Remembering having a blast with these lovely ladies at my studio in Sherman Oaks for Beth Bornstein Dunnington’s Big Island Writers’ Workshop 🙂
Category: events
Slipper Camp – Love & Mercy
Dear Writers,
I’m excited to announce a brand new Slipper Camp. The subject: LOVE & MERCY ON AUGUST 2 – AUGUST 21.
WHAT IS SLIPPER CAMP?
Slipper Camp is a 20 day online writing experience. (10 days of receiving writing prompts; 2 days to write each one.) I call it Slipper Camp because you can stay home and write in your PJ’S and slippers.
Every morning at 7:00 AM the day’s prompts will arrive in your mailbox. You will be asked to write 1,000 words every other day (approx. 2 pages) on a prompt of your choice and you will send it to me by midnight of the following day.
Every day I will acknowledge that I got it. Every day I will read your writing. But I won’t comment on it yet. (Because Slipper Camp is designed to create a rhythm of writing daily or every other day, without feedback. Yet.)
When the 20 days are up, you will have written 10,000 words. No small feat.
When the 20 days are up we will talk one-on-one (over the phone) about your writing.
NOTE: SLIPPER CAMP IS ONLY OPEN TO THE FIRST 10 WRITERS WHO SIGN UP. Can’t read more than that every day!
THE TOPIC: LOVE & MERCY
This Slipper Camp will guide you to write about love and mercy in any way you choose. What does love mean to you? Is mercy a sign of weakness or strength? Every day there will be several different prompts to choose from. What you write will depend on how the prompts hit you.
SLIPPER CAMP: THE STORY
In 2011, I noticed that there were many online Writing Boot Camps – they all ask for writing to be done every day. I decided that pace was too hectic – ergo, Slipper Camp. Geared to our busy lives. A gentler way to get some great writing done over 20 days. I create three unique prompts per day for you to choose from – totaling 30 prompts per Slipper Camp. OR you can choose to write from none of the prompts and use this as a kickass way to get 10,000 words written over 20 days. However you do it, It WORKS.
Now, over 250 writers later, this is my 16th Slipper Camp with brand new prompts.
So let’s get writing and have some fun! Please message me for the fee. I welcome you to Slipper Camp!
Also, sign up using this link:Â https://lindaschreyer.wordpress.com/writing-classes/slipper-camps/
Elaine Mansfield
One of the finest writers I know, Elaine Mansfield, will be giving a reading in SF on July 25. She is amazing. Run, don’t walk. Wish I were going to be there. Go, Elaine, go.
Check out her event on facebook here
To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon at the Barnes and Noble at The Grove
Yesterday, I participated in the To Kill a Mockingbird Read-a-Thon at Barnes & Noble/The Grove. The event took place throughout the day and I was so honored to be alongside such wonderful authors and speakers. Dawn Wells (the Mary-Ann from Gilligan’s Island), Josh Sabarra (Author of Porn Again: A Memoir), and Cynthia Fox (from 100.3 The Sound) all read at 11am with me (also in the photo above).
I was honored to sign “Tears and Tequila” at Barnes&Noble – The Grove – beneath Harper Lee. I was spellbound by the world she created, and the beauty of her words as we read TKAM aloud at the all-day-read-a-thon organized by Lita Weissman.
Westport Library, Nanuet Library, & Childhood Friends
It’s been an amazing ‘old home week’ on the east coast. In Westport, I’m staying at the beautiful home of my childhood friend, Lucy, which whom I share so much history and who spearheaded the event at The Westport Library. And who should happen to walk into the Library as I was talking? My best friend from P.S. 87, Cynthia, who lives nearby. Here we are at age 7, in my kitchen and last night, in Lucy’s living room, after a great time together.
Continue reading “Westport Library, Nanuet Library, & Childhood Friends”
Hollye Dexter’s Barnes and Noble Event
Over this past weekend I went to the most amazing book launch at Barnes and Noble – The Grove – of Hollye Dexter’s phenomenal book, FIRE SEASON.
It is a must-read, searing account of the roller coaster ride that began for Hollye and Troy Dexter on the night they jumped out of a second story window when their house was engulfed in flames. Her story – from ruin to redemption – ends with hope.
On Saturday, Hollye read a riveting and heartfelt passage, held up a charred childhood diary dug out of the rubble, presented an expert from the Red Cross who told us how to keep safe in emergencies and was joined by husband Troy Dexter on guitar and singers Gloria Loring and Stephen Bishop. What a family. What a community. What a book launch. Magic!!!
More Events!
Don’t miss two very special events with the talented Linda Schreyer at the Westport Library and Nanuet Library!
Linda Schreyer, co-author with Jo-Ann Lautman of Tears and Tequila, discusses this story of love, loss, friendship, courage and, most of all, renewal. It tells of the healing that happens when you become part of a community in which everybody is missing someone. This novel about love, loss and renewal will make you laugh, cry and invest in the lives portrayed.
“With compassion and a light hand which only true understanding can provide, the authors impart important life lessons on how to cope with grief and find a new path to happiness.”—Edie Lutnick Co-Founder and President, The Cantor Fitzgerald Relief Fund
Westport Library
Event Details:
When: Wednesday, May 13, 2015 7:00 PM – 8:00 PM
Where:McManus Room- Westport Library, 20 Jesup Road, Westport, CT 06880
Contact Info: 203.291.4800
Nanuet Library
Event Details:
When: Thursday, May 14, 2015, 6:30-8:45 PM
Where: The Nanuet Library, 149 Church Street, Nanuet, NY 10954
Contact Info: 845-623-4821
Linda Schreyer 