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The 59th Annual Fall Conference
Please print the Registration Form »
Make all checks payable to
“Wisconsin Regional Writers’ Association, Inc.”
and mail with form to:
Jane Osypowski, Registration Chair
W972 Birchwood Drive
Campbellsport, WI 53010
If you have questions regarding registration, call Jane at (920)533-3044
or e-mail her at
Friday, September 28, 2007
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1:00 p.m.
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Board of Directors meeting—All are invited |
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7:00 p.m. - 10:00 p.m.
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Writers Roundtable—All are welcome to listen and participate |
Saturday, September 29, 2007
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8:00 » 9:00 a.m.
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Registration and Continental Breakfast |
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9:00
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Welcome by WRWA President Don Schambow
and Fall Conference Chair Nate Scholze |
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9:15
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John Gardner, creative writing instructor
and former reporter, “Mining the Mind” |
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10:30
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Break |
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10:45
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Deb Baker, novelist, “It’s the Journey not the Destination” |
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12:00 p.m.
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Break for Lunch |
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1:00
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General Membership Meeting and election of Board Members |
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1:30
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Philip Martin, author, publisher and former acquisitions editor, “Secrets of Successful Pitches: How to Make Editors Want to Publish Your Work” |
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2:45
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Break |
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3:00
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Michelle Grajkowski, Literary Agent, "Do I really Need A Leterary Agent?" |
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4:15 » 6
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Book Fair |
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4:30 » 6
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Free Pitch Sessions with Michelle Grajkowski, Literary Agent |
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6:00
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Break for Dinner |
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7:00» 8:30
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“Sherrie Avery-King/Queen for a Moment”
-Open Microphone |
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8:30 » 10
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Writing Group Breakout Sessions: Fiction with Nate Scholze, Non-Fiction with Robin Butler and Poetry with LaMoine MacLaughlin |
Sunday, September 30, 2007
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Presentation of Jade Ring Contest awards and Presentation of Robert E. Gard Award for Excellence |
| 10:00 a.m. |
Readings of award-winning work by
Jade Ring Contest winners |
| 11:00 a.m. |
Book Fair |
| 11:30:00 a.m. |
Jade Ring Banquet Luncheon |
| 12:30 p.m. |
Denise Sweet, Wisconsin Poet Laureate,
“Who We Are, What Is Ours—Voices & Visions” |
| 2:00 p.m. |
Closing |
| 2:05 p.m. |
Special meeting for poets with Wisconsin Poet Laureate, Denise Sweet |
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