Event - Writing All-Day Seminar: Going Freelance
Date: 10/18/2008 ?Starts: 8:30 AM - Ends: 5:00 PM
Johns Hopkins University Master of Arts in Writing Program and American Independent Writers Present
Going Freelance: An All-Day Seminar
Sautrday, October 18, 2008, 8:30a.m - 5:00p.m.
Featured Panels:
Freelance Fundamentals - Expert and experienced advice on rate-setting, accounting, record-keeping, legal issues, tax basics, and other nuts and bolts of successful freelancing.
Finding Work in Commercial Writing - Some of the most lucrative feelancing in the Washington-Baltimore area involved annual reports, media releases, marketing materials, and other writing-for-hire work. this session describes how to network and find the opportunities.
It's Time to Publish - Learn about venues that publish creative writing. Hear tips on Targeting your work and writing query and cover letters.
Blogging and Your Writing Career - Examine how blog writing differs from other types of writing, how to make money from a blog, and how to use a blog as a pathway to more prestigious writing work.
THIS EVENT IS FREE TO JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY WRITING PROGRAM STUDENTS
Location: Johns Hopkins University?Washington DC Center (Bernstein-Offit Building)?Lower Level Conference Hall?1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW, (directions and map)?Washington, DC 20036

Event - Writing Faculty Reading and Reception
Date: 10/24/2008 ?Starts: 6:15 PM
The MA in Writing program presents a Faculty Reading and Reception.
Readers include Tim Wendel, whose historical novel, Red Rain, will be released this fall; Cathy Alter, author of Up For Renewal: What Magazines Taught Me About Love, Sex and Starting Over; and poet Elizabeth Cooper. Reception begins at 6;15, followed by a 8 p.m. reading
Location: Johns Hopkins University?Washington DC Center?,1717 Massachusetts Ave. NW?Washington, DC 20036?Red Line metro to Dupont Circle. ?Exit on south metro exit and walk east on Massachusetts Ave. for one and a half blocks.