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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
- Adult (age 21+): $30/year
- Youth: $15
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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Member News
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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!
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
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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 (Chronological by deadline) |
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.
The Great American Poetry Show
P.O. Box 69506
West Hollywood, CA 90069
www.tgaps.net
info@tgaps.net
New Love Stories—Poetry
Will buy global, electronic and Internet
rights in all languages as well as future
anthology rights. You may not resell your
story before it is published in Love Stories
Magazine. After you sign the release they
will issue a payment of $50 to $75 to
you on publication along with complimentary
copies of the magazine.
www.newlovestories.com/poems.html
SHORT STORIES & NOVELS
Amazon Breakthrough Novel Award
Have an unpublished novel you know
Amazon.com readers will love? Enter
your manuscript in the Amazon Breakthrough
Novel Award for a chance to win
a $25,000 publishing contract with Penguin
Group (USA) and the distribution of
your novel on Amazon.com. Enter your
unpublished, English-language, fiction
manuscript beginning February 2.
Entry fee: None
Deadline: February 8 or until 10,000 entries have been
received, whichever comes first.
Click here for details
New Love Stories—Fiction
Overall theme should involve short stories
of Male/Female love and romance. These
stories may be contemporary, historic,
inspirational, paranormal, or any other
theme as long as love and romance are the
main thrust of the story. Story length
range from 3,000 to 5,000 words. Pays up
to $300.
www.newlovestories.com/wrgu.html
Main Street Rag is seeking short fiction
to fill two anthologies on the following
themes: (1) unique small-town characters
and (2) eccentric women.
Deadline None -- when we have enough to fill an anthology,
we will close submissions.
For details, send SASE to Main Street Rag, P.O. Box
690100, Charlotte, NC 28227-7001 or visit
us online at www.mainstreetrag.com.
NON-FICTION
Family Chronicle
Based in Toronto, Canada, but 90 percent of circulation
is in the U.S. Payment varies but
not less than $55 per page and average is
considerably higher. Average 2,000
words or up to 7,000. If information is
useful and well presented, an article of this
length is likely to be accepted.
www.familychronicle.com/anotes.htm
Y'All Magazine
Magazine of Southern People. Its unprecedented
editorial mix of music, sports,
movies, politics and more captures today's
Southern spirit. Queries must be on or
about Southern celebrities or extraordinary
ordinary Southerners, or elements of
Southern culture. Fiction or true life.
Pays 15 cents a word.
www.yall.com/guidelines.shtml
After Dark
Currently seeking non-fiction articles and
essays which reflect the general subject
matter discussed on America's largest
overnight radio program in history, "Coast
to Coast AM." In general, the areas of interest
are broad. They include life after
death, paranormal, psycho-spiritual, demonic
possession, exorcism, theoretical
physics, apocalypse, Earth changes,
weather patterns, UFO's, alien abductions
and phenomenal sightings, remote viewing,
futurism and predictions, animal mutilations,
spontaneous human combustion
Bigfoot, and more. 1,200-1,800 words.
www.coasttocoastam.com/gen/afterdark
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