Faculty for Writing Success XIX Writers' Conference

Critiques

Everyone who registers for the conference is entitled to one FREE critique of 6 or less double-spaced, (size 12, clear font), pages of a manuscript. Additional critiques may be purchased for the following fees:

10 additional pages for $10.00
25 additional pages for $22.00
50 additional pages for $43.00

REMEMBER: Do not send contest entries with manuscripts to be critiqued, or vice versa.

Include this fee with your registration. However, manuscripts for critique are to be sent to Evelyn Minshull at 125 Channel Drive, Carlisle, PA 17013.

Evelyn will be available during the afternoon of the conference this year, if those who submit manuscripts for critique wish to discuss them after they have a chance to look over her comments.

All persons who send (or bring) manuscripts after April 14, 2012 must include a SASE for the return of your manuscripts after the conference.

manuscript page

Testimony Table

In lieu of a freebie table that gets harder to stock each year--publishers are putting their guidelines online-- we would like to begin a table for article writers and poets to share their published work. You can bring originals for show and/or copies for conferees to take with them.

Faculty for 2012
Please note: This list is still incomplete.
	Roland Barksdale-Hall currently serves as president of JAH Kente International, Washington, D.C. He is author of several books for both adults and children, including The African American Family's Guide to Tracing Our Roots. In 2009 he was awarded the Blue, Gold and Black: Color of Achievement Award from the University of Pittsburgh.
	Hana Haatainen Caye is an award-winning writer, editor and voice-over talent. In the past two years, she has written and/or narrated over 50 of Marvel’s iStorybooks children’s books. She leads Writers at Work, a Pittsburgh-based monthly writing workshop. Her book, Vinegar Fridays, based on a popular feature of her blog, Green Grandma, was released in November 2011.
	Gloria Clover, conference director, remains excited to be involved with ebook publishing. The first book in her Children of the King series, Washed Under the Waves, is available now from Desert Breeze Publishing. The second, The Fire Starter, will be released in August. Her previous novella, The Remaking of Moe McKenna, and romance novel, Brianna's Pardon, were both published by Barbour.
	Carol Hamilton writes for Examiner.com as the Pittsburgh Christian Living Examiner. Her work has also appeared in Vista, Women Alive!, Shepherdess Journal, and many other publications. She presents anti-bullying programs with Bucketfillers for Life, and is a marketing/PR director and board member for National Speakers Association Pittsburgh and president of New Castle’s First Toastmasters.
	Karen Martin has had two articles on historical research published in Writers' Journal. She wrote the Johnson Shaw Stereographic Museum's history booklet, and organized their research library. Her booklet, Sick In Bed On Two Chairs - A Writer's Guide to Historical Medicine, is now available. Her historical Dust Bowl-era novel, Singing Cowboy, was published by Son-Rise Publications.
	Randy Minnich was a research chemist and chemistry professor. Now retired, he has time to write and pursue environmental interests. He has published two books, Wildness in a Small Place and Pavlov’s Cats. His poetry has appeared in Snowy Egret, Pudding, Pearl, Main Street Rag, The Unitarian Universalist Poets (an anthology), and other publications.
	Barbara Mountjoy (AKA Lyndi Alexander and Alana Lorens) authors the Clan Elves of the Bitterroot fantasy series from Dragonfly Publishing, and romances for The Wild Rose Press. Her first science fiction and horror novels will be released this year, and a young adult series next year. She also wrote 101 Little Instructions for Surviving Your Divorce, and blogs at AWalkabout's Weblog.
	Audrey Stallsmith, contest coordinator, is the author of the Thyme Will Tell series of mysteries from WaterBrook Press and The Body They May Kill from Thomas Nelson. Her work has also appeared in periodicals such as Woman's World, Birds & Blooms, and Moody Magazine. She writes articles on plant folklore for her website, Thyme Will Tell, and on apologetics for Inklings of Truth.
	Shirley S. Stevens leads a Christian writers group, The First Word, in Sewickley, and is a member of the Squirrel Hill Poetry Workshop and the Pittsburgh Poetry Society. Past president of the St. Davids Christian Writers Conference, she continues to serve on their board. Shirley has recently had poetry published in Along These Rivers, Fission and Form, and Common Wealth.
	Nancy K. Wallace is the author of The Christmas Cats from Pelican Publishing and a youth services librarian. She reviews YA literature for VOYA, is a frequent contributor to LibrarySparks, and her children's poetry has appeared in Highlights High Five. Nancy's series of chapter books, Abby and the Book Bunch will be released by Magic Wagon in 2013. She blogs as FairySockmother.
	Jack Wonner considers himself a gardener first and a poet second. He lives with his poet wife, Marjorie, on 75 wooded acres. His many interests include bottle collecting and restoring old cemeteries. He has published in a variety of genres: poetry, historical essays, church plays, and fiction. He belongs to Second Tuesday Writers in Erie, PA, and Chapter One in Waukesha, WI.