Susan Shapiro

Food for the Soul
Selections from the Holy Apostles Soup Kitchen Writers Workshop
Edited by Elizabeth Maxwell and Susan Shapiro

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Featured on The Today Show 11/27/04

Excerpted in New York Times - City Section 11/14/04
Listed in New York Post's "Required Reading" 11/7/04

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SECRETS OF SELLING YOUR BOOK
Next Seminar Sun. January 11 from 2-8 pm
with guest star literary agent Molly Lyons
& Overlook book editor Aaron Schlecter
$175. For more info call Sue 212-677-4712
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TEMPLE UNIVERSITY READING &
HOW TO REALLY GET PUBLISHED TALK
with Philly native, comedy writer Patty Marx
Wednesday January 21 at 5:30 pm FREE
Temple University Student Activities Center
1755 N. 13th Street (at Montgomery Street)

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FOR BETWEEN THE COVERS
by Book Babes Margo Hammond & Ellen Heltzel
Friday night January 23 at 7:30 pm
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6th Avenue & 8th Street (free)

NEW SCHOOL 14-WEEK WINTER CLASSES
Start again Monday nights January 26

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Celebrating BEHIND THE BEDROOM DOOR
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agents Alexis Hurley & Ryan Harbage
and writers Valerie Frankel & Sue Shapiro
Friday February 13 at 7 pm
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Reading with Paula Derrow
Thursday February 19 at 8 pm
Happy Ending at 302 Broome St.

INSTANT-GRATIFICATION-TAKES-TOO-LONG
Five-week Private Essay Writing Workshops
Tuesday nights March 3 to March 31
Two Sections: 5:30-7:30 pm & 7:45-9:45
Meets in Greenwich Village - $500
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SATURDAY ESSAY WRITING SEMINARS
April 18 & April 25 from 2-5 pm
Cooper Union, 7 East 7th Street
in Greenwich Village NYC $170
To Register call: 212-353-4195

SUMMER 2009 NEW SCHOOL CLASSES
Writing for NYC Newspapers & Magazines
starts Monday night June 1 from 6-10 pm

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Tuesday night August 4 at 7 pm at
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This collection...from 25 talented participants in a soup kitchen workshop lives up to its title.... funny, gritty, brutally honest - writing that attests to a raw spirituality... informed by life on the streets...Sometimes sweet...sometimes bitter... a nutritious "slice of life" from a workshop truly in the soul-food business.
Publishers Weekly

Poignant stories about life on the street
Time Out New York

The essays and verse provide a window into the diverse lives and personalities of unique individuals...Some are heartwarming, others heartbreaking....If there is this much talent among soup kitchen guests in writing alone, how much more untapped ability there must be just waiting to be brought forth in countless other fields as well.
New York Beacon

These essays, poems, stories from 25 participants in a soup kitchen writing project will make you cry and laugh. Raw and honest, each one is a response to a prompt such as "Where I'm From" or "My Best Mistake." This little volume bursts with nourishment as the holiday season approaches.
Elizabeth Taylor
Chicago Tribune
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