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August 12, 6.30pm
Gateway Technical College
Room S139
Science Building
3520 30th Ave Kenosha

On August 12, local author Carrie Lofty will be speaking about becoming a full-time writer. During this talk Carrie will outline the basic steps you’ll need in order to meet any writing goal–from finishing a manuscript for your own personal gratification to becoming a New York Times bestselling author. She’ll also discuss key internal obstacles that may be keeping you from getting what you want out of your creative process. Come prepared with questions about craft and industry: agents, advances, rights, queries…you name it! Carrie will do her best to answer them all.

Carrie Lofty (www.carrielofty.com), romance writer and recovering historian, moved to Kenosha in 2007, just three months before she sold her first novel. Now she lives downtown and writes full-time. Her 2008 debut with Kensington Zebra was the Robin Hood-themed What a Scoundrel Wants and its sequel, Scoundrel’s Kiss. Both were awarded four stars from RT Book Reviews, which declared, “Lofty writes adventure romance like a born bard of old.” Her latest, Song of Seduction, helped launch Harlequin’s new digital-first imprint, Carina Press.

Contact the Kenosha Writer’s Guild for more information

ExposeKenosha.com would like to thank Lisa Adamowicz-Kless for her past contributions. We’d also, along with Carolyn’s Coffee Connection, like to thank Lisa and the Kenosha Writers’ Guild for their efforts here and wish them luck in their new meeting place. We have enjoyed the meetings at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection and appreciate what you offer the community.

You are invited to “write ’til you’re blue in the face” at the Kenosha Writers’ Guild’s June workshop!

Kim Suhr, director of the RedBird-RedOak writing community in Milwaukee, will be running the workshop. It features writing exercises from Kim’s popular RedBird-RedOak course, to help you bust through the block and write more than you thought possible.

RedBird-RedOak is the sister organization to Redbird Studio in Milwaukee which has helped well over 6,000 writers find their voice through classes, workshops and roundtables. RedBird-RedOak continues to offer classes, workshops, writers’ roundtables and Creative Writing Camps for kids.

The free workshop will be held at 6:30 p.m. on June 10th at Down the Rabbit Hole (5709 Seventh Avenue, Kenosha) and is open to both Kenosha Writers’ Guild members and the general public.

The Kenosha Writers’ Guild invites you to celebrate all that is special about children in observance of Child Abuse Prevention and Awareness Month! On Friday, April 30th at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection (1351 52nd St., Kenosha), we will have a special preschool story and craft time from 9:30 a.m.-11:30 a.m., and story/craft time for school-age kids from 4-6 p.m. Also featured at this free event is art by young artists from Kenosha Montessori School, McKinley Middle School and Bradford High School. Specially priced snacks will be available, and prizes will be given to each child, while supplies last. Please come and show your support for our children and to help raise awareness of this cause.

The Kenosha Writers’ Guild will be hosting a writing workshop with an emphasis on dialogue on Thursday, April 8th at 6:30 p.m. at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection. The workshop will be conducted by Chris DeGuire, and will be very similar to the workshops he teaches at Columbia College Chicago.

Come prepared to write. If you have material you’re already working on, feel free to bring it along, but if you have no idea what you want to write about, that’s okay, too. You may be surprised by the material you discover in the workshop.

No registration is necessary, but if you have any questions, please e-mail Chris at darthdeguire@yahoo.com. More information about the Guild can be found at www.kenoshawritersguild.com.

The workshop is free to the public, and everyone is welcome.

Kaitlyn Wierzchowski writes a fascinating blog, sure to delight logophiles. (Don’t fret–there’s nothing illicit going on. Logophile simply and literally means “a person who loves words”.) Even those who may not have a preoccupation with semantics will find something interesting on Kaitlyn’s page. She explains that:

“My obsession with words has plagued me throughout my life. I always want to know why we use the words we do and where the heck they came from. I have a major in English…so you catch my drift.”

Head over to her page and check it out.