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Ruth-Miriam Garnett Resumes Maat Workshop
Monday, March 19, 2007 4:03:00 PM
by Ruth-Miriam Garnett
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| The Maat Workshop, a multiple genre writers workshop, resumes this spring for two consecutive sessions beginning Wednesday April 11 and ending June 30th. For St. Louis participants, meetings are held each Wednesday during the 12-week period. Participants in Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Washington, DC and New York City may attend three weekend seminars during the same time frame. The workshop is conducted by Ruth-Miriam Garnett, author of Laelia, a novel (Simon & Schuster 2004) and two collections of poetry, A Move Further South (Third World Press 1987) and Concerning Violence (Onegin Publishing Company 2007). The cost for both the Wednesday and Saturday meetings is $240 per session. For further information, contact: 877 714-1753; or OliviaGWalker@aol.com. |
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
AUTHOR RUTH-MIRIAM GARNETT
RESUMES MAAT WORKSHOP APRIL 11
"The art of writing is the art of discovering what you believe." --Gustave Flaubert
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“Once writing has become your major vice and greatest pleasure only death can stop it.”
--Ernest Hemingway
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The thing about writing is, nobody asked you to do it. --James Baldwin
The Maat Workshop, a multiple genre writers workshop, resumes this spring for two consecutive sessions beginning Wednesday April 11 and ending June 30th. For St. Louis participants, meetings are held each Wednesday during the 12-week period. Participants in Chicago, Atlanta, Austin, Washington, DC and New York City may attend three weekend seminars during the same time frame. The workshop is conducted by Ruth-Miriam Garnett, author of Laelia, a novel (Simon & Schuster 2004) and two collections of poetry, A Move Further South (Third World Press 1987) and Concerning Violence (Onegin Publishing Company 2007). The cost for both the Wednesday and Saturday meetings is $240 per session. For further information, contact: 877 714-1753; or OliviaGWalker.aol.com.
The Maat Workshop is designed for emerging writers interested in honing their craft and producing publishable manuscripts. Participants bring samples of their work for discussion and explore problems common to poets, novelists, short story writers, screenwriters and essayists to become more familiar with technical devices used by all
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writers to solve problems. Though prior reading of specific authors is advised, workshop discussion is drawn from participants’ work. Participants are asked to
exchange comments, reactions and insights about their work with other attendees in a dynamic critical process. Participants also become familiar with publishing strategies which have worked for other writers.
Ms. Garnett states, “In these workshops, I review equally the three points that make up the writer’s life: craft, regimen and marketing. Each of these points poses staggering questions, questions that when faced alone can be overwhelming. A workshop provides a peer group so that these concerns can be shared by others along with solutions that have worked well for individual writers. Taking advantage of the opportunity to focus on one’s own work and interacting with peers is highly motivational.”
Requirements
• Participants should submit a sample of their writing and a description of their publishing background if relevant, prior to beginning the workshop. Email submissions to oliviagwalker.aol.com. 217 Thornton Ave.; St. Louis, MO 63119
• Upon registration, participants will be assigned a minimum reading list prior to beginning the workshop
• Participants must be willing to read from and share their copyrighted work.
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• Fees for Session 1 must be paid by April 4. Fees for Session II must be paid by April 12. There can be no exceptions. Checks should be made payable to Ruth-Miriam Garnett. The location for meetings will be provided once payment is received. Mail to: 217 Thornton Ave.; St. Louis, MO 63119.
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Ms. Garnett also offers individual consultation with writers. Writers who opt to work one-on one with Ms. Garnett may attend the Maat Workshop free of charge. All participants are invited to free of charge seminars held during the session on the following topics: Understanding Beloved, It’s Hard Out Here For A Metaphor, Politics and Art (screening of film, La Vie En Campagne), A Writing Regimen: The Antisocial Necessity. These seminars are open to the public for $15.00. Participants are encouraged to suggest other seminar topics for consideration and may organize public readings at the conclusion of their workshop in a space provided by Maat.
Ms. Garnett is currently Editorial and Marketing Consultant for Onegin Publishing Company in St. Louis.
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