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October 13, 2015
Footnotes
In This Issue
October Third Thursday
Critique Partner Mixer
2015 Fall Classes
Quick Links
Website Renew Membership
About Us Donate
Follow Us
Facebook Twitter
Scribe! the WLT blog
Members Only
"Members Review" Interested in reviewing books? Contact us [email protected] with "Members Review" in the subject line and we will respond with more details.
Click HERE to read WLT member Tony Burnett's review of Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken.
"Meet the Members"
Our Next Third Thursday
Write Fright Night!:
Dealing with Spine-Tingling Writerly Anxieties
Thursday, October 15, 2015
7:00 PM BookPeople
603 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX
*please take elevator at back of store to the third floor.
You've heard it before: "Writers have to develop a thick skin." But is that true? And if so, how does one go about growing a protective hide?
Writers have to deal with their own inner doubts, rejection, criticism, and other disappointing or downright scary
Want to be profiled on our blog? We are looking for willing subjects for our weekly Q&A posts with current members. If interested, write us at [email protected].
Our Next Open Office Hours: November 12, 2015
Registration closes November 11 at 12 pm.
Members: Meet one-on-one with a WLT staffer (in person or call in). Click here for guidelines and to sign up. Current members only.
Community Member News
The Writing Barn (Austin) is offering discounts to WLT members on the following classes: "Writing Winning Short Stories" with Lindsey Lane and Shelli Cornelison ($50 off) starting on Oct. 27 and "Meditation for Writers" with Paige Britt ($25 off) starting on Nov. 1. Click the class titles to register!
Member News Carlos Nicolas Flores (Laredo) author of Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel will be a panelist on "Old New Tales From the Border" on Sunday, October 18 at the Texas Book Festival. The panel begins at 4 pmin the Kirkus Reviews Tent.
situations. There is risk inherent in both the creative process, and in the industry. So how can writers persevere and keep focused?
Join us for this free and open to the public panel discussion on Thursday, October 15, to hear how three authors deal with the fears that come with the business of writing. Our distinguished panelists will be:
Anne Bustard holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in addition to three degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly (Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) and two other works of
nonfiction for young children. Her debut middle-grade historical novel Anywhere but Paradise (Lerner Publishing Group) was published this spring. A former children's-only bookstore owner and a lecturer in education, Anne is thrilled to be a part of the vibrant Austin writing community. Jason Neulander is an award-winning writer and director based in Austin, Texas. He has written plays, musicals, operas, comic-books, screenplays, audio dramas, podcasts, and novels. Neulander is also the founder of Austin's Salvage Vanguard Theater. Past projects include the libretto of Genghis Khan, an opera composed by Graham Reynolds; writing and directing Hit & Run, a horror film; and directing, producing, and co-authoring the transmedia project The Intergalactic Nemesis. His work has been featured on Conan, and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR's "All Things Considered", PBS's "Arts In Context" and many more. He recently won the Austin edition of Literary Death Match. In other words, he's a survivor. Follow him on Twitter @neulander_tx.
Lindsey Lane (Austin) and Shelli Cornelison are teaching a six-week, MFA-style workshop on short fiction at The Writing Barn. The class is on Tuesday evenings starting on October 27 through December 1 from 7-9 pm. Lindsey and Shelli will be discussing craft, and submission process in a creative and supportive environment. Judge Janice Law (Houston) was the featured speaker at the annual luncheon honoring spouses of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court held at the Congressional Country Club, Washington D.C. Her topic was her just-released biographyAmerican Evita: Lurleen Wallace. Janice chatted with Mrs. Bryer, Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Scalia. Joseph E. Pluta (Austin) published a new collection of short stories titled Whatever Happened to Our Dreams?(Distant Echo Press). These 24 stories look beyond mere nostalgia for a past that may or may not have existed to capture various human emotions during different stages of life. Fictional, or some maybe not so fictional, they contain a mix of humor, romance, drama, and unique slants on major historical events including the Vietnam War, dying universities, and the quest for racial harmony. Available onAmazon. A. Hardy Roper (Houston) is signing copies of his book Saving Jake on Nov. 8 from 4-6 pm atAlli's Pizzeria in Houston and on Nov. 14 from 2-4 pm at Galveston Bookshop. Saving Jake is the third book in the series of Ex Intel officer, Parker McLeod. With the help of trash-talking PI Clementine Garza,
Amy Tintera is the author of Reboot and Rebel. She grew up in Austin, Texas and graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in journalism. After receiving a masters in film at Emerson College she moved to Los Angeles, where she promptly discovered she didn't enjoy working in the film
industry, and went back to her first love -- writing. Amy is now back in Austin, and can usually be found staring into space, dreaming up ways to make her characters run for their lives. Visit her online at www.amytintera.com.
