Bottom Dog Press, Inc.

Homepage of The Firelands Writing Center of BGSU Firelands College in Huron, Ohio.

We are a co-operative of regional writers seeking to promote the art of good writing.Our particular focus is Northern Ohio, but by extension the whole Midwest.

We have been around for 25 years sponsoring monthly writer workshops, open-mic and featured readings, the Island Writers' Retreat, and publishing The Heartlands Today Literary Journal, then Heartlands: A Magazine of Midwest Art and Writing. Though those publication have ceased, we continue with our work at sharing and promoting good writing. We have been supported by  grants from The Ohio Arts Council.

To contact for further information, e-mail to

Dr. Larry Smith, director

Lsmithdog@smithdocs.net

Workshops are done by the writer submitting 1-3 poems, or 3-5 pages of prose (essay or fiction) to the director. A worksheet is run off and distributed at the meeting. The writer will then read his/her work aloud and take comments. It's all free and open to the public...the college community at large.

Photo from Celebrate Art Party

at Mr. Smith's Coffeehouse, Sandusky

Click on the photo for further images

from the Party

Please contact us anytime! We look forward to hearing from you.

Lsmithdog@smithdocs.net

Open Writing Workshops ...2nd Wed. of the month, at Firelands College, faculty lounge 7-9:30 or in member's homes. Best to e-mail the director at above address.

 Upcoming

Coffeehouse Reading Series

March 13th  2-4 pm

Four Seasons of March

Host: Rob Smith

followed by Open-Mic   downtown Sandusky  at

Mr. Smith's Coffeeshop, 140 Columbus Ave.   Each readers gets 5 minutes. 

Bottom Dog Press Reading

from new anthology

followed by Open-Mic

Images from the Retreat

12th Annual

Island Writers Retreat at Marblehead, Ohio

July 31-Aug. 1 2009

Guest Presenters: Bonnie Jo Campbell and Robert Flanagan

e-mail smithcours@smithdocs.net