Clinics

The clinics will meet during the two hour-long workshops each day (for a total of six hours) making it possible for participants also to attend a continuing session.

Your application (see links below) must be received by e-mail no later than April 10. You will be notified whether or not you have been accepted by April 16. Those accepted for one of the clinics must be registered for the entire conference and pay an additional $65 upon acceptance.

Because the clinics will not be taped, we will do our best not to schedule your one-on-one appointments or any paid critiques during this time.

A laptop computer is strongly encouraged to get the most out of the clinic. Not needed for the Joy of Unblocked Creativity.

Beginning Novelist Clinic
with
Jim & Tracie Peterson

Click here for application.

	Jim and Tracie have been married for over 30 years and have spent most of that time involved in some capacity of writing and research. Jim, a historian and avid reader, has worked as an acquisitions editor and researcher for Tracie and other authors. He teaches at a variety of writers' conferences, as time permits, and has a passion for helping new authors. He believes strongly in prayer and often encourages those he meets by praying with them. Tracie is the best-selling author of over 84 books. She was the one time managing editor of Heartsong Presents, but now focuses on her own writing and teaching at writers' conferences and women’s retreats. She was given the Inspirational Career Achievement award from Romantic Times in 2008. Tracie’s passion, like her husband’s, includes helping new authors. Her writing is a ministry for her and her deepest desire is to help people fall more passionately in love with God. Beginning novelists will pinpoint the important basic requirements for writing an incredible story. What makes a great plot? How do we develop fantastic characters? What do setting, dialogue, and pacing have in common? How do we inspire and encourage without sounding preachy or trite? On acceptance you will need to submit a 2 page synopsis of your story and sample chapter to mbagnull@aol.com by April 21. Please send everything in one file as a Word or RTF attachment to an email. You will receive a copy via email of everyone's submission to allow time for you to read the work of the others in your group prior to the conference and thus learn more from Jim and Tracie's comments. This clinic will not include homework during the conference. Limit 10 participants.
			Fiction Intensive Clinic with Robert Liparulo http://www.liparulo.com Click here for application.
	Former journalist Robert Liparulo is the best-selling author of four thrillers for adults (Comes a Horseman, Germ, Deadfall, and Deadlock) and four for young adults (House of Dark Shadows, Watcher in the Woods, Gatekeepers, and Timescape—all part of the Dreamhouse Kings series). Comes a Horseman was a Christy Award finalist. The movie versions of Comes a Horseman, Germ, and Deadfall are currently in various stages of pre-production at major studios, with Bob scripting two of them. He is also working with director Andrew Davis (Fugitive, Guardian) on an original political thriller. He is writing a trilogy of novels, based on "Kill Zone," the short story he contributed to James Patterson’s anthology Thriller. He is also a primary judge for Best Novel of 2008 from the International Thriller Writers. Bob lives in Colorado with his family. Are you ready to get seriously better as a novelist in a very short time? If you want hands-on help with your novel, then Bob's fiction intensive clinic is for you. Limit 6 participants. In addition to completing the application you will need to submit a 500-word synopsis and the first 10 (double-spaced) pages of your novel. Clinic participants will receive a copy via email of everyone's submission by April 24 and must agree to read these pages prior to the conference and be prepared to exchange ideas. During the conference each student will revise those pages according to course feedback and then submit the new pages for a second review. A laptop computer is required.

			Nonfiction Book Proposal Clinic with Cindy Lambert Click here for application.
	Cindy is a 33-year veteran of Christian publishing with rich and diverse leadership experience in retailing, wholesaling, management, editing, and publishing. She is devoted to excellence in furthering the impact of Christian publishing on our global culture. On April 5 she will begin a new position with Zondervan as Executive Editorial Director. Cindy will lead a group of six authors in critiquing one another’s proposals, then spend the conference improving and fine-tuning them. Limit six participants. Prerequisite: Cindy’s earlybird workshop on Wednesday at 4:30.

Sue is a Grammy of eight, a Bible teacher, speaker, and author. She enjoys using her drama skills to minister in her local church and often expresses her love for Jesus in sacred dance. Over the last twenty years, her writing has appeared in various Christian magazines such as Focus on the Family (where she has written on assignment), BRIO, and Breakaway, as well as in secular newspapers and nearly a dozen devotional books. In 2009 she won an EPA award for her fiction. Find her CD, “Praying for My Husband and Marriage,” at www.letspraytoday.com.

Liz is an award-winning author, performer, broadcaster, spiritual director, and creative prayer consultant. She is author of ten nonfiction books and four CDs including the award-winning Into God's Presence (Zondervan 2005). Liz works as a missionary, with many of her books having been written for the general market as well as the Christian market. To further the outreach of her books, Liz also performs her work in concert with musicians, dancers, and other artists and has performed at the Edinburgh Fringe. Liz's new gift book, Celtic Treasure, published last year in the UK and USA, has been written for the cross-over market and her prayer is that readers will uncover the reality of God through their interest in Celtic Spirituality.

As a missionary, Liz also advises the church on how to engage with our spiritual culture and is seen as a key influencer in this area. Her evangelistic ministry is authorized by the Anglican Church in the UK.

Liz is a true Brit and loves tea and chocolate! http://www.lizbabbs.com

Remember when writing was fun? When playing with words was so energizing and satisfying that nothing could keep you away? Want to return to that place? Come and join us as we splash in the joy of being creative. We'll let ourselves run free in the waves of our imaginations and encourage our right brain to come out and play.

Our limited class size will allow us to be highly interactive. Sessions will include scriptural exhortation, open sharing, prayer, and times of personal response designed to feed our spirits and nourish our souls to better equip us to live and write creatively. Expect your writing and how you do it to be forever changed.

Be prepared to offer your all to the Lord and receive His love, healing, and acceptance in UNBLOCKING THE CREATIVE FLOW. Explore and express with paint, clay, drama, free-writing, etc., during PLAY TIME. We’ll examine the concept of being faithful stewards in THE GIFTS HE’S GIVEN. There are many creative ways to PRESENT HIS ANSWER, which we’ll investigate, and then have the opportunity to share our discoveries with others. DEEP IMPACT WRITING will help each of us to discern what the Lord has called us to write and to whom. We’ll end with a new beginning by exploring ways to STAY FRESH in our writing and in our personal connection with the Lord. Limit 12 participants.

If you've longed to rediscover the joy of creativity and felt your heart leap but then plunge because you really can't afford to pay another $65 for the conference, please email mbagnull@aol.com to request a full or partial clinic scholarship. Tell her why you feel God wants you in this clinic and why you need financial help.

You will go out in joy and be led forth in peace;
the mountains and hills will burst into song before you,
and all the trees of the field will clap their hands.
Isaiah 55:12 (NIV)

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