Southern Ohio Writers' Group to host seminar at the Pump House
CHILLICOTHE― Have you ever wanted to write a book or short story? Have you already written a book but the publishing side of things got confusing? Either way the Southern Ohio Writers' Group can help you.
The Southern Ohio Writer’s Group was started in 2014 and has been meeting at the Pump House for several years. Together they help provide supportive, positive critiques for manuscripts of any genre as well as poetry. They also help curious readers find new authors that may interest them. The group has published five anthologies of their essays, poems and short stories.
The group will be holding a free writing seminar on Nov. 5 from 8:30 a.m. to 3 p.m. at the Pump House Center for the Arts in Yoctangee Park. The seminar will focus on traditional publishing versus self-publishing, writing graphic novels and comics, effective dialogue, world-building, character development and plotting versus ‘pantsing’ While this event is free to attend attendance is limited to 50 people.
During lunch participants will be able to take part in a question and answer session with local author Donald Ray Pollock. Pollock is best known for his novel "Devil all the Time" which was later made into a Netflix film starring Tom Holland and Robert Pattinson. Participants are asked to bring their own lunch, bottled water will be provided.
Other authors will be teaching throughout the day. These authors include Deb Gaskill author of the "Fracktown Gumshoe" series, Laura Pinnix author of "Perfect Ten "and "Sometime After Midnight", Chad Strohl creator of comics and graphic novels and Lynn Carden author of "The Women of Robertson Place".
To reserve a spot and get tickets for the seminar visit the Southern Ohio Writers' Group website. For more information contact Debra Gaskill at dgaskill@woh.rr.com
This article originally appeared on Chillicothe Gazette: Southern Ohio Writers' Group to host seminar at the Pump House
