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All activities are held at 1 P.M. at the following location unless otherwise noted:

JUNE 2011

• Tuesday, June 7- Writing Challenge

Come join us in our new plush surroundings at the Roni Chenowith Activity Center for inspiration as we complete a writing challenge provided by Alan C. Reese who will lead the group. Bring something to read and share as well.

• Tuesday, June 14- LITE Critique

Bring copies of a poem to share or come and listen. Each poem will be read aloud and the group will discuss the content and form in a spontaneous response to your work.

• Tuesday, June 21- Open Mic

            Celebrate summer with us. Bring a poem to read on the season and your response to the Writing Challenge of the Month.

• Tuesday, June 28- Katherine Lashley

Katherine will speaking to the group about memoir writing and self-publishing and sharing her recently published memoir. Below is a description of her memoir and the information it contributes to the literature in the autism community.

 

Katherine (Kate) Lashley's memoir, My Younger Older Sister, is a personal and candid account of her growing up with her autistic older sister, Vicki. Kate describes her grappling with her sister’s adoption, their birth order role reversal, and the caretaking that she assumed when little more than a toddler herself. She tells of Vicki's wandering off and becoming lost, her finally beginning to speak at the age of five, and  her struggles in taking college courses and working a part-time job.  The sisterly bond, sexuality, and faith are also covered in respects to the author's experiences with her sister.  Told through the eyes of the younger sibling, My Younger Older Sister, addresses bluntly the little disclosed and discussed areas of autism's affects on typical siblings. 

 

My Younger Older Sister can be bought online through Createspace   or  Amazon.com.  It is also available as an e-book for the Kindle and Nook. 

Katherine Lashley teaches writing courses at Towson Univeresity and Harford Community College. She is also the librarian for Faith Theological Seminary in Baltimore. My Younger Older Sister, a memoir about growing up with an older autistic sister, is her first book.

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Also, kudos to Margaret Mullins for poems recently published or forthcoming in Little Patuxent Review
MWA Anthology
Alehouse
Borderlands:  Texas Poetry Review
Magnapoets
Bluebird
Creekwalker.com
and a nomination for a Pushcart Prize!!

Let her be an inspiration to the rest of us
to send out those poems so they can find a happy home somewhere

*For more information, call 410-692-6777.*