The Fifth Annual Festival Set for April 17, 2010




Friday, March 12, 2010

Book Festival Offers Writing Workshop for Teachers

On Friday, April 16, Alabama teachers grades 6-12 are invited to spend the day with four authors who will appear at the 5th Annual Alabama Book Festival in Montgomery to learn about creative writing techniques and strategies for their students.

Each year in conjunction with the statewide book event, the Alabama Writers’ Forum produces the Festival’s education outreach program. The workshops are offered free of charge with generous funding from the Support the Arts Car Tag Fund and Vulcan Materials Company, as well as support from Troy University, Montgomery Campus and the Alabama State Council on the Arts.

This year’s participatory writing workshops are designed to introduce teachers to new strategies for integrating creative writing into language arts and English curricula, as well as making use of new media such as blogs and Web site postings in other subject areas.

Poets Sean Hill (author of Blood Ties and Brown Liquor) and DéLana R.A. Dameron (author of the South Carolina Poetry Book Prize-awarded How God Ends Us) will lead the morning poetry workshops. Irene Latham (author of the young adult novel Leaving Gees Bend) will give a reading at the noon hour, and fiction writer and blogger A.M. Garner (author of Undeniable Truths) will lead the afternoon workshop on “Writing for the New Media.”

“We hope teachers will leave the workshop with ideas for new writing lessons and some writing of their own to inspire students,” said Alabama Writers’ Forum Executive Director Jeanie Thompson. “We are fortunate to have writers of this caliber with us to work with our Alabama teachers this year.”

“We have a limited number of slots for the workshops, so teachers are encouraged to register early. All slots are filled on a first-come, first-served basis,” Thompson said.

Registration is required. Print out registration forms online at www.alabamabookfestival. org. Contact the Alabama Writers’ Forum at writersforum@bellsouth.net or call 334-265-7728 for more information.



4 comments:

  1. Teachers -- Be sure to hit the "programs and activities" tab to find the "Writing Workshop for Teachers" article once you are on the Book Festival Web site: alabamabooksfestival.org

    You'll find everything you need to register! Let us know if you need further help.
    Jeanie Thompson / AWF / 334 265 7728

    ReplyDelete
  2. Nice festival , your posts are very good !!!

    ReplyDelete
  3. Sean Hill is one of my favorite author.This is a great opportunity for those teachers who will attend and I;m so glad for them.I love writing especially essays and poetry.

    ReplyDelete
  4. Hiv disease for the last 3 years and had pain hard to eat and cough are nightmares,especially the first year At this stage, the immune system is severely weakened, and the risk of contracting opportunistic infections is much greater. However, not everyone with HIV will go on to develop AIDS. The earlier you receive treatment, the better your outcome will be.I started taking ARV to avoid early death but I had faith in God that i would be healed someday.As a Hiv patent we are advise to be taking antiretroviral treatments to reduce our chance of transmitting the virus to others , few weeks ago i came on search on the internet if i could get any information on Hiv treatment with herbal medicine, on my search i saw a testimony of someone who has been healed from Hiv her name was Achima Abelard and other Herpes Virus patent Tasha Moore also giving testimony about this same man,Called Dr Itua Herbal Center.I was moved by the testimony and i contacted him by his Email.drituaherbalcenter@gmail.com . We chatted and he send me a bottle of herbal medicine I drank it as he instructed me to.After drinking it he ask me to go for a test that how i ended my suffering life of Hiv patent,I'm cured and free of Arv Pills.I'm forever grateful to him Drituaherbalcenter.Here his contact Number +2348149277967...He assure me he can cure the following disease..Hiv,Cancer,Herpes Virus,Hpv,Pile,Weak Erection,Lyme Disease,Epilepsy,Glaucoma.,Brain Tumor,psoriasis, Cataracts,Macular degeneration,Cardiovascular disease,Chronic Diarrhea,Lung disease.Enlarged prostate,Osteoporosis.Alzheimer's disease,
    Dementia. ,Bladder Cancer,Autism,Colorectal Cancer,Breast Cancer,Kidney Cancer,Leukemia,Lung Cancer,Tay tach disease,Non Hodgkin Lymphoma,Skin Cancer,Lupus,Uterine Cancer,Prostate Cancer, Seizures, fibromyalgia ,ALS,Hepatitis,Copd,Parkinson disease.Genetic disease,Fibrodysplasia disease,Fibrodysplasia Ossificans Progressiva,Fluoroquinolone Toxicity Syndrome,Stroke,Hpv,Weak Erection,Liver/Kidney Inflammatory,Men/Woman infertility, bowel disease ,Huntington's disease ,Diabetes,Fibroid.

    ReplyDelete