"Practical Tips for What You Write" with Jerry Apps

SEPTEMBER 22nd, 2018, 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m.

Jerry Apps has been writing for more than 50 years, full time for the last 23 years. He will share practical tips for writing: newspaper columns, children’s picture books, novels, memoirs, and books about rural history—all of which he has written. He will emphasize the importance of journals, marketing strategies he uses, his approaches for doing research and his organizational strategies. Above all he will stress the importance of the story and its several components. The discussion will be informal with ample opportunities for questions.

JERRY APPS, born and raised on a Wisconsin farm, is Professor Emeritus at the University of Wisconsin-Madison and the author of more than 45 books—both fiction and nonfiction. He has published seven novels (all from University of Wisconsin Press), the most recent, Cold as Thunder. His recent nonfiction books include Whispers and Shadows, Never Curse the Rain, and Once a Professor. Jerry has completed five hour-long documentaries with Public Television, which include: Farm Story, Farm Winter, The Land, Never Curse the Rain, and One-Room Country Schools. Farm Winter won a regional Emmy award.

Jerry is a former publications editor for University of Wisconsin-Extension, an acquisitions editor for the McGraw-Hill Book Company, and an editor of a national professional journal. He has won awards for his writing from the State Historical Society of Wisconsin, the Wisconsin Library Association (the 2007 Notable Authors Award), American Library Association, The Wisconsin Council for Writers (the 2007 Major Achievement Award), and Upper Midwest Booksellers among others. In 2010 he received the Distinguished Service Award from the University of Wisconsin-Madison’s College of Agricultural and Life Science. He was named a Fellow by the Wisconsin Academy of Sciences Arts and Letters in 2012, and inducted into the Wisconsin 4-H Hall of Fame in 2014. In 2016, Jerry won the White Cedar Outstanding Teaching Award from The Clearing, where he has taught creative writing for 28 years. For more about Jerry, visit www.jerryapps.com.

At AllWriters’, we strive to bring you the best! Several times a year, we offer a Celebrity Saturday, which brings in a better-known, better-published author to work with you for one intensive day. Celebrity Saturday authors have included Jane Hamilton, Jacquelyn Mitchard, Michael Perry, A. Manette Ansay, Marilyn Taylor, Ellen Kort, and many, many more! Celebrity Saturdays run from 9:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. and cost $95, which includes a lunch catered by Cafe De Art in Waukesha!