Reading Series/Author Resources
- Checklist for Tabling at a Book Fair (pdf) (or editable version in docx)
- Tips on Giving a Reading (pdf)
- Dos and Don’t for an Online Reading (pdf)
- Do’s and Don’ts for Author Photos (pdf)
- Do’s and Don’ts for Author Bio (pdf)
- Author Questionnaire (pdf)
- When to Contact Readers: Communication Plan for a Reading Series (docx)
- Tasks for the Board of Directors/Series Organizers (pdf)
- Managing the Untamable Open Mic: Techniques (pdf)
- Guiding Questions for a Reading Series (pdf)
- Author-Publisher Communication (pdf)
Teaching tools:
- 1-page: motivations in Roles of writers (.pdf)
Poetry values cards: Instructions, Deck 1, Deck 2. - 7 pages: exercises on rhythm (.pdf)
- rubric for assessing poetry (editing rubric .pdf)
- evaluate a book (assessingbooks.pdf).
- 10-page handout on poetic processes (poetics-strategies.pdf)
- 4 pages of the haiku family tree including a Venn diagram map
Templates:
- Template for chapbooks: 24-page for Apple Pages, 36-page for Apple Pages, 24-page in MS Word (docx), 36-page in MS Word (docx)
- A template for xbooks for Pages 4.0 (later versions removed the linked text box feature)
- An x-book folding pattern thanks to Paula Beardell Krieg (.jpg)
- 4-fold broadsheet for legal-sized paper for Mac (pages 5.5)
- 6-sheet chapbook (10 pages including cover & pages numbered) for Mac (.pages 4.0)
- 4-sheet chapbook (8 pages including cover & pages numbered) (.pages 4.0)
- 3-sheet (6 pages including cover & pages numbered) linked text box chapbook template (.doc) or for Mac (.pages version 4)
- Jane Reichhold’s templates of order of verses for Spring kasen renga, Summer kasen renga, Autumn kasen renga, and Winter kasen renga.
Track your reading?
A spreadsheet for tracking titles read and demographics of your reading (Numbers 3.5)
Toys and techniques:
- Writebulb, a iphone prompt app
- WellThatPutsweb app where you can refresh for new matryoshka words.
- Word-Shuffler for the hokey pokey of words order
- Download footlights: the Colouring Book.
- Pearl-diving: Grit to Form Poems Around: a prompts chapbook
- Twitterbot of words embedded in words; WellThatPuts the __ in __ (archive)
- Word Tools and Prompts post