[stylist] April Writers' Division telephone gathering

[Neil Butters]

Hello All,

I would like to join the Sunday night telephone meetings. Is the phone 
number toll free? If so, does it include Canada?

I also have a suggestion: It might be advantageous to send the writing 
sample up for discussion to this list before Sunday. That would allow us to 
read and re-read it and possibly analyze it more effectively. And, at least 
for me, reading something over the phone is awkward; I cannot read it myself 
and would need to reiterate what JAWS says, or use JAWS to read it, which 
can be difficult to understand over the hphone.

Have the winners of the 2010 writing contest been announced somewhere? Have 
the winners been notified? I ask because I thought the winners were 
announced in July, but Chris has apparently taken first.

Neil





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From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
Sent: Sunday, April 18, 2010 4:06 PM
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [stylist] April Writers' Division telephone gathering

> RE: the Writers' Division will host its monthly telephone gathering for
> April on Sunday, the 25th (This is the last Sunday of the month.)
>
>
>
> --this months gathering will feature two special events- First, is a
> opportunity to meet and talk with an editor of an on-line magazine called
> "Breath and Shadow." this is a magazine created by the disabled and seeks
> disabled authors and pays for submissions. The editor, Chris Kuell is a
> member of the NFB Writers' Division and I have finally lined Chris up to
> come on a monthly gathering and to specifically talk to us and to answer 
> our
> questions about "Breath and Shadow" and about himself. Chris is a great
> writer of short stories, and I'm sure of other forms of writings, too. You
> can see some of Chris's stories in Slate and Style; Chris Tooke first 
> place
> in the 2010 Division writing contest and second in 2009. immediately below
> is his bio-
>
>
>
> Biography
>
>
>
> Chris Kuell is a blind writer and advocate living in Western Connecticut. 
> A
> former research chemist, he lost his sight at thirty-five as a result of
> diabetic retinopathy. A few years later, he learned how to use a computer
> with speech output and turned his efforts to writing. He's had more than 
> two
> dozen articles about blindness published, and His fiction has appeared in
> Spillway Review, The Sun, Breath and Shadow, Apollo's Lyre, Gambit, 
> Mountain
> Echoes, Decomposition, Bewildering Stories, and Dialogue. He was an editor
> and contributed to the anthology, Mountain Voices: Illuminating the
> Character of West Virginia, as well as having a short story in, Northern
> Haunts: Terrifying Tales From New England. He is currently seeking an
> agent/publisher for Disconnected, a novel about how Alzheimer's disease
> affects a family and tests the bonds of love. He is also hard at work on 
> his
> second novel, Rub It In, a novel about a blind massage therapist caught in 
> a
> thorny love triangle.
>
>
>
> In January of 2008, he took over as Editor in Chief at Breath and Shadow,
> the only paying literary journal written and edited exclusively by people
> with disabilities.
>
>
>
> --Our second feature of the evening is an opportunity for any member to
> present, read a short example of their writing. This would be for the
> purpose is an opportunity to get some on the spot, constructive feedback.
> This was suggested during last months gathering. this can be any type of
> writing that you would wish to present.
>
>
>
> --The time for the gathering is- 8:30 PM Eastern; 7:30 PM Central; 6:30 PM
> Mountain; 5:30 PM Pacific.
>
>
>
> --The phone number to call is- 218-339-4300
>
>
>
> --the code is: 568839# (last character is a number sign)
>
>
> Robert Leslie Newman
> President NFB Writers' division
> Writers' Division Website-
> http://www.nfb-writers-division.org <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>
> Personal Website-
> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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