Joshilyn Jackson at Faster Than Kudzu
Aimee Nezhukumatathil (poet)
Michelle Cunnah, Whitney Gaskell, Alesia Holliday, Beth Kendrick, Eileen Rendahl, Lani Diane Rich at Literary Chicks
Sara Zarr at Stories of a Girl
Erik Reece October 17, 2006
NEW BOOKS BY GREAT WRITERS: ERIK REECE AT THE CARNEGIE CENTER
Thursday, Oct. 19th
6:30 pm: reading and book signing - FREE and open to the public
7:30 pm: workshop: Using Investigative Journalism in the Lyric Personal Essay - $25; registration required The Carnegie Center for Literacy and Learning 251 West Second Street, Lexington
Author Erik Reece will continue the Carnegie Center’s 2006-2007 New Books by Great Writers series with a workshop and reading from LOST MOUNTAIN: A YEAR IN THE VANISHING WILDERNESS, his eyewitness account of mountaintop removal in Eastern Kentucky. Following a FREE reading and book signing, work directly with the author to explore techniques of nature writing, investigative journalism, and the lyric personal essay. The cost of the workshop is $25; subscribers to the New Books by Great Writers series may attend this and as many forthcoming workshops as desired for a one-time discounted price of $100. Funded in part by the Kentucky Arts Council, the series will continue through spring 2007 with workshops and readings by poet Molly Peacock, former Kentucky Poet Laureate Richard Taylor, children¹s author Andrea Cheng, Affrilachian poet Frank X Walker, novelist Susan Richards, poet and essayist Anne Shelby, and current Kentucky Poet Laureate Sena Jena Naslund, who will read alongside her brother, novelist John Sims Jeter. To subscribe to the series or learn more about this and other learning opportunities at the Carnegie Center, call (859) 254-4175 or visit www.carnegieliteracy.org,
Dear Bloggers, October 12, 2006
I want to thank you for you understanding about our class this week. My brother, sister-in-law and nieces are all doing well. I have tried to reach each of you by e-mail, but a couple of addresses don’t seem to be working. I know your time is valuable, and last week’s class will not be lost! I will make arrangements for private sessions or consultations with each of you, according to your needs and how you’d like to proceed. Feel free to contact me, or we can talk on Tuesday.
Blogs With Themes October 10, 2006
We meet again tomorrow evening at 5:30.
We’ll set up blogs and discuss blogs with themes. Here are some to check out:
cupcakes by chockylit
wee wonderfuls
craftlog
domicile
Chocolate & Zucchini
my little kitchen
yarn harlot
Getting Started October 4, 2006
Hello, Bloggers.
I’m thinking about all of your questions, and I feel like we have a lot of great material to cover.
Some of you may have begun setting up a blog, and others of you may need a little more assistance. My goal for our next class is that everyone who wants a blog shall have one!
The first posts you write are, in some ways, the easiest. You have, after all, a whole lifetime of stories just waiting to be told. Your first posts are the way you introduce yourself to your audience so…have fun!
We’ve talked about the fact that our blogs are public and that we need to be aware of how we present ourselves to an audience, but that issue has two sides. Consider this prompt from No One Cares What You Had for Lunch by Margaret Mason
Writing gives you time to consider how to present yourself. Online, you can be smarter, wittier, kinder. Alternately, you can be a mind-numbing bore. This sometimes happens because your audience (however small you think it may be) gives you stage fright. You worry that certain things could be misconstrued, so you’re tempted to water things down. You hone, delete, and reshape until you’ve sucked all the juice from your posts.
All readers need an occasional dose of schadenfreude, so fess up. How do you fail? Do you consistently kill plants? Keep getting fired? Always take the last cookie? That’s the stuff, friends. To err is human, but to share? Divine.
Our First Class October 3, 2006
Welcome to Carnegie Bloggers.
We will meet tonight in the computer lab in the Carnegie Center from 5:30-7:00 p.m. for an introduction to the world of blogging. We will discuss the creation of on-line identity, a brief history of blogging and why people do it, and the practical matter of blog hosting. If you don’t already maintain a blog, you’ll have an opportunity to get started.
Below are some links we will explore during tonight’s class.
About blogging
Weblogs: a history and perspective from Rebecca’s Pocket
Why we Blog by Sandhill Trek
Why I Blog by Dr. Drew
Blogging 101
A Brief History of Weblogs, Columbia Journalism Review
Examples of blogs (personal journals)
California Fever
My Topography
Finslippy
Tequila Mockingbird
Mingle Freely
Jill’s Notebook
ljcblog
Amanda Johnston
Rude Cactus
Blog hosts
Blogger
WordPress
Typepad
Free e-mail providers
hotmail
yahoo
Blog search engine
Google blog search
Answers to a blogging meme
by Jill
by Marilyn
Please leave a comment on this post and tell me a bit about yourself, what you hope to learn from this class, and why you’re interested in blogging.
I would like to post our links on the sidebar of this blog. Please leave your blog URL in the comments here, if you authorize it to be posted. If you wish that your blog not be linked on the sidebar, you can email the URL to me.