This Third Thursday: Come for the Panel and Stay for
the... Writing Group and
Critique Partner Mixer!
Interested in finding that perfect writing group or critique partner? You're in luck! Immediately following this month's Third Thursday panel at BookPeople in Austin, we encourage you to stick around to mix and mingle with fellow writers to form new connections.
2015 Fall Classes
Casting Call: Aspiring
Screenwriters!
How to Write a
Parker must save a 14 year-old boy, Jake, from vicious drug dealers. Laura Cottom Sajbel (Austin) will be reading and signing copies of her book Pow Wows and Potlucks: Finding an American Indian Community in Los Angelesduring the 13th Annual Travis Heights Art Trail's Literary Coffeehouse. Several WLT members from South Austin neighborhoods are scheduled to read and sign their books along with Laura at the elegant Fairview B&B on November 7 and 8. Free and open to the public! You can read more about this event here.
Send Us Your Member News
"Member News" is a perfect way for WLT members to share their news about signings, appearances, book releases, publications, etc. At least two weeks before desired
publication date, please send
your 50-word blurb to: [email protected]
You must be a current member of the Writers' League.
Describe success story
or upcoming event in 50 words or less.
Urls and websites can
be hyperlinked, if provided.
Items might be edited for style
and publication dates will be determined by theFootnotes editor.
Texas Writes
Hollywood Screenplay with Owen Egerton
Saturday, October 24, 2015 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
$99 members / $159 nonmembers ACC Highland
Rm #2210 6101 Airport Blvd.
Austin, TX
The readers of Austin Chronicle voted Owen Egerton "Best Local Author/Poet" of 2015 and we couldn't be happier to have him teaching this class for us! Novelist and screenwriter Owen Egerton brings his years of experience to this high-energy full day workshop on the craft of screenwriting. Using examples from classic and popular films, Egerton will cover three-act structure, strong pacing, and crafting an emotionally packed scene. He'll guide exercises and share his own experiences as a screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist. This class is perfect for students hoping to dive into screenwriting, experienced screenwriters looking for a refresher, experienced fiction writers who want to make their prose more dynamic, authors wanting to adapt their novel for the screen, and writers simply looking for a fun, informative kick-in-the-pants experience to stir up new ideas.
Owen Egerton is the author of Everyone Says That at the End of the World, How Best to Avoid Dying and The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God, which was optioned by Warner Bros. Television. As a screenwriter Egerton has worked for Fox, Warner Bros., and Disney studios, writing scripts for Owen Wilson, Bill Hader, and Amy Poehler. Egerton was voted
Best Local Author by readers of the Austin Chronicle in 2014 and 2015 and is one of the talents behind the award-winning Master Pancake Theater at the Alamo Drafthouse Theatre.
Our next Texas Writes event will takes place at the Pottsboro Area Public Library on Saturday, November 7th with authors Donna Johnson and Christine Wicker.
Check out the full schedule of our rural libraries program on the Texas Writes page on our website.
2016 Board of Directors Election
The next Writers' League of Texas Board of Directors election will be held onNovember 16-20, 2015. A ballot will be emailed to the membership. Click here for the list of 2016 candidates.
Group Write-Ins
October 31- November 30, 2015
15 sessions, 3 different locations,
Austin, TX
This November, in partnership with Austin Community College's Creative Writing Department, we're happy to once again offer an opportunity for writers to come together and enjoy a group write-in experience throughout the month. Whether you are doing NaNoWriMo or just need a kick-in-the-pants to finally finish
2015 Fall Classes
You Love to Hate Them
Characters Who Don't Play
Well with Others: Crafting Credible Antagonists
with Marian Szczepanski Saturday, October 31, 2015
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
$49 members / $109 nonmembers
St. Edward's University Trustee Hall, rm# 303 3001 S. Congress Ave
Austin, TX
Only three seats left!
