Articles By: Brenda Layman

Brenda Layman is a freelance writer and a member of the Outdoor Writers of Ohio, the Ohio Writers Guild, Writers Satellite, and Columbus Creative Cooperative. She is a graduate of the Ohio State University and is currently working on a Master of Communication and Marketing degree at Franklin University. She and her husband Mark have a small internet business called Select Authors which develops and promotes indie authors. Read her blogs at select-authors.com. Brenda is a bibliophile with full bookshelves who has discovered the infinite storage capacity of e-readers.
Columbus Poet Maggie Smith will speak at local meeting, offer workshop

Columbus Poet Maggie Smith will speak at local meeting, offer workshop

0 April 6, 2012 8:00 am

Columbus poet Maggie Smith will be the guest speaker at the next Writers Ink meeting, April 15, from 4:30 to 7:30 PM at Columbus State Community College, 315 Cleveland Avenue. She will also be leading an introductory poetry class for… [Read More]

Writers to face off in Flash Fiction Championship Smackdown

Writers to face off in Flash Fiction Championship Smackdown

0 February 28, 2012 10:00 am

Columbus Creative Cooperative and Paging Columbus will present a Flash Fiction Championship Smackdown at the Urban Arts Space in downtown Columbus, Thursday, March 1, 2012, from 6:30 to 9:00 p.m. The event is free, and refreshments will be available. Ten… [Read More]

Michael Jones and the Bexley Community Book Club to focus on mindful eating

Michael Jones and the Bexley Community Book Club to focus on mindful eating

0 February 24, 2012 8:00 am

Michael Jones, Executive Director of Local Matters, a Columbus non-profit with a mission of promoting healthful, locally-produced foods, will speak on “Vegetarianism and Sustainable Eating” at the Bexley Community Book Club meeting on March 1 at 7 pm, at the… [Read More]

Baby Geisha to Hit Bookstores on January 13

Baby Geisha to Hit Bookstores on January 13

0 January 9, 2012 2:00 pm

Trinie Dalton’s latest book, Baby Geisha, is a dreamlike montage of stories that manage to be both prose poetry and descriptive narrative, and somehow make it work. Deeply sexual and subtly alluring, these stories pull the reader into a world… [Read More]

Anthology about Columbus, by Columbus, for Columbus

Anthology about Columbus, by Columbus, for Columbus

0 December 7, 2011 10:00 am

On December 14, 2011 a new book featuring twelve stories about Columbus, Ohio, written by twelve Central Ohio writers will hit shelves locally and nationally. A free release event to commemorate Across Town: Stories of Columbus will be held at… [Read More]

Sneak Peek: Everything Is Illuminated Screening and Panel Discussion

Sneak Peek: Everything Is Illuminated Screening and Panel Discussion

0 November 25, 2011 12:00 pm

Bexley Community Book Club to Host Film Screening and Panel Discussion of Book by Jonathan Safran Foer Best-selling author Jonathan Safran Foer is The Bexley Community Book Club’s 2012 Selected Author, and the group has planned a series of discussions… [Read More]

Columbus Creative Cooperative Cultivates Local Writers

Columbus Creative Cooperative Cultivates Local Writers

0 November 7, 2011 8:00 am

Brad Pauquette, Columbus Creative Cooperative Director, likes local produce, local businesses, and local music, so he and other CCC members are making it their mission to bring local writing talent to Columbus readers. Pauquette says that CCC has a two-fold… [Read More]

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