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Jumpstart Your Writing: Practical and Magical Tips for Getting Words on the Page

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Thursday, March 6 
12 – 1pm / PST 

Jumpstart Your Writing Lunch N Learn:

Practical and Magical Tips for Getting Words on the Page

with Laurie Sue Brockway

 
Has your muse gone on vacation just when you need her the most?
 
All writers experience dry spells and have moments where their confidence is shaken. This class offers wisdom and inspiration to get your writing projects (and career) back on track. Learn to kiss your inner critic goodbye and welcome peace of mind, as you pick up some new coping skills and creative methods for getting words onto the page.
 
Find out how to:
  • Turn on your writing faucet and get words flowing.
  • Invite the spirit of creativity and joy into your writing.
  • Discover and embrace your own personal creative process.
  • Confidently carve out time for productivity.
  • Uncover ways to dream your book into reality.
  • Call forth ancient muses, and your inner genie or word wizard, to help you on your journey.
 
About Laurie Sue Brockway
Laurie Sue Brockway is a seasoned writer of thousands of articles, 25 books, and many once-unfinished manuscripts. She developed her unique approach to tapping into creative magic after years of writing panic, fear, and frustration! Her books have been published by Penguin, Random House, Sterling, and Llewellyn. Now running her own self-publishing company, she is sharing her wisdom to help other writers. Her books include Writer’s Flow, She Who Scrivens, Goddess Seshat, Lakshmi Magic, and The Goddess Pages. She holds degrees in psychology, ministry, and public history. Find out more at www.RevLaurieSue.com.

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April 14th – Looking Back, Looking Forward: A Reading with Jan Beatty and Dana Levin

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Thursday, April 14th, 2022
Looking Back, Looking Forward:
A Reading with Jan Beatty and Dana Levin
5pm-6pm / PT

 

Poets Jan Beatty and Dana Levin will join us for an evening that will celebrate their award winning poetry and celebrate the foremothers who inspired them.  Each poet will begin the evening by introducing the foremother poet who influenced her work.  Then, Beatty and Levin will share their own new work.

 

Participants: 

Jan Beatty is the winner of the Red Hen Nonfiction Award for her memoir, American Bastard (2021). Her sixth book, The Body Wars (2020), was published by the University of Pittsburgh Press. In the New York Times, Naomi Shihab Nye said: Jan Beatty’s new poems in “The Body Wars” shimmer with luminous connection, travel a big life and grand map of encounters. Books include Jackknife: New and Collected Poems (2018 Paterson Prize) named by Sandra Cisneros on LitHub as her favorite book of 2019. Beatty worked as a waitress, a welfare caseworker, an abortion counselor, and in maximum-security prisons.

 

Dana Levin’s fifth book is Now Do You Know Where You Are (Copper Canyon, Spring 2022), a Lannan Literary Selection. Recent books include Banana Palace (2016) and Sky Burial (2011), which The New Yorker called “utterly her own and utterly riveting.” She is a grateful recipient of honors, including those from the National Endowment for the Arts, PEN, and the Library of Congress, as well as from the Rona Jaffe, Whiting, and Guggenheim Foundations. Levin teaches in the MFA Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College, and serves as Distinguished Writer in Residence at Maryville University in St. Louis.

 

 

Jan Beatty and Dana Levin will share their most recent work. Audience members will not only learn about these current poets, they will also discover writers from the past.  

 

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April 23 – Conversations with Authors: Journaling Lunch ‘N Learn with Debra Eckerling and Nita Sweeney

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Friday, April 23, 2021

12pm

Do you keep a journal? 

How has journaling helped you – personally and professionally – over the last month, year, or decade?

Whether it’s for your mental, physical, or creative well-being, the reasons for journaling are endless. And for writers … journaling serves as a jumping off point for ideas, projects, and opportunities,

To get the most out of your journaling practice, join Mango Publishing authors Debra Eckerling and Nita Sweeney for a Lunch ‘N Learn for the Women’s National Book Association – San Francisco Chapter.

Debra Eckerling is the author of Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning, and Achieving Your Goals, founder of the D*E*B METHOD, and founder and host of Write On Online, the #GoalChat Twitter Chat, and #GoalChatLive on Facebook. 

