04/16: Historical Research Tools for Prose Writers

Instructor: Holly Day
Date: Wednesday, April 16
Time: 6:30 – 9:30 pm EST
Location: Zoom
Cost: Nonmember: $75; Writer/Reader Members & IPC Members: $48; Senior, Teacher, Student, Military/Veteran, Librarian: $42

During this workshop, students will be walked through the process of finding very old books and textbooks that have been archived online by various sites, and the proper way to credit them, if needed, in a bibliography. Online and physical collections of newspaper archives will be covered, as well as library special collections as well as how to access most of them for free. Photo banks and museum collections will be discussed, as well as how to navigate copyright issues.About the instructor:

Holly Day has worked as a freelance writer for over 30 years, with over 7,000 published articles, poems, and short stories and 40 books and chapbooks, including the nonfiction books, Music Theory for Dummies, Music Composition for DummiesWalking Twin Cities, Stillwater, Minnesota: A Brief History, Nordeast Minneapolis: A History, Tattoo FAQ, and History Lover’s Guide to Minneapolis; and the poetry books, A Book of Beasts (Weasel Press), The Tooth is the Largest Organ in the Human Body (Anaphora Press), Bound in Ice (Shanti Arts Publishing), and Cross-Referencing a Book of Summer (Silver Bow Publishing). Her writing has been nominated for a National Magazine Award, a 49th Parallel Prize, an Isaac Asimov Award, several dozen Pushcart awards, and a Rhysling Award, and she has received two Midwest Writer’s Grants, a Plainsongs Award, the Sam Ragan Prize for Poetry, and the Dwarf Star Award from the Science Fiction Poetry Association.

Course Instructor: Liz Whiteacre

Liz Whiteacre has taught in higher ed for over twenty years and is currently an award-winning associate professor of English at the University of Indianapolis where she teaches writing and publishing, as well as advises Etchings Press. She is the author of Hit the Ground and the forthcoming chapbook, It could account for the panic. Her poetry has appeared in Disability Studies Quarterly, Wordgathering, Kaleidoscope, and other publications. She developed this workshop series as a research fellow with UIndy’s Center for Aging and Community and Indiana’s CICOA, delivering it to health care workers, care givers, and criminal justice workers in the state of Indiana.

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