Bob Strother's short story "New Blood" has been accepted for publication as a reprint in the September or October issue of The Writers Post Journal. The Journal is a monthly publication based in Pittsburg, Pennsylvania. "New Blood" originally appeared in the Fourth Annual Vampire Fiction edition of Midnight Times.

Phil Arnold's Elvisblog spiked a record number of hits (over 2100) in the two days surrounding the anniversary of Elvis' death. With his incantation-robe sleeves pushed up and ever-present sequined swami turban, Phil, The Elvis Oracle, has snatched from the astral plane many fascinating nuggets about the King. Check it out at www.elvisblog.net.

Nominations are now being accepted for the SCWW Board of Directors. Elections will be held in November for terms beginning January 1, 2008. The two-year term of office is a great way to give back to our writing community and set goals for the future. Anyone interested should send Steve Heckman (steveheckman@charter.net) a bio and their qualifications prior to October 30, 2007.

SCWW 2007 Conference registrations must be filled out on-line or postmarked by September 1^st to be eligible for the reduced Early-Bird rate. Depending upon which registration options you choose, you can save up to $70.00 on the price of your registration. Sign up now!

As a reminder, the conference will be held from October 26 through 28, 2007 at the Hilton Myrtle Beach Resort. More information can be found at www.myscww.org/2007_conference.htm

Are you an individual artist working in Prose, Poetry, Music Performance or Music Composition? If so, you're invited to apply for the 2008-2009 Individual Artist Fellowships. The deadline to apply is Oct. 1, so apply soon.

Awards of $5,000 each will be presented to Six South Carolina Resident Artists in recognition of superior artistic merit.

For an application:

• Visit www.southcarolinaarts.com
• Call (803) 734-8696
• Or mail your request for an application to: SC Arts Commission, 1800 Gervais St., Columbia, SC 29201

Susan has heard from several folks looking for conference roommates. To make it easy for potential roommates to connect, she has set up a new topic on the Forums page on the SCWW website.

If you are looking for a roommate:

• Go to www.myscww.org
• Click on Forums
• Click on My Community
• At the very top of the page,
  • If you have already registered for your account on the Message Board, click on Login and provide your login and password.
  • If you are a new user of the Message Board, click on Register Your Free Account (Required)
    • Choose Create a Local Account for southcarolinawritersworkshop
    • If a Registration Password is required, enter it here.
    • Choose No thanks, continue for special offers you're not interested in.
    • Wait for the e-mail containing your validation, click on the link in the mail, and you will be registered and automatically logged in.
• Click on the very first forum: South Carolina Writers Workshop.
• Scroll down and choose Roommates Needed For 2007 SCWW Conference.
• Reply to add your post to the Message Board (you must have registered to be able to reply — you can read the posts without registering.)

Because we have over 70 workshops this year, we need many people to serve as room proctors. Conference volunteers will be serving as room proctors for as many sessions as possible, but can't cover them all. We're looking for folks who are signed up/will sign up for a class to volunteer to be the room proctor for just that one class (or two if you really like doing it). We want proctors who planned to take the class anyway — we're not asking for anyone to alter their schedule.

"What would a room proctor need to do?" you might ask.

Room proctors will need to:

• Make sure the session/workshop begins and ends on time.
• Introduce the speaker. (This doesn't need to be elaborate — everyone in the room will know the speaker's bio — they chose the class, after all.)
• Press a button to turn on the recording equipment before introducing the speaker and turn it off at the end of the session.
• Pass around a hand-held microphone if there are questions.
• Record a head count.
• Report any problems such as room temperature, noise from another room, any distraction, etc. to the event staff immediately.
• Assist the speaker with handouts if needed.

If you're interested, please email Sandra Johnson at sandraellajohnson@yahoo.com and put the words "Conference Proctor" in the subject line. You'll get a front-row seat, and get to introduce yourself to the speaker before the class.

Assignments will be made on a first-come-first-served basis. Thanks in advance for helping out!

What's your favorite writing-related quote? Last year, between the conference and Book Fest, we sold out of our T-shirts. Bob Strother chose the quote and credo on the back:

"Do The Write Thing!
'Rest Not! Life is sweeping by;
go and dare before you die.
Something mighty and sublime,
Leave behind to conquer time.'
Goethe
Write Now!"

We're collecting writerly quotes for the conference notebook - won't you send us your favorite? They'll all be in the notebook, and if Bob picks yours for the T-shirts, you'll win a free shirt! (If he gets duplicates on the winner, the T-shirt goes to the first one to send it in.)

