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Attoyac
Writers’ Guild presents
An Invitation to Write Workshop
with writer, facilitator Martha
Hogan Estes - February
1, 2010
Submitted by Andi Foster
 The
Attoyac Writers’ Guild announces
An Invitation to Write workshop
with Ozarks native Martha Hogan
Estes on Tues., Feb. 16, 2010
beginning at 6:00 p.m. until 8:00
p.m. at the Fannie Brown Booth
Memorial Library located at 619
Tenaha Street, Center, Texas.
Doors open at 5:30 p.m. Space
is limited and advance registration
is recommended by Sat., Feb. 13,
2010. Advance registration is
$15 per person and regular registration
at the door will be $20 per person.
For workshop details or registration
information, contact Terri Lacher
at 936.598.3484 or via email btlacher@sbcglobal.net.
Estes, now in her seventh year
of working with writers groups,
has a passion for encouraging
writers to record memories and
stories lest they be forgotten.
She stresses utilization of
short writing periods, the use
of prompts and the support of
fellow writers.
Estes is a former managing
editor of the University of
Arkansas Press, current owner
and managing editor of Lost
Creek Press (a small press dedicated
to the promotion of Ozark writers)
and a writer. She holds a BA
in English from the University
of Arkansas. Her publications
include: Whitest Wash: A Collection
of Short Fiction by Ozark Women;
“Huston Scott’s
Letters from California”
Flashback: Washington County
(AR) Historical Society Journal;
“The Striped Overalls”
Fayetteville Free Weekly (third
place winner for Short Fiction);
and “Stories of our Lives”
(bi-weekly column) Rogers (AR)
Hometown News. She also contributes
articles to Shiloh Scrapbook:
Shiloh Museum of Ozark History
Newsletter.
Estes leads St. John’s
(memoir) Writers in Fayetteville,
has presented workshops for
Fayetteville Public Library’s
“Ozark Writers Live!”
and co-facilitates the Invitation
to Write Project, Occasional
Saturday Writing Practice and
Life Writing Memoir Series.
She, her brother J.B. Hogan,
and late husband Kirby L. Estes,
founded the Wyman Writers Alliance
for the promotion of local writers.
The overall mission of the
Attoyac Writers' Guild is to
provide a forum of support and
information to both aspiring
and experienced writers and
poets, to create a circle of
assistance to those interested
with marketing their literary
works for publication, and to
establish a peer network for
writing improvements, discussions
and critiques. The Attoyac Writers’
Guild meets every third Tuesday
evening September through May.
Details for joining or participating
in the writers’ guild
can be obtained by contacting
Program Coordinators, Suzanne
Walker, 936.591.1655 or Andi
Foster, 936.590.0298, or by
visiting the guild’s blog
at http://attoyacwritersguild.blogspot.com/.
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