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SOUL BETWEEN THE LINES – Workshop #1
How To Write With Passion & Power
Tuesdays,  October 3 – November 14
  6:30 PM – 9:00 PM  
$250.00
FREE Soul Between The Lines Workbook (value $20.00)
FREE Half Hour, One-on-One Coaching Session (value $35.00)
Chocolate & Snacks Served at Every Session

Write What You Want, When You Want

Explore the Depths of Your Creative Spirit

Make Memoirs With Music & Meditation

Savor Sensational Stimulating Exercises

Ignite Your Ideas & Set Your Words On Fire

Break Through Writer’s Block Forever

Spirit, Visualization & Imagination

Enjoy Our Safe, No-Judgment Environment

Discover Unlimited Inspiration, Imagination & Insight

SOUL BETWEEN THE LINES – Workshop #2
 Write Your Book Now!!!

Saturdays, October 7 – November 11
9:30 AM – 12:30 PM  (Oct 7 only 2:00 – 5:00 PM) 
$250.00
Intimate, Intensive Sessions for Book Project Development

Limited Number of Participants
FREE Soul Between The Lines Workbook (value $20.00)
FREE Half Hour, One-on-One Coaching Session (value $35.00)
Coffee & Continental Breakfast Served at Every Session
How To Get Publication Power
Self-Publishing vs Traditional Publishing – What’s Best For You?
Take Your Work From Imagination To Realization
Begin With A Bang
Make Your Writing Unforgettable
Marketing Magic & Promotion Pizzazz
Agents, Answers & Aspirations
Individual and Group Feedback
Handouts, Worksheets, Weekly Assignments & More

Payment Plans Available. Register NOW for these exciting workshops.
Exact Silverlake/Echo Park location will be given to registered participants.
Please make checks payable to:
Heartland Institute for Transformation,

1555 N. Vermont Avenue, Suite 189, Los Angeles, CA 90027

  For further info call 323.661.3623 or email DRGheartland@aol.com

Dorothy Randall Gray is author of six books, including the best-seller Soul Between The Lines:Freeing Your Creative Spirit Through Writing  (Avon/HarperCollins). She is a board member of the International Women’s Writing Guild, a nationally acclaimed motivational  speaker and certified life coach.Her writing and personal development seminars have helped to inspire and transform thousands throughout the United States and abroad. 

Come see the new lesbian love triangle everyone’s talking about, The Engagement: A Snatch of Life in Three Acts. Performances run next weekend: September 22-24. Tickets $15-$22. 
Order your tickets in advance online. Priority seating for ticket holders. For information, click: www.snatchoflife.com

“The Engagement is a love story that explores the dynamics of female relationships—siblings, friends and lovers. It is a modern play that tackles many of the issues our society is struggling with including gay marriage and gay rights. It also addresses themes that are taboo even to the lesbian community—female on female abuse. The Engagement has something for everyone, regardless of your race, marital status, gender, or sexual orientation. It isn’t about driving a partition between people; it’s about forming a bridge between communities.” –Carolyn M. Brown and Denise E. Womack, Playwrights 

Do you know what today is?  It’s our anniversary. 🙂  Kuma is 8 years old today.  So to celebrate, we’re going to give you a little extra:

• 30 Poems and 7 Stories

Of course, you can help us celebrate by throwing a coin or two our way.

• Support Kuma

Even better, submit your own poetry / stories / essays / etc.

• Submission Guidelines

Tongues Afire: Creative Writing Workshop for Queer Women, Trans Women and Gender Non Conforming People of Color*
October 5, 2006 – December 14, 2006
Workshop Facilitator: R. Erica Doyle
What: Creative Writing Workshops
When: Thursdays, 6:30 pm – 8:30 pm
Where: Audre Lorde Project, 85 South Oxford Street; Brooklyn, NY 11217**

How much: FREE

How to Apply: Send an email with your contact information to
tonguesafire@gmail.com or call 347.451.0077 to register for the workshop. Space is limited and available on a first-come, first-served basis. Registration Deadline: Monday, October 2, 2006

Always want to write, but never seem to find the time? Looking for a supportive space to develop new work? These workshops, led by writer-teacher-performer R. Erica Doyle, are for writers of all levels, and will incorporate readings along with in–class workshop exercises in literary memoir, poetry, and short fiction. Participating writers will develop methods of constructive critique and strategies for incorporating writing in their everyday lives. Information on publication, funding, and reading opportunities will be shared. The workshop will culminate in a public reading at the Audre Lorde Project.

R. Erica Doyle is a writer of Trinidadian descent who lives in New York City. Her work has appeared in numerous journals and anthologies, including Best American Poetry, Ploughshares, Callaloo, Bum Rush the Page, and Ms. Magazine. She has performed her work at the Nuyorican Poets Café, Kennedy Center, Public Theater, St Mark’s Poetry Project, Bar 13, Bowery Poetry Club, and the Calabash Literary Festival in Jamaica. She has taught creative writing workshops at the 14th Street Y, the Brooklyn Public Library, Union Settlement, Sisterspace and Books, and in the New York City public schools. She is the recipient of awards and fellowships from the Hurston/Wright and Astraea Foundations and the New York Foundation for the Arts. She is a fellow of Cave Canem, a workshop and retreat for African-American poets.

* Anyone who identifies as a woman of color is welcome, including people of color who self-identify as women, dykes, bois, trans, butch lesbians, drag queens, bi-gendered, two-spirited, drag kings, femme queens, A.G.s, genderqueer, non-gendered, andro, crossdressers, gender-benders, gender fluid as well as other identities of peoples who face gender oppression because of their non-conventional gender expression.

** Directions: C train to Lafayette Avenue; G train to Fulton Street;2, 3, 4, 5, B, Q, D, M, N, R to Atlantic Avenue/Pacific Street)

Tongues Afire is made possible by support from the Puffin Foundation.
This event is funded in part by Poets and Writers, Inc.