After a meeting last week complete with beer, baseball and stogies (and a little bit of COWC planning on the side), J.D. and I set some deadlines and we are looking forward to kicking things off. How better to initiate a community/group endeavor like this than with a good, old-fashioned party, right?
The COWC Kick off Party has been scheduled for July 13th! There are a couple of reasons we are waiting until then. One, I am getting married in June, and I can't guarantee I'll have much time for COWC matters until after my honeymoon. Two, we want knowledge of and interest in the COWC to filter out into the community a bit so that we can actually expect one or two people to show up for the party.
That said, you need not wait very long at all to start interacting with COWC online. We will begin collecting submissions for our first Online Public Review event starting May 13th 2008. Also, J.D. and I will begin posting selections of our own work to the blog for public review in the next couple of days. Feel free to leave us your constructive criticism. We will appreciate it. Aside from that, we will be advertising for Central Ohio Writers Collective as best we can starting this week. So help us spread the word! Foreward our blog link (http://centralohiowriterscollective.blogspot.com/) to anyone you think may be interested in us. Thanks!
UPCOMING ONLINE EVENTS
J.D. & Brad's Public Review
Ongoing
We, your venerable Central Ohio Writers Collective Co-founders/Administrators, J.D. and Brad, will put our own work on display in the COWC blog for public review and commentary. Our goal here is to receive insightful, constructive criticism and/or appreciation from the general public that can inform our work and help us improve and develop as individual writers.
Online Public Review
May 13th
This is will be a regular, monthly COWC online event. Writers are encouraged to submit poetry and short works (realistically readable in blog post form) to us at centralohiowriterscollective@gmail.com in the form of .doc, .rtf, or .txt files starting on the date listed above. We will then consider each submission and post to the COWC blog every submission that is not obviously spam, hateful, rife with grammar and spelling errors etc. No editing of submission content will be made, but it will be necessary for us to altar formatting in order for submitted works to post to the COWC blog successfully. When submitted works are published to the blog, the general public is thereby invited to comment on these works in the form of constructive criticism and/or appreciation. We will monitor this process to ensure that any internet riff raff, so to speak, is excluded/removed from commentary threads and that only well-intentioned, honest criticism and/or appreciation of works is posted. Online Invited Review
July 13th
This is will be a regular, monthly COWC online event. Respectable Teachers, Schollars, Writers etc from the Central Ohio community will be invited to read and review/critique selected works by Central Ohio writers. Writers interested in this event are encouraged to submit works of any length and in any style/genre to us via email attachment at centralohiowriterscollective@gmail.com in the form of .doc, .rtf, or .txt files starting on the date listed above. Be sure to indicate that the submission is for Invited Review in your subject heading. These submissions and reviews will not be posted to the COWC blog. All reviews/critiques of selected works by our guest reviewers will be forwarded directly to the authors of those works and read by noone else without explicit permission. COWC will act as an intermediary for delivery of submissions and reviews between parties to ensure the privacy of our guest reviewers. PUBLIC EVENTS
The COWC Kick Off Party!
July 13th, 7pm-11pm
Location: Barley's Pub Downtown (Arena Dist. by North Market)
Come prepared to mingle, eat, drink, discuss literature, writing, and upcoming COWC initiatives and events. Meet Brad and J.D. (COWC co-founders) as well as other people like you in Central Ohio who wish to collaborate and communicate in the interest of enriching and improving themselves as writers. This will be the first official public meeting of the Central Ohio Writers Collective. As always, all are welcome to participate in the COWC regardless of publication history, genre interests and so on. Refer to the COWC Blog Post #1 for detailed information about the COWC and our goals as a community resource for writers.
IDEAS FOR PUBLIC EVENTS
Book Groups
Read Arounds / Staged Readings
Open Mic Poetry
Group Attendance of Local Book and Writing-Related Events
Workshops
*Please, leave comments with ideas for public events you might enjoy as a member of the COWC community.
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