Date & Time: Saturday, March 8th from 5:00 p.m.- 8:00 p.m. Location: Room 205 of the LGBT Community Services Center, 208 West 13th Street, New York, NY 10011

If you are interested in presenting work: please e-mail Kevin to confirm at kevmcgr@pipeline.com bring 8-10 copies of your work. (After the workshop, for those who are interested, we will have dinner at Spain on 13th between 6th and 7th Avenues). Below are guidelines for the workshop.

Other Countries Writing Workshop Discussion/Critique Guidelines

The Other Countries Writing Workshop is a peer-facilitated workshop. In order to ensure a supportive atmosphere and to encourage constructive criticism of work please keep the following in mind:

• Before reading their work, writers should introduce it by telling about the FAP (Focus, Audience, and Purpose) for the piece as well as its genre. They should think of specific questions they want answered by the workshop, e.g. “Is this ready for submission to literary journals?” “Does this first chapter pull you into my novel’s story?” “Does this character seem too cardboard or cliché?”

• The moderator will facilitate the discussion/critique of the work

• Participants should:

avoid cross talk between other participants while a comment is being made; address both positives and negatives in the work; avoid extraneous “amen-ing” (repeating the comments) of previous speakers; avoid personal commentary of the writer and others; provide suggestions for further development of the work, etc.