BREAKING NEWS!

TEXT TO STAGE

WSW invites you to Text to Stage -- a limited-enrollment workshop for WSW members in which we explore ways to enhance our own writing skills by exploring the creative art in script writing and play performances from the vantage points of writer, reader, critic, and audience member.
 
For this fall's Text to Stage (see schedule below), WSW has chosen the play Moonlight and Magnolias, a comedy to be performed at Twin City Stage (formerly Little Theatre) in September. In the play by Ron Hutchison, Hollywood producer David O. Selznick stops production on the film Gone With The Wind and locks its director and screenwriter in his office until they have completely rewritten the massive screenplay.

The WSW workshop will be facilitated by John Rushton, a nationally known playwright. Rushton is president, artistic director and founder of the West Side Civic Theatre in Lewisville. He recently won the Thornton B. Wilder National Playwriting Award for his play, Life’s Mistress, chronicling the life of  Isadora Duncan.

The schedule:

Before September 17 -- Read the script (which can be ordered from Barnes & Noble or Borders for $7.50); watch the film Gone with the Wind if you need to refresh your memory of this classic film.

Thursday, September 17 (5:30 – 7:30 p.m.) --  Attend the pre-performance Text to Stage workshop. Venue to be announced. See the play's preview at 8 that same evening at Twin City Stage on Coliseum Drive. Tickets for the preview are $10 each.
        
Sunday, September 20 (2 to 4 p.m.)  Attend post-performance workshop at Crimson Wolf Productions, 6620 Shallowford Road in Clemmons (directions will be provided after you register.)

Workshop tuition is $25 (cost of the script and preview ticket not included).

Contact WSW board member Vijya Campagne -- vcampagne@wswriters.org -- to sign up or learn more.

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Winston-Salem Living, a monthly magazine started about 5 years ago by Renee and Andy Honey, has been sold.  The new publishers expect to publish their first magazine with the October issue.  Leigh Somerville McMillan has been  named the editor.
 
Writers are encouraged to submit story ideas to
editor@winstonsalemliving.com.  While the October issue has been assigned, ideas for the November issue are welcome.  Stories will be 500-1000 words, will pay 20 cents a word and deadlines for the November issue will be sometime around the end of September. 
 
Categories for stories are as follows:

  1.  Cover Story - Editor to write
  2.  Local Flavor - David Bailey
  3.  Artist Profile - Tom Patterson
  4.  Inside City Hall - Ruben Gonzales
  5.  History -  assigned each month
  6.  Inspiring Personal Story -  assigned each month
  7.  Winston-Salem Philanthropy - assigned each month
  8.  Entertainment - assigned each month
  9.  Sports/Adventure -  assigned each month
 10. The Third Place (Hangouts) - assigned each month
 11. Neighborhoods - assigned each month
 12. Business Profile & Q&A - assigned each month
 13. Home & Garden - assigned each month
 14. The Seen (people at parties pictures) - will solicit from readers
 15. Calendar of Events - magazine will generate