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Festival of Words 2003 |
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A Conference for Readers and Writers October 4, 2003Presented by: |
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Co-sponsor:
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Festival of WordsSaturday, October 4, 2003top |
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Agenda 8:30 - Registration ($30 for entire day) Pre-registered participants will receive a "gift packet" upon registration containing workshop material, sponsor coupons, brochures, and donated products. For on-line or general registration questions, contact tlschaefer@cox.net
9:00 - Panel discussion with all four speakers Everyone at the function is invited to the 9:00 AM session. Ruth Ann Replogle (Enid News & Eagle) will introduce and interview the four speakers. Our goal in this session is to help participants decide which morning and afternoon sessions to attend.
10:15 - Break
10:30 - Choice of 2 sessions: Merline Lovelace or Francine Roark Robison See speaker bios below 12:00 - Lunch (on site kiosk) and book sales
1:00 - Choice of 2 sessions: Jan Epton Seale or Jeff Mullin See speaker bios below
3:00 - Break
3:30 - Door prize drawings, book sales
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Morning Speakers
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Merline Lovelace: After a 23-year career commanding US forces around the world, USAF Colonel Merline Lovelace launched a second career as a novelist in 1991. Since then she's made national best-seller lists and earned distinguished awards, including 1998 Oklahoma Writer of the Year and the Romance Writers of America's prestigious RITA. Named one of Oklahoma's Top Ten Women in the News and the Oklahoma Female Veteran of the Year, Colonel Lovelace has more than seven million copies of her military thrillers, historical sagas, and romance novels in print in 28 countries.
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Francine Roark Robison taught English and Humanities 29 years before going on the road with cowboy poetry. Many pieces in Night of the Cowboy & Other Poems were written from family history to honor the sacrifices and courage of American pioneers.
Francine authored The Bell Does Not Dismiss You (and Other Myths of Teaching) and is featured in the poetry collection titled The Big Roundup. Named Oklahoma's Honorary Cowboy Poet Laureate in 2000, she now works for a national textbook company. |
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Afternoon Speakers
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Jan Epton Seale: As the author of The Nuts-&-Bolts Guide to Writing Your Life Story, Jan teaches people how to craft an insightful, creative legacy using life's experience. Her workshops are an indispensable tool for anyone with a desire to record their personal history.
A recipient of a fellowship in poetry from the National Endowment for the Arts, Jan's published work includes Bonds, Sharing the House, co-authorship in A Quartet: Texas Poets in Concert, a short story collection called Airlift and a non-fiction book, Homeland.
Her writing has appeared in Newsday, The San Francisco Chronicle, and the Yale Review. Her poetry, prose readings, and plays have entertained many Texas gatherings, as well as groups in the Southwest and Pacific Northwest. Jan lives in the Lower Rio Grande Valley of Texas where she teaches creative and autobiographical writing. |
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Jeff Mullin: Oklahoma residents know Jeff Mullin as the talented Enid News & Eagle Senior Writer whose columns leave you in stitches or in tears - depending on the subject matter. Highly respected and awarded in the journalism community, Mullin shares his secrets for crafting thought-provoking columns.
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