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 Veteran Writers Conference
October 26 & 27, 2019 
Special Events Center -
Austin Central Library
710 W. Cesar Chavez, Austin TX 78701

For details and registration visit Art Spark Texas.

Saturday, October 26, 2019

• 9:00 am - 5:00 pm

  • 9AM - Jack Woodville London: Director of Writing Education for the Military Writers Society of America

  • 10:30AM - Daniel Garcia Ordaz: aka The Poet Mariachi

  • 11:30 - 1 PM Texas Folklife: [LIVE] Recording Veteran’s stories

  • 1 PM - Matt Cook: screenwriter, director and producer

  • 3 PM - John M Meyer & Karen Alvardo: co-Artistic Directors of Thinkery and Verse

Sunday, October 27, 2019

• 10:00 am – 12:00 pm

  • Creativity workshop by Daniel García Ordaz

• 2:00 -4:00 pm: Screening and Panel Discussion

  • The Long Road Home, National Geographic (Episodes 1 & 2)

    Filmed on location at Ft. Hood, under the expert guidance of soldiers were served in Iraq, and the Battle for Sadr City.

    Guest Moderator: Katherine Willis, cast member of The Long Road Home

    Panelists: Mikko Alanne, Executive Producer; Melissa Wylie, Line Producer, Aaron Fowler and Eric Bourquin, Iraq Veteran Advisors.

    Thank you to National Geographic, Texas Film Commission, Austin Film Festival, Reeve Foundation,Texas Commission on the Arts, and National Endowment on the Arts for helping make this conference possible.

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    For more information about Art Spark Texas visit Veteran Services

ADDITIONAL WORKSHOP FOR WRITERS

Monday, October 28, 2019
9:00 am – 3:00 pm

Austin Central Library
710 West Cesar Chavez Street
Austin, TX
For details and registration visit Art Spark Texas.

• A Nine-to-Three Writing Workshop for Veterans and Family Members

  • Led by Jack London, Bob Doerr and Valerie Ormand - instructors from the Military Writers Society of America

  • In this writing workshop we will focus on the things that all of us need help with - organizing the non-fiction and fiction book, story arcs, conflicts, characters and dialogue, and memoirs - the things we want to write.

  • I’m Jack London, the Director of Writing Education for the Military Writers Society of America. Not only are all our workshop faculty veterans but we also are veterans who have won awards for our writing, veterans helping veterans and writers helping writers. We do not charge for the workshop. Our reward is the best reward of all: the satisfaction from giving back with our talents to help you with yours.
    

    For more information: info@artsparktx.org