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OCWW Writers' Workshop Presents: Beatriz Badikian-Gartler - "Writing Scenes"

Beatriz Badikian-Gartler's Workshop will highlight
drafting the scene as the fundamental building block of any creative writing,
whether fiction or nonfiction. Readers like to read scenes where something
happens, scenes that move the action forward and may include dialogue that
brings characters to life. Yet, writing scenes continues to be a struggle for
many writers. In this program we will learn what a scene is and is not, and how
to recognize and write scenes.


Beatriz Badikian-Gartler was born in Buenos Aires, Argentina and has lived in the Chicago area for more than 40 years. She holds a PhD in English from the University of Illinois at Chicago and has taught at various institutions of higher learning, including Northwestern, Loyola, and Roosevelt Universities. Her essays, poems and stories have been published in numerous journals, anthologies and newspapers in the United States and abroad. She is an Illinois Humanities Council Road Scholar and frequent Newberry Library instructor.



Her second full-length collection, Mapmaker Revisited: New and Selected Poems, was published in 1999 from Gladsome Books in Chicago. Her first novel, Old Gloves—a 20th Century Saga, was published in 2005 by Fractal Edge Press in Chicago. See Beatriz's website at: bbgartler.com and visit her blog at Gartler Writing Studio.

OCWW meets Thursdays, 9:30 - Noon, at the Winnetka
Community House, 620 Lincoln Ave., Winnetka, from September to May each year.
You don't have to be a member to attend, but members receive great session
discounts and may participate in manuscript critiques by presenters, and in
dynamic critique groups during the year. Session fee is $15 per week. Website -ocww.bizland.com - for further information, or
847-951-0429.







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