Midwinter Schedule

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Midwinter Writing Festival: February 17, 2011

9:00-9:50

• Running Away from Run-On Sentences  Anna Gajdel     Room C1107
• Writing as Community Action   Michael Berndt &Pat McGowan   Room C1022
• How to Think Like Da Vinci!   Thomas Maltman   Room C3140
• Writing in the Fine Arts    Molly, Skjei, Anne Byrd & Mark Jaros Room C1022
• Minnesota: Land of 10,000 Writers   Lynette Reini-Grandell, Kari Fisher, &Patrick O’Donnell Room C3142
• I’ve some Good News and Some Bad News Kris Bigalk Room C1020 
• 10-Minute Playwriting Layla Dowlatshahi Room A2554

 10:00-10:50

•  Grammar Bloopers   Molly Skjei & Debra Whited Room L1747 
• A Sentence Diagrammed is a Story Excavated   David Pates Room F2264
• How to Cite Sources &Use Quotations Phil Lowry Room C3061
• How Queen Elizabeth I & Her Age Contributed to the Genius of Shakespeare     Patrick O’Donnell C 1020
• Why Writing Matters in the Business World Gretchen Scherer-Luebke +Panel C 3140
• Normandale AFA Alumni & Faculty Reading   Assorted Panel C1022
• The Business of Creation John Reimringer C2018

 11:00-11:50

•  Zombies and Essay Writing Kim Socha S2320 
• Borrowing, Not Stealing: How to Use Sources Eric Mein C1107 
• The Faces of Evil in American Film Michael Bielmeier S1328 
• Creative Brainstorming Kurt Burch C1105 
• Magical Realism for Beginners Melissa Siebke C3145
• Pathways to Publication Alicia Conroy +Panel L1753 
• Normandale’s Creative Writing Degree Kris Bigalk C3148
• Performing Your Poem Matt Mauch C2018

 12:00-12:50

• Small Steps to Great Writing Writing Center Tutors L1780 
• Paragraphs Beyond the Pale Thomas Maltman F2264 
• Making Your Own Journal Cindy Koopman F2250 
• Sherlock Holmes and the Victorian Age Lynette Reini-Grandell C3147
• Writing for a Living Mark Plenke S2336
• Poem Generators Kris Bigalk and Anna Meek C3053
• Creative Writing and the Immigrant Experience Nina Rosenfeld& Kari Fisher C3148

 1:30-2:50

 KEYNOTE ADDRESS: JAMES LEVINE, AUTHOR OF THE BLUE NOTEBOOK  F1265

 3:00-3:50

•  Showing Versus Telling Matt Mauch C2040 
• Summary Versus Analysis Linda Tetzlaff & Kate Anderson C1107
• Battle of the Books Common Book Panel F1265
• Student Writing: Clear Expectations,Great Results Anna Gajdel & Debi Whited C1105
• Haiku and You Richard Brown C2042