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Programming

Join us for a Poetry Workshop at The Arts Exchange!

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In celebration of National Poetry Month, The Arts Exchange and Broadleaf Writers Association are pleased to present a one-day Poetry Workshop, to be held Saturday, April 6th from 10-4 at the Arts Exchange! With three workshops and a Q&A panel to address your questions, poets Theresa Davis, Andrea Jurjević and Collin Kelley will guide you through various styles and techniques! Be ready to write, ready to take notes, and ready to review poems you’ve brought with you! This program is free and open to the public, so don’t miss this opportunity to learn the art of poetry from three talented and prolific poets.

Workshops will include:
Giving Voice, led by Collin Kelley: This generative workshop will explore persona and ekphrastic poems. You’ll be giving voice to a narrator other than yourself, or perhaps a different version of yourself, and providing context or backstory to a work of art. Bring your pen and notebook and write poems to be shared with the group.

Andrea Jurjević will lead a workshop that explores passion and authenticity in poetry. Bring two of your strongest poems of 40 lines or less, paper, pen, and a sense of humor.

Random Facts and Musing, led by Theresa Davis, will incorporate random facts about the writer, random facts about a favorite subject or topic, and a the answers to a few questions. Mix it all together and a poem will be born. This is experimental poetry. Be brave.

We’ll conclude the day with a panel discussion, answering questions you may have about the craft, or the process of putting your work into a collection for publication!

Find the poems you’d like to share, bring a pen and paper or a latop to write, and join us for day devoted to poetry!

Programming, Write Now

Join us for our first Write Now program of 2019!

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In the beginning, you stared at a blank screen. This may have lasted a while. You may or may not have deleted your first line a few times. You made some coffee. You came back. The dog stared at you. You typed away, determined to keep the cat off the keyboard this time. Eventually you found a groove. You wrote some lines, which became paragraphs, which became a page.

Then a story happened. The pages flew by. You really like it (except when you hate it). You’ve developed feelings about it.

But the first page continues to call to you. After all, it’s what will get you in the door with an agent or editor. It’s what a potential reader may use to decide whether to buy your book. You think it needs something. But what? What if it’s okay to adequate already? What if you change something you shouldn’t change? How do you even know when it’s right?

First, take a breath. It’ll be all right.

We have a program just for you.

For our first Write Now program of 2019, we’re going to talk you through your first page. With the help of authors Emily Carpenter and Roger Johns, we’ll gather and chat, hold an informal discussion on the craft of writing a first page, then chat some more. Bring your page with you if you’d like. Time permitting, you may be able to read it aloud and we’ll offer our thoughts. We want you to leave feeling confident about writing the first page. Not only for your work-in-progress, but for all the first pages in your future.

Join us at Fox Tale Book Shoppe on Saturday, February 16th, 2019 at 2:00 p.m.!

Emily Carpenter is the critically acclaimed, bestselling author of suspense novels, Burying the Honeysuckle Girls, The Weight of Lies, and Every Single Secret. After graduating from Auburn with a Bachelor of Arts in Speech Communication, she moved to New York City. She’s worked as an actor, producer, screenwriter, and behind-the-scenes soap opera assistant for the CBS shows, As the World Turns and Guiding Light. Born and raised in Birmingham, Alabama, she now lives in Atlanta, Georgia with her family. You can visit Emily at emilycarpenterauthor.com and on Facebook and Twitter.

ROGER JOHNS is a former corporate lawyer and retired college professor, and the author of the Wallace Hartman Mysteries from St. Martin’s Press/Minotaur Books: Dark River Rising (2017) and River of Secrets (2018). He is the 2018 Georgia Author of the Year (Detective ▪ Mystery Category), a 2018 Killer Nashville Readers’ Choice Award nominee, and a finalist for the 2018 Silver Falchion Award for best police procedural. His articles and interviews on writing and the writing life have appeared in Career Author, Criminal Element, Killer Nashville Articles, and the Southern Literary Review. Roger belongs to the Atlanta Writers Club, Sisters in Crime, Mystery Writers of America, and International Thriller Writers, where he is one of The Fearless Bloggers, and a mentor in the Big Writer program. Along with four other crime fiction writers, he co-authors the MurderBooks blog at www.murder-books.com. Visit him at www.rogerjohnsbooks.com and you can find him on Twitter at @rogerjohns10.