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CRITIQUE GROUPS // CRITIQUE GROUPS // CRITIQUE GROUPS

First Thursday
of every month:
6:30 - 7 pm: stories from the writing life, marketing, and contest info

7:00 - 9:00 pm: critiques

Oak Park Public Library
834 Lake Street
Oak Park, IL

2nd Floor book discussion room
Ph: 708-383-8200

Oak Park Writers Group

This is in open writing critique group. Writers with all levels of experience and writing in all genres are welcome. Bring up to five double-spaced pages for critique with about five copies to share with other writers in the group. There is no fee to participate in this critique group.

Third Wednesday

of every month

7:30 to 9:30 p.m.

$10 per session

Uptown Writers Group

Uptown Writers Space

4802 N. Broadway, Suite 200

[above The Green Mill]

Chicago 60640

773.275.1000

Uptown Writers Group

Currently open only to members of the Uptown Writers Space. Writers with all levels of experience and writing in all genres are welcome. Bring up to ten double-spaced pages for critique with a few copies to share with other writers in the group.

Third Monday

of every month

7 - 9:30 p.m.

$10 quarterly fee

Mount Prospect Public Library

10 S. Emerson Street

Mount Prospect, IL 60056

847.253.5675

Mount Prospect Public Library Writers Group

This is an open writing group. All adult writers are welcome. This is a group for writers in every genre and with all levels of experience for helpful guided critique.
Please call the library to reserve a space in this group each and every month.

Bring up to five double-spaced pages to critique with copies to share with others (about 10). E-mail questions to lisa@lisarosenthal.com.
$10/quarterly fee to participate. Please call the library to register.

PLAYWRITING / STAGED READING

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WRITING WORKSHOPS // WRITING WORKSHOPS // WRITING WORKSHOPS

Saturday
July 12, 2008
1 to 4 p.m.

$60

Newberry Library

60 W. Walton Street

Chicago

312.255.3700

Details & Registration:

www.newberry.org/programs/semsummer07.html

Activate Your Writing Ambitions

Learning to be a writer is about claiming the title writer, making spacing in your life for creativity, giving yourself permission to activate your creative energy, and harnessing your creating imagination. This one-time workshop uses a combination of inspiration and writing exercises to help participants transition from dreaming to doing. It's appropriate to writers in all genres.

Fall 2008

Session I:
Mid-Sept through Mid-October

Session II:
Mid-October through Mid-Nov.

Wednesdays
9:30 a.m. to Noon

$150 pp
5-session series

The Heart of the Heartland

Glenview

Location details here: www.heartoftheheartland.org/UpcomingEvents.html

Writing Your Spiritual Journey
This workshop will begin by building a foundation of trust to share our writing. Guidelines for effectively responding to others writing will be reviewed. A writing exercise focused on our spiritual journeys will be given and participants will write and then share their writing with the group at the first meeting. I will guide the group to apply effective responding techniques to make this a safe and positive environment for all participants. Exploring the various stages of one's spiritual journey - or journey to greater consciousness - will be explored. Participants will be given at-home writing assignments to create writing to share at each subsequent meeting. By the end of this workshop it's my hope that this will grow into a self-sustaining group.