Sympathetic characters are made much of in today's literary circles. But what about the bad guys (or girls)? They lie and lust and lead the good guys (and girls) shockingly astray. At their worst, they're the writer's best friends, driving the plot by creating conflict, the linchpin of fiction. They deserve attention and thoughtful rendering on the part of the writer in order to reach their full potential as characters, rather than be flimsy caricatures of evil. In this class, students will discuss the nature and purpose of antagonists in fiction and consider specific examples, both classic and contemporary, from Shakespeare to Daphne du Maurier to Cormac McCarthy. Attention will be paid to the various ways in which antagonists function, particularly what makes them memorable and unique. Students will also consider the challenges of writing truly heinous characters and their potential effect on readers.
that draft, this is the opportunity for you. One ticket gets you admittance to all write-in sessions. Come to as many as you need and stay as long as you can. Check out the schedule and register here!
Follow Us
Marian Szczepanski, author of the debut novel Playing St. Barbara (High Hill Press, 2013), holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a BA in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her short fiction has garnered the deMaine Award for an Emerging Writer from Clackamas
Literary Review. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, and the Houston Press Club. Named to the Houston Press roster of "100 Houston Creatives" for 2014, Marian teaches creative writing workshops in Houston at Writespace and beyond.
2015 Texas Book Festival
October 17-18, 2015 Join Us at the
Writers' League of Texas Booth!
#420-421 (Exhibitor Tent 4) Austin, TX
Stop by our booth during this weekend's Texas Book Festival on the Capitol grounds in Austin. We'll have a special gift for our members. WLT members will be signing at our booth all day Saturday andSunday. Come say hi, buy a book and get it signed! Click here for the signing schedule.
The Writers' League of Texas
is a non-profit corporation, funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts. This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
611 S. Congress Ave., Ste. 200 A-3, Austin, TX 78704/ 512-499-8914/ [email protected]
October 13, 2015
Footnotes
In This Issue
October Third Thursday
Critique Partner Mixer
2015 Fall Classes
Quick Links
Website Renew Membership
About Us Donate
Follow Us
Facebook Twitter
Scribe! the WLT blog
Members Only
"Members Review" Interested in reviewing books? Contact us [email protected] with "Members Review" in the subject line and we will respond with more details.
Click HERE to read WLT member Tony Burnett's review of Thunderstruck & Other Stories by Elizabeth McCracken.
"Meet the Members"
Our Next Third Thursday
Write Fright Night!:
Dealing with Spine-Tingling Writerly Anxieties
Thursday, October 15, 2015
7:00 PM BookPeople
603 N. Lamar Blvd. Austin, TX
*please take elevator at back of store to the third floor.
You've heard it before: "Writers have to develop a thick skin." But is that true? And if so, how does one go about growing a protective hide?
Writers have to deal with their own inner doubts, rejection, criticism, and other disappointing or downright scary
Want to be profiled on our blog? We are looking for willing subjects for our weekly Q&A posts with current members. If interested, write us at [email protected].
Our Next Open Office Hours: November 12, 2015
Registration closes November 11 at 12 pm.
Members: Meet one-on-one with a WLT staffer (in person or call in). Click here for guidelines and to sign up. Current members only.
Community Member News
The Writing Barn (Austin) is offering discounts to WLT members on the following classes: "Writing Winning Short Stories" with Lindsey Lane and Shelli Cornelison ($50 off) starting on Oct. 27 and "Meditation for Writers" with Paige Britt ($25 off) starting on Nov. 1. Click the class titles to register!
Member News Carlos Nicolas Flores (Laredo) author of Sex as a Political Condition: A Border Novel will be a panelist on "Old New Tales From the Border" on Sunday, October 18 at the Texas Book Festival. The panel begins at 4 pmin the Kirkus Reviews Tent.
situations. There is risk inherent in both the creative process, and in the industry. So how can writers persevere and keep focused?