Email your quotes to: bstrother4180@charter.net and put "Conference Quote" in the subject line.

This year, we will be holding a silent auction that will begin at 8:00 a.m. on Friday and run through 8:00 a.m. on Sunday morning, with the winning bidders checking out at the conference registration desk and claiming their prizes between 8:00 and 8:45.

If you have an item to donate for a basket, such as one of your own autographed books, a favorite craft book, or anything of interest to writers, and are not affiliated with a local chapter, Kathryn Lovatt, our Fund Raising Chairperson would love to include your donation in one of the baskets she is coordinating. She can be reached at (803) 413-5810, or by email at kathrynlovatt@hotmail.com.

Please send donations to:

Kathryn Lovatt
1512 Fair Street
Camden, SC 29020

All donations are tax deductible.

Russ Haddad describes his novel Parnassius Endures as "a combination of love and crime novel." That's a tough sell.

The genre called contemporary romantic suspense features a strong, independent female who reluctantly accepts help from a man in time of danger. However, it's usually written by women for women.

A fair proportion of mystery novels include a lonely male detective who encounters a lovely female in the course of crime-solving. Usually she gets in the way at first before becoming part of the solution.

Maybe the novel and movie The Bourne Identity is a better role model. The plot is the purpose. The romance adds flavor but is secondary. In the James Bond series, the female is merely peripheral eye candy.

Russ has three structural problems. First, he has complicated his writing with two equally important protagonists — one male and one female. Secondly, he loses the tension by having the male and female like each other at first sight. Thirdly, by forgetting that people read novels to escape the boredom of real life, he includes too much of the banality of our humdrum conversations and tedious daily activities.

Here's a plot borrowed from Mr. and Mrs. Smith: Stu and Serena work for different government agencies that don't cooperate, pretend to be writers as cover, converge on the same mountain lake because they are investigating the same group of bad guys in the vicinity, use each other as camouflage, unknowingly interfere with each other's mission, and eventually unite for self-preservation.

Whatever the plot of this novel, it has to start strong, move rapidly but plausibly, get the hero in way over his head, but allow him to overcome the enemy by his innate character traits.

With few exceptions, the group critiquing Lance Curtis's poems, "Return to Myself" and "Discouragement," could join in on this bastardized refrain from Sam Cooke's classic song, "Wonderful World (Don't Know Much)." But also like the melodious Mister Cooke, we do know some things. We know what we like, and never let a lack of experience with poetry keep us from issuing forth with our opinions.

"Discouragement" was powerful in its brevity, imagery, and simple truth. The group's one suggestion: Delete "slowly" in the poem's last line. "And snuffs out the flame." says it all.

"Return to Myself" also evoked sharp imagery, especially after we learned that Lance wrote it while spending quiet time on an Oregon beach. There was some discussion and differences of opinion among the group about how many times a poem needed to be read for the reader to get a sense of its meaning. For this reviewer, poetry (particularly free verse) requires a careful study of language and structure. If I'm lucky, my sense of understanding will bloom like a flower in early morning sunshine — slowly and delightfully with each reading.

Other discussion on "Return to Myself" involved whether use of the word "rooftops" detracted from the beach imagery, and if the word "musing" slowed the poem's pace too much.

Despite the group's lamentations about our lack of knowledge and experience in critiquing poetry, we seem to revel in doing it. After all, we are there to learn and broaden our horizons, aren't we? So, keep the poetry coming, Lance. Whether in the wind or on the waves, your words are strong.

David Burnsworth read the latest chapter of his novel, Palmetto Heat. The group around the table told him this was much better writing now. It was a great improvement from what he read before. There are a few places to get even better.

"He took 526 around the city." For a reader like I am who is not familiar with the setting, identify what 526 is. I'm assuming it is a road in Charleston, but a reader in Texas or Idaho would not know this.

The description of the fishermen on page 11 needs more showing, less telling. I really liked the encounter on page 12 between Brack and the man with the "stuff."

The door with graffiti, 'get the *%$ out of here,' page 13, needs the real word. It's the kind of place that can take that word.

The conversations on page 13 and 14 need attributions to show us who is speaking.

I also liked the reactions of the bar customers to Brack's orders of iced tea and Coke. As an aside, the listeners debated on whether Southerners order iced tea or sweet tea. Susan, born and bred on iced tea says sweet is taken for granted and only those who want unsweetened tea say so!

