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- Creative Juices 101
The Oyster Bar
Saturday, August 29 at 12:00pm - Columbine Author Begins Ground...
Jonesboro, Ark: Barnes & Noble
Friday, June 19 at 5:00pm - APW Summer Luncheon
Stuttgart
Saturday, June 6 at 11:30am - SPJ Region 12 Spring Conference
Holiday Inn Presidential Center
Friday, April 3 at 1:00pm
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- Bill Shrum's story 8:35am Jun 9
- High School Journalism Contest winners 11:20am Apr 21
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Want to ignite that novel, book or short story bubbling in your head?
Or maybe you want to be more creative and need a push. Or a shove!
Creative Juices 101 is a three-hour workshop aimed at making you think more creatively. It's filled with writing exercises and tips to make your characters and scenes come alive.
Email... Suzi Parker for a registration form. Registration is completed when form and payment is received.
Suzi shares her secrets!
Time:12:00PM Saturday, August 29th
Location:The Oyster Bar
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Combination book tour and town hall forums aim to promote a national conversation, and answers
DENVER, June 9 -- Jeff Kass, author of Columbine: A True Crime Story, a victim, the killers and the nation's search for answers (Ghost Road Press) is translating his book of investigative journalism into an on-the-ground exp...loration of America's school shootings.
Columbine: A True Crime Story was released just before the 10-year anniversary of the April 20, 1999 shootings. The book is the most definitive portrait yet of the killers, their families, and the common denominators among school shooters across the country.
"Columbine reaches around the globe: it is the world's most iconic school shooting," says Kass, 40, who lives in Denver. "But when it comes to tragedy, geography is destiny. Those who live closest to the sites of school shootings are among the hardest hit--and also the most inspired to improve their communities.
"I think I have found some answers behind school shootings. But people at the ground zeros of school shootings and across the country can add to the discussion and maybe debate my findings."
Kass has already had two readings in Denver. At the final stop in Houston he will reunite with the Shoels family, who he chronicles in the book and who moved to Texas after their son Isaiah was killed at Columbine. The tour includes:
*Blacksburg, Va: Christiansburg Barnes & Noble--Monday, June 15 from 7 to 9pm
*Paducah, Ky: McCracken County Library--Thursday, June 18 from noon to 1:30pm
*Jonesboro, Ark: Barnes & Noble--Friday, June 19 from 5 to 8pm
*Pearl, Miss: Ridgeland Barnes & Noble--Saturday, June 20 starts at 4pm
New Orleans, La: Borders bookstore--Wednesday, June 24 starts at 3pm
Galveston, Texas: Galveston Bookshop--Friday, June 26 starts at 5pm
Houston, Texas: Galleria Barnes & Noble--Saturday, June 27 from 2 to 4pm
*school shooting sites
Kass, a former Rocky Mountain News reporter, covered Columbine and national stories out of the West for the News, Boston Globe, Christian Science Monitor, Newsday, and US News & World Report. His book has been featured in the Associated Press, CNN.com, Denver Post, Fox News, MSNBC, NBC Nightly News, New York Times, USA Today, and the Wall Street Journal.
Website: http://www.jeffkassauthor.com
Time:5:00PM Friday, June 19th
Location:Jonesboro, Ark: Barnes & Noble
Arkansas Press Women - APW Check out Bill's story below and in the "notes" tab.
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We hope you'll join fellow Arkansas Press Women and NFPW President Marsha Shuler for a weekend of fellowship, networking and celebration.
The Awards Luncheon and 60th anniversary celebration of the founding of Arkansas Press Women is scheduled
for 11:30 a.m., Saturday, June 6, at the Museum of the
Arkansas Grand Prairie i...n Stuttgart. Lunch is only $20 a person.
Deadline to reserve a seat is (this) Friday May, 29
Visit the Arkansas Press Women website for details.
Look forward to seeing you there!
Arkansas Press Women - APW Check out the High School Journalism Contest winners! They are the future.
Cartoons 1st – Julie Youngs – The Mountie Spectrum – Rogers High School, Rogers 2nd – Kyle Davis – The Bulldog Herald – Springdale High School, Springdale “Schedule Changes” 3rd – Amy Goodrum – Southworld – Southside High School, Fort Smith, “Maybe I picked the wrong Joe” 3rd – Kyle Davis –...
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The Arkansas Pro Chapter of the Society of Professional Journalists is hosting the 2009 conference. The conference planning committee has put together an exciting program for professionals and students.
Program topics include localizing the recession, covering the energy beat, multimedia for all, enterprising sports wri...ters, newsroom ethics and resume critiques. Speakers include Ron Fournier, AP Washington bureau chief.
Included in the early-bird registration fee of $40 for student SPJ members and $60 for professional SPJ members ($65 for student nonmembers and $85 for professionals) will be a welcoming reception, the Mark of Excellence Awards luncheon and a tour of the Clinton Presidential Library.
(If you haven’t been to the library, it’s worth your time.)
Time:1:00PM Friday, April 3rd
Location:Holiday Inn Presidential Center
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