[stylist] December Telephone Gathering- Sunday the 18th

[vejas]

What number do we call? And what time? (I'm from California.)
Vejas


 ----- Original Message -----
From: "Robert Leslie Newman" <newmanrl at cox.net
To: "writers nfb" <stylist at nfbnet.org
Date sent: Thu, 8 Dec 2011 17:50:39 -0600
Subject: [stylist] December Telephone Gathering- Sunday the 18th

Dear STYLIST and Writers' Division membership

RE: NOVEMBER-DECEMBER Telephone Gathering will be Sunday the 18th 
of
December 18th



We have learned that a month with a holiday near the last Sunday 
of the
month, our normal meeting day, is not a good weekend to hold a 
telephone
gathering.  And so for the November gathering that we missed and 
for the
December gathering which can't happen during the holiday weekend 
surrounding
the time of our usual gathering, we are going to hold  a 
gathering on
December 18th, two Sunday's from now.



We will have a guest speaker, a gentleman who is a published 
author, a
retired college instructor and is prepared to talk to us about 
creative
non-fiction, publishing, grammar, editing, and more.  (Read his 
BIO below).
Also, Mister Burns Taylor's "Wild Velvet" was the first place 
winner in our
2011 non-fiction category, and he is the newest member of the NFB 
Writers'
division.



Burns Taylor BIO:

Beginning with the publication of "Just Breakfast,: a prose poem 
published
in a campus literary magazine in 1967, my career as an artist has 
spanned
more than forty years.  One high point was the release of Beyond 
Blindness,
a one-hour documentary narrated by Patty Duke for PBS television.  
For that
film I earned screen credits as a featured performer and 
contributing
writer.  Another highlight was the first sale of my essay, 
"Shoestring
Publisher," to Publishers Weekly  in New York.  Most recently, my 
essay,
"The First Star I See," was selected from an international 
competition for
inclusion in Reading Lips and Other Ways to Overcome a 
Disability, a
collection of 29 essays published by the Helen Keller Foundation 
for
Educational Research.  That book is available through the 
National Library
Service talking book program.



I hold a B.A.  Degree in English from the university of Texas at 
Austin and
an Master of Fine Arts (MFA) in professional writing from the 
University of
Southern California.  I have taught English composition and 
literature
classes for the past 20 years at two community colleges and one 
university
in two different states.



I will be prepared to discuss creative nonfiction and poetry 
publishing,
writing, editing and some exercises I have created to be helpful 
in
preparing to write fiction.  I will be happy to entertain 
questions
regarding subject matter, style and other questions about 
freelance writing
and publishing.  I will also attempt to answer any questions 
about syntax
and/or grammatical usage.  I look forward to sharing ideas with 
you all on
Dec.  18.









Robert Leslie Newman

President, Omaha Chapter NFB

President, NFB Writers' Division

Division Website

 <http://www.nfb-writers-division.> 
http://www.nfb-writers-division.net

Chair, Newsletter Publication committee

Personal Website-

 <http://www.thoughtprovoker.info/> 
http://www.thoughtprovoker.info



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