David pulled this reader in with the mysterious church across the street from the bar. I'm waiting to see what happens next. Just explain 526 in more detail!

I will miss the September meeting. I'll be in Kansas City at a family gathering getting more material for my stories. I'll see those eight children, now grown who were on family trips with my seven children.

This piece is a departure from Phil Arnold's usual tidbits on Elvis Presley and takes us to his youth as a lover of cherry Coke and pinball play. His description of the method used in making the old customary fountain soda drew a few questions from the group, but the consensus was that a minor rewording of it would suffice.

Phil frequented Fowler's Drug Store where it "was convenient, prices were cheap, and the sodas were good." A question arose from the group about the "ancient" pharmacist named "Doc" Fowler. He wasn't really an M.D. but that's just what folks called him. After purchasing his favorite drink (cherry Coke), a problem with their carbonated water system left Phil throwing up the soda, even on two later occasions. One of the older kids told him "to forget about Fowler's and go to Rita's Hoagie Shop," the hangout for local paperboys.

Though a nickel more, their cherry Coke tasted just fine and without the bad after-effects. With the discovery of a pinball machine at Rita's, Phil became a regular afternoon customer. Though Fowler's had corrected the problem with their carbonated water system, they still had no pinball machine, a new fascination of Phil's.

Now later in life he has "discerned the pleasures of wine and scotch and tequila" one of which he indulges in each day during happy hour. Avoiding sugar, Phil still prefers a diet soda with plenty of caffeine. It appears that Coca Cola Company has recently answered Phil's call and finally came out with their new Coca Cola Cherry Zero, which he simply calls his Diet Cherry Coke. As for permission to purchase an old pinball machine, that will be left up to his wife. Sorry, Phil, that could be a tough one!

I guess I should store for cut and paste the same line that most of Bob Strother's reviews begin with: It is difficult to find fault with Bob's work.

This week Bob offered a suspense story of Keely Curtis, a frustrated female cab driver who feared the question was she a misfit. Trained in the National Guard as a sniper but moved to a mind-numbing desk job due to a busted knee, recently divorced from a guy that now didn't seem so bad after all and now not very excited about small talk and entertaining customers as a cabby.

Her gone awry military training finally becomes of value when forced to possibly save her life or prevent herself from bring raped by a greasy passenger.

Incidental points were suggested to tighten up the prose. Analysis of a few adverbs mentioned substituting the word "smirked" in lieu of "smiled sardonically" (third para., page 2), "she smoothed" instead of "smoothing" (second para., page 4). The old "ly" and "ing" traps.

The Demi Moore movie, G. I. Jane, should be in italic on page one and some class members felt the background information of a taxi robber at large should be presented earlier in the story but others thought it would blow the surprise if laid out too soon.

Well done.

Ah, fantasy prose — The very phrase elicits visions of baroque, iris-strewn, deep green forests, gold-hoofed unicorns prancing on placid meadows, puffy white clouds drifting in a perfect azure sky, with brilliant snow-tipped majestic mountains as a back-drop to melodic streams that run forever as do the writer's descriptive sentences.

Non-readers of the genre fail to realize that the fantasy trappings merely disguise the normal turmoil of human interaction. There are always good guys and bad guys in most stories, whether they are white knights vs. evil sorcerers or marines vs. terrorists.

Fantasy novels, however, can plop you into a world with settings different enough to lift you from the world that is, to a world that could be — with all the potentials of imagination. Is it obvious that Parrothead is a fantasy fan? Probably, and that's why he's elated that another fantasy writer has joined the group.

Amy Peare read from her fantasy novel "The Wolves of Thornvald," which she describes as a beauty-and-the-beast-meets-Buffy-the-Vampire-Slayer novel. The possibilities alone make Parrothead grin.

The table, on the other hand, wasn't as accepting, and stumbled over a few concepts that any normal fantasy reader would take in stride. Amy's writing was smooth as a sorcerer's screeing mirror with several exceptions. Many sentences were too long and the blocking confused folks. Was the carriage in front? Behind? Whose son is raising whom? Not to mention a five-minute conversation that lasted an hour.

Amy's first five pages were interesting enough to hook more than one fantasy-genre-skeptic and we hope to meet "The Wolves of Thornvald" at future meetings.

Nice start, Amy.

Pat Stewart's tale about three significant family gatherings over the past fifty years could have been a prequel to Home Alone. Except that only by her watchful eye were no children left behind.

