 Newport Round Table is a community organization dedicated to the creative arts, with an emphasis on writing.
We work together to improve our creativity through gentle critique and interactive support.
The Newport Round Table Advanced Writers' Workshop
meets every Monday at 7:00pm. This is a paid membership group limited
to twelve enrollees. The sessions are eight weeks long. The new
session runs from February 1st through March 22nd, 2010.
The Sally Malloy Sanford Scholarship
Newport Round
Table is pleased to offer partial and full scholarships to deserving
recipients. Named in memory of our friend, writer Sally Malloy Sanford, partial scholarships are designed to cover the difference between
what an individual can pay and the actual fee. Applications will be processed
on a first-come, first served basis until funds are depleted. Contributions to the fund and awards will always remain
confidential.
We'd like to invite you to join our online community. Site membership for Newport Round Table is free to members enrolled in one of our workshops, and available for $25 a year to all others. As we are a writer's and artist's support group, our primary goal is to encourage and support fiction and nonfiction writers, as well as visual artists. If you are looking for a deeper critique and actual classes, the moderators, Mark (James Axler) Ellis & Melissa Martin Ellis can help. The Ellis' have a combined experience of over 45 years in publishing, with over 45 fiction and nonfiction books published.
Authors Mark Ellis and Melissa Martin Ellis are now offering proofing and editing services for query letters, manuscripts and proposals.
Q: Who can join?
A: Writers who have reached a level of proficiency with grammar and
punctuation and have moved beyond the basics. Please submit a sample of your writing to be considered for
membership. You'll be notified quickly of our decision. Please make
your $80 check payable to Mark Ellis, and bring it to the first meeting of the new session. Checks for online users can be mailed to Mark Ellis, 48
Bedlow Avenue, Newport, RI, 02840.
The $25 yearly dues for membership in Newport Roundtable's online site go to support the
website and anthology. Membership benefits include access to the
private, registered user areas of the website, space on the site for your own
weblog, access to announcements about classes and workshops and of course,
consideration for publication in our anthology due out in the fall of 2009,
Newport Round Table Anthology, Volume II.
You do not have to be local to qualify for membership, we welcome
applicants worldwide who would like to be able to post their work for
critique and be eligible for publication in the anthology.
Q: How do I get my own blog on the website?
A: Members may upload the work their work to their website blogs at any time. Members who wish to can ask their peers for critiques and comments. Members can also blog about the writing life and post humorous or instructive material to share on their individual blogs.
Meet the Moderators...
Mark Ellis is a versatile suspense and science-fiction writer who has authored 42 novels. In over 20 years as a professional writer, he has worked as a journalist, editor and advertising copywriter. His freelance work has appeared in a variety of different publications in equally diverse categories, from fiction to non-fiction.
His numerous credentials in the comic book field include critically acclaimed stints on Doc Savage, The Wild, Wild West, and H.P. Lovecraft’s Cthulhu.
His latest projects include the graphic novel Death Hawk: The Soulworm Saga and The Everything Guide to Writing Graphic Novels, which he and his wife Melissa Martin-Ellis co-wrote , which will be published in early 2008 by Adams Media.
He has just completed the novel Cryptozoica, an adventure tale extraordinaire.
Under the pen name of James Axler, he created the Outlanders series for Harlequin Enterprises’ Gold Eagle imprint. Currently in its 10th consecutive year of publication, Outlanders has sold over a million copies.
For more about Mark, please check out: http://www.markellisink.com
If you're interested in ordering the Death Hawk graphic novel:
http://www.indyplanet.com/catalog/product_info.php?products_id=407
Or if you're interested in learning about the Outlanders series:
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Outlanders
Melissa Martin Ellis is an artist/photographer, writer and journalist.
She is also former Vice President and Creative Director of Millennium Publications. Her artwork and writing have been featured in numerous New England exhibits and galleries, as well as in print media such as The Redwood Review, Newport This Week, Newport Life Magazine, The Boston Globe, Horseman’s Yankee Peddler and Balancing The Tides.
She and her husband Mark Ellis collaborated on The Everything Guide to Writing Graphic Novels published in January, 2008.
Her second project for Adam Media, The Everything Guide to Photography is due out in fall, 2008.
In November 2007, she was given the green light for her book The Everything Ghost Hunting Book. It will be out in the spring of 2009.
For more on Melissa Martin Ellis, please visit her website at:
www.mellissart.com
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