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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.

by Lisa Adamowicz Kless

The Kenosha BID Downtown magazine is seeking submissions from writers and photographers for its Summer 2010 edition.

There will be an organizational meeting on Sunday, April 18th at 4:30 p.m. at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection (1351 52nd Street, Kenosha). If you’re interested in contributing to the magazine and/or would like more information, please plan to join us that afternoon. The deadline for article submissions is June 1st.

Submission Guidelines
Your submission should be written in a style that represents you as the writer and reflects the Downtown culture. What does this mean?

Kenosha, Wisconsin could be called the biggest small town in America. Situated between Chicago and Milwaukee, Kenosha is a vibrant community and welcomes all into its Downtown area. Walk our streets, talk to the people here–residents, business owners, or even those just passing through; there will be no shortage of ideas for stories. The pieces we are looking for should focus on or be related to places, people, events, etc. in Downtown Kenosha. Your submission should be written to reflect your own experience of Downtown Kenosha, or of those you are writing about. We will not publish anything that is overtly negative or derogatory. Students from any of the area colleges are encouraged to participate and submit their work for consideration.

You can reference Chicago Magazine, The Austin Chronicle and other city magazines to get an idea of the type of writing we are looking for.
The Downtown Magazine is not currently accepting previously published work.

Word Count
There are three categories for length: Fillers of 150-250 words, Articles of 500-750 words and Featured Articles of 1,000-2,000 words. Featured articles require a query letter prior to submission.

We are also looking for columnists for future editions of the magazine. Please send your column ideas to:
magazine@downtownkenosha.org

Compensation
The Downtown Magazine is currently a non-paying market, but know that you will have the sincere gratitude of the downtown and surrounding communities.

Deadline
The deadline for this issue is June 1, 2010.

Please send your submissions in a Microsoft Word compatible format such as .rtf, .txt or .doc to:
magazine@downtownkenosha.org Include your name and email address. You may also include a bio of no more than 100 words.

Photography courtesy of Joe Barr
by John Bloner, Jr.

Southport Press welcomed over 20 residents of the Kenosha/Racine region to Mythic Pizza, an event held on March 25, 2010 at Good Fellas, 5706 6th Avenue, Kenosha, WI in order to share ideas and
develop proposals that would bring more attention to the arts, history, and culture of the Kenosha/Racine region.

In attendance were individuals and representatives to many area organizations that share similar interests and goals to Southport Press and Kenosha Community Media, Inc. Organizations include:
ExposeKenosha.com • Kenosha Writers’ Guild • Be Exposed! Performance Series • Kenosha Theatre Restoration Project • Lemon Street Gallery • Straylight Magazine (UW-Parkside) • Carthage College • The Mythopians Artists Group • Kenosha TV • Sketchcrawl Kenosha • ArtWorks • Kenosha Symphony Orchestra

Evening activities were coordinated and presented by Chet Griffith, Artworks • John Hambrock, In House Communications and The Brilliant Mind of Edison Lee •John Bloner, Jr., Kenosha Community Media/Southport Press/Kenosha TV.

Mythic Pizza participants were placed into three groups to brainstorm ideas and develop proposals. Afterward, a captain presented proposals to the audience and posted them for voting by everyone.
The following proposals were later organized into categories and ranked in the order of preference by the participants of Mythic Pizza.

There were literally dozens of unique and interesting ideas, with subjects ranging from vampires and ghosts to “guerilla” knitting and poetry reading events.

Southport Press will host its next event at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection, 1351 52nd Street, on Monday, April 26 at 6:30 p.m. We’ll take steps toward transforming ideas into projects that showcase and celebrate the arts, history, and culture of this area. (Arrive a half-hour earlier to catch Sketchcrawl Kenosha at this same location.)

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.

The Kenosha Writers’ Guild will be holding an in-depth writing critique session on Thursday, February 11th at 6:30 p.m. at Carolyn’s Coffee Connection. This event is open to the public, although work to be critiqued must be submitted ahead of time. If you’re interested in having your work read and discussed, please contact board member Chris DeGuire (darthdeguire@yahoo.com) for submission guidelines. People who would just like to read and critique are also welcome, but should contact Chris DeGuire so that pieces to be read can be sent before the Thursday session. More information about the Guild can also be found at www.kenoshawritersguild.com.