She begins the tale with a narrative about her time with her sister whom she has "known...all her life." Pat wrote the piece for her family and will be presenting it to them at a reunion. It was felt that the first three paragraphs were not needed because the family already knows its own history. Besides, the real fun begins with the fourth and the story takes off from there with two loaded station wagons headed to the Smoky Mountains.

At a McDonald's, she describes the family being able to order the burgers their way. For eleven kids under the age of ten. The problem is that you couldn't have it your way at McDonald's in '64. Might have been another burger joint?

The funniest part of the tale is during hotel check in. The kids line up in one of two rooms to use the bathroom. "Sanitized for Your Protection" labels are on the toilets. After several occupants, one no longer functions and is "full." The dads decide that probably isn't the best place for the families and they all leave. Pat, we find out, is quite a trickster and decides to put the label back on the stopped unit. And to remember the occasion, she keeps the label from the other one and still has it to this day!

A few criticisms at this point: She writes "We can't get a room where you don't keep the plumbing working." A better beginning might be: "We don't want a room where..." Also, she describes the toilet as "overflowing" when it hadn't reached that point yet. And, towards the end, another family name was added to the tale and they really needed some introduction.

Overall, the group really enjoyed the story. It brought to mind many nice family memories. If only they were all like that.

Exactly three months ago I wrote in Printed Matters: "Steve Stewart's novel, Unto The Least of These, takes place on the waterfront of 1842 Charleston. Hopefully, he is well along with the story, but it will be 2042 before our group hears it all at the pace we are going at the meetings."

I am a strong believer that we all become better writers by going to the chapter meetings, but I'm glad I write short pieces that get a final polish after the group's help, and that's it. They are finished. I think I would be frustrated if the speed toward completion of my work was limited by our five pages per meeting rule.

In Steve's case, we are now up to page 29. The story is developing nicely, and we are still eagerly turning the pages. Most eligible bachelor Steven adds Mary Russell to Ann Agnew as possible love interests later on. Our group found only little things to critique. Most time was spent discussing POV in the first page and a half of Chapter 3. (I'm also glad I don't have to worry about POV in my stuff. There is only one point of view, and it is mine.) When we hear Steve's next five pages, we can determine if his "omnipotent" POV works, or, as Susan said, "We should be deep in Steven's head." Bring us more.

Kevin Coyle continued The Saga of Snorri the Priest with a description of a duel between Illugi the Black and Mishquashim the Skraeling. The two duelists shot arrows amidst the forest fauna as well as bold boisterings to boil the blood. The three-page description of the event ended with Illugi defeated. The remaining two pages of the shared selection describe the aftermath for both the Icelanders and the Skraelings.

The praise offered centered around Kevin's typically good storytelling style. We can all recognize good story, even if our pronunciation of character names is imaginative best. A certain "bird" theme was observed throughout the selection, especially in phrases such as "like the cry of an eagle" and "his arms like eagle's wings". Some of the group questioned the accuracy of the description of the trajectory of the final arrows launched: arrows do not typically tumble "end over end" nor was it clear how the final arrow could have "dipped as it flew" to drop a full foot halfway to its target. Some of the dialogue also seemed too modern. "Oh, yeah . . . Take this" seems derived more from a 20th century comic book than a 10th century oral history (the oral history reference is assumed, since I couldn't fit that Icelandic literature class into my schedule that one semester in college -- oh, shucky darn)! . All in all, the selection appears to carry the story further, which is in a way difficult to tell without knowing the whole story. But perhaps that is the intention.

The life of Penelope Stout continues to unfold in Jim McFarlane's novel Long Island. In this section, Penelope and her husband Richard discuss the idea of freeing their female slave, Katrina, and her children so that she may apply to become a Christian in their church. They have this discussion at the dinner table with Katrina and her husband, Emil (also the Stout's slave,) present.

There was praise for Jim on this selection — it is well-written and interesting, as well as being educational without being boring. Since Penelope wasn't raised as a Puritan, it makes sense that she would ask the questions whose answers educate the reader as well.

There were a few comments. Folks would have liked to see more of Katrina during the scene to remind us that she is there and listening. There was one really long sentence that needed to be broken up, and one sentence had the word "face" in it three times. If this was the worst we could come up with, Iíd say that Jim has this section nailed.

