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Monday, January 11, 2016

January Events and Deadlines


Upcoming Deadlines
Wednesday, January 13 — Proposals are due for the 2016 NCTEConvention in Atlanta.

Monday, January 18 — Applications are due for our RRVWP Winter Writing Retreat. If you would like to attend this year's Retreat, please send the following to Pam Fisher (pam[dot]fisher[at]gfschools[dot]org):
1 - Your name, job title, and school/district.
2 - A statement of your goals for participating in the Writing Retreat and how becoming better at writing dialog would help you meet those goals.
3 - If you would be interested in one credit of continuing education.
Those who apply and are accepted will be notified by Friday, January 22.

January Events
Saturday, January 16 — The Fargo-Moorhead Writing Group will meet from 9am – 10am at Dunn Brothers on the corner of 13th Ave S. and 25th St. S, Fargo.

Sunday, January 17 — The Grand Forks Book Club will meet at 5:00pm at the home of Pam Fisher to discuss Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil by John Berendt.

Friday, January 22 — The Fargo-Moorhead YAL Book Club will meet from 4:30pm - 6pm at Usher's House on 1st Ave. N. in Moorhead to discuss Everything, Everything by Nicola Yoon.
Contact Dan Dooher for more information: ddooher[at]moorheadschools[dot]org

Sunday, January 24 — The Grand Forks Professional Book Club will meet from 2:00pm - 3:30pm at the UND Bookstore to continue discussing Teaching Literacy for Love and Wisdom: Being the Book and Being the Change by Jeffrey Wilhelm and Bruce Novak.

2016 Summer Institute
The theme for the 2016 Summer Institute is “Writing in a Changing World.” The Summer Institute will take place July 6-22, 2016, in Fargo with the pre-institute Friday, May 6 and Saturday, May 7, 2016.

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