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About Deanna
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Deanna Adams is a freelance writer, essayist, writing instructor, and speaker whose articles and essays have been published in Ohio Magazine, Writers' Digest, Northern Ohio Live, The Plain Dealer, Sesame Street Parents Magazine, Soho Magazine, Lake County Business Journal, Today’s Family, Lake Erie Living Magazine, and other publications. She also contributed an article on the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the The American Midwest: An Interpretive Encyclopedia. Her first book, Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Cleveland Connection by Kent State University Press, was a finalist for the 2003 ARSC Award (Association for Recorded Sound Collections) for excellence in research, and a 2003 finalist for the Ohioana Book Award for nonfiction. Her latest book, Confessions of a Not-So-Good Catholic Girl, is a collection of true stories about growing up a baby boomer in the Midwest. Deanna is an instructor at Lakeland Community College, and director of the Western Reserve Writers' Conference, and the Women Writers’ Winter Retreat. She is currently working on her fourth book. Affiliations Author's Guild Poets & Writers League of Greater Cleveland International Women’s Writing Guild Western Reserve Writers Group Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Pennwriters, Inc. Chautauqua Writers' Freelance Writer 1989 – present Articles and essays published in Ohio Magazine, Writer’s Digest, Sesame Street Magazine, Ohio Writer, Cleveland Plain Dealer, Lake Erie Living, Lake County News-Herald, Lake County Business Journal, Today’s Family, Epitome and others. Regular contributor to Northern Ohio Live, Plain Dealer Sunday Magazine, Lake Erie Living magazines. Writing instructor at Lakeland Community College, and the Poets’ & Writers’ League of Greater Cleveland. Director of the Western Reserve Writers & Freelance Conferences, Founder/Director of the Women Writers Winter Retreat, Chairperson, Cleveland Entertainment Coalition
Books
Awards
Finalist for the 2003 Ohioana
Book Award in Nonfiction.
Finalist for Excellence in Research for the
2003 ARSC Award (Association of Recorded
Sound Collections).
Nominated for the 2008 Andrews School Distinguished Alumna Award
Ohio Excellence in Journalism
Award (Single Essay category)
Contributed article on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the 2007 Encyclopedia of the Midwest. . Included in the Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in the World Author of Rock ‘n’ Roll and the Cleveland Connection (Kent State University Press 2002). Finalist for the 2003 Ohioana Book Award in Nonfiction. Finalist for Excellence in Research for the 2003 ARSC Award (Association of Recorded Sound Collections). Nominated for the 2008 Andrews Distinguished Alumna Award Contributed article on the Rock ‘n’ Roll Hall of Fame and Museum for the 2007 Encyclopedia of the Midwest. . Included in the Who’s Who in America, Who’s Who of American Women, Who’s Who in American Education, Who’s Who in the Midwest, and Who’s Who in the World Affiliations... Author’s Guild Poets & Writers League of Greater Cleveland International Women’s Writing Guild (IWWG) Society of Professional Journalists (SPJ) Pennwriters, Inc. Chautauqua Writers’ Center Rock and Roll Hall of Fame and Museum Cleveland Entertainment Coalition Speaking Presentations and Workshops Rock Music Presenter for the Association of Recorded Sound Collections (ARSC) 2004 Conference Writing for Money Conference, sponsored by Poets and Writers League of Greater Cleveland Western Reserve Writers’ Conference Wayne College Writers’ Workshop CSU Student Journalism Project Cleveland State University In the Company of Women Workshop (an IWWG Program) Cleveland Entertainment Coalition – Education Series Northwest Ohio Writers’ Group “Write On” Series Lakeland Community College Northwest Ohio Writers’ Conference Galleria 324, Cleveland, Ohio Skyline Writers’ Conference Pennwriters’ Conference and Workshop Library Presentations throughout Northeast and Central Ohio Book Signings and Readings All major, and many independent, bookstores throughout Ohio Guitar Center, Cleveland and Florida S & K Music Store signing, Las Vegas Guest Appearances in book and music stores in Naples, and Cape Coral, Florida Radio and TV Appearances Most Local Stations including PBS and NPR Regular guest on Denny Carlton’s “Cleveland Music Connection” radio show 96 K-Rock, Southwest Florida |
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