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Award-Winning Author and Educator Mark Warren Presents "Using Nature in Writing"How much does an author need to know about Nature, and how can that knowledge be put to use in his/her writing?
What observations about Nature can make a scene in a book come alive?
These and other aspects of writing will be discussed as a way to help writers expand their craft into a richer version of narrative.
All of Mark's books will be available for sale and signing at this event.
BIO: Mark Warren is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of the University of Georgia. At Medicine Bow, his
tory and survival skills, and Western frontier history presenting at museums and cultural centers around nationally renowned wilderness school in the Southern Appalachians, he teaches nature classes and primitive survival skills. The National Wildlife Federation named him Georgia’s Conservation Educator of the Year in 1980. In 1998 Mark became the U.S. National Champion in whitewater canoeing, and in 1999 he won the World Championship Longbow title.
Warren has written extensively about nature for local and national magazines. He lectures on Native American histhe country. He is the recipient of the 2024 New Mexico – Arizona Book Award for his historical novel on Billy the Kid, A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney. His Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey trilogy was honored by WWA’s Spur Awards, The Historical Novel Society, and the 2020 Will Rogers Medallion Awards. Warren is a 2022 Georgia Author of the Year recipient for his book Song of the Horseman (Finalist, Literary Fiction). Indigo Heaven, The Westering Trail Travesties, and Nate, The Texas Story are all Will Rogers Medallion Award winners.
Warren has twenty-one traditionally published books: from Lyons Press, Two Winters in a Tipi and Secrets of the Forest (a four-volume series on nature and primitive skills,) from Two Dot, Wyatt Earp, An American Odyssey, from Speaking Volumes, Indigo Heaven, Song of the Horseman, Last of the Pistoleers, Moon of the White Tears, A Copperhead Summer, The Last Real Place, A Dance in the Devil’s Rain and A Tale Twice Told, and from Wolfpack, The Westering Trail Travesties, A Last Serenade for Billy Bonney, Nate Champion: The Texas Story, and Nate Champion: The Wyoming Story.
For more information on Mark and his books, check out his website at https://medicinebow.net/ There you will find all of Mark's books, links to interviews, podcasts and lectures, and all of Mark's.
For more information on Northeast Georgia Writers group, check out their website at https://www.negaliterarysociety.org/negawriters
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Hall County Library System, 127 NW Main St, Gainesville, GA 30501-3614, United States
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