Join us for this free and open to the public panel discussion on Thursday, October 15, to hear how three authors deal with the fears that come with the business of writing. Our distinguished panelists will be:
Anne Bustard holds an MFA in Writing for Children and Young Adults from the Vermont College of Fine Arts in addition to three degrees from the University of Texas at Austin. She is the author of the award-winning Buddy: The Story of Buddy Holly (Paula Wiseman Books, Simon & Schuster Books for Young Readers) and two other works of
nonfiction for young children. Her debut middle-grade historical novel Anywhere but Paradise (Lerner Publishing Group) was published this spring. A former children's-only bookstore owner and a lecturer in education, Anne is thrilled to be a part of the vibrant Austin writing community. Jason Neulander is an award-winning writer and director based in Austin, Texas. He has written plays, musicals, operas, comic-books, screenplays, audio dramas, podcasts, and novels. Neulander is also the founder of Austin's Salvage Vanguard Theater. Past projects include the libretto of Genghis Khan, an opera composed by Graham Reynolds; writing and directing Hit & Run, a horror film; and directing, producing, and co-authoring the transmedia project The Intergalactic Nemesis. His work has been featured on Conan, and in The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, NPR's "All Things Considered", PBS's "Arts In Context" and many more. He recently won the Austin edition of Literary Death Match. In other words, he's a survivor. Follow him on Twitter @neulander_tx.
Lindsey Lane (Austin) and Shelli Cornelison are teaching a six-week, MFA-style workshop on short fiction at The Writing Barn. The class is on Tuesday evenings starting on October 27 through December 1 from 7-9 pm. Lindsey and Shelli will be discussing craft, and submission process in a creative and supportive environment. Judge Janice Law (Houston) was the featured speaker at the annual luncheon honoring spouses of the Justices of the U.S. Supreme Court held at the Congressional Country Club, Washington D.C. Her topic was her just-released biographyAmerican Evita: Lurleen Wallace. Janice chatted with Mrs. Bryer, Mrs. Kennedy and Mrs. Scalia. Joseph E. Pluta (Austin) published a new collection of short stories titled Whatever Happened to Our Dreams?(Distant Echo Press). These 24 stories look beyond mere nostalgia for a past that may or may not have existed to capture various human emotions during different stages of life. Fictional, or some maybe not so fictional, they contain a mix of humor, romance, drama, and unique slants on major historical events including the Vietnam War, dying universities, and the quest for racial harmony. Available onAmazon. A. Hardy Roper (Houston) is signing copies of his book Saving Jake on Nov. 8 from 4-6 pm atAlli's Pizzeria in Houston and on Nov. 14 from 2-4 pm at Galveston Bookshop. Saving Jake is the third book in the series of Ex Intel officer, Parker McLeod. With the help of trash-talking PI Clementine Garza,
Amy Tintera is the author of Reboot and Rebel. She grew up in Austin, Texas and graduated from Texas A&M University with a degree in journalism. After receiving a masters in film at Emerson College she moved to Los Angeles, where she promptly discovered she didn't enjoy working in the film
industry, and went back to her first love -- writing. Amy is now back in Austin, and can usually be found staring into space, dreaming up ways to make her characters run for their lives. Visit her online at www.amytintera.com.
This Third Thursday: Come for the Panel and Stay for
the... Writing Group and
Critique Partner Mixer!
Interested in finding that perfect writing group or critique partner? You're in luck! Immediately following this month's Third Thursday panel at BookPeople in Austin, we encourage you to stick around to mix and mingle with fellow writers to form new connections.
2015 Fall Classes
Casting Call: Aspiring
Screenwriters!
How to Write a
Parker must save a 14 year-old boy, Jake, from vicious drug dealers. Laura Cottom Sajbel (Austin) will be reading and signing copies of her book Pow Wows and Potlucks: Finding an American Indian Community in Los Angelesduring the 13th Annual Travis Heights Art Trail's Literary Coffeehouse. Several WLT members from South Austin neighborhoods are scheduled to read and sign their books along with Laura at the elegant Fairview B&B on November 7 and 8. Free and open to the public! You can read more about this event here.
Send Us Your Member News
"Member News" is a perfect way for WLT members to share their news about signings, appearances, book releases, publications, etc. At least two weeks before desired
publication date, please send
your 50-word blurb to: [email protected]
You must be a current member of the Writers' League.
Describe success story
or upcoming event in 50 words or less.
Urls and websites can
be hyperlinked, if provided.
Items might be edited for style
and publication dates will be determined by theFootnotes editor.
Texas Writes
Hollywood Screenplay with Owen Egerton
Saturday, October 24, 2015 10:00 am to 4:00 pm
$99 members / $159 nonmembers ACC Highland
Rm #2210 6101 Airport Blvd.
