Contact
Mary Angela BakerSalisbury University Center for Extended & Lifelong Learning
410-543-6089
cell@salisbury.edu
SU at the Beach! Writing Classes
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Writing Your Memoir: From Draft to Craft with Emily Rich
Thursdays 9 - 10:30 am
Sept. 13 - Oct. 18 (Session 1)
$60 per six-week session. Ocean Pines Community Center.
Join us for a Lighthouse Literary Guild six-week writing course offered by Emily Rich, Executive Editor of The Delmarva Review. Having a great story is just the first step to writing a compelling piece of memoir. In this class, we will explore what takes a piece of personal writing “from draft to craft,” looking at elements such as character development,incorporating sensory detail, and writing in scenes. We will focus on the importance of taking a story that’s true and connecting it, as Cheryl Strayed says, “to the greater, grander truth.” In addition to workshopping each others’ writing, participants will read essays on craft and sample works of successful memoirists. When the course is over, participants will come away with an appreciation of what makes a piece of memoir stand out and appeal to an audience beyond themselves.
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Emily Rich is the Editor of Delmarva Review. She writes mainly memoir and essay. Her work has been published in a number of small presses including Little Patuxent Review, r.kv.ry, Delmarva Review the Pinch and Hippocampus. Her essays have been listed as notables in Best American Essays 2014 and 2015. Her story "Black Market Pall Malls" won the Biostories 2015 War and Peace essay contest.
Write it Right with Susan Canfora 
Saturdays, 9 - 10:30 am
September 15 - October 20
$60 per six-week session. Ocean Pines Community Center.
The written word – whether it is in emails, business proposals, or executive summaries – is the most powerful communication tool we utilize. Clear, concise writing is essential in conveying a message, persuading a point of view or presenting an idea. Jobs can be lost even before they are considered because of poor grammar, punctuation and sentence structure. In the interactive class we will review the basics that are the foundations of effective writing, writing drills using prompts, and critique well-known writers. There will be discussion of what interests readers and how to write in an engaging manner that will maintain their interest. This class is for those who want to take their writing to the next level of professionalism.
Susan Canfora is a news reporter for the Salisbury Independent. An adjunct professor in SU’s Communication Arts Department, she has taught journalism, writing, grammar and related courses at SU since 1998. She's also an adjunct at Wor-Wic Community College.
Submitting Written Pieces Online with Tara Elliot
Thursdays, 4 - 5:30 pm
Nov. 1 - 15
$30 per three-week session. Ocean Pines Community Center.
Publishing... does the word both excite and frighten you? Interested in submitting your poetry, short stories, and creative non-fiction to magazines and journals, but not quite sure how?
Bring your laptop or tablet, a digital submission-ready piece of writing (poets, please bring 3-5 poems), and join Tara Elliott as she answers your questions about the process, and teaches how submit in today's online market. What exactly is a simultaneous submission? What are First Serial Rights? Where do I find places to publish? How long do I have to wait? How do I keep track of my submissions? How do I fit all of this into my busy schedule? Find out the answers to all these questions and more! Participants will actually submit work during this hands-on class!
Tara A. Elliott’s poems have appeared in The Mom-Egg Review, The TAOS Journal of International Poetry & Art, Wildness Journal, Triggerfish Critical Review, and The American Journal of Poetry, among others. As the founder and director of Salisbury, Maryland’s Poetry Week, her community outreach includes her service as board member of the Eastern Shore Writers' Association, facilitator for Salisbury University's Lighthouse Literary Guild, and co-chairmanship of the 2019 Bay to Ocean Writers' Conference. As the recipient of Salisbury Middle School's Teacher of the Year, the Wicomico County Public Library's Light of Literacy Award and the Maryland Humanities' Christine D. Sarbanes Teacher of the Year Award, she has been recognized for her outstanding contributions to education.