Tanner on Technology, Tonight at Ukazoo

Technology, and its unending demand for our attention, may seem a black hole that threatens to suck up all of our time and energy. But technology can be an ally in our efforts to reach readers and other writers. What should a writer know about technology?

Ron Tanner, who knew nothing about technology 7 years ago and now runs his own online media company (wordrocketmedia.com), will share his insights and experience as a writer who struggled to learn and adapt to the demands of technology in the 21st century.

Ron Tanner's awards for writing include a Faulkner Society gold medal, a Pushcart Prize, a New Letters Award, a Best of the Web Award, and many others. He has won fellowships from the Copernicus Society, Sewanee Writers Conference, and the National Park Service, to name a few, and his stories and essays have appeared in dozens of literary magazines, including The Iowa Review, West Branch, and the Massachusetts Review. He is the author of A Bed of Nails (stories), Kiss Me Stranger (illustrated novel), and From Animal House to Our House: A Love Story (memoir). He teaches writing at Loyola University, and directs the Marshall Islands Story Project (mistories.org).

Directions to Ukazoo Books: To reach Ukazoo Books by car, take I-695 (Baltimore Beltway) toward Towson. Take exit 27A for Dulaney Valley Rd/MD-146 S toward Towson. Dulaney Plaza will be on your right after approximately half a mile.

The event is free for Maryland Writers Association members or first time attendees, or $5 for the general public.

Learn more at www.MarylandWriters.org.

Anthologies or Individual Books?

This Thursday, for some, Sunrise will be in the evening. That’s because the Maryland Writers’ Association will present a panel discussion and reading to residents of Sunrise of Columbia. The event takes place from 7 to 9 p.m. at Sunrise of Columbia, 6500 Freetown Road, Columbia, MD.

Five poets published in the anthology Life in Me like Grass on Fire who have also had their own books published will participate (myself included). We will read from our work, and discuss the differences between having your own book published and having your work published in an anthology with other authors.

Learn more at the Maryland Writers Association website.
http://marylandwriters.org/meetings.html

Learn more about this and other events on the Tracks book tour at http://www.tracksnovel.com/appearances.html.