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Pen in
Hand Mini-Conference
Saturday,
October 8th, 2011
Location
Midwest Writing Center
Bucktown Center of the Arts (3rd floor)
225 E. 2nd St.
Davenport, Iowa 52801
563-324-1410
Schedule - Doors Open at 8:00 a.m., Light refreshments
will be served.
Intellectual Property Laws for the
Writer with Ellen Tsagaris
Intellectual Property is a rapidly growing field of law
that is important to writers and artists. As technology
continues to grow and impacts all aspects of life,
intellectual property law, a basic knowledge in the
subject
will in ever-greater demand for writers, teachers,
artists and other creative people. The purpose of this
course is
to introduce you to the general field of intellectual
property (IP) law giving you the “big picture” from
which
you can then delve more deeply into specific areas of IP
useful to writers and artists, especially The Fair Use
Doctrine. While we will not offer legal advice, the
course will help you become more savvy in finding
answers,
resources, and quelling issues that may arise during
your writing career. No legalese-----We promise!
8:30 - 10:15 a.m.
Taxes/Accounting with
Ann Capion
10:15 – 10:30 a.m.
BREAK
10:30 a.m. – 12:15 p.m.
with
12:15 – 1:15 p.m.
LUNCH (on your own)
1:15 – 3:00 p.m.
Creative Writing Basics
with
Jodie Toohey
This
class aims to help you begin a creative writing
practice. You will learn what creative writing is (and
what it is not), how to establish a writing routine, and
how to improve with creative writing techniques
through a combination of instruction and mini-exercises.
1:15 – 3:00 p.m.
Poetry Pick Up
Games: Playing with Poetry (for students ages
10-14)
with
Ryan Collins- FREE
3:00 – 3:15 p.m.
BREAK
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.
with
3:15 – 5:00 p.m.
with
Register by October 1st for an early bird discount:
$20 per adult workshop; or $60 for all four adult workshops
After Oct. 1st:
the fee is $25 per adult workshop; or $75 for all four adult
workshops
Extra goodies
With your registration, you’ll receive light refreshments,
free parking and a great learning experience.
To register
Call 563-324-1410 or email
mwc@midwestwritingcenter.org
Pen-in-Hand Faculty Bios
Ryan Collins
is the editorial director of the Young
Emerging Writers Summer Internship program.
He teaches at St. Ambrose University and Scott Community College. Recent poems
of his have appeared
in SENTENCE and GREATCOAT.
Jodie Toohey began writing
regularly after an elementary school assignment. She
completed creative writing courses to
fulfill her humanities requirement of her honors program
bachelor's degree at Iowa State University. She has also
completed numerous workshops, courses and self study in
creative non-fiction, fiction and poetry writing. In
2008,
she published a book of poetry for pre-teen and teen
girls entitled, "Crush and Other Love Poems for Girls".
At the
beginning of 2010, Jodie started her freelance writing business; samples
of and links to her work as well as additional
information about Jodie and her business is located on
her web-site at
www.jodiet.com.
Ellen Tsagaris earned a J.D.
degree from The University of Iowa College of Law. She
teaches intellectual property,
English, and other law classes for a
local university. She works with collage art and is a
free-lance writer as well. She is
a college professor and an advocate for
community-based poetry and has written poetry since
childhood. Her poetry has
appeared in several periodicals. Sappho,
I should have listened is a chapbook of her poetry
(918studio, 2011).
Click here for
registration form.
Conference is sponsored by the Illinois Arts
Council, a state agency.
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