WORD PRAIZE WRITING CONTEST

Send us your first three pages and win $25, $50, $100 or a book deal!

Top 3 Finalist will be announced at Garments of Praise Luncheon June 13, 2009

WORD PRAIZE WRITING WORKSHOPS

Birth your book. Manifest your music. Do your destiny.

Speakers

Stanice Anderson, author of I Say a Prayer for ME

Mary Ardis, Founder, Author and Finisher, Inc.

Claudia Mair Burney, Christy Finalist author of Zora and Nicky

Sharon Ewell Foster, Christy Winner author of Passing by Samaria and Abraham's Well

Marilynn Griffith, author of If the Shoe Fits, Pink and Rhythms of Grace

Carmita McCall, poet, author and host of Church Night Live

Charles Rosenberg, owner, Rose Printing

Rosalind Thompkins, poet and founder, Mothers in Crisis

Barbara Joe Williams, CEO, Amani Publishing

and many more!

1:00 Welcome, Marilynn Griffith

1:05 From Premise to Proposal: Understanding the Publishing Process, Author Panel:  Stanice Anderson, Claudia Mair Burney, Sharon Ewell Foster. Moderator: Marilynn Griffith.

1:25 Break

1:30 Starting a Self-Publishing Business, Author Panel: Melodie Kent,  Charles Rosenberg/Rose Printing and selected authors. Moderator: Barbara Joe Williams, Amani Publishing.

1:55 Break

2:00 Birthing Your Book Eight Minutes at a Time, Marilynn Griffith

2:25 Break

2:30 Eight Minute Writing Groups

 Poets and Playwrights: Stanice Anderson

Fiction, Blogging, Memoir: Claudia Mair Burney

Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry: Marilynn Griffith

Fiction, Songwriting, Screenwriting: Sharon Ewell Foster

Songwriting, Poetry: Carmita McCall

Songwriting, Nonfiction: Mary Ardis

2:40 break

2:45 Writing Group Q&A

Group leaders answer questions about the ministry, craft and business of writing and music!

3:00 Poetry, Prose and Praise Panel

Mary Ardis, Carmita McCall, Stanice Anderson, Rosalyn Webb and more discuss music as a ministry, music marketing, devotionals, articles, plays and spoken word performance.

3:25 Break

3:30 Writing Group Readings/Critiques

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3:55 Break

4:00 Blogs, Nings, Tweets, FaceBook and other Social Media Panel: Claudia Mair Burney, Marilynn Griffith, Barbara Joe Williams, Sharon Ewell Foster and more....

4:25 Break

4:30 How I Got an Agent. Panel: Sharon Ewell Foster, Stanice Anderson, Marilynn Griffith, Claudia Mair Burney, Barbara Joe Williams.

4:50 Communicators Commission

5:00 Workshop Ends

NOTE: ALL Word Praize participants may enter the Word Praize Writing Contest.