WRITE NOW NEWSLETTER - INDIVIDUAL ASSISTANCE
Check Downtown Writers Network for more writing coaches, editors, etc. and submit your information to dgray@downtownwriters.com to be included on his website.
- BELINDA NICOLL
www.myriteofpassage.com
belinda@myriteofpassage.com - PAT SNYDER
balancingact@columbus.rr.com - KYLE MINOR
MailKyleM@aol.com - JENNIFER BOSVELD, writer/publisher
Pudding House Publications
81 Shadymere Lane, Columbus OH 43213
614-986-1881
jen@puddinghouse.com - MARK ALLEN
http://www.markallenediting.com
markallen@copydesk.orgMark has been a newspaper journalist for more than 20 years, reporting, editing and leading special projects and a 180,000-circulation Sunday edition. He now specializes in editing scholarly work and other nonfiction, especially in the fields of higher education and educational policy. Recent projects have included the AQIP Systems Portfolio college accreditation report for a community college, research papers for scholarly publications, and briefings for a school-policy think tank. He also answers questions and posts daily editing tips on Twitter as EditorMark. A collection of those tips is on his Web site.
- AX MARKETING and COMMUNICATIONS
amyeax@columbus.rr.com
614-267-0428Ax Marketing and Communications is available to assist you with your marketing, training and public relations needs. Services include: desktop publishing, special events coordination, tutoring in Word, Excel, PowerPoint and Publisher, typing services.
Amy Ax is also available for speaking engagements.
- Dr. LINDA MERCADANTE
614-848-3455
740-362-3442
lmercadante@mtso.edu - MICHAEL WILSON
wilsonwriter@msn.com - CHRISTINA JOHNSON
spywriter007@yahoo.com - JILL KHOURY
jk8h@telerama.com
614-961-8102 - NITA SWEENEY
nita@nitasweeney.com
As a certified Neuro-Linguistic Programming (NLP) trainer, Belinda divides her time between creativity coaching and writing. She hosts regular creative working groups at her home in Westerville that work more like brainstorming than critiquing (experienced writers working on a large project are welcome to apply).
Belinda is a South African transplant who has recently become an American citizen. She has a BA degree in Communication and in the completion phase of her MFA degree in Creative Writing. She has a memoir about an expatriate couple on the high seas of the global economy ready for publication, and she is currently working on her first novel. Her articles on life coaching have appeared in The Healing Springs Journal, and she has appeared as a guest on the Health Connections show on cable TV (New York). In 2008, she was invited to read from her memoir manuscript at an art symposium in North Carolina on Immigration As A Vital Issue Of Our Times with Susan Buret, a noted Australian collage artist.
As a world traveler with a keen interest in cultural diversity, Belinda brings a strong international perspective to her coaching and writing.
Is life getting in the way of that manuscript you want to start or finish? Life coach/author Pat Snyder is available to give you the needed nudge to get you started and keep you on track.
Pat Snyder is the author of The Dog Ate My Planner: Tales and Tips from an Overbooked Life and for 12 years has written the regular humor column “Balancing Act” (about how life gets in the way of a balanced life) that appears in 22 weekly newspapers. Her work has also appeared in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Grief and Recovery, Cup of Comfort for Christmas, and Living With Loss Magazine. Pat has received training in the Co-Active Coaching Method through the Coaches Training Institute. Reasonable “starving artist” rates apply.
Kyle Minor is available for manuscript consultation and mini-workshops in short fiction, the personal essay, the memoir, and beginning poetry.
Kyle Minor is the author of In the Devil’s Territory, and the co-editor of The Other Chekhov. He has taught at Ohio State, Antioch, and Capital Universities, the University of Toledo, and the Gotham Writers Workshop. His work appears in The Southern Review, Arts & Letters, Twentysomething Essays by Twentysomething Writers, and Best American Mystery Stories 2008. He is at work on a book about a kidnapping in Haiti. Rates high; service extraordinary.
