DuEwaWorld News! by DuEwa Frazier

CHECK THE RHYME TEEN WRITING WORKSHOP   FREE! Thursday, November 7th, 14th and 21st @ 4pm  Brooklyn Public Library - Central Library - Youth Wing 10 Grand Army Plaza, Brooklyn, NY 11238 (718) 230-2100               Check the Rhyme Writing Workshop facilitated by educator, author and award nominated poet, DuEwa Frazier, is a workshop for teens focusing on supporting them in the creation of original poetry and short stories.   Each workshop will focus on a craft lesson which teen writers can use to elevate their writing and understand the elements of the genre. Teens can sign up to register in the youth section of the library!

  I am one of the workshop facilitators for  The Black Girl Project presents the 2013 Sisterhood Summit Digital Daughters: Black Girls Bridging the Divide on Saturday, October 26, 2013 from 10am to 6pm 100 participants! 20 workshops! SUNY Empire State College NY, NY 

Writers Digest Conference Sessions From educated predictions on the future of publishing to concrete advice on marketing and selling your book, this year's sessions are packed with information that's going to revolutionize the way you look at your writing career. Click on each session for more information. Friday, September 18 4:00 pm - 4:45 pm Opening Address: The Changing World of Book Publishing: An Author-Centric View 4:45 pm - 6:15 pm Decisions, Decisions: Deciding the Best Publishing Route for You Do You Have a Meaningful Marketing Platform? 8:00 pm - 9:30 pm The First Annual Writer's Digest Poetry Slam Saturday, September 19 7:00 am - 9:00 am Breakfast with the Stars 9:00 am - 10:30 am Indie Authors and the Temple of DIY We Control the Audio: Podcasting Your Way to Book Sales Working with an Independent Editor: Do You Really Need One? 10:30 am - 12:00 pm Click This! Build an Effective Author Website Do You Have a Meaningful Marketing Platform? Panel: How Agents Disco...

The Mosaic Literary Conference presents creative ways for keeping books and reading valuable sources of knowledge and creativity. This day of professional-development workshops will help educators incorporate literature into existing curricula to further explore course work that focuses on cultures, history, and social studies. Early Registration: $30 Regular Registration: $50 Registration includes gift bag, continental breakfast, and lunch Conference Date: November 7, 2009 Location: Hostos Community College 450 Grand Concourse at 149th St., Bronx, NY

Rhymes, Views & News Talk Radio Featuring -- Qaadira Allen, today, March 30th at 5pm EST! Qaadira Allen is a mixed media artist, creative life coach and transformative art facilitator and student of spiritual law. She creates and facilitates workshops that feature art-making, affirmations, reflective journaling, energy work, meditation, visualization, music, and sacred ceremony. In 2006 Qaadira received the Art & Change Grant from The Leeway Foundation . She is the author of the forthcoming book “Soulful Change”. DuEwa will interview Qaadira Allen about her work as an artist and life coach and the practices she utilizes in her transformative healing workshops for women. Be sure to listen in today at 5pm EST on this empowering discussion!

Last Saturday, I took my first “real” writing workshop in a year. When I say this was a “real” workshop, meaning it wasn’t a talkfest where people just exchanged abstract ideas on writing or talked about their publishing credentials for the full class time, like some workshops I’ve taken in the past. For four hours, myself and ten other writers workshopped samples of projects we’re working on with a Senior Editor at a major publishing house. The experience was both exciting and scary, as I let go of “my baby”, a project I’ve been working on for some months now, and shared an excerpt of it with complete strangers. This workshop was filled with women writers of all ages, mostly professional women, from New York, Georgia, Texas and other areas. We all read our work, gave copies of our work to the other participants and braced ourselves for the critique. Our instructor gave us some insider tips to the publishing industry and what it takes for an editor to acquire your work. I found t...