2010 Field’s End Roundtables
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Roundtables are held on the third Tuesday of the month from 7:00 – 8:30 pm in the Bainbridge Public Library Meeting Room. For questions, contact info@fieldsend.org.
Roundtable Photos
 January 19, 2010
Title: Collaboration: Are two heads better than one?
Speaker: Barbara Winther
Barbara Winther is an author of children's books, books for young adults, and books about local history. Her publications include dramatizations of stories and folktales such as Plays from Folktales of Africa and Asia (1976); Trickster Hare (1981); Plays from African Tales (1992, 1996, 1999); Plays from Hispanic Tales (1998); and Asian Tales (2004). Additionally, Winther writes about current and historical events in her community. Her 2000 book They Like Noble Causes is an account of how Bainbridge Island came together as a community to build its local library. The story of the Bainbridge Public Library, the author states in the prologue to the book, "...is what happens when people care and work together for the benefit of their community." Most recently, Barbara Winther teamed up with Gary Loverich to write Let It Go, Louie (2009), a book about the history of Croatian families in the Puget Sound area.
February 16, 2010
Title: Fiction, Non-Fiction, Memoir: How Do You Choose?
Speaker: Erica Bauermeister
Erica Bauermeister has spent years writing in and teaching a wide range of genres. After receiving a PhD in Literature from the University of Washington, she co-authored 500 Great Books by Women: A Reader's Guide and Let's Hear It For the Girls: 375 Great Books for Readers 2-14. These days, she writes fiction – her novel The School of Essential Ingredients, was published in 2009 and has become an international bestseller.
 March 16, 2010
Title: From the Screen in Your Mind to the Page in Your Hands
Speaker: Anthony Flacco
Anthony Flacco's newest book is The Road Out of Hell; Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders (with Jerry Clark; Sterling Publishing, 2009). He is also the author of Publish Your Nonfiction Book (Writers Digest 2009), Tiny Dancer (St. Martin's Press), and two novels of historical fiction; The Last Nightingale and The Hidden Man. In addition to his own writing, he has served as freelance editor for books and book proposals that have recently sold to Hay House, Vanderwyck and Burnham, Rodale Press and Lyons Press.
Flacco's background as a trained stage actor provides the basis for his ability to empathize with a wide cross section of personalities. His screenwriting experience is also of great use in telling narrative stories that are visually compelling, whether for the screen of a reader's imagination, or for the movie or television screen. In addition to his books, he has worked as a screenwriter for the Touchstone Pictures Division and has written a documentary about crime for the Discovery Channel.
April 20, 2010
Title: What Constitutes a Good Poem?
Speaker: Kelli Russell Agodon
Agodon is the winner of the 2009 White Pine Press Poetry Prize judged by Carl Dennis. Her manuscript, Letters from the Emily Dickenson Room, will be published by White Pine Press in the fall of 2010. Her work has appeared in magazines and journals such as The Atlantic Monthly, Prairie Schooner, Poetry Northwest, Notre Dame Review, North American Review and many others. Her poems have been published in many anthologies including Poets Against the War, and in Garrison Keillor’s second Good Poems for Hard Times anthology published by Viking Press. She is the co-editor for Seattle’s 25-year-old literary journal, Crab Creek Review.
 
May 18, 2010
Title: Ways to Make Your Writing Group Really Work
Speaker: Carol Cassella and George Shannon
Carol Cassella’s debut novel Oxygen (Simon & Schuster, 2008) was voted one of the year’s best novels by Library Journal. Cassella majored in English Literature at Duke University and graduated from Baylor College of Medicine in 1986. She currently practices anesthesia in Seattle and is a freelance medical writer specializing in global public health advocacy for the developing world. She is a member of Seattle7Writers, a local writing group of published authors working on initiatives intended to help enrich the local literary community and foster a love of reading in youth. Cassella's second novel, Healer (Simon & Schuster), will be released September 7, 2010.
George Shannon is a prolific children’s author and the recipient of a 2009 Washington State Book Award for Rabbit’s Gift (Harcourt), illustrated by Laura Dronzek. His newest book, Chicken Scratches: Poultry Poetry and Rooster Rhymes (Chronicle Books, 2010), was co-authored with Bainbridge Island children’s author Lynn Brunelle. Busy in the Garden, illustrated by Sam Williams (HarperCollins, 2006), was a Junior Library Guild Selection and a Summer 2006 Book Sense Children’s Pick. Shannon visits schools and libraries around the country, conducting writing workshops for kids.
June 15, 2010
Title: How to Be Your Own Editor
Speaker: Midge Raymond
Midge Raymond's short-story collection, Forgetting English (Eastern Washington University Press, 2009), received the Spokane Prize for Short Fiction. Her work has appeared in TriQuarterly, American Literary Review, Ontario Review, North American Review, the Los Angeles Times, and other publications. She is on the editorial board of the literary journal Green Hills Literary Lantern.
