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Instructor: Nathan Lowell

This workshop will explain the difference between "old media" marketing and "new media" marketing. The goal for the session is to provide attendees with information necessary to help them make useful decisions about which social spaces to work in and ways to use them effectively. This workshop will not tell you how to get a blog, set up Tweetdeck, or explain the difference between Facebook Profiles and Pages. It will give you the information you need in order to make informed choices on how to use whichever spaces you choose.

Nathan Lowell has been active in social media since before the name was coined. With multiple blogs, a couple of twitter handles, a daily podcast, and presence in Facebook, Google+, and LinkedIn, he knows how the tools work, and has spent years involved in research on them. He's a two time Parsec Award Winner (Long Form) for his science-fiction and has published novels, novellas, and short fiction in a variety of places. He holds a Ph.D. in Educational Technology and teaches courses on the integration of technology, education, and culture for Morehead State University in Morehead, KY.

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Instructor: Kerrie Flanagan

Participants are encouraged to bring their lunch. Drinks will be provided.

Strong writing can be the difference between a sale and the slush pile. With some basic writing tips (like "kill the adverb" and vary your sentence structure) you can strengthen your work and as a result, increase your chances of finding writing success. 

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Instructor: Teresa Funke 

In this workshop, author and writer’s coach Teresa R. Funke will teach you how to develop an ear for dialogue, with special emphasis on using dialogue to reveal character and propel your story forward. Through listening and writing exercises, you’ll learn how to “hear” when your dialogue is working and when it isn’t. We’ll also discuss pacing, tag lines, dialect and accents, humor, and most important, how to tighten your exchanges so every word counts.

**THIS CLASS IS FROM 6:00-9:00PM**

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Instructor: Kris Hungenberg

Kristin Hungenberg is an Epona Approved Instructor, certified in Equine Facilitated Experiential Learning. (E.F.E.L).  Through years of observation Epona has taken the manner in which horses interact within a herd and developed a unique way of using horse wisdom to help people improve their relationship and leadership skills.  Kristin has eight books published by Avalon books and she has 35 years of working with horses, a bachelor's in Education from UNC, 12 years teaching Tai Chi, 10 years teaching yoga, along with 24 years of teaching group fitness.  Epona's methods have served to bring Kristin's experience into the horse world, offering a unique service of interacting with horses to effect life change.  Interacting with horses is not part of this class.  For further information go to www.fourdirectionshorsefarm.com

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Instructor: Victoria Hanley 

Participants are encouraged to bring their lunch. Drinks will be provided.

The market for YA (young adult) nonfiction is quietly taking off. Are you a writer with know-how on a subject relevant to teens? Have you thought about writing a nonfiction book? Join us to explore your options for writing YA NONfiction.

Victoria Hanley is the author of the award-winning nonfiction book: SEIZE THE STORY: A HANDBOOK FOR TEENS WHO LIKE TO WRITE

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Instructor: Rich Keller

Someone once said laughter is the best medicine. Whether it was a physician who didn't have the first idea of how to cure a patient was beside the point. What mattered then, and still does today, is everyone needs a laugh. And what better place is there to inject these chortles than your writing. This class will discuss types of humor and how it can be added gently or voraciously into your short stories, personal essays and novels. You'll also be given a chance to practice what you've learned in a flash humor writing session.

With five children, four of them girls, freelance writer Richard Keller needs to have a sense of humor to survive. He has used this humor in the past for articles and essays in Vantage and Rocky Mountain Parent magazines, TV Squad, and CliqueClack.com. Rich also spent a decade in Improv comedy, working with East Coast chapters of ComedySportz and Theatresports troupes. Today, this Fort Collins resident provides chuckles for the masses at his blogs Cranial Burps (cranialburps.wordpress.com) and First Person TV (firstpersontv.wordpress.com). More information on Rich can be found at www.richardskeller.com.

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Instructor: Kerrie Flanagan

One of the best ways for writers to improve their craft is to study the work of other writers. Reading like a writer is more than just thinking about how something is it written, it means dissecting it and looking at it from many different angles. In this class we will delve deep into different pieces of writing in various genres. You will leave with the skills to read like a writer, and as a result improve your own writing skills. 

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Instructor: Trai Cartwright

Picking up where Screenwriting I left off and perfect for those who already know the basics, this accelerated class will explore the advanced film language of formatting, breakdown movie structure in its entirety, provide tools to create relateable, dynamic characters, and show you how to build a script from a thematic level.  You'll workshop the second 30 pages of your script in class and develop an action plan for finishing and marketing your script.

BIO:

TRAI CARTWRIGHT is a 20-year entertainment industry veteran and writing specialist recently transplanted to Colorado.  A busy writing consultant and editor, she also teaches creative writing and screenwriting across the Front Range for community colleges, writers groups, conferences, and one-on-one.  She oversees he Explorati Teen Writers Boot Camp as well as teen writers critique groups for NCW.

During her tenure in Los Angeles, four of Trai’s screenplays were optioned.  She produced three independent films and consulted on thousands of scripts.  She was a studio development executive, spent eight years consulting for HBO, was assistant director of Leonardo DiCaprio's online ventures, worked at a massively multi-player online role-playing game company, and made ringtones for 20th Century Fox.  Countless numbers of her clients have gone on to produce, publish, secure representation and place in the top tiers of writing contests.  Trai is completing her MFA in Fiction and Screenwriting at the University of California Riverside and can be found at www.craftwrite.com.