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NCW Summer Class Registration and more
Subject: NCW Summer Class Registration and more
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A Note From...

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Hello [FIRSTNAME],

The Northern Colorado Writers summer class registration has begun. Why not invest in yourself and your writing with a writing class? It is a great way to spend the summer. :-)

Kerrie


COMPLETE REGISTRATION LIST


Introduction to Narrative Non-Fiction

Date: Saturday, June 26 2010
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: $55 NCW Members / $65 Non Members
Instructor: Greg Campbell

Blogging Basics

Date: Monday, June 28, 2010
Time: 6:30-8:30pm
Cost: $35 NCW Members/ $45 Non Members
Instructor: Kerrie Flanagan

Self Publishing the Successful Way

Date: Wednesday, June 30 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost: $45 NCW Members / $55 Non Members
Instructor: Teresa Funke

Twitter Basics

Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2010
Time: 7:00-8:30pm
Cost: $35 NCW Members / $45 Non Members
Instructor: Kerrie Flanagan

Writing Calisthenics Part 1: Voice

Date: Monday, July 12 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost: $35 NCW Members / $45 Non Members
Instructor: Amy Kathleen Ryan

Elements of Narrative Non-Fiction

Date: From Wednesday, July 14 To Wednesday, August 04 2010
4 Week Class

Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost: $150 NCW Members / $165 Non Members
Instructor: Greg Campbell

Writing Picture Books for Children

Date: Saturday, July 17 2010
Time: 9:00am - 12:00pm
Cost: $55 NCW Members / $65 Non Members
Instructor: Laura Backes

Writing Calisthenics Part 2: Characters

Date: Monday, July 19 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost: Cost: $35 NCW Members / $45 Non Members
Instructor: Amy Kathleen Ryan

Writing Calisthenics Part 3: Setting and Sense of Place

Date: Monday, July 26 2010
Time: 6:30pm - 8:30pm
Cost: $35 NCW Members / $45 Non Members
Instructor: Amy Kathleen Ryan


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OTHER EVENTS

That Book Inside You Workshop

Author, presenter, and writer’s coach Teresa Funke is offering her most popular workshop, “That Book Inside You” on Saturday, June 19th. This one-day (9am-4pm) workshop provides all of the information you’d get in a weekend-long writers’ conference for half the price and half the time. The workshop will take place at Teresa’s offices at 309 E. Mulberry St., Fort Collins, CO 80524. Lunch, snacks, all materials, and the That Book Inside You Workshop (valued at $40) will be provided. Visit her website at www.teresafunke.com/thatbookinsideyou for more information.


Book Release Party for The Secret to Lying by Todd Mitchell

Friday June 18, 7:00pm

Join us at Everyday Joe's and help us celebrate Fort Collins author Todd Mitchell’s new book, The Secret to Lying. A teenage boy’s self-reinvention gets out of control in a sharp, funny, poignant, and compulsively readable novel. This book examines the consequences that can come from reinventing oneself.

Location:

144 S. Mason Street
Fort Collins, Colorado 80524


Author Signing with Craig Johnson

Sat, 06/19/2010
4:30PM
Old Firehouse Books
232 Walnut Street, Fort Collins
Wyoming author Craig Johnson's award-winning Walt Longmire mysteries continue to find new fans, and Junkyard Dogs is sure to create many more devotees. The sixth book in the series is filled with Johnson's signature blend of wisecracks, Western justice, and page-turning plot twists as the beloved sheriff finds himself deep in the darker aspects of human nature, in a story of love, laughs, death, and derelict automobiles.

Totally UNBogus Bogus Extravaganza:

June 18th – 5:30 to 7 pm
Readers Cove
1001 East Harmony Road, Fort Collins

Karla Oceanak and Kendra Spanjer’s fabulous follow up to their book Artsy Fartsy is BogusBogus follows the continuing adventures for Aldo Zelnick and his friends as they find, lose and try to find again a lost diamond ring that is still somewhere close at hand.  This series is set in Fort Collins and references places like Horsetooth and Walrus Ice Cream and Old Town Square.  It is great for readers from 7-13 years old.  We will have lots of art projects and you will have a chance to get your copies signed by both the author and illustrator

To learn more about Northern Colorado Writes
and joining the association,
visit www.northerncoloradowriters.com

Kerrie Flanagan-NCW Director

kerrie@northerncoloradowriters.com
970-556-0908

Author, presenter, and writer’s coach Teresa Funke is offering her most popular workshop, “That Book Inside You” on Saturday, June 19th. This one-day (9am-4pm) workshop provides all of the information you’d get in a weekend-long writers’ conference for half the price and half the time. The workshop will take place at Teresa’s offices at 309 E. Mulberry St., Fort Collins, CO 80524. Lunch, snacks, all materials, and the That Book Inside You Workshop (valued at $40) will be provided. Visit her website at www.teresafunke.com/thatbookinsideyou for more information.
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