Midge worked in publishing in New York for several years as a managing editor and copywriter and later taught communication writing at Boston University. She has since taught creative writing at Boston's Grub Street Writers and San Diego Writers, Ink, where she also served as vice president of the board of directors. Now in Seattle, she teaches at Richard Hugo House. Her current projects are supported by an Artist Trust/Washington State Arts Commission Fellowship.
 July 20, 2010
Title: Stand in Your Character’s Shoes
Speaker: Dinah Manoff
Dinah Manoff is an award winning actor and director. She has written for both stage and television and had several short stories presented at the prestigious writer's forum Spoken Interludes and recorded for NPR's KCRW. She has had numerous roles on stage and film, among them, “Grease”, “Ordinary People”, and “Child's Play”. Dinah has starred in the television series “Soap”, “Empty Nest” and most recently “State of Grace”.
She received a Tony award for her role in Neil Simon's play, “I Ought to be in Pictures” (which she reprised in the feature film), and won the prestigious L.A. Theater award for her stage adaptation and direction of her father's novel, “A Telegram for Heaven”.
Dinah is the daughter of actress/director Lee Grant and the late writer Arnold Manoff. She and her husband and their three boys reside in Bainbridge Island, Washington where she has recently completed her first novel.
August 17, 2010
Title: Sharpen Your Pencils for National Novel Writing Month
Speaker: Tamara Sellman
Pacific Northwest native Tamara Sellman operates Writer's Rainbow Literary Services, where she assists writers from around the world in completing works in progress and developing stronger writing practices. She specializes in services for writing parents, bloggers and writers of speculative fiction. Sellman has twice completed the National Novel Writing Month challenge--in 2006, with her mid-grade fantasy chapter book, Fiddlehead's Odyssey, and again, in 2008, with The In-Between, the first title in her paranormal mystery series-in-progress, The Lost & Found. She has also received two Pushcart Prize nominations for works of poetry and short fiction.
 September 21, 2010
Title: The Ins and Outs of Writing a Weekly Column
Speaker: Tom Tyner
Tom Tyner is Western Division Legal Director for The Trust for Public Land, a national nonprofit land conservation organization. He joined TPL in 1993 after serving for 11 years as in-house counsel for Bank of America in Los Angeles and San Francisco. He received his BA in English Literature and his law degree from the University of Southern California. He is a former Board member and past President of the Bainbridge Island Land Trust.
Tyner’s stories about lawyers and the law have appeared in the Washington State Bar Journal and De Novo, the newsletter of the Washington Young Lawyer’s Association.
From 1993 through 1995, and from 2003 through the present, Tyner’s weekly humor column, “The Latte Guy”, has appeared in the Bainbridge Review. He is also the author of Skeletons from Our Closet, a collection of his early columns for the Review.
October 19, 2010
Title: The Entrepreneurial Writer
Speaker: Tim Vandehay
Tim Vandehey is a ghostwriter, book collaborator and writing coach who has written more than 30 nonfiction books since 2004. Freelance since 1995, he began his career writing award-winning copy for leading advertising agencies, and in 2002 transitioned into helping CEOs, celebrities, spiritual leaders, physicians, financial professionals, scientists, athletes and others write their books. Since then, Tim has written books published by such major houses as Simon & Schuster, HarperCollins, Random House, McGraw-Hill, St. Martin's Press and Thomas Nelson. Four of his books have come to market in 2010: Red Carpet Ready (Random House/Harmony), What If & Why Not (BenBella), Blindsided (St. Martin's) and Running on Faith (HarperOne). Tim lives on Bainbridge Island with his wife and two daughters.
November 16, 2010
Title: From the Screen in Your Mind to the Page in Your Hands
Speaker: Anthony Flacco
Anthony Flacco's newest book is The Road Out of Hell; Sanford Clark and the True Story of the Wineville Murders (with Jerry Clark; Sterling Publishing, 2009). He is also the author of Publish Your Nonfiction Book (Writers Digest 2009), Tiny Dancer (St. Martin's Press), and two novels of historical fiction; The Last Nightingale and The Hidden Man. In addition to his own writing, he has served as freelance editor for books and book proposals that have recently sold to Hay House, Vanderwyck and Burnham, Rodale Press and Lyons Press.
Flacco's background as a trained stage actor provides the basis for his ability to empathize with a wide cross section of personalities. His screenwriting experience is also of great use in telling narrative stories that are visually compelling, whether for the screen of a reader's imagination, or for the movie or television screen. In addition to his books, he has worked as a screenwriter for the Touchstone Pictures Division and has written a documentary about crime for the Discovery Channel.
December 21, 2010
Title: Starting, Finding, or Caring for a Writing Group
Speaker: The Field’s End Team
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