CWG Christmas Party/Monthly Meeting

Tuesday, December 8 -- 6:00 p.m.

Signal Mountain Community Guild Room

Signal Mountain Town Center

1111 Ridgeway Avenue, Signal Mountain, TN

Directions from our usual meeting place, the Downtown Library, can be found at the following MapQuest link:

http://tinyurl.com/librarytosignaltownhall

Bring an appetizer, side dish, or dessert to share, as well as the serving utensil. Entertainment will be provided by musicians Tom Morgan and Lynne Haas.

Sun., Dec. 6--The Writers Show Shares Christmas Gift Ideas from Danielle Hargis

The owner of Books Never Ending, an independent store located in North Georgia on Cloud Springs Road, provides The Writers Show host Joan Hetzler with book gift ideas for all ages, including gifts for writers. Danielle also tells the advantages of an independent bookstore.

Listen live Sunday at 1:00 p.m. at http://www.wawl.org . Past shows are archived at Joan's website, http://sites.google.com/site/thewritersshow .

Member John Mannone Receives Prestigious Nomination

John has been nominated for the Pushcart Prize in poetry by the small press, Inglis House, for his poem, Hauntings, about a disabled veteran in the Iraq War.

Member's Poem Accepted

Kitty Forbes will have a poem published in the magazine, Oxford American.

DailyLit Is now FREE

The DailyLit blog is now free for anyone who wants to sign up. It is a great way to read books and about books:

Chicken Soup for the Soul Seeks Stories of Good Times with Dad

Deadline: December 14, 2009.

This book, subtitled Thanks, Dad, needs funny, quirky, and unusual stories, as well as heartwarming stories about unique ways our fathers help us and show their love for us.
Eulogies, life stories, very serious stories, or stories about children are not needed. This book is about Dad and for Dad.

About 75 great stories have been selected so far for this book, and the editors want 30 more. The database for Thanks, Dad will reopen for two weeks, so if you have a great story about your father, submit it now.
Study the Chicken Soup website for guidelines, requirements, and payment.

Submit to: http://chickensoupforthesoul.com/form.asp?cid=submit_story.
Scheduled publication is April 20, 2010, and selected participants will receive free copies in advance of that.

Member Jamie Quatro Is Published in Three Periodicals

Jamie has work appearing in the current issues of the Cincinnati Review, the Hopkins Review (Johns Hopkins UP), and the Oxford American's 11th Annual Music Issue.

New Blog for Writers

The Blogger is Lea Schizas, coordinator of the Muse Online Conference for writers, which takes place online every October. http://penperfectassociates.blogspot.com/

Suzanne Lieurance Offers Writing Articles on Website

She also provides subscribers to her emails a free download or resource each week. http://workingwriterscoach.com/

Blog Claims to Help Creative People Create

http://lifedev.net/2009/11/the-high-seas-showed-me-how-pitifully-unproductive-i-am/

Online Reporters/Writers Now Have Better Chance of Winning the Pulitzer

http://tinyurl.com/onlinepulitzereligible