May 3, 2012, Thursday - Anthology Publication Reading: Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers at The Loft

Time: 7:00pm

Location: The Loft, 1011 Washington Avenue South

Join local author and Loft instructor Kate Hopper to celebrate the launch of her first book, Use Your Words: A Writing Guide for Mothers!

Motherhood inspired the powerful prose of Anne Lamott, Susan Cheever, Ayelet Waldman, and Alice Walker, launching them, and many others, to the top of bestseller lists.  Award-winning writer Kate Hopper has spent nearly a decade teaching women to write down the bones of motherhood. Now, in Use Your Words, her expert guidance will spur you to write the stories you need to write, whether your goal is to blog, publish magazine articles, or pen the next blockbuster memoir.

Kate will discuss the book, and contributors Anne Greenwood Brown, Lucinda Cummings, and Sara Martin will read. Reception and signing to follow.

Kate Hopper teaches writing online and at The Loft Literary Center in Minneapolis, where she lives with her husband and two daughters. Kate holds an MFA in creative writing from the University of Minnesota and has been the recipient of a Fulbright Scholarship, a Minnesota State Arts Board Grant, and a Sustainable Arts Grant. Her writing has appeared in a number of journals, including Brevity, Literary Mama, and The New York Times online. She is an editor at Literary Mama. For more information about Kate’s writing and classes, visit www.katehopper.com.

Anne Greenwood Brown’s debut YA novel, Lies Beneath, will be published June 12, 2012, by Random House Children's Books/ Delacorte Press, and its sequel in March 2013. She blogs for Writer Unboxed and The Nightstand: for Books both Sinister and Strange. Anne lives in Stillwater, Minnesota with her husband and three children. http://annegreenwoodbrown.com

Lucinda Cummings is a psychologist and writer who lives in Minneapolis. She has published essays in mamazine and Mom Writers Literary Magazine. She is working on a book-length memoir.

Sara Martin lives in Minneapolis with her husband, two young sons, and a very patient dog. Both boys joined her family through adoption. Sara tries to squeeze in some writing when she’s not spending time with her family, working as a public defender, or training for triathlons.