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June 9th 7PM - Downtown Library: Cathy Holton, local fiction author talking about her third book.
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Sunday, October 26, 2008
#89 Ideas - Thoughts - Information on Writing
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Ideas Wanted
Pris Shartle is looking for suggestions for monthly programs. If you have an idea that you think would be a great program for the CWG general meetings send her an email. She and her committee will consider all suggestions. E-mail her HERE
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Great Writer's Blog
They don't get much better than this.
http://www.theauthorsassistant.blogspot.com/
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Great Web Site for Journalism.
Here is a good web site if journalism is your hope.
http://www.journalism.org/
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New York Times Book Review
Every serious writer should visit this site for inspiration.
http://www.nytimes.com/pages/books/review/index.html?8dpc
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Contests
CENTRAL COAST BRANCH of the CALIFORNIA WRITERS CLUB WRITING CONTEST for Short Fiction and Poetry
Deadline November 15, 2008 (by postmark) $500 and Publication in the Spring 2009 Homestead Review
http://www.centralc oastwriters. org/2009- spring-contest- rules.htm
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SIXTH ANNUAL FICTION COMPETITION LILITH
Magazine is looking for unpublished original stories with heart, soul and chutzpah illuminating issues in the lives of Jewish women.
http://www.lilith. org/writers. htm
FIRST PRIZE: $250 and publication of story in LILITH Magazine.
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John F. Blair, Publisher
Is getting a care package together for some soldiers in Iraq. However, this particular troop has requested . . . shock and surprise . . . classics! Since they don't publish any of the classics at Blair, they would like your help collecting some of the greats.If you have any of the classics on your shelf that you no longer want/need or will never read again, please help us out by sending them to the following address:
John F. Blair, Publisher
Attn: Angela Harwood
1406 Plaza Drive
Winston-Salem, NC 27103
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Book Signing Nov 15th
As part of the "Sunday on Signal" weekend, authors Mary Scott Norris and Pris Shartle will be signing their book Signal Mountain from Arcadia Publishing on Saturday, November 15, 2008, at the GRAPEViNE, 1207 Taft Highway, Signal Mountain from 10:00 a.m. to 12:00 Noon. For more information call 886-0024.
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Tuesday, October 21, 2008
88 - Events - News - Meacham
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Meacham Starts Thursday
Meacham Writers Workshop starts Thursday and free to all. Below is the web address for the Schedule --- make as many events as you can. Learn from the best Chattanooga has to offer. http://www.chattanoogastate.edu/meacham/schedule.htm
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Pris Shartle in Parent Magazine
CWG member Pris Shartle had an excellent article in a recent issue of locally produced Parent Magazine. If you have something written they might use, you might want to look at sending it to them. Several of our members have written for them in the past.
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From our Mailbag
Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine Open for Submissions.
Greetings! I would like to inform you and the Writers in your association of our new Horror, Fantasy, Sci Fi, & Paranormal pdf.quarterly zine. Strange, Weird, and Wonderful Magazine is currently taking submissions for our 3rd issue, which will be published January 1st, 2009. If any of your members are interested, they should first go to www.strangeweirdandwonderful.com to review our current guidelines. We are a flat rate market for artwork, and short stories and our main motto is "there is talent everywhere," just not enough markets to showcase it.
Thanks in advance.
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Self Publishing
Good article about self publishing pitfalls to watch out for.
http://self-publishing-guide.blogspot.com/2008/10/tricky-art-of-self-publishing.html
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Dues Due
Annual Dues to the Chattanooga Writers Guild are now due. If you have not paid we invite you to support us. Dues are $25 a year. Send checks to Chattanooga Writers Guild, P. O. Box 3087, Chattanooga, TN 37404
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Thursday, October 9, 2008
#87 -- News - News - and Updates
Tennessee Festival of Books
It's in Nashville and worth every minute.
http://www.tn-humanities.org/festival/sessions.php
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Open Mic Night
This month will be at Rock Point Books
Monday, October 20 --- 7:00 to 8:30 PM
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Feed Your Brain Poetry Reading
Contact: Ray Zimmerman, znaturalist@yahoo.com, 315-0721
Mocha Joes Bistro in St. Elmo -- Saturday, November 8 -- 7:00 to 9:00 PM
A reading by award winning poets Ray Zimmerman, Bruce Majors, and others.
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November 15: K.B. Ballentine leads Poetry Writing Retreat
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.
So much of our writing is based on personal experience through the lens of self. This workshop will focus on developing writing skills based on external prompts and stimuli. As we learn to look outward, we develop a whole new set of experiences from which to write and acquire a brand new "reference library." Bring pen and paper, partial poems, complete poems, and even the "failed" poems you just can't give up. Be ready to write, write, and write!
