CWG Monthly Meeting
Tuesday, January 12, 2010
7:00 p.m.
Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library
Attorney and author Maury Nicely will share how he researched, wrote, and published his books, Chattanooga Walking Tour & Historic Guide, already published, and The East Tennessee Walking Tour & Historic Guide, to be published in 2010.
Resolved:
We're still looking for writing resolutions to share in upcoming newsletters and possibly a program. Please send one resolution or goal, such as "write ___words a day" or "send out a query/poem/article/story a month to editors" to kphillipso@aol.com .
See beatnik poets at Contrapasso:
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V1rTISlKP4I
Extraordinary Legacy--In Memoriam: Ruth Lilly, 1915-2009 http://www.poetryfoundation.org/journal/article.html?id=238462
Members' Writing Resolutions
To complete my book proposal for "Stories of Victory: When the Pain Remains"
--Phyllis Q. Freeman
In 2010, I resolve to continue writing in my journal every morning and to
find more concentrated writing time for my writing projects: Poems,
childhood and immigration stories, Rules for Crafting Poetry and How to
Break Them (Very tentative title). I hope to publish several poems and a
poetry chapbook, a CD of stories, and--together with John Mannone and KB
Ballentine--to move the Rules book several steps closer to completion and
publication. I plan to research my grandmother's life for a biography to
accompany her poems. Check out my website at www.finnbille.com .
--Finn Bille
If I write two pages and walk two miles every day in 2010, I will lose pounds and gain a sequel to my book. I'm not making any promises, just hanging a skinny carrot on a long stick.
--Becky Wooley
Member Kevin Brown Featured in Two Publications
Kevin's essay "Songs, Poems, and Missing the Point Completely" will be published by Eclectica in January, and his poem "Kakistocracy" will appear in Atlanta Review.
Rebecca Carroll's blog:
www.sunnybrooktales.wordpress.com
The Missouri Review Audio & Video Contest Extended Deadline: January 16, 2010
TMR's Audio & Video Contest is bigger than ever, offering $4,500 total in cash prizes, and $1,500 to first-place winners in each of two in two: Audio/Voice-Only Lit and Video Documentary Short. Judges seek artistic quality and technological proficiency.
The competition is an opportunity for emerging audio and video artists, as well as writers interested in exploring the possibilities of digital media. The Video Documentary winner will be screened at the True/False Film Festival, which attracts more than 20,000 film-lovers to Columbia, MO each year. All entrees are considered for publication or screening in The Missouri Review Online.
The contest fee of $24 includes a 1-year subscription to The Missouri Review digital or print edition.
February 21 - 27 at John C. Campbell Folk School in Brasstown, NC
Leave a Written Legacy, Write Your Family Stories
Record what life was like before cell phones, before Blackberries, before FAX machines and video games, before families were too busy and were scattered all over the country and around the world. Each has a unique story. By the end of the week, each student will have several stories completed and written in an entertaining and interesting form. Each student will take home a number of tools he/she can use after the week is over. By the end of the week, each student will have several stories completed and written in an entertaining and interesting form. Each student will take home a number of tools he/she can use after the week is over. They may recover old memories using family photos, keepsakes and drawings. In the small class, members will feel comfortable and enjoy sharing with classmates in a friendly atmosphere. This class is for beginning to intermediate writers who want to get started or who need motivation and ideas to continue a project in progress.
Students spend a week in a mountain setting in the southwestern part of North Carolina, where there is very little snow in February.
Check out the website for John Campbell Folk School: http://www.folkschool.org
Online registration is available, with more about the class here .
Instructor, Glenda C. Beall
Author of Now Might As Well Be Then, poems by Glenda Council Beall, and Profiles and Pedigrees, Tom Council and His Descendants
www.profilesandpedigrees.blogspot.com
www.glendacbeall.blogspot.com
glendabeall@msn.com
Future of Authors and Publishers Two takes on what will probably happen and what should happen in publishing. http://personanondata.blogspot.com/
http://www.publishersweekly.com/article/CA6708101.html
The secret of getting ahead is getting started.
--Agatha Christie, 1890-1976, Mystery Novelist
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Write on!
Karen H. Phillips, Newsletter EditorChattanooga Writers Guild
Please send writer news, accomplishments, opportunities, contests, etc. to Karen H. Phillips,kphillipso@aol.com. Please put CWG NEWSLETTER in subject line, with brief description of the item you're sending. 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.
