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Free Fiction Workshop at University of Memphis

Memphians with a manuscript: Here’s a chance to work with novelist and short-story author Richard Bausch, holder of the Lillian and Morrie A. Moss Chair of Excellence in English at the University of Memphis.

The Moss Workshop in Fiction, with space for 10 students, is free and open to anyone with the talent and the time. Classes will meet on Thursdays from 5:30 to 8:30 p.m., January 3rd through March 6th. Location to be determined.

Those interested in taking part in the workshop should act now and submit a fiction manuscript no longer than 20 pages and no later than December 20th. Those accepted into the class will be notified before Christmas.

Send your manuscript to Richard Bausch, Department of English, 429 Patterson Hall, University of Memphis, Memphis, 38152. And be sure to include your name, address, phone number, and e-mail address.

For more information, call Jan Coleman at 901-678-4692 or contact her by e-mail at creativewriting@memphis.edu.

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WKNO To Host Oral History Workshop

Inspired by Ken Burns’ documentary The War, WKNO, along with the Memphis Public Library & Information Center and the Library of Congress Veterans History Project, is presenting an oral history workshop on November 10th.

Representatives from True Story Pictures and The University of Memphis Department of History will help participants learn about telling their family’s stories. While The War focused on World War II soldiers, this workshop is open to veterans and non-veterans alike.

The workshop is free and is being held on Saturday, November 10th at 10 a.m. at the Benjamin L. Hooks Central Library. Reservations are required and can be made by calling 458-2521.

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Heads Up

Attention, residents: An invasion of crystal skulls is coming! No one can agree on where they come from or what they mean for our future. They are a mystery — but there’s hope! The balm of understanding can be yours at the Sanctuary for Mind, Body, and Spirit.

No, it’s not a New Age update of The War of the Worlds, and it’s not a convention of enthusiasts for the comic strip The Phantom or the film The Lost Skeleton of Cadavra. It’s actually — okay, this is going to sound mundane, but it’s not — a workshop.

Crystal skulls — the subject of the workshop, being held this Saturday at the Sanctuary in Bartlett — are objects said to possess powers beyond normal human experience but not necessarily beyond the limit of human understanding. They may come from the Mayans, the Micronesians, or aliens. Opinions vary. Skulls have been said to have the power to pass on the wisdom of ancient peoples, to heal sickness, to facilitate self-discovery and connection with the earth, even to communicate and pass on information with other crystal skulls.

The workshop is for both the uninitiated looking to find out more and those already practicing crystal-skull enlightenment. (Bring your own crystall skull if you have one.) Madra Little will teach people how to activate and to learn to communicate with crystal skulls through meditation.

And that’s not all. On August 10th-12th at the Sanctuary, the ancient crystal skull “Synergy” and its caretaker Sherry Whitfield Merrell will be on hand for workshops and group and private sessions. There are only six found ancient skulls in the world — legend has it that there are 13 in existence — so Synergy has attained something like rock-star (pun intended) status. This is one play date you’ll want your crystal skull to attend.

Crystal-skull workshop, The Sanctuary, Saturday, July 7th, 7 p.m. 6266 Stage Plaza (Bartlett). $20 pre-registration/$25 at the door. For more information, call 377-6488.