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Queens Writers News

Just a quick note to say hello/temporary good-bye to Jeff Orlick, the man, the myth, the legend. You might know him from the various Queens food events he organizes–Roosevelt Ave street-food crawls, five-borough pizza tours and the phenomenal Flushing Mall Grazing Experience a few months back.

(The FluMaGraExp was the realization of mine and Peter’s dream of the “golden chopsticks”–a surcharge you pay in a restaurant that allows you to taste everyone else’s food. Here’s Jeff’s report on it.)

Anyway, Jeff was over here working a bit, and even got into a bit of a nice 10am-ish-to-3pm-ish groove. He was busting out brand-new ideas all the time while he was here. And then I realized I’d neglected to tell him I was taking off for Morocco, and that he couldn’t come over anymore for a while. Sorry, Jeff! But we’ll get back to it.

But he did say of the co-working plan, “I’m a total convert. The instant you went downstairs, I started going on Facebook.” See! See! Together, folks, we can get sh*t done! And thanks to Jeff, I managed to focus enough to get my book proposal wrapped up before leaving. (More details later. I hope…)

So, I’ll be back in a couple of weeks, and I hope we can get back in the work groove. As ever, drop me a note if you’re interested in working over here–see the general info page for more.

Queens Writers Fellowship, Round 2

It’s just about time to say goodbye to Heather Hughes, who was a great fellow-writer here for the last couple of months. So, the Queens Writers Fellowship continues.

Who’s up next? This desk could be yours. This next round will be a little short, due to my travel schedule: early April through near the end of May. There’s a week or so around Easter when I’ll be gone. And there are a few days (yet to be scheduled), when I’ll be working out of the house.

I’d love to hear from flexible people who want to come over and work in my office during that time. Using Heather as our QWF test case, I’ve found that five days a week usually isn’t totally feasible. But I felt like it was a good week when we worked together three days out of five. And if we can manage more, that’s great.

So, if you’re interested, drop me a note before April 1, and let me know what you’re working on, where you live, how much you aspire to come over and write–that kind of thing. I’d like to get the next fellow started in here by April 11. If you applied last time, just drop me a short note to let me know if you’re in or not for this time.

And even if the next time slot doesn’t work so well, let me know–I’m always curious to hear from more writers and workers-from-home in Queens. I’d like to get this next