21st Annual Writers Workshop:  March 26 & 27, 2010

 

Writers Workshop Information and Registration Form

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Workshop Speakers

Christopher Branch is a singer/songwriter/guitarist, born and raised in the Foothills of South Carolina. He has extensive NPR and college radio airplay. He has released several studio albums as a solo artist and as the front man for the band, Cedars Of Lebanon. His songs have been covered by many regional artists. Christopher has served as the music minister for several churches. His knack for mixing introspective and playful lyrics with a percussive guitar style, and a bluesy-gruff voice has gained him many fans around the Southeast. He will be releasing his third solo album, "And If All These Things Are True", in 2010.

Jane Friedman is the publisher and editorial director of the Writer’s Digest brand community in Cincinnati, Ohio, where she oversees Writer’s Digest magazine, Writer’s Digest books, and the Writer’s Market series. Writer’s Digest is the world’s # 1 resource and community for writers, and for 90 years has published the best-selling annual reference guide, Writer’s Market. She is the author of Beginning Writer’s Answer Book and maintains a blog on the industry as part of the Writer’s Digest community, There Are No Rules (blog.writersdigest.com/norules).

Jill Jones is a writer, clinical social worker, and poetry therapist, currently residing in Anderson, SC. She maintains a private practice in Due West and enjoys leading a poetry therapy group at the Osher Lifelong Learning Institute at Furman University. Jill taught writing and English in SC schools and communities for 14 years before entering the field of psychotherapy. Jill writes a monthly blog for Life Coaching Institute of Greenville and has published in various regional journals, anthologies, and newspapers.

Edie Melson  has 15 years experience as a freelance writer, speaker and mentor for women in difficult life experiences. She began her career as a technical writer for Leisure Arts, Inc. Her byline has appeared in several national magazines and top websites including Focus On the Family, Crosswalk.com, Inspiredmoms.com and Christiandevotions.us. Her mystery novel, Dead Ringer, and her non-fiction book, Taking Captive Every Thought, each won first place at the Blue Ridge Christian Writer’s Conference. She, along with fellow writer Vonda Skelton, started a local writer’s group, The Christian Writer’s Den, and have co-directed and taught a writer’s retreat since 2002. She serves as the conference columnist for the ACFW Southeast Zone newsletter, as Managing Editor at Centered Magazine, an online publication and as a spec fiction reviewer for Marcher Lord Press.

Richard Speight is the author of two mystery novels, Desperate Justice and Triple Jeopardy. Desperate Justice became a Sunday Night Movie on ABC-TV and Triple Jeopardy was read on National Public Radio and was translated into five languages. Abingdon Press published four volumes of his short stories and essays. Richard graduated from Vanderbilt Law School. He served as an Assistant District Attorney, and practiced civil trial law in Nashville for 20 years. He is a former columnist for the Nashville Banner. He was  Writer-in-Residence and Instructor in Creative Writing at Belmont University in Nashville for five years. He is currently a writer for Dave Ramsey, a nationally syndicated radio talk-show host.

Pam Zollman is the author of  Don’t Bug Me, a middle grade novel which was nominated for Florida’s Sunshine State Young Reader’s Choice Award, and was named one of the best books of the year by Bank Street College of Education. She has also written 39 other books, both fiction and non-fiction. Her life cycle series for Scholastic has recently been translated into Spanish. Her work has appeared in almost a dozen children’s magazines. Pam also writes short stories and articles for textbook publishers and for language arts assessment tests. She has worked as an editor for Boeing Aerospace Co., St. Luke’s Hospital, Harcourt, Steck-Vaughn, and Highlights for Children. She reviews manuscripts for both Highlights and Boyd Mills Press and for writer’s conferences. She is currently co-director for ANAuthor World, writes freelance, teaches writing, and is working on another novel as well as a how-to book for writers.