On this Thursday, Sept. 20, the Sinclair English department is holding their 45th annual writer’s workshop in building 7, room 006ABC.
The event will begin with a keynote speaker, a lunch and three breakout sessions with featured writers. It is free to attend for Sinclair students and staff members, as well as the general public.
Those who attend the event can expect to learn insights from writing experts that will help them in their journey to become better writers. One of the sessions will focus on the process and challenges of self publishing.
The keynote speaker is Trudy Krisher, a former associate professor in the English department at Sinclair who has been a professional writer for nearly 40 years.
In her career she has been a book columnist, photoessayist and a magazine feature writer. She’s also authored novels, picture books and a scholarly biography.
Krisher has won many awards for her work including the International Reading Association Award, American Library Association Awards and the Jefferson Cup Honor Book for Historical Fiction, among others.
The first breakout session presenter is April Wilson, a writer who creates romance stories focusing on unconventional relationships between alpha protectors who fall in love. Her main sequence of novels is called the “McIntyre Security Bodyguard” series.
The second presenter is Joyce Barnes, an associate professor of English at Sinclair. She has taught writing and literature courses for over 25 years at colleges and universities in Baltimore, Atlanta, Columbus and Dayton.
Barnes is a published novelist and an award winning playwright. She owns her own theatrical group in Dayton called the Youth and Community Theater. Her most recent production was of her play “One Sunday in Birmingham” at the Columbus Black Theater Festival in 2018.
The final presenter is Charles Freeland, a poet who is a professor of English at Sinclair Community College. He has won the Individual Excellence Award in Poetry twice from the Ohio Arts Council.
Several hundreds of his poems have been published in national and international literary journals including the Iowa Review, the Carolina Quarterly and Otoliths, among others.
He’s written fourteen books of poetry, with his newest one coming out in December.
The event goes from 11 a.m. to 5:15 p.m. and ends with a closing ceremony where an attendee can win a prize; a book from one of the presenters.
Staff in the English department encourage all to attend to hone their skills and become better professional writers in the future.
Henry Wolski
Executive Editor