Rally to Save Pequot Library this Sat 1:30 p.m.
720 Pequot Ave, Southport, CT 06890
Saturday, April 20, 2013, 01:00pm – 02:00pm
1pm Emily Hall and Mary Ann Hall’s Music for Children
1:30pm Pep Rally to Save Pequot Library!
1:45pm Doors Open for Free Young Persons’ Concert
Children can show their spirit for National Library Week by decorating their wagons or bikes, wearing a costume of their favorite storybook character, or make handmade signs showing their support of Pequot Library. Children and adults alike can show their support by wearing yellow.
Pulitzer Prize for Orphan Master’s Son
Writer Adam Johnson was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for fiction yesterday for his novel about a young man’s experiences in the prison camps of the North Korean regime. As an aspiring writer, I am always in awe of these authors– not only for the literary acclaim their novels have garnered but because they have written something so good and have been picked out of the multitudes who have also crafted great stories. Look out for Orphan Master’s Son in the ‘What We’re Reading’ section of our next newsletter. Cindy
Elizabeth Benedict at Westport Library this Sunday 2-3 p.m.
A personal note from Jessica Bram
When I first noticed a photo of Elizabeth Benedict on the cover of her first novel, Slow Dancing, and recognized her as my high school friend Liz who worked on the literary magazine with me, something felt not quite right. Liz was a year behind me. How could she have published a book before I did? Not fair!
My initial annoyance (at myself, of course, not her) has since turned to pride that my friend Liz had turned out to be the accomplished and highly regarded author Elizabeth Benedict. Aside from having Slow Dancing shortlisted for the National Book Award, she went on to publish four more novels, a classic book, The Joy of Writing Sex, which is used widely in writing programs, along with hundreds of other reviews, articles, and her last anthology Mentors, Muses & Monsters: 30 Writers on the People Who Changed Their Lives (November 2009 Free Press/Simon & Schuster).
All this is to say that I hope to see you at the Westport Public Library this Sunday where Liz will be speaking about her new book …Of course it’s the perfect Mother’s Day gift.
Press: Christine Pakkala’s Writing for Children
Westport’s Hamlet Hub’s article by Aline Weiller features WWW instructor Christine Pakkala’s spring one-time workshop Writing for Children for the Absolute Beginner which will take place April 27.
In Westport, Pakkala’s interest in writing for children took root when she began writing stories for her son’s kindergarten class. She wrote tales incorporating his classmates as characters then would visit his class to read her stories aloud. Her son’s elementary school teachers, whom she found warm and welcoming, encouraged her. It was then that Pakkala’s quirky but beloved central character, Lola Zuckerman, was born, leading to her current middle grade fiction series, “Last But Not Least Lola.”
Read more here.
The Demise of Adjectives (Except One)
Featured in our April Newsletter
The Demise of Adjectives (Except One)
by Jessica Bram
I’ve never been much of a fan of adjectives. Although to employ them as descriptors comes nowhere near the sin of using adverbs (“The road to hell is paved with adverbs”: Stephen King On Writing), adjectives are weak, at best, when it comes to describing Long Island Sound at early dawn (misty?) or a culinary experience so transporting that it must be savored with eyes closed (delicious?). (more…)
Got a book to recommend? We’d love to hear about it
Just finish a wonderful book? Share it with your fellow writers. We encourage all WWWers to send book recommendations our way. Write to us at info@westportwritersworkshop and get featured in next month’s newsletter.
WWWer Jessica Raposo Performance at Wilton Library
Sunday, April 14 . 4 to 5 pm at Wilton Library
137 Old Ridgefield Rd Wilton, CT 06897
(203) 762-3950
Wilton Library welcomes flutist Jessica Raposo accompanied by pianist Andrew Gordon and guitarist Daniel Corr to the Brubeck Room on April 14 to perform works by J.S. Bach, Georges Enesco, M. Zachary Johnson, David Loeb and Katherine Hoover live in the Brubeck room
For more information please click here.
Marcelle Soviero in HuffPo
Marcelle Soviero’s essay “Divvying Up the Days” was featured on Huffington Post last week. Check it out here.
“This morning, an email from my ex-husband: If you get the 25th through the 3rd that’s 10 days, which leaves the split at 10 to 6.
This is how Larry and I discuss divvying up vacation time with our three kids. Matter-of-fact emails; our children checkers we move from square to square on some imaginary game board, keeping close track of how long they stay on each side….”
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