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KWA MEMBERSHIP RATE INCREASE Due to rising postage and printing costs, the KWA board has voted to raise the membership fee for the first time since 2004. New Rates, effective April 1, 2009
Discount Option: Adult members who elect to receive the monthly KWA Newsletter by email only can deduct $5 from the yearly dues at renewal for a total of $25. Youth members will receive the newsletter by email only. KWA currently underwrites half the cost of printing the newsletter. Remember all newsletters to 2004 are also available on-line below via the Newsletter Archive link. |
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KWA Newsletters The newsletter needs you! Send your member news and article ideas to Janet at newsletter@ kwawriters.org |
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| Program Calendar | 2009 KWA Calendar of Events Monthly meetings are from 1:30 to 4 p.m. at Rockwell Library unless otherwise noted. All members are welcome at KWA Board Meetings; if you are interested, please attend.
July 18
Aug. 15
Sept. 19
Oct. 17
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| Member News |
Starla Criser (Starla Kaye) has sold three novels all published by Blushing Books: AIMEE'S COWBOY, BUYING TROUBLE, and TANGLED LIES. She also sold a short story, SO WRONG, SO RIGHT, to Red Rose Publishing with a release date TBA. Arlene Rains Graber won first place in Poetry Unrhymed Long Category with her poem, "A Simple Game of Golf" at the OWFI Conference in Oklahoma in May. Sonny Collins' new book, DIFFERENT DIRECTIONS, a collection of short stories, has been published by Prairie Moon Publications. Marilyn Hope Lake's children's book, BUDDY AND THE GRANDCATS, was recently released by Jim Barnes, managing editor and awards director for the Jenkins Group. Marilyn's book signing is May 2 at the Hutchinson Art Center Art Fair. Sheri L. McGathy's story "Summersong" was published in the anthology TWICE UPON AN EVENTIDE and won a 2009 EPPIE for Best Anthology-Single Story/ Novella. Bonnie Tharp won three awards at the Kansas Professional Communicators Banquet for articles published in 2008 in Women's Focus magazine. Elaine Douglas is among 500 selected for the quarterfinals in the Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award Contest. Penguin Publishing Co. will select 100 semi-finalists. Grand prize is a $25,000 publishing contract. Good luck, Elaine! CONGRATULATIONS! Have something published? Have a very kind rejection? Be sure to let us know! Email Janet at newsletter@kwawriters.org |
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| Critique Groups |
Quill to Computer Guild The Quill to Computer Guild has changed its meeting night to Tuesday evening. We are a critique group for beginning writers and interested in all genres of work. We will review anything from punctuation to plot to story flow. We meet at Borders, 1715 N. Rock Road at 7 p.m. in the coffee shop area. We are very informal and often discuss a wide variety of topics. Let us know if you plan on attending the first time so the time and place can be verified with you. For more information, contact Linda Graves 945-5535, info@sgdrugfree.com or John Cleaver 263-0084, trapshot88@sbcglobal.net. Do you write poetry? Some KWA members are looking for a new poetry critique group. If you write poetry and are interested, contact Colleen at ckjohnston@aol.com. There is no particular date or hour set for meeting, so make your preferences known. This group is not for those with no experience in poetry at all. |
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Contests |
POETRY The Great American Poetry Show
is looking for poems!
Submit any subject, any style, any length,
any number, any time by e-mail or by mail
with SASE. Previously published poems
and simultaneous submissions are welcome. New Love Stories—Poetry SHORT STORIES & NOVELS Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award New Love Stories—Fiction Main Street Rag is seeking short fiction
to fill two anthologies on the following
themes: (1) unique small-town characters
and (2) eccentric women. NON-FICTION Family Chronicle Y'All Magazine After Dark |
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