Monday, March 24, 2008

Saturday Writers Workshop - "First Sentence Expectations"

This Saturday, bring your best opening line from a fiction, non-fiction, or poetry manuscript to Julie Earhart's workshop for Saturday Writers, "First Sentence Expectations."

First lines can be an important asset in selling your writing, so don't miss this opportunity to make a powerful first impression with an agent or editor.

Julie Earhart is an award-winning fiction and non-fiction writer and has MFA degree from the University of Missouri-St. Louis.

She has published in Steps Astray; An Archer's Dream; Watermark; Gigantic; Palimpsest; and Stirrings: A Literary Collection, Sauce Magazine (in publication) Saint Louis Events Magazine (of which she is the former editor-in-chief), the St. Louis Public Library, The Tunica Times, The 1904 World's Fair Society Bulletin, Spirit Seeker, Oakland House, St. Louis Writers Guild, the MFA Program at UM-St. Louis, The Historic Daniel Boone Home and Boonesfield Village, and The Women's Voice of Saint Louis and has been a reviewer of fiction for the St. Louis Post-Dispatch, The Charlotte Austin Review, Booksights (in the UK) and Amazing Authors Showcases.

She also taught feature writing at the University of Missouri-St. Louis and has started her own creative writing business, Write it Right!

When and Where:
Saturday, March 29, 2008
The meeting will be from 11 a.m.-1 p.m. at the St. Peters Community and Arts Center, 1035 St. Peters-Howell Road, off Mid Rivers Mall Drive in St. Peters. It's is free to members and $5 for non-members.

Saturday Writers meets the last Saturday of the month. For more information, visit the Saturday Writer's website at http://www.saturdaywriters.org/.

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