2010 Speaker Series

SOUTHERN OREGON

We meet at 9:30 for seating and networking, announcements are at 10:00. Meetings are held at the Central Point City Hall Council Chambers, 140 South 3rd Street, Central Point. We break at noon for lunch at near buy restaurants (we close the room while we treat our guest to his noon meal).

Please call, or email, Phil Messina for comments at p38messina@msn.com

Saturday, September 11th

Writing Memoir from the Inside Out

Join us as we begin our new season with Debra Zaslow, at 10 a.m. in the Central Point City Council Chambers, 140 South Second Street. Afternoon workshop begins at 12:15.

Debra Gordon Zaslow travels nationwide as a storyteller, writer and inspirational speaker. She has nationwide as a storyteller, writer and inspirational speaker. She has an MFA in Writing from Vermont College teaches storytelling at Southern Oregon University, and teaches community courses in memoir writing. An excerpt from hermemoir, Bringing Bubbe Home, is included in the 2010 literary journal "Drash Northwest Mosaic."

Her presentation explores memoir writing as a process of discovering and developing your authentic voice. We'll talk about the elements of good memoir writing--evoking sense memory, using specific imagery and the use of scene, summary and musing--all in the context of creating a writing practice that allows continual self discovery along with artistic expression.

Writing Your Life

This afternoon workshop that begins at 12:15 will offer guided practice to take us deeper into the art of writing from personal experience. We'll use visualization and writing prompts to inspire short and written pieces and then introduce elements of craft to hone them. We'll work with sensory language, finding metaphor to extend meaning, developing self as narrator, and writing scenes with dialogue. You'll go home inspired to keep writing!

Saturday, October 2nd
Christina Katz
The Prosperous Writer: Career Strategies for Staying Flush


Saturday, November 6th
Bill Johnson
Understanding Emotional Triggers
Workshop: The Spirit of Storytelling