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Do you have an educational opportunity that may be of interest to Missouri Writers' Guild members? Send information to Jennifer Jiang at jjiang@earthlink.net

 

Educational Opportunities

Former board member (including president and vice president) and published author, Margo Dill, will be teaching a class an online class through WOW! Women On Writing this summer called: "Blogging 101: Start a Blog, Make it Unique, and Keep it Going"

It starts on Monday, July 12 and lasts for five weeks. The cost is $125. Here's a description: Blogging is one of the best and cheapest ways to achieve an Internet presence. This class will help students start a blog. If you already have a blog, it will help you target the readers you want to reach. Students will also learn how to create a unique blog, build followers and/or drive traffic to their blogs, blog on a schedule, connect posts to social networking sites, and monetize their blogs. This course is for beginning and intermediate bloggers or for people who are looking to spice up their blogs! **Please note: you do not have to be technologically savvy to start a blog and keep up with it!

To sign up for the class, please visit: http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/WOWclasses.html#MargoDill_Blogging101


Do you have a completed manuscript, but need help taking it to the next level?

Check out Manuscript Preparation and Publication, new Fall 2010 evening course at Washington University, with instructor Catherine Rankovic. Students will edit and format their completed manuscripts for publication, practice writing queries and synopses, research potential publishers, and share support and what they learn. Tuesday evenings, 6:00-8:30 p.m. Register at http://ucollege.wustl.edu course number U11EComp 334. Three college credits, $1,665.

Catherine Rankovic's prize winning poetry and essays have been published in the Iowa Review, The Missouri Review, River Styx, and many others. Her latest book is Meet Me: Writers in St. Louis, just out from Penultimate Press. She has taught creative writing at Washington University since 1989, and in the graduate M.F.A. program at the University of Missouri-St Louis. Contact Catherine regarding her manuscript editing and workshop teaching services at clrankov@gmail.com.


     
 
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