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January 10 in Millvale
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Midday virtual sessions for busy professionals who find it challenging to write at home after work
Want to dip your toe in the writing group pool? Join us for group writing at the Whitehall Public Library, first Tuesdays, 10:15-11:15 a.m. Bring pen and paper, we'll write from prompts and share. A free activity courtesy of the Whitehall Library.
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In four 1:1 sessions, you'll have a framework to create variations of a core bio for multiple purposes: a website, a book, a podcast appearance, social media, and more!
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With four 1:1 sessions, you'll learn the steps to write a blurb that will grab -- and keep -- a reader's attention so that they click and buy your book.
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Get the bundle to address everything from dialogue to characters to plot and more. Perfect for writers who prefer using tools on their own and writing at their own pace.
Hello! I'm Maria Simbra, the director and principal at Ironed Words Productions, LLC. I love good words, and I bet you do, too. The way they feel under your fingertips as you type them. The way they zing through your brain as you read or hear a well-crafted passage. The way they roll off your tongue as you speak them aloud.
If you love good words, you're in good company.
I'm a memoirist on page and on stage, where I chronicle my careers in medicine and television news, my unusual path to motherhood, and other moments of my times. My words on page appear in lit mags, such as Door Is A Jar, Page & Spine, The Grief Dialogues, Hags on Fire, Sad Girl Review, and The Twin Bill, as well as in the Wolfsinger Publications' Us/Them Anthology. You can read my memoir compilation, Just a Moment of My Times, on Kindle Vella. My words on stage have been heard around Pittsburgh at the Moth StorySlams, Bricolage's WordPlay, and Steel City Storytellers' Just Sayin'.
Come find your words and your story along with me and others who share your passion.
...with words that are
FLAT
DISORGANIZED
UNENGAGING
...with words that are
SHARP
POLISHED
RESILIENT and RESONANT