Writing Course from Fall 2004

BUILD YOUR OWN BOOK, with Barbara Brannon
A One-Day Chapbook Workshop

• Saturday, September 18, 9:00 am - 5:00 pm (7 hours class time and 1 hour lunch break)
• Meets at the Publishing Laboratory, 205 Friday Hall, University of North Carolina at Wilmington (www.uncw.edu)
• $95 Network members / $125 non-members
• Limit: 10 participants
• Registration deadline: Tuesday, September 7, 2004, so Barbara can contact class participants with instructions for preparing their materials.

Seeing your work in type between covers is always a thrilling experience -- and doing it yourself can provide you insights into the book design process, help you refine your writing for submission, or even yield a self-published edition. In this intensive hands-on workshop, you’ll begin the day with your chapbook manuscript and leave with a finished, bound book and a CD of your layout. We’ll explore parts of a book and elements of a page, learn basic text and image composition techniques in Quark XPress, and do our own print-on-demand output, cover production, and binding.

We will use the facilities of the Publishing Laboratory, UNCW’s micropress where students of writing learn to expand their creativity into the act of publishing. Materials are included in the workshop price; manuscript preparation guidelines will be sent in advance to all registrants, who will need to bring with them (a) a properly formatted word processing file of their prose or verse manuscript, (b) a photo or illustration to use as a cover image, and (c) an author photo, if desired. Some proficiency in general computer use is advantageous; no previous knowledge of desktop publishing is required.

Barbara Brannon teaches courses in book publishing, editing, and design in the Creative Writing programs of the University of North Carolina at Wilmington. A poet and writer with twenty-plus years’ experience in publications management, she formerly served as managing editor of the University of South Carolina Press. She holds a PhD in the history of books and an MA in American literature from the University of South Carolina, where she studied with James Dickey. She earned her undergraduate degree in art and English at Georgia College, where she was awarded the Flannery O’Connor Scholarship for emerging writers.