Explore whether your current projects, writing capabilities, and interests are right for support from Jennifer’s diverse expertise in poetry, short essay, broadside, short short story, and/or persuasive writing (especially political). Widely published in all of those forms, Jennifer has mentored hundreds of writers in these areas from all over the U.S. Primarily a poet, Jennifer believes that the poet-self (once developed) informs all other writing and her students and workshop participants come to know this.
Are you working on an important business letter, OAC fellowship submission, chapbook or book manuscript, broadside idea, commemorative or memorial piece? A rap (traditional meaning of the word) or formal approach–Jennifer can assist your effort to sell a perspective, product, proposal, event, political idea, book, rant or rave. Consult Jennifer Bosveld for short-term project support or long-term one-on-one feedback.
Jennifer has been doing this with pop culture wit and passion in the arts and for social justice for over 25 years. Her assistance has supported OAC fellowship recipients, grant recipients, and writers of accepted poetry submissions, book, and chapbook manuscripts.
Jennifer Bosveld has been published in places as diverse as Rosebud, Nebraska Review, Christian Science Monitor, Heaven Bone, and hundreds of literary journals and magazines. Her work appears in textbooks, in Jim Percoco’s Teaching U.S. History in Times of Conflict (Heinneman Press), and in The Sun where a poem was adopted by The Edison Project national teacher training program because it was “the epitome of our program.” She has presented at The Rock & Roll Hall of Fame, The Salt Palace, Cafe May Toronto, The Poetry Therapy Foundation (Washington D.C.), Sir William Shakespeare’s (Greenwich Village), The Institute for Arts in Psychotherapy (NYC), scores of writers’ conventions and conferences, and she has received the Pioneer Award from the National Association for Poetry Therapy where she is considered a “muse” with Sharon Olds, Rafael Campo, Edward Hirsch, Jane Hirshfield, Linda Pastan.
Jennifer received an Ohio Arts Council Individual Artist Fellowship in Poetry, A Columbus Dispatch Community Service Award, 3 Pushcart Nominations, and awards from literary magazines. Hourly fee based on individual needs and project. VISA/MC, cash, checks. 614-986-1881.
Dr. Mercadante enjoys helping writers. An experienced teacher, successful grant-writer, and much published author, she is available to coach writers into realizing their potential. Whether you need help writing your memoirs, honing your style, or finding a grant to enable your work, Dr. Mercadante is available to coach you through the process.
She is available for editing, grant-writing support, and using writing to find vocational and spiritual guidance. Called “The Grant Queen” by a national professional association of academics, Dr. Mercadante teaches the secrets of finding and applying for grants. As a spiritual mentor, she also works with writers to redeem their memories. She describes her program, called “Writing Your Spiritual Autobiography” this way:
“Each of us has a spiritual place inside that is worth exploring, whether or not we are explicitly religious. This place is the inner landscape of your life story. Let me help you chart this inner terrain. Writing exercises unlock key experiences and metaphors that have shaped your life. Through this, you will gain new understanding, direction and legacy for yourself, your family, and your friends, and perhaps the wider world as well.”
Dr. Mercadante is Professor of Theology at the Methodist Theological School in Ohio and an ordained minister. She has over 20 years teaching experience and spiritual leadership, as well as several decades as a professional writer and editor. A former journalist, she has published three books, numerous articles, and speaks internationally on a variety of topics, including personal narrative, addiction, film and culture. Her latest book is Victims and Sinners: Spiritual Roots of Addiction and Recovery.
Michael Wilson helps and advises writers at any stage of the writing process from finding writing ideas to publication. He has taught writing workshops and facilitated writing groups for a number of different writing interests, but his true love is fiction writing. Michael is available for individual coaching, workshops and facilitating writer’s groups.
