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Show Writers League to Hold Workshop Saturday, Mar. 20 A Writer's League Workshop emphasizing magazine article and juvenile writing will be sponsored by the League of Utah Writers, Saturday, Mar. 20. The day-long event will be held at the Utah Fine Arts Building, 609 East South Temple, Tem-ple, Salt Lake City. All Utah writers are invited to attend, with registration from 9 to 9:30 a.m. The Workshop Work-shop will be free to League members, $5 for non-members. Guest speakers will include Mabel Ma-bel Harmer,7 Edwin O. Harold-sen Harold-sen and Lucile C. Reading. Those attending will have an opportunity to read excerpts from manuscripts for criticism and suggestions as to marketing market-ing in workshop sessions, according ac-cording to Betty G. Spencer, League president. Luncheon will be available for $1. Mrs. Harmer will discuss juvenile ju-venile fiction and non-fiction. She has authored more than 3,000 children's stories, published publish-ed 14 books and has also written writ-ten adult stories, trade magazine maga-zine articles and juvenile plays One of Utah's foremost writers, Mrs. Harmer is listed in "Who Is Who in the West." Mrs. Haroldsen is presently teaching reporting, magazine article writing and editing, international in-ternational communications & research at Brigham Young University. He is a former staff writer for U.S. News and World Report and United Press International and has also been on the staff of the Salt Lake Tribune and Deseret News. Other assignments for Mr. Haroldsen include service as information advisor to the Turkish Tur-kish Ministry of Agriculture in Ankara, Turkey and economics editor at Iowa State University. Dr. Haroldsen covered the controversial con-troversial Democratic national convention in Chicago for U.S. News and World Report in 1968 Well known to local writers, Mrs. Reading is managing editor ed-itor of "The Friend" (formerly (former-ly the Children's Friend) and will discuss juvenile verse from an editor's point of view. She wrote the "Shining Moments" Mo-ments" series for The Children's Child-ren's Friend and has served as a counselor in the General Primary Pri-mary presidency prior to her present assignment. |