Introducing 2013 AWW Afternoon Fiction Seminar Instructor -- Sherri Wood Emmons

Sherri Wood Emmons Sherri Wood Emmons is a freelance writer and editor. She is a graduate of Earlham College and the University of Denver Publishing Institute. A mother of three, she lives in Indiana with her husband, two fat beagles, and four spoiled cats. Her novels include Prayers and Lies and The Sometimes Daughter, both published by Kensington.

Introducing 2013 AWW Morning Creative Nonfiction / Memoir Instructor -- Dinty W. Moore

Dinty W. Moore Morning Creative Nonfiction / Memoir Instructor Dinty W. Moore is author of numerous books, including The Mindful Writer: Noble Truths of the Writing Life, Crafting the Personal Essay: A Guide for Writing and Publishing Creative Nonfiction, and the memoir Between Panic & Desire, winner of the Grub Street Nonfiction Book Prize.  Having failed as a zookeeper, modern dancer, Greenwich Village waiter, filmmaker, and wire service journalist, Moore now writes essays and stories. He has been published in The Southern Review, The Georgia Review, Harpers, The New York Times Sunday Magazine, The Philadelphia Inquirer Magazine, Gettysburg Review, Utne Reader, and Crazyhorse, among numerous other venues.  Dinty W. Moore lives in Athens, Ohio, which he calls "the funkadelicious, hillbilly-hippie Appalachian epicenter of the locally-grown, locally-consumed, goats-are-for-cheese, paw-paws-are-for-eatin’, artisanal-salsa, our-farmers-market-rocks-the-hills sub-culture," where he grows his own heirloom tomatoes and edible dandelions, and teaches in and serves as director of Ohio University’s BA, MA, and Ph.D. in Creative Writing program.

Introducing 2013 AWW Morning Poetry Instructor - Cathy Smith Bowers

Cathy Smith Bowers, who was named Poet Laureate of North Carolina in 2010, is the 2013 Morning Poetry Instructor. 

Cathy Smith Bowers

Cathy is the author of four books: The Love that Ended Yesterday in Texas (inaugural winner of the Texas Tech University Press First Book Competition, 1992); Traveling in Time of Danger (Iris Press, 1999), A Book of Minutes (Iris Press, 2004), and The Candle I Hold Up to See You (Iris Press, 2009). 

Her powerful poems about family and loss have appeared in The Atlantic Monthly, The Georgia Review, Poetry, The Southern Review and The Kenyon Review. She is currently on the faculty for Queens' M.F.A. in Creative Writing Program, UNC Asheville's Great Smokies Writing Program and at Wofford College in Spartanburg, S.C.

REMINDER: Free Writers' Workshop Sunday, November 18

Antioch Writers' Workshop and Books & Co are offering the next Free Writers' Workshop on November 18, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at Books & Co at The Greene. The topic will be "Alternate Paths to Publishing," presented by David Braughler and Tonya Kappes.

David Braughler

David Braughler works with independent authors and organizations to help them take their stories and subject matter expertise and publish it in book form. Guiding them through an often bewildering array of packages and online offerings, David provides clarity and insight to new authors - both domestically and abroad. He's worked in marketing and public relations, and as a professional photographer - enabling him to provide a creative approach to book projects.

Tonya Kappes

Tonya Kappes is an Amazon Movers and Shakers, and self-published International bestselling author. She writes humorous cozy mystery and women's fiction that involves quirky characters in quirky situations. Splitsville.com, the first novel in the Olivia Davis Mystery Series, is a double finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Mystery and Humorous Categories. Carpe Bead 'em is the winner in Amazon's eFestival of Words in the Women's Fiction/Chick-lit Category. She travel to various writer's groups giving workshops on marketing and promoting no matter where you are in your career, and a self publishing.

Join David and Tonya to learn more about the alternate paths to publishing at Books & Co at The Green on November 18 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.. No reservations are required for the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, but expressed intention to attend is appreciated. Call Books & Co at The Greene at 937- 429-6302.

 For more information about Antioch Writers' Workshop or the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, visit our website or email us. The Antioch Writers' Workshop will be held July 6-12, 2013 in partnership with Antioch University Midwest and with support from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; The Frank Pace, Jr. Foundation; and WYSO (media sponsor).

Introducing 2013 AWW Afternoon Poetry Seminar Instructor -- Cathryn Essinger

Cathryn Essinger

Afternoon Poetry Seminar Instructor Cathryn Essinger is the author of three books of poetry--A Desk In The Elephant House, which won the Walt McDonald First Book Award from Texas Tech University Press, and My Dog Does Not Read Plato, which was the runner up in the Main Street Rag book competition in 2004. Her third book, What I Know About Innocence, was published in 2009, also from Main Street Rag press, and includes a video poem produced by her son, David, a fiction writer and professor at the University of Findlay. 

Essinger’s poems have been anthologized in The Poetry Anthology: 1912-2002, Poetry Daily: 366 Poems, and in O Taste and See: Food Poems. Her work has been featured on Garrison Keillor’s Writer’s Almanac. 

Cathryn Essinger's new work has appeared in such places as The Southern Review, New England Review, and Quarterly West. She received an Ohio Arts Council grant and was Ohio’s Poet of the Year in 2005. She is a member of The Greenville Poets, a small but well-published poetry group that does workshop presentations and supports the work of younger writers. She is a retired Professor of English from Edison Community College, in Piqua, Ohio.

Free Writers' Workshop on Sunday, November 18 at Books & Co. at The Greene

Antioch Writers' Workshop and Books & Co are offering the next Free Writers' Workshop on November 18, 2:00-3:30 p.m. at Books & Co at The Greene. The topic will be "Alternate Paths to Publishing," presented by David Braughler and Tonya Kappes.

David Braughler

David Braughler works with independent authors and organizations to help them take their stories and subject matter expertise and publish it in book form. Guiding them through an often bewildering array of packages and online offerings, David provides clarity and insight to new authors - both domestically and abroad. He's worked in marketing and public relations, and as a professional photographer - enabling him to provide a creative approach to book projects.

Tonya Kappes

Tonya Kappes is an Amazon Movers and Shakers, and self-published International bestselling author. She writes humorous cozy mystery and women's fiction that involves quirky characters in quirky situations. Splitsville.com, the first novel in the Olivia Davis Mystery Series, is a double finalist in the Next Generation Indie Book Awards in the Mystery and Humorous Categories. Carpe Bead 'em is the winner in Amazon's eFestival of Words in the Women's Fiction/Chick-lit Category. She travel to various writer's groups giving workshops on marketing and promoting no matter where you are in your career, and a self publishing.

Join David and Tonya to learn more about the alternate paths to publishing at Books & Co at The Green on November 18 from 2:00 to 3:30 p.m.. No reservations are required for the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, but expressed intention to attend is appreciated. Call Books & Co at The Greene at 937- 429-6302.

 For more information about Antioch Writers' Workshop or the Second Sunday Free Writers' Workshop, visit our website or email us. The Antioch Writers' Workshop will be held July 6-12, 2013 in partnership with Antioch University Midwest and with support from the Yellow Springs Community Foundation; Ohio Arts Council; The Frank Pace, Jr. Foundation; and WYSO (media sponsor).