 

 

Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving.

 

During this Lunch and Learn, Debra and Nita will discuss:

  • The Value of Journaling 
  • Journaling Writing Exercises
  • Getting Rid of the Inner Critic 
  • Uses for Journaling
  • Best Practices
  • And more

Title: Conversations with Authors: Journaling Lunch ‘N Learn with Debra Eckerling and Nita Sweeney

When: Friday, April 23, 12pm PT

Where: Zoom (Zoom link provided via email when you RSVP)

Unable to attend? No worries. Register anyway and receive the replay!

Click the button below to RSVP for the panel discussion; we are limited to 100 total attendees, so please let us know early!

 

 

March 12 – Panel: Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

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Friday, March 12, 2021

12pm

What sparks a captivating story? Do writing ideas just appear out of nowhere? Do authors sit around waiting for great ideas to emerge, or do they systematically go out and find them?

Join five published authors as they demystify what often appears as an inexplicable black box. They will share how and where they find the inspiration for their writing, ranging from lucid dreams, people watching, historical events, and more. Bring your questions about writers’ sources of inspiration for them to answer at the end of the session.

Moderator:

Nita Sweeney is the award-winning wellness author of the running and mental health memoir, Depression Hates a Moving Target: How Running with My Dog Brought Me Back from the Brink and co-creator of the writing journal, You Should Be Writing: A Journal of Inspiration & Instruction to Keep Your Pen Moving. A long-time meditator, three-time marathoner, and former assistant to writing practice originator Natalie Goldberg, Nita founded the Facebook group Mind, Mood, and Movement to support mental well-being through meditation, exercise, and writing practice. Nita’s eBook Three Ways to Heal Your Mind is available for download.

Panelists:

Goal-setting expert Debra Eckerling is the author of Your Goal Guide: A Roadmap for Setting, Planning & Achieving Your Goals and founder of the D*E*B METHOD. Debra helps individuals and businesses figure out what they want and how to get it through one-on-one coaching, workshops, and online support. She is the founder of Write On Online, a website and community for writers, creatives, and entrepreneurs, as well as host of the #GoalChat Twitter chat and #GoalChatLive on Facebook.

 

Kate FarrellStoryteller, author, librarian Kate Farrell is the author of Story Power: Secrets to Creating, Crafting, and Telling Memorable Stories. Kate founded the Word Weaving Storytelling Project and published numerous educational materials on storytelling. She has contributed to and edited award-winning anthologies of personal narrative, Times They Were A-Changing: Women Remember the 60s & 70s, and Cry of the Nightbird: Writers Against Domestic Violence. 

Marlena Fiol, PhD is a world-renowned expert on why and how people change their understanding of who they are. Her significant body of published material on the topic, coupled with her own raw identity-changing experiences, makes her uniquely qualified to speak and write about deep change. Her latest book Nothing Bad Between Us: A Mennonite Missionary’s Daughter Finds Healing in Her Brokenness is a vulnerable and inspirational tale of personal transformation. Marlena lives with her husband Ed in Eugene, Oregon. To learn more, please visit marlenafiol.com.

The author of three poetry collections, a chapbook of short fiction and You Can Be a Winning Writer, a book for writers, Joan Gelfand’s work appears in national and international journals including Rattle, PANK! The Los Angeles Review of Books, Prairie Schooner, Kalliope, California Quarterly, the Toronto Review, Marsh Hawk Review and Levure Litteraire.  Her chapbook of short fiction won the Cervena Barva Fiction Award. President Emeritus of the Women’s National Book Association, a member of the National Book Critics Circle and California Writers Club, Joan coaches writers. Joan’s novel, Extreme, set in a Silicon Valley startup, was published by Blue Light Press in July, 2020.

Title: Panel: Where Do Writers Get Their Ideas?

When: Friday, March 12, 12pm PT

Where: Zoom (Zoom link provided via email when you RSVP)

Unable to attend? No worries. Register anyway and receive the replay!

Click the button below to RSVP for the panel discussion; we are limited to 100 total attendees, so please let us know early!