TABLE OF CONTENTS
• Program for Current Month: “Communicate with Purpose: How to Optimize Your Impact,” Maureen Jung, PhD.
• Program for Next Month: “Setting the Scene” by Award-winning author Joe Haldeman
• Critique Group Information: go to FACEBOOK/ANCIENT CITY WRITERS
• Of Interest for Writers: Conference and Contest Information
• Local FWA Member News (See Page – FWA Member News)
• Area Writing Groups Directory (See Page – Area Groups)
DECEMBER 17, 2011
Communicate with Purpose: How to Optimize Your Impact with Maureen Jung, PhD.
Writing a book is one thing. What about all the other communication associated with getting published, attracting a following, and achieving your goals? This interactive mini-workshop focuses on how technology has changed today’s communication environment, how this affects our messages, and what we can do about it.
Holiday refreshments will be shared – bring lots of business cards for networking! Gently-used book sale, too – prices from $1.00 to $3.00 – bring dollar bills with you!!
JANUARY 21, 2012
Setting the Scene – Joe Haldeman, NYT Best Selling Sci-Fi Author.
Award-winning (Hugo, Nebula, Locus and Rhysling to name a few) writer of FOREVER WAR, FOREVER PEACE, WORLD WITHOUT END, and more than 30 other titles, also teaches writing at MIT in Cambridge, Massachusetts. Although setting the scene in an alternate universe must be done with great care to master the science fiction genre, it must be well done in any genre if you’re going to sell that novel. Come learn how it’s done – from a master!
Book sale and signing to benefit the Friends of the Library will follow this program.
CRITIQUE GROUPS
Critique is one of the most powerful ways to improve your writing and editing skills. We have a brand new tool available to writers in the St. Augustine area! We now have a FACEBOOK® page, named ANCIENT CITY WRITERS. This is a place where you can let people know about local events, all about your new release, or if you need a critique partner, you can leave that request on the wall. Chances are there’s another local writer who will be happy to meet with you. If it’s about or for the St. Augustine area, this is a great place to post it
Several of our members are children’s authors. They have formed their own critique group that meets twice a month. If you are a children’s writer and wish to connect with this group for more information, you can contact maryjanehayes@bellsouth.net, or speak with her at the monthly meeting.
FWA membership provides the FWA NETWORK and the opportunity to form and participate in on-line and local critique groups. Visit www.floridawriters.net for more information. FWA Membership is required.
If you are interested in some guidelines for powerful, professional, and compassionate critique meetings, please visit my website at www.NLQuatrano.com. I have posted several that you are welcome to download for free. NLQ
OF INTEREST FOR WRITERS – Contests and Conferences
SHOW THE WORLD YOUR TALENT CONTEST – Deadline is DECEMBER 28, 2012. $5 entry fee, $50.00 First Prize; top three entries get critiques. 750 words. Fiction and essays welcome. Award-winning published judges prefer no erotica! For details and entry form/payment, go to www.writechix.com.
THE FLORIDA REVIEW – Deadline is MARCH 17, 2012. Sponsored by the Florida Review, Department of English/UCF. Fiction, essay and poetry invited. $1000 award and publication are possible. Can’t win it if you aren’t in it! Visit www.floridareview.cah.ucf.edu. No entry fee.
PEN AMERICAN CENTER: THE BELLWETHER PRIZE – Deadline is DECEMBER 31, 2011. Socially-engaged fiction, minimum 80K word-length. Founded and funded by by Barbara Kingsolver, with 1st prize publication by Algonquin Press (of “Water for Elephant” fame). $25 entry fee. For more information visit www.bellwetherprize.org. Thank you Teza Lord for this information.
BRAND NEW: The FWA-ANCIENT CITY CHAPTER scrapbook is now complete. Covering mid-2007 to today (with lots of room for pictures and more articles) the book will be available for you to browse through before or after the meetings. I’ll leave it on the Information table we set up for each meeting. PLEASE look at the programs and local author accomplishments for smiles and inspiration! If you have photos you’d like to donate to be included, please let me know. (nquatrano@yahoo.com.)
Remember – a writer, writes!
Nancy Quatrano
www.nlquatrano.com
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