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Date: February 4, 2009
Author: Colleen Ryckert Cook

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Ronica Stromberg to speak at Nebraska SCBWI conference

Ronica Stromberg will speak at the Nebraska SCBWI conference,  held March 28  at Durham Western Heritage Museum in Omaha, Nebraska.  Her hour-long presentation will be on “Divine Words: Writing for the Inspirational Market.” For more information, contact Nona Morrison, Regional Advisor at nonamorrison@yahoo.com.

In October, Ronica also will present a workshop “Success Through Reading and Writing: One Author’s Story” at The Plum Creek Literacy Festival at Concordia University in Seward, Nebraska. The festival runs from Thursday, October 1, to Saturday, October 3 and welcomes such authors and illustrators as John Archambault (author of Chicka Chicka Boom Boom), Herm and MJ Auch (authors and illustrators of Poultry in Motion), Avi, David Biedrzycki (illustrator for many of Jerry Pallotta’s alphabet books), and Carmen Deedy (Pura Belpre Medal Award winner for Martina the Beautiful Cockroach), Richard Peck, Pam Munoz Ryan, and Sharon Weeks. Fore more information, visit www.cune.edu/plumcreek.

“Poetry is the journal of the sea animal living on land, wanting to fly in the air. Poetry is a search for syllables to shoot at the barriers of the unknown and the unknowable. Poetry is a phantom script telling how rainbows are made and why they go away.” –Carl Sandburg
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