Bob Strother's novel, Burning Time resumed. William's son, Will, hangs up the phone after his mother, Mary Alice, calls to ask him to come back home with his wife of one year. Will cackles, and tells his wife that it's Christmas again. He thinks it's a good thing, because he has run out of the money that his wife brought into the marriage with her. Louise's mother, Fannie, is distressed to know that Will, his wife, and their three girls will be moving in right across the street, but she feels she can't deny her father-in-law the right to be with his own son. Louise sees her father (Will) for the first time in two years, and he barely acknowledges her; Will ignores Henry completely. The three new girls tentative start moving toward Louise, but their mother calls them back into their house.

Russ Haddad brought in two poems. "U.S. Marshals" is a tribute to the U.S. Marshals, whose "triumphs earn respect and our national pride." "Eiane" describes a woman who turns out to be a U.S. Marshal. Eiane leads Russ to wonder, "Is it just possible such a person could reveal That truly, perhaps is it I, who must heal?"

David Burnsworth's Palmetto Heat was next. A religious man named Brother John rescues Brack from the patrons of a bar in the projects across the street from the mission for which Brack is doing an investigation. Brack asks Brother John about the threats made to the mission, but Brother John begins to lecture him about coming in from outside the neighborhood "like you was the Savior Hisself" and Brack gets annoyed. This annoys Brother John, who tells him, "Loose the attitude and you may start gettin' somewhere." Brother John gives him a note for his pastor and sends him on his way. Later he goes back to the scene of Reggie's murder and finds a hotel key near a storm drain. He meets with the police detectives on the case to give them the key.

Newcomer James Greenway read Chapter 1 from his novel, Alvatar: Book to One. "Gora, the once infamous and heinous leader of the Shikti hordes" tells his mutilated, toad-shaped human minion, Sligot, to take a manuscript, a dagger, a chalice, and some rings to Borgaska. If Borgaska does as instructed, he will produce a flesh golem which he and Sligot will then turn into an Iron-Blood golem. When they're done, Sligot should bring the golem and the rings back to Gora. Meanwhile, in Gavra, the aging seductress Ellesandra studies her scarred but handsome consort, Alvatar, as he sleeps. She remembers his description of how he became the "Bane of the Shikti", and also his skill at lovemaking.

James Raff brought in a whole slew of short poems. "Comfort for a Widow (for Lorraine)" includes changes suggested at an earlier meeting. His other poems were "Ocean", "The Wounded", "East to West (after 'The Cranes Are Flying')", "Huge Trees (for Tom — Edisto Island)", "This Day", and "House (Carlisle)".

John Migacz brought in a one paged, untitled flash fiction piece dealing with what's behind life on earth or possibly what's after death.

The Saga of Kevin Coyle's Snorri the Priest continued. Illugi the Black returns with his men to Illugastrand after losing the duel with the skraelings over ownership of the island called Vestrey. They strip their half-finished farmhouses and return to Austrey for the winter. Sometime later, Alf the Short sees fires deep in the woods and runs to tell Snorri. Soon, six armored Icelanders on horseback are cantering towards the smoke. They realize that the fires have been set by the skraelings they see about a quarter mile away, and they assume that these skraelings are Pokanoket, enemies of the Icelanders' new allies, trying to burn them out of their homes. They charge, but at the last minute, Snorri stops them and points out that these skraelings, each identified by one of the silver coins previously given by the Icelanders to Pequawas as weregild, must be their allies. Thorodd says, "Very clever. What better way for the Nanhigganeuck to distinguish themselves from other Skraelings?"

Phil Arnold was the last one to read. Still riding high from his trip, Phil shared just one elvisblog article, called "So, How Was Elvis Week?" Although Phil never had time to see the sights and attractions of Memphis, Phil says, "I don't know how anyone else in Memphis could have had a more Elvis-connected experience than I had. Over a three-day period I had breakfast with Joe Esposito, sat ten feet away from Priscilla at the restaurant in the Peabody [Hotel], and hung around in the Grand Ballroom backstage area with Scotty Moore, DJ Fontana, the Jordanaires, and the TCB Band. Nobody else did that... I got people to take 20 photos of me with these music legends, and I got dozens of autographs from them... My mission had been to use this probably last opportunity to gather a treasure trove of memorabilia, and it worked out perfect... I guess I can give up Graceland and Beale Street for one year. Not a bad trade."

The next meetings of the Greenville Chapter of SCWW are as follows:

• Thursday, September 6 - First Thursday Meeting, 6:00 p.m. at The Open Book
• Tuesday, September 18 - Third Tuesday Meeting, 6:00 p.m. at The Open Book

All genres welcome at both meetings. Suggested limit for reading selections is five double-spaced, typed pages, although longer selections may be possible if time permits. Due to time limitations, only the first ten people will be permitted to read.

