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Announcements in this issue:
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SUNDAY SALON:
"All The World's Your Stage"
January 21, 2018, 3-5 p.m. Postponed due to inclement weather! Stay tuned for new date!
For more information, contact
Corinne Brown:
[email protected]
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Spread the word! Don't miss it!
SPECIAL EVENT!
Tuesday, January 23, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
Join us for a VERY special event featuring
Adrian Miller, author of
The President's Kitchen Cabinet
, an informative and entertaining journey through the history of presidential food. A former White House special assistant to President Bill Clinton, Adrian will focus on the African American cooks for Presidents George Washington, Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Harrison, Franklin Delano Roosevelt, and Lyndon Johnson.
Adrian Miller is an attorney, certified barbecue judge and food writer. He's the author of
Soul Food: The Surprising Story of an American Cuisine, One Plate at a Time
, which won the 2014 James Beard Foundation Book Award for Reference and Scholarship. White House 'snacks' including a special pizza will be served, and books will be available.
Free and open to the public!
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mark your calendar!
Editing Tips and Tricks for Writers with Alice Levine
Saturday, February 3, 2018
10:00 a.m. - noon
DWPC Clubhouse
Member Program Brunch: $15 per person
Designed to please a cook with round bottom for efficient beating.
You probably laughed at this sentence, but are you able to tell a colleague or a client why it is faulty, what grammatical term is used to describe it, and how to fix it? If you need to learn, relearn, or brush up on some aspects of grammar, join Alice Levine for an amusing and educational review of common errors in grammar, including agreement and antecedent mishaps, misplaced modifiers, missteps in restrictive and nonrestrictive phrases and clauses, faulty pronouns, and comma blunders.
For 20 years, Alice Levine held the position of copy chief and freelance services coordinator at Westview Press. Today, as sole proprietor of Alice Levine Editorial Services, she works with publishers, writers, academics, literary agents, and business and professional organizations. Alice delights in sharing her passion for publishing, editing, proofreading, and the serial comma as well as the joy of working with words and writers.
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Colorado Press Women event on "Spotting Fake News!"
Colorado Press Women will offer a free workshop, Spotting Fake News, for members and guests at 9:30 a.m. Saturday, Jan. 27 at the main branch of the Denver Public Library, 13th and Broadway. The hands-on workshop will be followed by a brief overview of business references services and a tour of the Western History/Genealogy Collection.
Genine Plunkett, manager of References Services, and Ross Mays, a Reference Services librarian with an interest in media literacy, will present the workshop, focusing on principles of evaluating news sources and other content and sharing tricks and tools to determine what is reliable. They will discuss types of fake or misleading news, satire and parody, viral emails and memes, clickbait and partisan or biased news. Participants will use the library's computers to search fact-checking resources, websites and library databases and discuss the objectivity of various news websites.
RSVP: Although the Fake News program is free, please RSVP to Ann Lockhart at
[email protected]
or call 303-388-6978.
DWPC Scholarship News:
We are looking for members who might have a contact in the
Journalism, Communications, and/or Writing programs at DU, Regis, Metro State University, Arapahoe Community College, or any of
the community colleges in or around the Denver Metro area. This year we will be
awarding a scholarship to a female student who is enrolled in one of the above programs.
Please contact Scholarship Chair Estelle Meskin who is identifying a new program for one of our scholarships.
Estelle Meskin 303-601-6824
Colorado Feminist Luncheon features DWPC member Jody Glittenberg
Tuesday, February 13, 2018, 11:30 A.M. - 1:30 P.M.
Denver Athletic Club (DAC), 1325 Glenarm Place, Denver, Colorado 80204.
Jody Glittenberg, author, anthropologist, and psychiatric nurse will present "The Promise Seed: Saving Mother Earth, 2018"
"Out on the treeless, windswept prairie of eastern Colorado, homesteaders in 1909 cling to their Covenant with God/The Great Spirit believing that they would survive devastating weather, prairie fires and betrayals to save Mother Earth." Jody tells us a true story of the Eastern Plains of Colorado and brings to life the depths of The Great Depression.
We Need You! DWPC Member Volunteer Opportunities:
Join the fun! Meet cool people! We need help with these fun and rewarding positions:
Board positions -- 1st Vice President, PR Chair; Assistant Secretary; We would also welcome members to our very vibrant standing committees: Programs, Membership, and Communications. If you are interested in finding out more, contact DWPC President, Debra Faulkner at
[email protected]
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f you have interesting news or announcements, send your notices to eConnect Editor by each Saturday of the week: Marcia Goldstein:
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 2018 CALENDAR
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Sunday Salon:
January 21, 2018, 3-5 p.m.
CANCELLED! (
- Special Event: Adrian Miller, January 23, 2018, 6:00 p.m.
- Colorado Press Women: Spotting Fake News, January 27, 2018, 9:30 - noon, Denver Public Library
February, 2018:
- Member Program Brunch: Saturday, February 3rd, 10 a.m. - noon
- Board Meeting: February 13th, 4 p.m.
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