Category: Writers Forum

Writers?¢‚Ǩ‚Ñ¢ Forum is hosted by Dr. Betty Parker Duff and is a new program at WERU designed to bring you the voices of Maine writers from all over the state but especially from the coastal region.

Writers Forum 12/10/09

Producer/Host: Joan Clemons

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topics: Children’s books, reading one’s own work

How to publish a children’s book?  Where to share your work locally.  Problems of writing and marketing.

Guests:
Jane Freeburg (janefreeburg@myfairpoint.net), and Janet Shea (401 Port Clyde Rd, Tenants Harbor, 04860, pntdfir@roadrunner.com)

Writers Forum 10/08/09

Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Participant’s Poems, Belfast Poetry Festival
What is the Belfast Poetry Festival? How can you participate in the festival? What makes the Belfast Festival different?
Guests: Carl Little (little@myfairpoint.net); Arielle Greenburg (ariellecg@yahoo.com); Linda Buckmaster (lsbuck1@myfairpoint.net)

Writers Forum 8/13/09

Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Studio Engineer: Joel Mann
Topic: Non-fiction Writing- Photo Journalism
How to go about publishing your work? How to find inspiration in ordinary people and events around you. How to research and put together a non-fiction book.
Guests: Patricia Hughes, phughes16@myfairpoint.net, www.schifferbooks.com; Patrisha McLean, patrishamclean@aol.com

Writers Forum 5/14/09

Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Poetry in Maine & Performance Poetry. What is “Off the Coast” literary journal? How to submit poems to “Off the Coast” and also to Belfast Poetry Festival
Guests: Michael R. Brown (mrbrown64@msn.com) & Valerie Lawson (soshorepoet@aol.com); www.off-the-coast@aol.com

Writers Forum 4/09/09

Producer/Host: Joan Clemons
Studio Engineer: Amy Browne
Topic: Writing and Art Memoirs
How writers groups operate. What about writing memoirs–how do you start–relationship of poetry to memoir. Are writing schedules necessary?
Guests: Brenda Gilchrist (brenda.gilchrist@gmail.com); Phil Schirmer (schirmer@netzero.net or phil@woodenboat.com); Norma Sheard (normasheard@midmaine.com)

Writers Forum 2/12/09

Producer/Host: Joan Clemons

Studio Engineer: Amy Browne

Topic: Writing, prose, memoirs

Local writers read from their work and a discussion follows: How to begin a writing project?  Is publishing the only reason to write?  Is there a particular time and place to write?

Guests: Ellie O’Leary, ellieoleary@gmail.com, www.WritingThruIt.blogspot.com;  Jennifer Skiff, Editor, God Stories: Inspiring Encounters With the Divine, www.GodStories.com;  Linda Tatelbaum, “Women Who Speaks Tree: Confessions of a Tree Hugger”, www.colby.edu/~ltatelb , 207-785-4634