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SUMMARY:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park to Feature Authors Ronnie Lovler and Dixie Neilson
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URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/marjorie-kinnan-rawlings-historic-state-park-to-feature-authors-ronnie-lovler-and-dixie-neilson/
LOCATION:Marjorie Kinnan Rawlings Historic State Park\, 18700 S CR 325\, Cross Creek\, FL\, 32640\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Speakers
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SUMMARY:An Invitation to Area Students: ARTSPEAKS
DESCRIPTION:INVITING ALL ALACHUA COUNTY and AREA STUDENTS \nARTSPEAKS: Bringing Poetry & People Together \nPresents the \n12th Annual “COURAGEOUS YOUNG VOICES” Youth Poetry & Creativity Showcase \nCelebrating 12 Years of Uplifting the Voices of Young Students \nThe 12th Annual COURAGEOUS YOUNG VOICES \n4:00 – 7:00 p.m. on Sunday\, March 8\, 2026 \nHistoric Thomas Center \n302 NE 6th Avenue\, Gainesville\, Florida \nStudents from Alachua County and the surrounding communities come together at the beautiful Historic Thomas Center to share their powerful voices through the Art of Poetry\, Spoken-Word\, Storytelling\, and other forms of Creative Expression. \nCelebrating 12 years of showcasing youth poetry and creativity\, ARTSPEAKSgnv\, Inc.\, continues to provide a safe and encouraging platform for young people to express themselves. \n“COURAGEOUS YOUNG VOICES” is Free and Open to the Public. \nALL students are invited to participate. Sign up or show up. \nEnjoy poetry\, pizza\, creativity\, music\, and fun! \nLight refreshments served. \nThis event is co-sponsored by the City of Gainesville Department of Parks\, Recreation\, and Cultural Affairs\, a CAPRA-accredited agency. \nFor more information & how to participate\, email ARTSPEAKSgnv\, Inc. \ninfo@artspeaksgnv.org or estanleyrichardson@gmail.com \nhttps://www.ARTSPEAKSgnv.org
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/an-invitation-to-area-students-artspeaks/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Speakers
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SUMMARY:Ins & Outs of Getting Your Book in Audio
DESCRIPTION:A dynamic presentation by Scott Ellis of Ellis-Audiobooks\nEllis will address the ins and outs of audiobook production—everything from understanding the different platforms and payment lingo to the narrator/author responsibilities and expectations. He will provide details to help authors think through all options of putting their stories in audio. \nEllis is a two-time Audiobook of the Year award-winning narrator with over 100 audiobooks recorded and 250 audiobooks produced. He holds degrees in theatre and education. He spent nearly 30 years teaching middle school literature and serving as an elementary school librarian—perfect training for character voices\, managing chaos and surviving on caffeine and patience. This classroom experience honed his storytelling skills\, pacing\, and sense of dramatic timing. \nScott owns Ellis-Audiobooks with his wife\, Josie. They live in Western Massachusetts and when not behind the mic and managing the business\, they enjoy all things outdoors\, especially escaping to Sanibel Island during the winter months. \nCheck out these awards: \n\nCo-Narrator and Producer of Skull’s Vengeance – 2024 Audiobook of the Year for Fantasy\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nProducer of Magda\, Standing – IBPA 2024 Gold Medal Winner Young Adult Fiction Audiobook of the Year\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\n\nNarrator of Puck and Minnie: All That Is – 2021 Young Adult Fiction Audiobook of the Year\n\n 
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/ins-outs-of-getting-your-book-in-audio/
LOCATION:Millhopper Branch\, Alachua County Libraries\, 3145 NW 43rd St.\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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SUMMARY:Civil Rights Era to the Present
DESCRIPTION:The fourth program in The Other Book series\, Civil Rights Era to the Present\, will be held on April 12\, 2025\, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Each program in this series has been held at a different location\, and this one will be at The Cotton Club\, 837 SE 7th Avenue\, Gainesville\, FL 32601. \nSponsored by the Alachua County Community Remembrance Project (ACCRP)\, the series was developed to help fill some of the gap left in Florida’s public education. This educational opportunity is especially valuable for those writing about history\, inequity\, and/or cross-cultural relationships within our country. \nSeveral WAG members have said they benefited from one or more of the first three programs: \n\nDispelling the Myths: Pre-Colonial Africa\, held in January at the Harn Art Museum\nEnslavement in Alachua County\, held in February at the Haile Homestead\nJim Crow in Alachua County\, held in March at the Alachua County Administration Building\n\n\n\nRegistering for the April program is suggested but is not required. All are invited to attend. The courses are offered free\, but donations are appreciated.