KB Ballentine teaches English and theatre arts to high school and college students. She has attended writing academies in both America and Britain. In 2006 she was a finalist for the Joy Harjo Poetry Award and in 2006 and 2007 was awarded a prize from the Dorothy Sargent Rosenberg Memorial Fund. Her first collection of poems, Gathering Stones, was published in 2008 by Celtic Cat Publishing. She is a member of the Chattanooga Writers' Guild.
The workshop is limited to 16 participants. The cost, which includes a catered lunch, is $95 for members of the Knoxville Writers' Guild and the Chattanooga Writers' Guild and $115 for nonmembers. For more information, call John Reaves, Workshop Coordinator, at 865-659-2651 or email at jreaves @ pstcc.edu.
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New York Times Series on the future of Reading and Writing
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/07/27/books/27reading.html
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Four Great Blogs on Writing
Finding Wonderland
How Not to Write
Rejecter
Writer Unboxed
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Fifteen Great Blogs by Writers
Celia Rees
Christine Fletcher
Diana Gabaldon
John Green’s Weblog
Laurie Halse Anderson
Libba Bray
Lois Lowry
Meg Cabot
Megan McCafferty
Mervyn Peake
Neil Gaiman
Sarah Dessen
Shannon Hale
Susan Wiggs
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Thursday, October 2, 2008
#86 Contests - News - Advice - Facts
Allied Arts' Holmberg Institute
Two of the CWG's Board members, Ray Zimmerman and Jennifer Hoff have been accepted to the Holmberg Arts Leadership Institute. Each year about thirty local arts leaders are accepted to participate in four month course that shows the importance of growth of Arts for the economic and quality of life of a community. We are honored to be so well represented.
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Contests
Here is a great calendar of submission Deadlines from Poets and Writers -- Don't forget the Tennessee Contest
http://pw.org/content/submission_calendar
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Press Releases
We are always looking for outlets in the greater Chattanooga area that would be interested in getting our Press Releases. If you have the email address of interested parties that we need to make sure is on our list, please forward it to: CWG@chattanoogawritersguild.org with CWG PRESS RELEASE in the Subject line and we will put them on our list
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CLAUDIA JOYCE'S NEW BOOK (Joyce Walters)
Redbird in the Snow, a collection of Christmas stories from Joyce's World War II childhood until the present, will be available at the next Guild Meeting on October 14. These stories from Christmases past will make you laugh, cry, or sigh. Some of the stories have a sense of true Christmas Spirit as we've always known it, but others show different emotions and feelings that sometimes arise during the holidays
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Notes from the Underground
Friday, October 3: 6:00 til 8:00 PM
600 Georgia Avenue
An Eruption of Poetry Featuring Ray Zimmerman, Bruce Majors, Ninian Williams, E. Smith Gilbert, Julie Alexander, and friends.
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GoodSearch and GoodShop
Don't forget to use http://www.goodshop.com/ when you buy anything online. If you buy anything from almost anyone online -- a percentage of your purchase will be donated to the CWG if you make the Chattanooga Writers Guild your charity of choice.
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A Chattanooga Christmas, 2008, is now accepting submissions for the 2008 edition. Short fiction, personal memoirs, nonfiction, recipes and photos-- if it's about the Christmas season in East Tennessee, they will consider it. They are actively seeking submissions from diverse populations and from other than Christian perspective. Guidelines: No more than two thousand words.Preference given to shorter pieces. Quality counts and novices are welcome. Reprints okay if you currently own the rights. Author bio and photo will be included on facing title page. Deadline: 10 October. Email submissions or questions to editor@bushidopress.com place Chattanooga Christmas in the subject line. Electronic submssions only. For more go HERE _____________________________________
Annual Dues are Due -- Still only $25 a year. -- Chattanooga Writers Guild / Box 3087 / Chattanooga, Tn 37404 ___________________________________
Autumn, 2009
Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center will host the first-ever Smoky Mountain Writers Conference, to be held in Townsend, TN. The event has been sanctioned as an official Great Smoky Mountains National Park 75th Anniversary event and will take place over a three day weekend, in October or November. Send thoughts and suggestions who you would like to see as keynote speakers, workshop topics and leaders. The weekend will also include book sales and author signings,with the focus on books written about the Smokies, set in the Smokies or by authors who live in the Smokies. Great Smoky Mountains Heritage Center gsmhcevents@yahoo.com
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Lighten Up: the Art of Humor-writing
TN Mountain Writers is sponsoring a 5-hr humor- writing workshop in Oak Ridge on Nov. 1 led by Judy DiGregorio, To register go to http://www.tmwi.org/ .
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How To Avoid Writing Scams
Poets & Writers advises writers to be wary of publishing work with vanity presses that ask for money, fail to answer queries, or lack information on their Web sites.More Advice on Avoiding Scams
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