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Who am I?
Memoir Writing in 6 Easy Steps by Sue Roupp $15
​Amazon https://amzn.to/2Lg2v1B

Teaching methods.Information about topic. Quick writing prompts. Read. Remember. Chat about what works. Quick homework.
University of Chicago/working with an esteemed writing teacher  then classes with Billy Collins former US poet laureate), Chris Vogler (The Writer's Journey), Donald Maas (Writing the Breakout Novel)and many others as well researching multitude of other books on writing.

University of Chicago/Chicago, IL

• worked with acclaimed U. of Chicago writer Molly Daniels for four years/academic/private classes
• screenplay writing/Laurie Scheer/Viacom
• three years of poetry classes
• University of Wisconsin
• Attended Writers Institute since 1990. This is a  yearly conference- countless workshops with Christine Desmet (screenplays/fiction), Laurel Yourke (poetry, including a year for credit with Laurel), Linda Seeger (script consultant) 2 day workshop; Donald Maas (NY agent)on writing fiction 2 day workshop; and more authors/agents/ marketing professionals than can be listed.

Maui Writers Conference/Maui, Hawaii

• Chris Vogler workshop/author of The Writer's Journey
• Richard Walter/UCLA co-director screenwriting and many more author workshops

Geraldine Dodge Poetry Festival - biennial

• Classes with Billy Collins; attended many lectures - a few names: Andrew Motion (UK Poet Laureate); Mark Strand, Sharon Olds and more.

Actor from Piven Theater Workshop/Evanston, IL
​ Jimmy Carrane/Chicago, IL

• improv classes/Second City teacher

Certified Professional Speaker

• Graduate/certificated from National Speakers Assoc.-IL (NSA) year long classes held at U. of IL in their Speakers U. on becoming professional national speaker.

Guest Editor/East on Central/national poetry/fiction magazine
highland parkpoetry.org/poetry judge
Published

• Free Verse (poetry)
• Chicago Tribune "European-like Vacations"
• East on Central
• highlandparkpoetry.org
• Creativity Connection literary magazine

        (UW-Madison)columns/articles

• Writer Magazine
• and more...

AWARDS

• UW MADISON: poetry, first, second and honorable mention; then first place in successive years 

Experience

 Teaching

• Teach ongoing weekly 3 hour/five week classes in my WRITER'S STUDIO.
• Editor/Publisher of Furrows: twice yearly literary journal
• 2019 Rhinelander District Library/5.11.19       Memoir Writing
• 2019 UW Madison 30th annual Writer's Institute Memoir Writing/Panel discussion/Writing Conflict Scenes
• 2019 UW Madison - mentoring 5 adult writers in year long Pathway to Publication Program

• 2018 Art Start/Rhinelander, WI - How to Handle Difficult Topics in Memoir Writing/How to Write Children's Books
• 2017 ArtStart/Rhinelander, WI, Memoir Writing in Six Easy Steps.
• 2017 Memoir Writing Workshop/Medford, WI Library
• ​2017/2016/2015  UW Madison/Writer's Institute/Memoir/Fiction Writing
• 2016/2017 Poetry judge highlandparkpoetry.com annual contest
• 2016 Women's Exchange, Winnetka, IL  Write Your Life in 8 Lines, 24 Words Workshop.
• April 2014/November 2016  Write Your Life in 8 Lines, 24 Words/Women's Exchange, 720 Pine St., Winnetka, IL 
• Teaching Publication 1-6, and Master's writing classes in central WI/VT 
• Workshop October 11, 1015 Memoir Writing in 6 Easy Steps at Venture Shot, 744 North Wells, Chicago, IL
• 2015 UW/Madison annual writer's retreat (for credit and non-credit) June 14-19, 2015
• April 3-6, 2014 teaching memoir and poetry at the UW-Madison Writers' Institute
• Memoir 1-6/ Advanced Memoir 1-6 Rib Lake, WI library
• Wind Ridge Publishing, Shelburne, VT/Writers' Barn
• Private Fall, Winter, Spring 10 week classes.Memoir Writing. Fiction. Non-Fiction.Poetry
• Ragdale. Lake Forest, IL "Creative Writing" workshop
• Resurrection High School. Chicago, IL. practicum classes "Write Your Life in 8 Lines, 24 Words"
• Women's Exchange, Winnetka, IL. Poetry and "Write Your Life in 8 Lines, 24 Words"
• Sears School. Kenilworth, IL 8th grade classes: poetry
• "Getting Your Voice Heard". Book Stall. Winnetka, IL
• more on request...

Copy/developmental/content editor

• "Up the Creek Without a Saddle" by Jerry Johnson

• "Echoes of Earth" by L.Sue Baugh/Lynn Martinelli Wild Stone Arts. http://www.wildstonearts.com
• "Surviving 26th St." "Kenmore Square"" by Carol June Stover
• "SASE" by Arlene Leshtz
• "Journaling Cancer in Words and Images: Caught in the Clutch of the Crab" by Harriet Claire Wadeson PhD
• more on request...
• Guest editor East on Central a national literary magazine published yearly in Highland Park, IL
• Judge: highlandparkpoetry.org annual poetry contest
• Guest editor: East on Central, Highland Park, IL literary magazine

and more...
Poetry Awards

• successive years winning first, second, hon. mention at Writers Institute/UW Madison
• published in East on Central, Free Verse, Creativity Connection and more...
• therapist uses one of my poems "Annual Report" for patients dealing with death of a parent

Columns

• Independent Bookstores Nationwide. UW-Madison "Creativity Connection"
• Pike River Community News. Menomonie County, WI, "This and That"

TV Shows

• smalltalk etc. and Poetry Today - 2 years of half hour shows taped/many notable authors and guests including Marc Kelly Smith (began poetry slams around the world in 1985), Harriet Claire Wadeson PhD (pioneered art therapy in the U.S.)  Illinois Poetry Society, Fred Shafer, Piven Theater Workshop, Cate Wallace PhD and more...

Movies

• "Turkish Coffee" written/directed by Adam Dick submitted to the Ann Arbor Film Festival

Past President/VP

• Off Campus Writers Workshop (OCWW) www.ocww.bizland.com, 200 writers, 70 year old group hosting weekly speakers on some topic of writing every Thurs. from 9-12AM at the Winnetka Community House, Winnetka, IL VP for two years prior to being President.

Organization Memberships

• Statewide board of Vermont League of Writers
• Chicago Writers Association
• Poetry Foundation - Chicago
• Off Campus Writers Workshop
• Poetry Foundation - New York
• American Academy of Poets