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/civil-rights-era-to-the-present/
LOCATION:The Cotton Club\, 837 SE 7th Avenue\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32601
CATEGORIES:Programs,Speakers
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SUMMARY:Enneagrams for Writers and Other Creatives
DESCRIPTION:Guest speaker Dina Smith\, a licensed mental health professional\, will describe how the Enneagram can benefit writers and other creatives. She believes clarity can be empowering—and the Enneagram is the GPS that gets you there. She says the Enneagram can be a powerful tool for writers in several ways\, helping them develop richer characters\, deeper themes\, and more authentic storytelling. \nIn this presentation\, you will learn the Core Motivations of the 9 Enneagram basic types\, as well as the process\, goal\, and obstacle for each Enneagram type as a writer. You might know where you are and where you want to go\, but that doesn’t mean you won’t encounter roadblocks\, detours\, or even a need to reroute.  We will also take a brief look at how each Enneagram type has paths for utilizing strengths and overcoming weaknesses as a writer. Just like a GPS maps out the most direct route to your destination\, the Enneagram shows you the path to becoming your highest\, truest self. \nIf you wish to test your Enneagram in advance of Smith’s talk\, here’s a link she supplied: https://www.truity.com/test/enneagram-personality-test. It’s free. \nSmith is a Masters Certified Addictions Professional and an Enneagram Informed Mental Health Professional. She has worked in community mental health and hospital-based settings\, with a focus on addiction medicine for the past 18 years. Currently\, she serves as the Director of Clinical Services at the UF Health Florida Recovery Center. She is consistently recognized for promoting understanding through using the Enneagram to enhance the personal and professional growth for individuals and teams. In her free time\, Dina enjoys being part of a team that leads worship at her church and spending time with her husband and two small children. \nHer profiles and social media contact information:  \nhttps://www.psychologytoday.com/profile/1342124 \nDina Smith\, LMHC | LinkedIn \nDina Smith **Evening Availability** – My Enneagram Coach
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/enneagrams-for-writers-and-other-creatives/
LOCATION:Millhopper Library\, Meeting Room A\, 3145 NW 43rd St\,\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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SUMMARY:Bard & Broadside POETRY FESTIVAL
DESCRIPTION:Join us on Thursday night\, April 11\, for a Community Open Mic in the Harn Museum of Art’s auditorium. This event kicks off the 2nd Annual Bard and Broadside Poetry Festival\, April 11-14\, 2024. The festival is co-hosted by: \n\n     ARTSPEAKS gnv\n     Thursday Night Poetry Jam / Civic Media Center\n     Words On Canvas / University of Florida / Santa Fe College\n     Living Poets Society / University of Florida\n\nThis event is free and open to the public. \nFor more information about the Poetry Festival schedule and activities\, visit https://www.artspeaksgnv.org/north-central-florida-poetry…
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/bard-broadside-poetry-festival/
LOCATION:Harn Museum\, 3259 Hull Road\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32611
CATEGORIES:Festival,Poetry,Speakers
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SUMMARY:Blogging 101 - by Andy Adkins
DESCRIPTION:On Sunday\, March 3\, 2024\, at 2:30 p.m.\, author and active blogger Andy Adkins will give a talk at the Millhopper Branch of the Alachua County Library entitled “Blogging 101.” \nA glance at his blog\, A Veteran’s Journey\, reveals that he has been an active blogger since 2019. He writes personal stories about his time in the Navy\, both in Guam and aboard USS Kitty Hawk; his father’s and his father-in-law’s experiences in WWII’s European Theater of Operations; his experiences as a Gainesville firefighter\, and his time as an engineer. \n“Every now and then\,” Adkins says\, “I sprinkle in some life-changing tidbit.” He has certainly had quite a life–now in his fifth or sixth career and not slowing down. \nBesides being a U.S\, Navy veteran\, he is a former City of Gainesville firefighter\, an electronics engineer\, a retired legal technologist\, and an author. He’s written and published several books about the military. His first novel\, Never Forget: A Veteran’s Journey for Redemption & Forgiveness\, debuted in 2021. He is currently in the process of completing a high-tech thriller\, Until We Meet Again.\n \nHe and his wife live in Gainesville. \nFor more information\, visit Andy Adkins’ website: www.azadkinsiii.com. \nAndy\, we thank you for your service. \n 
