{"id":21466,"date":"2018-09-17T10:51:05","date_gmt":"2018-09-17T15:51:05","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/?p=21466"},"modified":"2018-09-17T11:46:15","modified_gmt":"2018-09-17T16:46:15","slug":"sinclair-hosts-45th-annual-writers-workshop","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.sinclairclarion.com\/home\/tartan-news\/2018\/09\/17\/sinclair-hosts-45th-annual-writers-workshop\/","title":{"rendered":"Sinclair Hosts 45th Annual Writer’s Workshop"},"content":{"rendered":"

\u00a0 \u00a0On this Thursday, Sept. 20, the Sinclair English department is holding their 45th annual writer\u2019s workshop in building 7, room 006ABC. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The event will begin with a keynote speaker, a lunch and three breakout sessions with featured writers. It is free to attend for Sinclair students and staff members, as well as the general public.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Those who attend the event can expect to learn insights from writing experts that will help them in their journey to become better writers. One of the sessions will focus on the process and challenges of self publishing. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The keynote speaker is Trudy Krisher, a former associate professor in the English department at Sinclair who has been a professional writer for nearly 40 years. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0In her career she has been a book columnist, photoessayist and a magazine feature writer. She\u2019s also authored novels, picture books and a scholarly biography. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Krisher has won many awards for her work including the International Reading Association Award, American Library Association Awards and the Jefferson Cup Honor Book for Historical Fiction, among others.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The first breakout session presenter is April Wilson, a writer who creates romance stories focusing on unconventional relationships between alpha protectors who fall in love. Her main sequence of novels is called the \u201cMcIntyre Security Bodyguard\u201d series. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The second presenter is Joyce Barnes, an associate professor of English at Sinclair. She has taught writing and literature courses for over 25 years at colleges and universities in Baltimore, Atlanta, Columbus and Dayton.<\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Barnes is a published novelist and an award winning playwright. She owns her own theatrical group in Dayton called the Youth and Community Theater. Her most recent production was of her play \u201cOne Sunday in Birmingham\u201d at the Columbus Black Theater Festival in 2018. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The final presenter is Charles Freeland, a poet who is a professor of English at Sinclair Community College. He has won the Individual Excellence Award in Poetry twice from the Ohio Arts Council. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Several hundreds of his poems have been published in national and international literary journals including the Iowa Review, the Carolina Quarterly and Otoliths, among others. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0He\u2019s written fourteen books of poetry, with his newest one coming out in December. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0The event goes from 11 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and ends with a closing ceremony where an attendee can win a prize; a book from one of the presenters. <\/span><\/p>\n

\u00a0 \u00a0Staff in the English department encourage all to attend to hone their skills and become better professional writers in the future.<\/span><\/p>\n

Henry Wolski<\/strong>
\n<\/span>Executive Editor<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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