CWG Board Has Retreat
On Saturday Jan 10 the CWG Board under the leadership of CWG member and professional facilitator, Finn Billie, reviewed how the next five to ten years for the CWG. The board volunteered to study our growth in several areas and come up with goals to accomplish:
Writing Groups [ Marcia Swearingon and Pete Sculley ]
Programs [Pris Shartle and Ray Zimmerman]
Communications [Karen Phillips and Pris Shartle]
Community Outreach [Ray Zimmerman and Judith Nembhard]
Membership [Lantz Powell ]
Fundraising [Jim Marcotte and Ray Zimmerman]
Administration [ Jennifer Hoff, Lantz Powell, Patricia Paris]
Each committee is to come up with a set measurable goals by the 1st of Feb to be discussed at the next Board meeting. _____________________________________
Petition to Form a Secretary of Arts
http://www.petitiononline.com/mod_perl/signed.cgi?esnyc
There is a major petition going around the country with arts groups to raise the status of the Arts by establishing a Secretary of the Arts. You may want to sign. _____________________________________
Feedback in Mailbox on Speaker Doris Kearns Goodwin
"As far as listening to an author discuss her book, I have to say that was the most enjoyable experience I have had in a long while. She regaled the audience with story after story of her subject, Abraham Lincoln, and wove into her speech, anecdotal stories of other presidents: Lyndon Johnson, JFK, FDR, and T. Roosevelt to name a few. She had the audience bursting in laughter with some of the more humorous tales and near tears with the more poignant."
"I believe the audience could have sat there for hours, but it was over way too soon. She was very gracious in answering questions with thoughtful insight and stayed to sign books. Of course, I ran to get in line to get mine signed. When I left, the line wound up to the stage and back up to the top of the auditorium."
The CWG is very grateful to the Benwood Foundation and co-sponsored by the Ochs Center for Metropolitan Studies and CreateHere for making the presentation possible.
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Local writer and artist web site.
Dana Lise Shavin
http://www.barkinghorse.com/ This is one of the better ones we have seen.
Send us your web address if you have a site or blog.
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WritingRaw.com ---- The YouTube of the literary world - is looking for writers message : WritingRaw.com is a FREE literary sharing website. The only restriction is that the material cannot be illegal in any sense of the word . Other than that, feel free to post in any of the following categories:• FICTION• POETRY• NONFICTION• REMEMBRANCE• and, ASSORTED writings.
Read it, comment on it, vote for it to be a showcased piece! Most important - ENJOY IT.There is no catch here – all writings will be posted. Let’s create a world where no one rejects a writer or the work of their future masterpiece. WritingRaw is A Poker Sisters Publication http://writingraw.com/ ______________________________________
Information on the Conference of Southern Literature
http://www.artsedcouncil.org/page/conference-2009/cslbrochure09.pdf _______________________________________
Network for Good
Several members suggested we join Network for Good, an organization formed so donors can contribute to 501c3 non-profits over the Internet. Now if you don't have your checkbook handy you can click the button on the left of our main web page and put your dues or other contribution through a secure network on your credit card. Network for Good forwards the funds to the CWG.. This is a win/win for everyone. You don't have to write a check and get an accounting of all donations for your Tax records. The CWG bookeeping becomes easier. Everybody wins. Those that use Network for Good rave about it. Thanks for those members who brought it to our attention. ________________________________________
Godchecker.com
Amazing collection of world gods and their attributes. If you are into looking up names for characters and you want to give them godlike qualities this is your resource. http://www.godchecker.com/
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CWG Author given National Notice -- Contributing Editor Jeff Biggers gave high praise to Ray Zimmerman’s poetry in the November/December, 2008 issue of Bloomsbury Review (Denver, Colorado). Biggers concluded his year end round up article with this paragraph: “Chattanooga poet and environmentalist Ray Zimmerman also touches on some of these themes in his wonderful new chapbook, Searching for Cranes. Combining memoir and naturalist insights in his verse, Zimmerman reminds me of a Southern Edward Abbey and Terry Tempest Williams; many of his poems such as “Glen Falls Trail,” probe the symbols that “have outlived the moment,” and where our defense of nature is often a matter of bearing witness.
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CWG member Ferris Robinson in Christian Science Monitor
Congrats to Ferris. http://www.csmonitor.com/2009/0112/p18s04-hfes.html
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Art Lecture Series - February 26 ------ The ninth annual Cam Busch Art for Health Lecture Series will beheld Thursday, February 26, 2009 from 6 to 8 pm at the Hunter Museum of American Art.
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40 Writing Contests in 30 Days
http://www.pw.org/content/submission_calendar
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