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Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop!

5/27/2014

It's coming: Alamo Bay 2014, in Seadrift, Texas. May 30-June1, featuring instructors environmental activist/memoirist Diane Wilson, poet Lee Meitzen Grue, and myself.

There is still time to register: http://www.alamobaywritersworkshop.com

It's going to be a great event. I'll be talking about place, and how it affects writers and writing. Come to Seadrift and hang out with us!

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Alamo Bay = Total Success

7/27/2013

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View from the venue: Sunset over Austin

It’s been a week now since Alamo Bay Writers’ Workshop, and I’m going to brag: it was a total total smashing success!

The participants were skilled, learned, funny, articulate, cool, and possessed of touching poems and stories. Fellow instructors Diane Wilson, Larry Heinemann, and Lee Grue were terrific. Pam Booton's organizing skills were/are incredible. The venue was fantastic.

Everything was great. And next year will be even better.

These people are waiting for me to say something....

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Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop and Summer Fun

7/5/2013

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Alamo Bay is two weeks away right now and you all need to go to the website and register.

Alamo Bay Writers’ Workshop: http://www.alamobaywritersworkshop.com/

It’s going to be really good—Environmental Activist Diane Wilson will be teaching a creative nonfiction session, National Book Award-winning novelist Larry Heinemann will lead a fiction session, NEA Fellow Lee Grue will teach poetry, and I’ll lead a fiction session. We’ll be in Austin, Texas July 19-21. Register--

Today I have been watching the people next door. It’s a long holiday weekend—and the neighbors are having fun! They were out on their boat all day, then came back and changed clothes and went out to dinner.

I’m an academic and a writer. Summer is a work time for me—I am revising one book and beginning two (!) others. I made corrections on the proof of Professed and I'm thinking of ways to promote it. Plus thinking about the classes I’ll teach in the fall at PSU—plus thinking about the session I’ll lead at ABWW.

But…all that’s fun, too. That's what summer is for.

Doing some last revisions on this book. It's almost ready to send out....

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Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop

5/21/2013

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Diane Wilson....

I will be leading some sessions at Alamo Bay Writer’s Workshop in Austin, Texas, from July 19th to 21st. This is going to be a really good and worthwhile--and fun--event.

The other instructors are National Book Award-winning novelist Larry Heinemann, environmental activist/memoirist Diane Wilson, and award-winning poet Lee Meitzen Grue. Dr. Hazel Ward will moderate afternoon discussion sessions.

The workshop will be devoted to sparking writerly creativity—how to find ideas, how to get writing started, how to stay focused, how to get finished. Every participant will have a chance to work with each workshop leader, exposing the participants to a variety of ideas and techniques.

The venue will be Rio Far Niente, located on 36 acres just east of Austin, overlooking the Colorado River, pecan groves, and the downtown Austin skyline. Instructor readings and music by Claudia Voyles and Lee Edwards will kick off the weekend Friday evening. Cello music by Randall Warren will accompany Saturday night entertainment. Our own Austin favorite bookstore, Bookwoman, will be selling books. The cost is $325 per workshop participant….

You all need to attend!

Alamo Bay Writers' Workshop, Austin 2013

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Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Shindig & Soiree

6/14/2011

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UPDATE 06/27/2011

We all really had a splendid time--Diane Wilson and Lee Grue gave terrific readings and there was fine music from Ponty Bone. An inspiring evening of poetry and activism...

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Please join us for readings and reception, celebrating the arrival of new books by Texas environmental activist Diane Wilson and New Orleans poet Lee Meitzen Grue, with musical guest Ponty Bone. The Texas Louisiana Gulf Coast Shindig & Soiree will take off from 4-7pm on June 25, 2011—at Pine Street Station, studio of Austin artist Reji Thomas, 1101 E 5th at Waller.

Diane Wilson, author of An Unreasonable Woman, will read from her latest book: Diary of an Eco-Outlaw. A Dobie-Paisano Fellow and 4th generation Texas Gulf Coast shrimper, Diane has been arrested more than 50 times for civil disobedience.

Lee Meitzen Grue, author of Live on Frenchman Street and Goodbye Silver, Silver Cloud will read from her latest book: Downtown. A New Orleans native, editor of the New Laurel Review and owner of B.J.’s Bar in the Bywater, Lee captures the rhythms and ambiguities of the Gulf region with her critically-acclaimed poetry.

Bookwoman, the only feminist bookstore in Texas, will help with the book sales. Diane and Lee will be delighted to autograph copies.

Lee’s Hurricane Party will be there with his Cajun food trailer.

It's going to be a lot of fun!

Time: Saturday, June 25 · 4:00pm - 7:00pm

Location: Pine Street Station 1101 E 5th (5th & Waller) Austin, TX

Website: http://www.txlagulfcoastshindig.com/

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