Writers, Rejoice!
Pima County Public Library’s popular Writer-in-Residence Program returns on February 5th when Susan Cummins Miller, author of the fast-paced and edgy Frankie MacFarlane mystery series, begins her residency at the Kirk-Bear Canyon Library.
The Writer-in-Residence program offers encouragement, direction and feedback to local authors, and provides opportunities for them to enhance their skills no matter where they find themselves on the path to publication.
In addition to being available for half-hour, one-one-one consultations, Miller, a noted writing instructor, will offer a series of presentation/workshops to help writers get their projects off the ground and see them through to the final rewrite. Topics and tools presented in the workshops may be applied to fiction, nonfiction or poetry, says Miller, and can be utilized by writers of high-school age and above.
Getting Started on Your Writing Project: An Introduction to Clustering as a Tool
Sunday, February 11, 1-3 pm, Kirk-Bear Canyon Library
The Four-Dimensional Setting: Anchoring Your Writing in Time and Place
Saturday, 10-11 am, Tucson Festival of Books, University of Arizona Integrated Learning Center Room 137
The Importance of Dr. Watson: Sidekicks & Storytelling
Sunday, March 25, 1-2 pm, Kirk-Bear Canyon Library
The Art 0f the Rewrite
Saturday, April 28, 1-3 pm, Kirk-Bear Canyon Library
Miller, who holds degrees in history, anthropology and geology, has been honored by several literary organizations including Women Writing the West, the New Mexico-Arizona Book Awards, the Society of Southwestern Authors, and Southwest Books of the Year. A Research Affiliate of the University of Arizona’s Southwest Institute for Research on Women, she is also editor of A Sweet, Separate Intimacy: Women Writers of the American Frontier, 1800-1922, a finalist for the Longan Award for nonfiction.
The Writer-in-Residence will be available for consultations most Mondays and Wednesdays from 10 am until noon. Drop-ins for one-on-one conferences will be accommodated as availability permits, but appointments are stsrongly recommended and can be made by calling the Kirk-Bear Canyon Library.
All workshops are free, and open to the public. The Writer-in-Resident Program was made possible by the Arizona State Library, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.
