Spring Creative Writing Workshops: February 21-April 29

http://www.writerscircleworkshops.com

Workshops for Adults:
-Adult Writers Circles
-Beginning Your Novel
-Writing & Selling Your Memoir
-Crafting a Fictional Thrill Ride – NEW!

Workshops for Children:
-Storytellers Circle (K-2nd grade)
-Story Magic (3rd-5th grade)
-Story Magic II (4th-6th grade)
-FOR BOYS ONLY! (3rd-6th grade)
-Teen Writers Circle
-The Young Storymakers

plus Monthly Speaker Series and Special Events:

Next Up: Using Your Senses in Writing with Judith Lindbergh & Michelle Cameron, February 5, 2:00-4:00 PM at Sparkhouse, South Orange, NJ

Classes fill up quickly — Register now to reserve a place:

http://www.writerscircleworkshops.com

973-900-0415
info@writerscircleworkshops.com

The Montclair Times seeks a managing editor. A full-time position, the ME assists the editor in newsroom management, planning, assignments and editing. For each published edition, the managing editor lays out up to two dozen pages of news and special sections. The ME writes hard news journalism and collaborates with reporters in investigative, enterprise and series writing. The ME oversees The Montclair Times’ website, montclairtimes.com, and its Facebook page. This position involves managing and selecting images and overseeing freelancers.

Proven journalism experience and solid news judgement are essential for this position, along with exceptional writing and reporting skills. Are you familiar with Montclair? It’s a plus. For six of the past 13 years, the New Jersey Press Association has awarded The Montclair Times the title of New Jersey’s “newspaper of excellence,” or NJ’s best large weekly newspaper. The Times is part of North Jersey Media Group, a family-owned publishing company that includes northjersey.com, The Record daily newspaper, more than three dozen other weekly newspapers and several magazines. When not on assignment, The Times’ ME works in an actual newsroom with an array of colleagues, covering a town that teems with news.

Interested? Qualified? Send a cover letter, resume and articles proving your skill in investigative writing, hard-news reporting and feature writing to: Mark Porter, editor, The Montclair Times, porterm@montclairtimes.com, or 130 Valley Road, Montclair, NJ 07042.

Friday, January 27th at 7:00 o’clock pm

Where do ideas come from, and how does a writer enter the state of flow that is conducive to producing great work? How do you switch between the left and right brain work of creativity and editing? What blocks you and how do you get past obstacles in sticking to a writing schedule? These and other questions about the writing life will be discussed by four authors and teachers of the craft. There will be a focus on how freely children write and how we can return to that liberated state ourselves.

Please join our panelists for a lively, meaningful discussion, refreshments, and beautiful books to browse and discover.

· Judith Lindbergh
author of “The Thrall’s Tale”
www.judithlindbergh.com

· Michelle Cameron
author of “The Fruit of Her Hands” and “In the Shadow of the Globe”

http://www.michelle-cameron.com/

· Stuart Lutz
author of “The Last Leaf: Voices of History’s Last-Known Survivors”

http://www.thelastleaf.com/

· Paula Balzer
author of “Writing & Selling Your Memoir”

http://saturdaymorningmemoir.wordpress.com/

Additional information about the event and panelists can be found at:

Writing Matters

http://www.watchungbooksellers.com/writing-matters

and

The Writers Circle

http://www.writerscircleworkshops.com

Tel: 973-900-0415

Business Reporter – The Record’s Business Department is seeking a Reporter II to cover breaking news and trends, and write enterprise on a wide variety of business topics. The candidate should be a self-starter who is current on trends and issues that affect business, with a firm grasp of business fundamentals and a strong interest in developing his or her expertise. The candidate will be expected to produce hard-hitting enterprise for the Sunday business section and A-1. A minimum of three years of daily business writing experience, or its equivalent, is required. We highly value candidates who can develop their own stories and who can explain complex topics with clear, concise, and compelling writing.

Days/Hours: Varied work schedule

Contact: Send cover letter, resume, and your five best clips to Douglas Clancy, Assistant Managing Editor, The Record, PO Box 471, 1 Garret Mountain Plaza, Woodland Park, NJ 07424

________________________________________________________

Municipal Reporter – The Record has an opening for a full-time Reporter II covering municipalities in Passaic County. We’re looking for a self-starter who can break news as well as cover breaking news, propose and execute enterprise ideas, spot significant regional trends and move quickly and surely to contribute developing stories to the Web. The ability to write clean, clear and accurate copy is critical. And of course, we’re looking for a team player who will complement and enhance the excellent work of our current team of municipal reporters. A minimum of three years of daily reporting experience, or its equivalent, is required.

Days/Hours: Varied work schedule

Contact: Send cover letter, resume, and your five best clips to Douglas Clancy, Assistant Managing Editor, The Record, PO Box 471, 1 Garret Mountain Plaza, Woodland Park, NJ 07424.

David Henry Sterry, author of Chicken, and The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published, has had his first novella published. It’s called Confessions of a Sex Maniac.

