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Signum Academy Presents: Hobbit Day
Signum Academy’s Writer’s Club invites you to our Hobbit Day celebration! Hobbit Day is on September 22, the date of that most memorable birthday party, and the shared birthdays of Bilbo and Frodo Baggins, and Signum Academy invites you to our Hobbit Day celebration, where you can experience a taste of the instruction and knowledge […]
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Writer’s Forge: The Shape of Story
The Wordsmiths of the Writer’s Forge bring you the first in a short series of Tools for the Toolbox. Friday the 16th at 6pm Eastern, The Shape of Story. Plenty of folks will tell you they have the One True Method of plotting out a story. But what if each form is valid and strong […]
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Mountain Moot 2022
The Mind of a Maker: Story Tellers and Secondary Worlds “What really happens is that the story-maker proves a successful ‘sub-creator’. He makes a Secondary World which your mind can enter. Inside it, what he relates is ‘true’: it accords with the laws of that world. You therefore believe it, while you are, as it […]
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New England Moot 2022
Immersed in… We invite attendees and presenters to consider the many immersive experiences we encounter in art, literature, the study of language, and life. When a character in a book is brought into a fully encompassing experience, how are they changed? How can a work of art succeed or fail to wash over the participant? […]
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SoCal Moot 2022
Subcreation: Blessed are the Legend-Makers The theme for SoCalMoot 2022 will be “Sub-Creation”, a topic which J.R.R. Tolkien explored both in his writings on Middle Earth (where the layers of creation stretch from Iluvatar to the Valar, to the mortal and immortal races), in the essay “On Fairy Stories”, and in his poem “Mythopoeia”, in […]
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MiddleMoot 2022
Love and Understanding: Growing Wiser by Finding Unexpected Common Ground Welcome to MiddleMoot in Kansas City, Missouri! We will meet at Metropolitan Community College- Maplewood Campus. The event runs from 8:30 am to 4:30 pm. Register for MiddleMoot Health and Safety: At this time, the venue does not require masks. We will update the event […]
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OzMoot
We are happy to announce Ozmoot 2023, the very first Signum Regional Moot in Australasia! Announcements for keynote speakers and an event schedule will be released after the call for papers has closed. Tickets for on-site participation will be available ($50 US), as well as tickets to attend online ($25 US). All ticket holders will […]