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/blogging-101-by-andy-adkins/
LOCATION:Millhopper Branch\, Alachua County Libraries\, 3145 NW 43rd St.\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Book Signing,Speakers
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SUMMARY:2024 Sunshine State Book Festival
DESCRIPTION:Bringing Readers and Writers Together\nFor details\, go to this website: https://sunshinestatebookfestival.com/
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/2024-sunshine-state-book-festival/
LOCATION:FL
CATEGORIES:Book Sale,Book Signing,Festival,Speakers
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SUMMARY:How to Write About Local History
DESCRIPTION:Two of Gainesville’s local writers and experienced historians\, Richard Gartee and Shamrock McShane\, will discuss the ins and outs of writing about local history. \nThey will share with you: \n\n–  how they research a topic\,\n–  what useful resources they use\, and\n–  how to get readers interested in reading about local history.\n\nRichard Gartee\nGartee’s most recent book is a history of a Gainesville treasure: The Hippodrome Theatre: First Fifty Years.   \nA poet\, author\, and award-winning novelist\, Gartee’s poems have been published in literary magazines\, in chapbooks\, and in his five poetry collections. \nHe is a full-time author and has written six novels\, a biography\, and seven college textbooks\, with multiple editions. \nShamrock McShane\nMcShane was a teacher for over thirty years and is a graduate of the University of Florida’s creative writing program\, where he studied with Donald Justice\, Harry Crews\, and Padgett Powell. \nHe is the author of the novel\, Rock Beauty\, and Hall of Fools\, a nonfiction novel about American public education. As a screenwriter\, he collaborates with his son\, director Mike McShane. His films include The Seven Sides of Shakespeare\, The Votive Pit\, You Are Not Frank Sinatra\, and It’s All Good.
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/how-to-write-about-local-history/
LOCATION:Millhopper Branch\, Alachua County Libraries\, 3145 NW 43rd St.\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Speakers
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SUMMARY:Celebrate Poetry
DESCRIPTION:Join us at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday\, April 2\, at the Millhopper branch of the Alachua County Library as we celebrate National Poetry Month with two of Gainesville’s most talented local poets and authors\, Jenna Nishida and Reinfred Addo. \nNishida will discuss “Found Poetry” — from poet’s helper to high art. Whether as an end unto itself or as an exercise in creative thinking\, found poetry can be enriching\, enlivening\, and freeing for poets—especially poets who might be feeling depleted or blocked. Learn about a variety of forms of found poetry\, as well as tips and methods for how to write (and cite) and perform found poems. \nNishida\, who served as Fiction Editor of WAG’s 2021 Bacopa Literary Review\, is one of the co-hosts of Gainesville’s Thursday Night Poetry Jam at the Civic Media Center. An educator by vocation\, she earned a bachelor’s and a master’s degree in literature at the University of Florida. She also has an educational specialist degree in the teaching of secondary English and has taught language arts to children\, teens\, and adult learners. She has made a lifelong study of poetry from multiple cultures and has explored contemporary poetry through events such as the Dodge Poetry Festival. \nReinfred Addo will explain how to do a poetry book launch. \n \nAddo is a Ghanaian-American writer\, and author of the poetry collections Washed Over (finalist for Eyelands Book Awards) and The Dedicadas (recipient of the Royal Palm Literary Awards). His works\, including his health humanities creative writing\, have been published by various organizations such as Tampered Press and in publications such as Signs of Life: An Anthology. \nHe has headlined a series of programs centering on poetry and prose. Performances at many local venues in Gainesville have included works published in Washed Over (such as a crowd-favorite poem “Life’s Students”) as well as unpublished works. \nAddo currently lives in Gainesville and enjoys the area’s arts initiatives\, including Bacopa Literary Review (he’s the poetry co-editor)\, Thursday Night Poetry Jam (host)\, DOPEnmic\, and ARTSPEAKS. \nA book signing will follow the program. \n 
URL:https://writersalliance.org/event/celebrate-poetry/
LOCATION:Millhopper Branch\, Alachua County Libraries\, 3145 NW 43rd St.\, Gainesville\, FL\, 32606\, United States
CATEGORIES:Poetry,Speakers
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