A Henry Miller Award Finalist, Confessions of a Sex Maniac is a tribute to Raymond Chandler, Dashiell Hammet, James Elroy and all those hard-boiled, tender-hearted noir writers Sterry holds near and dear to his heart, brain and other essential organs.

The Bloomfield Public Library is pleased to announce the formation of a writing club, which will meet at the library on the first and third Monday of each month at 10am. All writers or aspiring writers are invited to attend these meetings and share their work, their knowledge of writing and the business of writing with their fellow authors.

The Bloomfield Public Library would like to thank a local volunteer, Quinita Good for generously donating her time to lead this club twice a month. Quinita is an award-winning journalist and business & creative writer living in New Jersey. The recipient of first- and second-place awards from the New Jersey Press Association in 2005, She holds a B.A. in Journalism and Public Relations and has studied at the Master’s level in Writing Studies. She also held positions as writer, editorial assistant, and editor. Her writing spans the spectrum–from business & technical to creative.

The Bloomfield Public Library is located at 90 Broad Street in Bloomfield. For more information on this event or upcoming programs please call (973) 566-6200 x 502. To be notified of upcoming programs, visit our Facebook page, follow us on Twitter. Visit our website, www.bplnj.org, and join our google group to receive notices of upcoming events directly in your email inbox.

For many, writing and publishing a book is a distant dream. Those dreams are becoming a reality for a group of students in our area by participating in the Books & Beyond Project: A Service-Learning Program.

Books & Beyond is a cross-cultural literacy exchange for students and teachers from TEAM Schools in Newark, Indiana University’s Global Village Living-Learning Center, and the Kabwende Primary Center (KPS) in Kinigi, Rwanda. The writing cross-cultures project focuses on developing critical literacy skills while addressing a Rwandan book famine. There are no books at the Kabwende Primary Center. The books the US and Rwandan students author are the only books the 2,000 students at Kabwende Center own. This year the students are writing volume four of The World Is Our Home. The series is used as a tool to teach English. Books & Beyond also seeks to foster global citizenship by promoting communication and understanding among students from diverse backgrounds in the United States and Rwanda.

Please join us at the Cedar Grove Public Library, located at One Municipal Plaza in Cedar Grove, NJ on Saturday, January 14th from 2-3:30 pm to support this skill building empowerment project. Meet a few of the students and hear from them how this global school partnership has personally impacted them. This is an opportunity to understand more about the power these partnerships can have on our youth who are enriched by learning through service.

For more information about this project, connect with us on the web: http://www.indiana.edu/~booksb/ or on Facebook at:facebook.com/BooksnBeyond

http://new.evite.com/#view_invite:eid=0271AARBSZ35RYIKCEPBFAQXU6MGJI

Are your email strategies working for you or can you do better? Professionals in Media, a LinkedIn group, presents a program that will tell you how to build your subscriber list, make sure your emails are getting read and shared, how to use video and more. Email marketing can be effective and you’ll learn how to do it right.

Chris Vaglio, co-founder and creative director of Grey Sky Films, a video marekting agency and Steve Guberman, owner of Fifth Room Creative, a graphic design agency will be speaking on Wednesday, January 18th at the Ethical Culture Society 516 Prospect St., Maplewood 07040 from 7pm to 9pm. Admission is $10 and please bring a food item or beverage to share. There will plenty of opportunity for networking. Please RSVP, if possible, to Jacqueline@jacquelineherships.com 973-763-7555.

The NonProfit Times, the leading national business publication for nonprofit news and information, seeks a candidate for the reporting staff with a minimum one year of experience, preferable at a daily. Some travel. A very fast pace. Resumes to ednchief@nptimes.com

MEWSies Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry have done Pitchapaloozas from Miami to Hollywood, Cape Cod to Santa Cruz. They’ve done workshops from Stanford University to the Texas Book Festival. But they’ve never done them together. Until now. Their workshop gives you the nuts & bolts to launch your book successfully, from platform, to pitch, to publication. Pitchapalooza is American Idol for books (only without Simon). Writers gets one minute—and only one minute, to pitch their books! In the last month, three writers have gotten publishing deals as a result of participating in Pitchapalooza. The workshop lasts an hour. Pitchapalooza ninety minutes.

LIMITED TO 25 WRITERS!

Arielle Eckstut and David Henry Sterry are co-founders of The Book Doctors, a company dedicated to helping authors get their books published. They are also co-authors of The Essential Guide to Getting Your Book Published: How To Write It, Sell It, and Market It… Successfully (Workman, 2010). Arielle Eckstut has been a literary agent for 18 years at The Levine Greenberg Literary Agency. She is also the author of seven books and the co-founder of the iconic brand, LittleMissMatched. David Henry Sterry is the best-selling author of 12 books, on a wide variety of subject including memoir, sports, YA fiction and reference. They have taught their workshop on how to get published everywhere from Stanford University to Smith College. They have appeared everywhere from The New York Times to NPR’s Morning Edition to USA Today.

PRICE OF ADMISSION: $50, plus the purchase of The Essential Guide To Getting Your Book Published.