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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/
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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