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Annual CWG Picnic -- Sept 9th -- 6 to 9 PM
Greenway Farm. Bring 2 covered dishes and a serving spoon and your annual dues of $25. Beatnik Poets of Wildwood are committed to preform. Election of Officers for next year.
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Sept 27 Writers Saturday in Cleveland
Don't forget to shake off the cobwebs and get some independent guidance to that project that you have been working on. It will be held in Cleveland and sponsored by the Cleveland group of the CWG. $80 members $95 for non-members. Sign up at www.bamwriters.com Cyn is also throwing in a month of membership to Bamwriters [a $25 value] . Marsha Brantley will be at the Picnic to answer any questions that you might have.
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November 15, 2008 Poetry Writing Retreat in Sweetwater, Tn.
The Knoxville Writers’ Guild will host a poetry writing retreat on November 15, 2008, from 10 a.m. to 3 p.m., at the former Orr Mountain Winery building between Sweetwater and Madisonville, Tennessee. The instructor will be poet and teacher KB Ballentine. The deadline for registering is November 1. The event is being discounted for members of the Knoxville Writers Guild and the Chattanooga Writers Guild. For information : http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/ballentineworkshop.htm

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Shameless Self Promotion

Karen Phillips was hired by The Dabbling Mum, one of Writers Digest's 101 Best Websites for Writers! to write the Grammar 'N Style column each month, beginning in September. Address is http://thedabblingmum.com . Click to the section for writers (tab at top of page), then look for the grammar tab on the left. The column should publish the second half of the month.

Patricia Paris article in Chattanoogan.com
http://www.chattanoogan.com/articles/article_132549.asp

Poets and Writers 44 Contest Deadlines
We have had a tremendous response on the Poets and Writers contest for Tennessee Writers. Now we want to remind you of over forty other contests that are around the bend. Remember "If you Don't Send -- You Won't Win."
http://pw.org/content/submission_calendar

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The Writer's Loft at Tennessee State
The Writer's Loft is excited to have two full days of events for the September orientation weekend, Friday and Saturday, September 12th-13th. Friday sessions have a limited number of spots available to the public on a first come, first serve basis. Friday morning will feature a three-hour workshop by novelist Darnell Arnoult (http://e2ma.net/go/1255143929/1140141/41777150/goto:http://www.darnellarnoult.com)

followed by lunch, then a two-hour afternoon workshop by poet Bill Brown. Registration for the day is $50 and does not include lunch or other or any of the other Loft weekend activities. However, any paid workshop attendee who wishes to enroll in The Writer's Loft will receive a $50 credit toward the student's first semester tuition. For more information and online registration, go to http://e2ma.net/go/1255143929/1140141/41777149/goto:http://www.mtsu.edu/theloft then click on Orientation Weekend.Other weekend events for Loft members and alumni include a Friday evening reception for students, faculty, presenters, alumni and members of the community; Saturday lectures by novelist Linda Busby Parker, novelist Karen Alea and novelist/poet Kory Wells; and a reading and Q&A session with Dawn Shamp (http://www.dawnshamp.com/), author of the new book On Account of Conspicuous Women.

Read more at : http://www.mtsu.edu/theloft
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