From: dsgood@gmail.com   
      
   East St Paul (ESP) Speculative Fiction Writers Meetup   
   Tuesday, June 9, 2015 7:00 PM to 9:30 PM   
   Davannis Pizza and Hot Hoagies -- East Side   
   310 White Bear Ave, Saint Paul, MN   
      
   We're back in the party room with our food and manuscripts.   
   For our June Meetup, we will once again be doing a Flash Fiction exercise. The   
   topic is New Beginnings or Rebirth--so get those creative juices flowing! The   
   word limit is 500 words to encourage you to use ruthless editing skills.We've   
   had some really    
   great readings in previous Flash Fiction exercises and it's always great fun.   
      
   To allow time for the readings, we will accept just one item for critique in   
   June, first come, first served. The standard guidelines are....   
      
   World/Future Building   
   Sunday, June 14, 2015 11:00 AM to 12:00 N   
   Lunds Market (Uptown)1450 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN   
      
   We will be meeting in the loft area to the left when facing the elevator doors   
   upstairs. Dragons must be on leashes.   
      
   If you would like to get opinions on how a particular scene or scenes come   
   across to the reader, submit up to 1000 words by uploading a .doc, .rtf or   
   .pdf file to "Files" under "More" on the above menu bar. Identify your file   
   for April Worldbuilding and    
   explain what you would like to know, be it general or specific.   
      
   During the meeting each person (participation is optional) will have one   
   minute to relate their thoughts about each submission. Submitters and   
   critiquers can always follow up in more depth after the meeting. Since we have   
   only 45 minutes, we'll have to    
   stick to the "speed-dating" format.   
      
   Koffee Klatch with Catherine Lundoff   
   Sunday, June 14, 2015 12:00 N to 1:30 PM   
   Lunds Market (Uptown)1450 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN   
      
   Catherine Lundoff is a Minneapolis-based award-winning writer and editor. She   
   lives there with her talented wife and two adorable cats, works in IT and does   
   fannish things like attend cons, read comics and critique sfnal television.    
      
   She is the author of four books: a novel about menopausal werewolves called   
   Silver Moon and three short story collections - A Day at the Inn, A Night at   
   the Palace and Other Stories, Night's Kiss and Crave. She is the editor of the   
   Gaylactic Spectrum    
   Award-winning anthology Haunted Hearths and Sapphic Shades: Lesbian Ghost   
   Stories, and co-editor, with JoSelle Vanderhooft, of the Rainbow Award-winning   
   Hellebore and Rue:Tales of Queer Women and Magic.    
      
   She is also the author of some 80 published short stories that have appeared   
   in such publications as The Mammoth Book of Moriarty Stories, Tales of the   
   Unanticipated, Luna Station Quarterly, Ghosts in Gaslight and Monsters in   
   Steam andFarrago's Wainscot.    
   Her nonfiction has been published in the Hugo Award-winning zine SF Signal and   
   Nightmare Magazine, as well as inWomen in Science Fiction and Fantasy: An   
   Encyclopedia, Looking Queer: LGBT Body Image and Identity, American Writer   
   andSpeculations, amongst    
   other publications.    
      
   In addition, she writes erotic romance as Emily L. Byrne. She will be Guest of   
   Honor at the 2015 edition of Arcana: A Conference of the Dark Fantastic   
   . Her website may be found at www.catherinelundoff.com    
      
   June MSP Crit Group   
   Sunday, June 14, 2015 2:00 PM to 4:00 PM   
   Lunds Market (Uptown) 1450 West Lake Street, Minneapolis, MN   
      
   Please see the discussion board for the thread pertaining to this meetup.   
   Instructions on how to upload submissions and download the material for   
   critique can be found there.   
      
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