The Write Tools

Are you using the best tools for your writing? Join Catherine Stephens and Rita Mae Reese in a discussion of software, online writing communities, and favorite resources. We will provide an overview of Scrivener (an affordable word processing progam created by writers for writers), VirtuALL (ArtLitLab's online writing community), and share favorite resources for writers. After this talk, editor and novelist Michelle Wildgen will lead a discussion on thriving through rejection. There will be time for questions and sharing.

In October, the instructors will lead a hands-on workshop on Scrivener at the Madison Central Public Library. Check back for more details.

This is part of the DRAW: Developing Resiliency in Artists + Writers series made possible with funding from the Madison Arts Commission.

Rita Mae Reese

Rita Mae Reese is a recipient of a Rona Jaffe Foundation Writers’ Award, a Stegner fellowship in fiction, a “Discovery”/The Nation award, and a Pamaunok Poetry Prize, among other awards. An animated video from the title poem of her first book, The Alphabet Conspiracy, was showcased at the Association of Independent Commercial Producers Midwest Trade Show. Her second book, The Book of Hulga, was selected by Denise Duhamel for the Felix Pollak Prize in 2016. She designs Lesbian Poet Trading Cards for Headmistress Press, is a member of the bluegrass band Coulee Creek, and serves as Co-Director of Arts & Literature Laboratory.

Catherine Stephens

Catherine Stephens is a musician, and she provides support for teaching and learning, and instructional design. She holds a M.A. in Education and is a community arts advocate. She has worked with the Goodman Community Center, UW-Madison in the School of Education, and Edgewood College. Catherine advocates for access to the arts, and serves on the Arts + Literature Laboratory Literary Arts Team. She teaches piano lessons privately and with Music con Brio after school program, and she helps coordinate art events for the Goodman Community Center After School program. She sings with the Wisconsin Chamber Choir and the ARTemis Women's Choir at Madison’s LunArt festival.

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Arts + Literature Laboratory is located at 111 S. Livingston Street #100, Madison, Wisconsin, 53703.

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The Write Tools

Rita Mae Reese

Catherine Stephens

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