Classes

July 25 - 29, 2011

Arts Adventure

Northern Oklahoma College, Tonkawa, OK.

Teaching Creative Writing to young writers  

 

A sample of the writings of Benjamin Rager, Age 10, of Lorena, Texas. He also happens to be my grandson.

 

Today, I was walking into my own trap, marching on and on into the Sahara desert, trying to find the mystical Diamond of Haigfisch. I still don’t understand how I got hooked up doing this, but all I can remember was…

I woke up the morning of the summer solstice, of course it being the longest day, people were extraordinarily throbbing with glee. Yet I was still trying to get some sleep, for I was staying up until 4 o’clock in the morning ‘’birdwatching.’’

I finally got up around the time the usual German B-2 bombers flew overhead. I personally believe that any second now, they’re just going to drop those bombs, and start a thundering riot, then us having to take a gander, we’ll chug out our few numbers of battlemen. That’s when I united with the small regiment of soldiers we have on Greybeard Island. My mission was to retrieve the Haigfisch gem into the United States’ hands before the German’s got it. For all the power of the new and improvised weaponry was coming from the Haigfisch gem.

… So that brings us back here. I’m still chugging along the sandy hills, in search of any other resistant life, trying to get there before me.

 

Dead Writers Society - Accompishments

The following have been completed in this class and are available now :

• Astronauts, Athletes, and ambassadors: Oklahoma Women from 1950-2007 (book) by Glenda Carlile
• In Pursuit of the Speckled Gumball (first in an autobiographical trilogy) by Hiram K. Myers
• Corkscrewed (second in an autobiographical trilogy) by Hiram K. Myers
• Malachai’s Child (novel) by Hiram K. Myers
• The Baptism of Vincent Scarlotti (novel) by Hiram K. Myers
• Money, Marbles and Chalk (memoir) by Shirley J. Pritchett
• Waiting for Miracles (book of poetry) by Maria Veres
• Saigon is Burning (memoir) by Laurette Heger
• The Last Foxhunt (novel) by Knighton Meade
• Irish Mist (novel) by Knighton Meade
• Fatal Holiday (true crime) by Judy Gigstad
• “Lessons Learned,” article by Jane Jayroe, featrured in magazine Coping With Cancer.
• Devote Forty Days (devotional book) by Jane Jayroe and Faith Filled Friends
• Jane Jayroe, contributing editor to A Cup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit. (book)
• “Lessons of an Unexpected Life”, chapter by Jane Jayroe, contributed to the book: ACup of Cappuccino for the Entrepreneur’s Spirit .
• Passion for Tea: Its History, Its Future, Its Health Benefits (book) by Beverly Rorem
• “Drinking Tea in Modern China,” article by Beverly Rorem, featured in
• http://ezinearticles.com
• “When is it Okay to Send a Sympathy Note by Email?” article by Beverly Rorem,
• featured in http://ezinearticles.com
• “Free Stay in the Mountains of Spain,” article by Beverly Rorem, featured in hackwriters: The International Writers Magazine: Spain
• “Wedded Bliss,” story by Beverly Rorem, published in Red Dirt Anthology, 2007
• “My Parallel World,” story by Beverly Rorem, published in Red Dirt Anthology, 2007
• Brooklyn, Buck Rogers and Me (autobiography) by Eric J. Bishop

Soon to be available :

• Snow Cactus, novel, by Hiram K. Myers
• The Year of the Turnip (young adult novel) by Glenda Carlile
• The Biggest Piece of Pie (memoir) by Dorothy C. Hall
• Rules to Die By (novel) by Gayle Laster
• The Art of Cleaning Cesspools and Other Ministerial Tasks (memoir) by David Severe
• Crystal, Where Are You? (memoir) by Laurette Heger
• novel by Shirley Trochta