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Friday, June 12, 2009
CWG NEWSLETTER -- FRIDAY, JUNE 12

Christian Market Writers Meet Third Tuesday of Each Month
This Tuesday, June 16, CWG's Writers for the Christian Market meet from 6-8 pm at First Presbyterian Church on McCallie Ave. in Tower Room 405. Bring something to read and be prepared to critique others' work. For more information, contact Marcia Swearingen, mswearingen@comcast.net.

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Poetry Reading--Saturday, June 20
New Voices
Pasha - 3914 St. Elmo Ave. - Chattanooga, Tennessee
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Enjoy the spoken word from notable and award winning poets, including several CWG members: Bruce Majors, who authored The Fields of Owl Roost, finalist for an Indie Excellence Award in the 2007 book awards competition. Bruce recently received an award from the North Carolina Poets Society’s Mary Ruffin Poole Poetry Contest.
E. Smith Gilbert has published extensively in the United States and Great Brittan. His works appear regularly in Poetica and in TPQ Online.
Ray Zimmerman read his poem "Glen Falls Trail," which took second place in the Tennessee Writers Alliance poetry contest. at the Southern Festival of Books in Nashville, in October of 2007. He edits the literary newsletter, Feed Your Brain, has published chapbooks of his poetry and fiction, and is a former president of the Chattanooga Writers Guild.
Ginnie Sams writes poetry as a daily meditation and is one of the original Trenton Beatnik Poets. She was the featured poet at the March 18th Read Around Tennessee program at Rock Point Books. Her books, written to preserve memories and share poems with family and friends, include Walk with Me, Circling the Moon, All My Relations, and Fire in the Hearth. Chap books include "The Abundance of Now" and "Thresholds on the Edge of Everything."
A Mystery Guest will also read.

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Member Profiles
There are numerous new names in our Members Profiles on our web site. Check out the new names and faces that are now posted. If you do not have a profile, what about putting one together? Members report it is an excellent way to put your CV* out to the world.
http://www.chattanoogawritersguild.org/profiles.shtml
*http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Curricula_vitae

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Thoughts About Jumping Through Market Hoops
http://chipmacgregor.typepad.com/main/

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MediaBistro News for Writers
Rupe Predicts the End of Paper and Ink (Guardian) "I can see the day, maybe 20 years away, where you don't actually have paper and ink and printing presses," said Rupert Murdoch. "I think it will take a long time and I think it's a generational thing that is happening. But there's no doubt that younger people are not picking up the traditional newspapers."
Chuck Todd to Write Book about Current Administration (NYO) Chuck Todd -- the chief White House correspondent and political director for NBC News -- has sold a book proposal to editor Geoff Shandler of Little, Brown about the first few years of Barack Obama's presidency.
Probably No Hard Labor for Convicted Journos in North Korea (Washington Times) North Korea's sentencing of two American journalists to 12 years of hard labor draws attention to one of the world's most unforgiving penal systems. But North Korea expert Andrei Lankov says "They will never be sent to a real prison camp, as they would see a lot of things an outsider is not meant to see."
Broadcasters Compete to Put TV on Cellphones (LAT) The digital switch is the end of one TV era, but broadcasters and device companies hope it's opening up another. Their vision for the future: a world in which we access live television not just on big screens in our living rooms, but also on cellphones and computers and in cars.
If the Journalism Business Fails, Who Pays for Journalism? (Time/Tuned In) James Poniewozik: Let's assume newspapers fold en masse, and going online-only does not save enough money to pay people to do journalism as their chief source of income. That's gone. What replaces it? And by that, I mean, who pays for what replaces it?

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