[stylist] Monthly telephone gathering- this coming Sunday

[Neil Butters]

Hello,


Is the call toll free, and if so does it include
Canada?

Neil


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From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net>
Sent: Thursday, April 22, 2010 11:14 PM
To: "'Writer's Division Mailing List'" <stylist at nfbnet.org>
Subject: [stylist] Monthly telephone gathering- this coming Sunday

> RE: This coming Sunday, the 25th of April is the Writers' Division's 
> monthly
> gathering (the last Sunday of the month)
>
>
>
> --As previously posted- 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.
>
>
>
> It has also been suggested, that if we do this again, how about sending 
> the
> work out to members prior to the meeting date. Let's talk about it.
>
>
>
> --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
> <blocked::http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/>
> Personal Website-
> http://www.thoughtprovoker.info
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