Chattanooga Writers Guild

CWG News & Announcements:

Thursday, April 23, 2009
CWG NEWSLETTER--FRIDAY, APRIL 24, 2009

Nancy Williams speaks to the public monthly meeting of the Guild on Tuesday, May 12, at the downtown library.

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April is National Poetry Month! If you haven't been receiving a poem every day, check out poetry.org and look for the poem-a-day. Sign up and they'll email a poem to you every day this month.

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Regular Open Mic meeting this Friday from 7.30-9.00 pm at Barnes and Noble, located inside Hamilton Place Mall. Hope to see you there.
List for April: - crepuscular -opaque
- wink - discordant
- fluffy - azure
- drop - truncate
- wane - any kind of animal

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The April meeting of the non-fiction group will be Tuesday, April 28, at 7:00. We meet at New Hope Presbyterian Church on Shallowford Road, just off Exit 5. The church is directly across the street from Krystal. Please email Sherry Poff at poffmeister@comcast.net if you have something to read or other news to share with the group. You may also address your questions to that email address. I look forward to seeing what people are working on!

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Poet Laureate Kay Ryan appointed to a second term by Librarian of Congress. See the story at http://www.upi.com/Entertainment_News/2009/04/15/Ryan-set-for-2nd-Poet-Laureate-term/UPI-18011239819778/

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Member Published in Chicken Soup
Marla Thurman sold a story to Chicken Soup's Tough Times, Tough People anthology, to be released May 29.

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Member Published in GRIT Magazine
Amber Lanier Nagle's article "Support Snakes" appears in the May/June issue, pages 74-77. There is also a condensed online version at http://www.grit.com/Wildlife/Knowing-Poisonous-Snakes.aspx

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Inspiration for Writers from Movies, Music, Books, etc.: http://headbutler.com/

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Markets for Creative Freelancing
http://freelancewrite.about.com/od/marketsandgenres/u/creativeuser.htm

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Two Articles about Ebooks Sent in by Members:
Forbes: http://snipurl.com/forbesonebooks
The Wall Street Journal: http://snipurl.com/wsjonebooks

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Ed Ditto has Book Signing at Rock Point Books
Ed, a member of the Cleveland Writers, will hold a book signing for his novel Heart for a Hero on April 25.
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First there was FLASH FICTION now there is HINT FICTION
Here is a contest that you can win with 25 words or less.
http://robertswartwood.wordpress.com/2009/04/19/hint-fiction-contest/

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Media Bistro Stories of Interest to Writers
With Print Edition Gone, Seattle P-I Web Traffic Sinks (E&P)The Seattle Post-Intelligencer, which published its last edition on March 17, was knocked off the list of top 30 newspaper Web sites in March. Seattlepi.com fell to No. 32 with 1.4 million unique users, down 23% compared to March 2008.
Should Literary Novels Be More Like The Wire? (NYO)Is the point of writing fiction in 2009 to represent, as accurately as possible, the way the world really works? And is there a meaningful distinction to be made between works of fiction that are overtly about actual places during actual moments in history, and novels whose emphasis is elsewhere?
Lunch, Twitter Propel Media Networking in Tough Times (Variety)Diane Clehane: With the avalanche of lost jobs in media, publishing, and fashion and the remaining players subsisting on newly tightened budgets, Gotham's glitterati are relying on power lunches -- and social networking sites -- to stay in the game during these tight times.

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Inspirational Video
http://www.intuitionzone.com/enchantment/

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How Would a Writer in Today's Market Survive without Internet?InternetforEveryone.org is working to shed light on the millions of Americans who live without regular Internet access or lack the training or equipment to get online. For a rural perspective, InternetforEveryone.org traveled down North Carolina's "digital dirt road" to hear from those struggling without high-speed Internet. Watch videos and read stories from Five Days on the Digital Dirt Road.

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Contests
The 31st Nimrod Awards,The Katherine Anne Porter Prize for Fiction, & The Pablo Neruda Prize for PoetryFirst Place: $2,000, publication, and a trip to Tulsa for the Awards CelebrationFIRST PLACE: $2,000 and PUBLICATIONSECOND PLACE: $1,000 and PUBLICATIONContest Rules http://www.utulsa.%20edu/nimrod/%20awards.html
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E.M. Koeppel $1,100 Short Fiction Award
http://www.writecor%20ner.com/award_%20guidelines.%20asp
Annual Awards for Unpublished Fiction in Any Style, Any Theme Guidelines: First Place Award: $1,100.Editors' Choices: $100 each.Maximum Length: 3,000 WORDS. Stories must be unpublished.Deadline, April 30. Award winning fiction writers are the judges.
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2009 Cave Canem Poetry Prize http://www.cavecane%20moets.org/%20pages/pdfs/%20Competition_%20Guidelines.%20pdf Award: Winner receives $ 1,000, publication by Graywolf Press, 15 copies of the book and a feature reading. Two finalists receive introductory readings. Final Judge: Yusef Komunyakaa. Judge reserves the right not to select a winner. Eligibility: African American writers who have not had a full‐length book of poetry published
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Alabama Writers' Conclave 2009Writing Competition
Guidelines http://www.alabamaw%20ritersconclave.%20org/contests.%20html . Deadline: April 30, 2009 Prizes: 1st: $100; 2nd: $75; 3rd: $50; 4th: $25 and up to 4 Honorable Mentions. Winners will be announced on the last day of the AWC Conference at the Hilton Birmingham Perimeter Park Hotel, Birmingham, Alabama on July 19, 2009.

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Poet Sage Cohen's Blog and Website
http://www.writingthelifepoetic.typepad.com/
http://www.sagesaidso.com/index.html

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Please send writer news, accomplishments, opportunities, contests, etc. to Karen H. Phillips, kphillipso@aol.com . Please begin subject line in all caps with two hyphens: NEWSLETTERCWG-- followed by important dates/deadlines, and brief description of the item you're sending. Using the beginning subject words above will send the email to my CWG Newsletter folder. The visual reminder in the email subject line will help me keep news timely. Whenever possible, submit announcements at least one week in advance. For example, if you're a writers' group leader, submit your meeting information one week before your meeting, as it otherwise may not be published in time. Thanks for all the helpful information you send--we writers thrive with support and encouragement!