Chattanooga Writers Guild

CWG News & Announcements:

Thursday, July 16, 2009

New Voices (Poetry Reading) Saturday, July 18

Pasha--3914 St. Elmo Avenue, Chattanooga, Tennessee

6:00 PM to 8:30 PM ----Contact: (423) 315-0721
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Member Blog to Follow
For original serial stories celebrating true romance, laughter, and faith, visit Katie Mitchell's at http://enchantedstorycircle.blogspot.com/ -- Many members have blogs. If you have one send us the address and we will post it to help you develop readers.
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Long Story Short has accepted three poems from KB Ballentine

These will appear in September and October of 2009 and April 2010. Ballentine's new collection of poetry Fragments of Light is now available and can be purchased for the pre-launch price of $12.00 from Celtic Cat Publishing or from KB until July 31.
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Limited Radiography, 3rd edition authored by France Campeau and CWG member, Jeana Fleitz

will be released next week by Cengage Learning.
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Nashville's Hot Tomato Haiku Contest for tomato-related haiku
grew out of the Tomato Art Fest (http://tomatoartfest.com/) and attracted hundreds of entries last year. Entry is free and some great prizes! You don't have uto be from Nashville (or even Tennessee) to enter, though winners should be willing to read their winning haiku at this year's festival (August 8th). Details and entry at www.bo okfool.com -Eileen Fickes
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Published News
CWG member Martha Henson was published at www.mustardseedministries.org. Her devotional piece was titled "God's Cure".
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Humor with Dangling Participles
The burglar was about 30 years old, white, 5' 10," with wavy hair weighing about 150 pounds.
The family lawyer will read the will tomorrow at the residence of Mr. Hannon, who died June 19 to accommodate his relatives
Mrs. Shirley Baxter, who went deer hunting with her husband, is very proud that she was able to shoot a fine buck as well as her husband.
Organ donations from the living reached a record high last year, outnumbering donors who are dead for the first time.
The dog was hungry and made the mistake of nipping a 2-year-old who was trying to force feed it in his ear.
We spent most of our time sitting on the back porch watching the cows playing Scrabble and reading.
Hunting can also be dangerous, as in the case of pygmies hunting elephants armed only with spears.
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