Austin, TX
The readers of Austin Chronicle voted Owen Egerton "Best Local Author/Poet" of 2015 and we couldn't be happier to have him teaching this class for us! Novelist and screenwriter Owen Egerton brings his years of experience to this high-energy full day workshop on the craft of screenwriting. Using examples from classic and popular films, Egerton will cover three-act structure, strong pacing, and crafting an emotionally packed scene. He'll guide exercises and share his own experiences as a screenwriter, filmmaker, and novelist. This class is perfect for students hoping to dive into screenwriting, experienced screenwriters looking for a refresher, experienced fiction writers who want to make their prose more dynamic, authors wanting to adapt their novel for the screen, and writers simply looking for a fun, informative kick-in-the-pants experience to stir up new ideas.
Owen Egerton is the author of Everyone Says That at the End of the World, How Best to Avoid Dying and The Book of Harold, the Illegitimate Son of God, which was optioned by Warner Bros. Television. As a screenwriter Egerton has worked for Fox, Warner Bros., and Disney studios, writing scripts for Owen Wilson, Bill Hader, and Amy Poehler. Egerton was voted
Best Local Author by readers of the Austin Chronicle in 2014 and 2015 and is one of the talents behind the award-winning Master Pancake Theater at the Alamo Drafthouse Theatre.
Our next Texas Writes event will takes place at the Pottsboro Area Public Library on Saturday, November 7th with authors Donna Johnson and Christine Wicker.
Check out the full schedule of our rural libraries program on the Texas Writes page on our website.
2016 Board of Directors Election
The next Writers' League of Texas Board of Directors election will be held onNovember 16-20, 2015. A ballot will be emailed to the membership. Click here for the list of 2016 candidates.
Group Write-Ins
October 31- November 30, 2015
15 sessions, 3 different locations,
Austin, TX
This November, in partnership with Austin Community College's Creative Writing Department, we're happy to once again offer an opportunity for writers to come together and enjoy a group write-in experience throughout the month. Whether you are doing NaNoWriMo or just need a kick-in-the-pants to finally finish
2015 Fall Classes
You Love to Hate Them
Characters Who Don't Play
Well with Others: Crafting Credible Antagonists
with Marian Szczepanski Saturday, October 31, 2015
9:00 am to 12:00 pm
$49 members / $109 nonmembers
St. Edward's University Trustee Hall, rm# 303 3001 S. Congress Ave
Austin, TX
Only three seats left!
Sympathetic characters are made much of in today's literary circles. But what about the bad guys (or girls)? They lie and lust and lead the good guys (and girls) shockingly astray. At their worst, they're the writer's best friends, driving the plot by creating conflict, the linchpin of fiction. They deserve attention and thoughtful rendering on the part of the writer in order to reach their full potential as characters, rather than be flimsy caricatures of evil. In this class, students will discuss the nature and purpose of antagonists in fiction and consider specific examples, both classic and contemporary, from Shakespeare to Daphne du Maurier to Cormac McCarthy. Attention will be paid to the various ways in which antagonists function, particularly what makes them memorable and unique. Students will also consider the challenges of writing truly heinous characters and their potential effect on readers.
that draft, this is the opportunity for you. One ticket gets you admittance to all write-in sessions. Come to as many as you need and stay as long as you can. Check out the schedule and register here!
Follow Us
Marian Szczepanski, author of the debut novel Playing St. Barbara (High Hill Press, 2013), holds an MFA in fiction from the Program for Writers at Warren Wilson College and a BA in American Studies from the University of Notre Dame. Her short fiction has garnered the deMaine Award for an Emerging Writer from Clackamas
Literary Review. She has received fellowships, grants, and awards from Hedgebrook, Vermont Studio Center, the Writers' Colony at Dairy Hollow, and the Houston Press Club. Named to the Houston Press roster of "100 Houston Creatives" for 2014, Marian teaches creative writing workshops in Houston at Writespace and beyond.
2015 Texas Book Festival
October 17-18, 2015 Join Us at the
Writers' League of Texas Booth!
#420-421 (Exhibitor Tent 4) Austin, TX
Stop by our booth during this weekend's Texas Book Festival on the Capitol grounds in Austin. We'll have a special gift for our members. WLT members will be signing at our booth all day Saturday andSunday. Come say hi, buy a book and get it signed! Click here for the signing schedule.
The Writers' League of Texas
is a non-profit corporation, funded in part by the Texas Commission on the Arts. This project is supported in part by the Cultural Arts Division of the City of Austin Economic Development Department.
611 S. Congress Ave., Ste. 200 A-3, Austin, TX 78704/ 512-499-8914/ [email protected]