The Open Book, 110 S Pleasantburg Drive, Greenville, SC

With the 2007 SCWW Conference right around the corner, a special edition of the statewide newsletter The Quill was sent out last week. Portions of The Quill issue have been copied or summarized here. The full text is available on-line at The Quill archives. Hope to see you at the conference!

And Then There Were Ten...

Exciting News! We are truly blessed this year to have nine top editors, representing large publishing houses, small presses and literary journals, on our faculty. Recently, I was blown away to get a phone call from our keynote speaker, Mary Alice Monroe, to let us know that her very own editor, Lauren McKenna, will be available to join us! Lauren McKenna is a Senior Editor at Pocket Books, a division of Simon and Schuster, where she acquires commercial fiction, narrative nonfiction, memoir, pop-culture, street fiction, teen fiction, women's fiction, and romance.

Meet Rebecca Oliver

Endeavor Talent Agency in Beverly Hills is one of the top five talent agencies in California. In May, Rebecca Oliver joined Endeavor's new book division as a literary agent. She is looking for new authors. Last week, Becka joined the stellar list of agents on the faculty roster for the 2007 South Carolina Writers Workshop Conference!

What is Advertorial Writing?

by T.Lynn Ocean

What is advertorial and why is it lucrative? Tracy (T.Lynn Ocean) will be giving an Intensive Workshop on Friday morning to show how you can pay the bills with your writing skills while polishing that novel. More details can be found in The Quill.

Also in The Quill is a

Spotlight on the Poets on the Conference Faculty:

Marjory Wentworth; Cathy Smith Bowers; Carol Ann Davis; Richard Garcia; and Robert Morgan.

New Accommodations Options at The Hilton

In addition to the $97 per night ocean view rooms, The Hilton is now offering us rooms in the adjacent Royale Palms tower. If you've already made your reservation, but would like to upgrade, just call the Hilton at (866) 454-8309. If you haven't yet made your reservation, the rooms and condos at Royale Palms should now be available for booking on our conference reservation page at: www.hilton.com/en/hi/groups/personalized/myrbhhh_sww

If you don't see the options, or have any difficulties, please call (866) 454-8309 to make a reservation. No worries... there are plenty of Hilton rooms still available at the $97 rate, for those who prefer that option.

SCWW Conference Goes On the Air!

Some of you may remember Roy Scott, with Your Day, a radio show that airs on ETV Radio. He was at Book Fest in February, taping interviews with authors. Well...guess what?!

Roy will also be at our conference in October, taping faculty interviews all day Saturday, conducted by none other than our own Brenda McClain! The interviews will be aired in the months following the conference, giving exposure to faculty members, raising the visibility of our organization, and generating publicity for future conferences.

Many thanks, Roy and Brenda!

Ask an Agent / Ask an Editor

Have a question you're dying to ask at the agent or editor's panel discussions, but don't want the microphone in your hand? Never fear! You can email your questions in advance. Please send all questions to: conference@myscww.org.

• In the subject line, if the question is for an agent, put: Agent Panel Question. The agents' panel discussion is Saturday evening at 6:00, right after the Social Hour.
• If the question is for a literary journal editor (Session 13, Class 6 on Sunday morning), please put: Literary Journal Editor Question in the subject line.
• If the question is for an editor with a publishing house (Session 14, Class 5 on Sunday morning), please put: Publishing House Editor Question in the subject line.

  You can submit questions any time up until October 12th. Questions submitted in advance will be sent to the faculty members in advance, so they will have the opportunity to consider their responses.

  Everyone is encouraged to ask any question that comes to mind during the sessions-we want these to be lively and interactive. If you aren't shy, please stand up during the open Q&A and someone will bring you a microphone so that everyone can hear your question.

Printed Matters is the newsletter of the Greenville Chapter of South Carolina Writers Workshop.

Please forward critiques, comments, ideas, and submissions to Printed Matters Editor Marcia Migacz at marciamigacz@prtcnet.com.

Thanks to our contributing writers and news reporters:
Jim McFarlane, Bob Strother, Pat Stewart, Russ Haddad, Steve Stewart, John Migacz,
David Burnsworth, Phil Arnold, Lance Curtis, Marcia Migacz, and Susan Boyer

Copyright 2007 by Marcia Migacz, Editor. Contributing writers retain all rights to their work.

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