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color:navy"><i>Announcing</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:
Baskerville;color:navy"><b> The Chagrin Valley Writers’ Workshop </b></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i>with Scott Lax</i></span><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b><o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><font class="Apple-style-span" color="#000080" face="Baskerville" size="3"><span class="Apple-style-span" style="font-size: 13px;">Contact: <a href="mailto:info@scottlax.com">info@scottlax.com</a></span></font></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i>At the Clubhouse at Hamlet
Village in Chagrin Falls, Ohio<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">*<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>*<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
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10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i><span style="mso-spacerun:
yes"> </span></i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;
color:navy">“Scott Lax is a gifted teacher and writer who manages to bring
knowledge and sensitivity to the critiquing process. His insights and
commentary foster a nurturing workshop environment within which noticeable
creative progress can be and is achieved. The number of returning students who
repeat his workshops is a testament to his skill and appeal as both an
instructor and purveyor of the written word.” – Michael Ferrari, two-time
student of Scott Lax and the author of <i>Born to Fly</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">, winner of the
2007 Delacorte Yearling Award for middle grade fiction. His novel is critically
acclaimed by<i> Publisher’s Weekly, Kirkus Reviews </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">and <i>Booklist.</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:14.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b>Fall 2009
Session<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b><u>WORKSHOP 1:
“HOW TO TELL A STORY: <i>Find, Translate, Shape”</i></u></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i>$250 for six
sessions<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b>Consecutive
Tuesdays from 7 PM until 9 PM. September 8, 15, 22, 29; October 6, 13. <o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">Workshop Description: Using <b><i>Scott
Lax’s</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;
color:navy"><b> <i>FTS Writing Method</i></b></span><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">, students are encouraged and
coached to <b><i>Find</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:
Baskerville;color:navy"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">their story; to <b><i>Translate</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i> </i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">the story into
written words; and finally to <b><i>Shape</i></b></span><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b> </b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">their story into a
potentially publishable work of nonfiction or fiction. An important aspect of
this workshop is that Scott helps students <i>think like writers</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">. To learn how
students have benefited from Scott’s method, go to <a href="http://www.scottlax.com"><span style="color:navy">www.scottlax.com</span></a>
and click on “Teaching and Testimonials.” <u>LIMIT: TEN STUDENTS PER SESSION</u><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b><u>WORKSHOP 2:
“MANUSCRIPT WORKSHOP: <i>Seeing your work with fresh eyes”</i></u></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b><u><o:p></o:p></u></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i>$300 for six
sessions plus one-on-one manuscript critique<o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b>NOTE START AND END DATE HAS CHANGED: Consecutive
Saturdays from 1 PM until 3 PM. September 19, 26; October 3, 10, 17 & 24<o:p></o:p></b></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
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10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"> <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">Workshop Description: Students must
submit a ten-page nonfiction or fiction manuscript for this workshop. Each
student will receive a one-hour all-class workshop critique led by Lax; they
will later have a half-hour, one-on-one manuscript critique with Scott Lax.
This is a serious but courteous workshop, where students may gain tremendous
insight into their work. <u>LIMIT: TEN STUDENTS PER SESSION<o:p></o:p></u></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">*<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>*<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><b><u>ABOUT
WORKSHOP INSTRUCTOR SCOTT LAX</u></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">Scott Lax recently completed his
second novel, which is awaiting publication. His first novel, <i>The Year That
Trembled</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;
color:navy">, was called “Powerful,” and named one of 1998’s best works of
fiction by <i>The Denver Post</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">. He was awarded the Walter E. Dakin
Fellowship in Fiction Award from the Sewanee Writers’ Conference (University of
the South) for the novel, which was the Vermont Novel of the Year, runner-up.<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">Lax source-wrote and produced the
feature film, <i>The Year That Trembled</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">, called “The most important movie of the
year” by the <i>Ithaca Times</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">. Released in theaters in 2002, it is now
in international DVD release. He is the winner of four international film
festival awards, including “Midwest Filmmaker of the Year.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">As a playwright, Scott Lax had his
adaptation of <i>The Year That Trembled</i></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;
font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"> debut at University School in 2003. Critic
Julie Hoke wrote, “A classic coming-of-age story…kudos on an ambitious and
successful world premier.”<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">In nonfiction, Lax is the
first-place winner of the 2009 Best Essay, 2009 Best Feature, and second-place
2009 Best Series from the Ohio Professional Writers; he also won honorable
mention for best single essay in Ohio from the 2007 Ohio Excellence in
Journalism Awards. He was the 1993 Bread Loaf Writers’ Conference (Middlebury
College), Bernard J. O’Keefe Scholar in Nonfiction. In 2008, The Hub City
Writers Project of South Carolina announced "The Scott Lax Prize," an
annual, full-ride scholarship to the Wildacres Writers Workshop. The prize,
established in 2008, is underwritten by Hillcrest Publications of Spartanburg,
SC “to honor novelist Scott Lax of Ohio."<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="text-indent:.5in;border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:
10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">Scott Lax has taught, lectured, and
been writer-in-residence at schools, universities and writers’ conferences
throughout the country. <b><i>Scott Lax’s FTS Writing Method</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"> is exclusive to
his workshops. <o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;padding:0in;mso-padding-alt:1.0pt 4.0pt 1.0pt 4.0pt"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy">*<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>*<span style="mso-tab-count:1"> </span>*<o:p></o:p></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" align="center" style="text-align:center;border:none;
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REGISTER: e-mail <a href="mailto:info@scottlax.com">info@scottlax.com</a> to request registration information.</i></b></span><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Baskerville;color:navy"><i><o:p></o:p></i></span></p><p class="MsoNormal" style="border:none;mso-border-alt:solid windowtext .5pt;
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