Michael Wilson has been teaching creative writing classes and facilitating writer’s groups for over 7 years and was an award-winning Contributing Editor for The Writer’s Block at Suite 101.com. He has a BA (with Honors) in English from Ohio University, and has been a featured guest speaker at the Thurber House, the Maumee Valley Writer’s Conference and the Columbus Writer’s Conference. He is also the publisher and editor of Grist for the Muse a monthly creative writing newsletter. His first book: Flash Writing: How to Write, Revise and Publish Stories Under 1000 Words Long, is now available! Buy it here!
Grist for the Muse Is your FREE monthly creative writing newsletter designed to get you writing and keep you writing. With writing exercises, advice, book and website reviews, and occasional shameless self-promotion, Grist for the Muse helps you maximize your writing potential. Sign up on the web at: http://www.topica.com/lists/Grist_for_the_Muse or by email by sending a BLANK email to: Grist_for_the_Muse-subscribe@topica.com OR If you do not want to join Topica, send email to wilsonwriter@msn.com requesting a subscription
American poet Christina L. Johnson grew up on a small farm in Ohio and is a graduate of The Ohio State University. Since 1990, her poetry has appeared over two hundred times in over eighty journals throughout the world.
Some of the magazines that have published her poetry include: The Old Hickory Review, Mobius, Feelings, Omnific, Prophetic Voices, Parnassus Literary Journal, Poetry Forum, The South Ash Press, Mostly Maine, The Plowman (Canada), Nite Writer’s International, Moose Bound Press, The Poetry Motel, The Piedmont Literary Review, Splizz (United Kingdom), Scars And Bruises (United Kingdom), Nanny Fanny, Tale Spinners (Canada), Footprints, Northern Stars Magazine, Zine Zone (United Kingdom), Tree Spirit (United Kingdom), Emotions, Peaky Hide, Fire (United Kingdom), Challenger International (Canada), The Synergyst, Phoenix, and The Live Poets (South Africa).
In addition to being a poet and freelance writer, Ms. Johnson is assistant acquisitions editor for Umsinsi Book Publishing of South Africa and co-editor of the South African literary journal, Planet Poetry. She is a workshop facilitator and writing coach and also a columnist for The NZ Writer (New Zealand), The Write Life (United States and Singapore) and The Author Network (United Kingdom).
Ms. Johnson’s poetry collection, Before the 21st (Selected Poems 1990-1999), is published and distributed by Ginninderra Press of Canberra, Australia. You may purchase this book which includes enrollment in an on-line poetry workshop at her website: http://www.geocities.com/spywriter007
Jill Khoury lives in Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania. She graduated from The Ohio State University’s Masters of Fine Arts Program in June 2005 with a specialization in poetry. While at Ohio State, she taught beginning composition, intermediate composition, computer mediated composition, and beginning poetry workshop. Her current projects include being a long-distance “e-mentor” for Columbus, Ohio high school students studying creative nonfiction.
[Nita is not currently accepting new clients.]
Nita helps writers become more prolific, find their authentic material, break writer’s block and make time to write. She works with writers at any stage of the writing and publishing process. Nita is available for individual assistance, workshops and speaking engagements. She does not give legal advice because she has forgotten all the answers.
Nita has written professionally since 1985. She received a degree in Magazine Feature Writing and a Certificate in Women’s Studies summa cum laude from Ohio University’s E.W. Scripps School of Journalism. She received a law degree from The Ohio State University and a Master of Fine Arts degree in creative writing from Goddard College. After retiring from ten years of legal practice, Nita began studying extensively with best-selling author Natalie Goldberg. Nita has attended more than 20 of Goldberg’s week-long workshops and retreats, worked individually with Goldberg, and taught with Goldberg at the workshops. Nita has also practiced meditation since 1991 and brings the spirit of mindfulness to her teaching. She has published essays, magazine and newspaper articles, poetry, edited a prior newsletter, and has contributed to several books. Nita is the editor of Write (Now) Newsletter.
