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Evangel Professor to lead Writers Workshop discussion
Thursday, May 01, 2008
Springfield Regional Arts Council will feature Marilyn Quigley as the presenter at its May 8 Creamery Writers’ Workshop, 7:00pm to 8:30pm in the Creamery Arts Center. For more than 20 years, Quigley has served as director of Freshman Composition at Evangel University where she teaches all levels of writing from basic grammar to advanced exposition including creative writing in which she emphasizes fiction, poetry and drama. Her topic will be “Sentence Style: Writing By Choice, Not Chance”. Quigley has published short stories, a children’s musical based on the Biblical story of Joseph, and poetry and has written two novels yet unpublished. She also published a book entitled, “Hell Frozen Over” detailing the experiences of 12 soldiers in the Battle of the Bulge. Her uncle, who spent time as a prisoner in Germany, is the focus of the book. The Creamery Writers’ Workshop is free and open to all writers regardless of age or level of expertise. For more information, call the Arts Council, 417-862-ARTS(2787).