISON

Thursday and Friday, July 21-22, 2205

Special guest: Margaret George

608-262-7942 or www.dcs.wisc.edu/lsa/writing

 

THE CLEARING, DOOR COUNTY

2005 Writing Workshops feature Robin Chapman & Judith Strasser, Norb Blei, Ellen Kort, Darlene Cole, Jerry Apps, John Lehman and Judy Bridges (Note: Writers' Wellspring is a full week writer's retreat with Judy Bridges, Sept. 11-17).

920-854-4088 or www.theclearing.org

 

 

 

5. How to help/contact us/get off the list

 

TO HELP: Distribute flyers. Tell people about Redbird. Contribute to the Scholarship Fund.

May we suggest:

-- A gift to the Scholarship Fund in your name, or to honor your favorite writer.

-- A Redbird gift certificate for your favorite writer (for full or partial registration.)

-- Books by Redbird Writers and Friends. See the list on our website.

-- Books, period. First choice is to purchase from your local Independent bookstore.

-- If you are purchasing books from Amazon, you can help Redbird by ordering through our site.

-- "Redbird Writers" tee shirts for your writer-friends. Available in black with red "bird" logo. M, L and XL. $15.

 

TO CONTACT REDBIRD : See address, email, phone and web address below.

TO REPORT NEWS: email Judy at Redbird

TO GET OFF THE LIST: email Judy at Redbird