Knoxville Writers' Guild 
Knoxville Writers' Guild
To become a Knoxville Writers' Guild member or to renew your membership, go to www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/member.htm.  Membership is $30/year, $15/students.
Announcements
December 2010-January 2011 

Newletter deadline is December 8!

 

Have you had a book, story, poem, essay, or article published? Have you won a contest or competition? Spoken about writing before a group? Taught a seminar or workshop on writing?

 

Send the who, what, when, and where to the newsletter editor at [email protected]. Due to the holidays, the deadline for the upcoming issue is December 8th. Keep it short and to the point. Seventy-five (75) words or less.

 
Tennessee Mountain Writers and Tennessee Writers Alliance
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                               JANUARY JUMPSTART XI
 
What??  Again??  Yep, it's time...  to mark your calendars for January Jumpstart XI
on January 14 - 16, 2011, at the Magnuson Hotel (formerly Best Western) in
Sweetwater, TN, at exit 60 off I-75. Our Fiction workshop leader will be Pam Duncan
and Steve Holt will lead Poetry. Saturday sessions will run 9:00 a.m. - 12:00 and
1:30 p.m. - 4:30 p.m., Sunday 8:30 a.m. - 11:30 a.m.
 
For more information, visit their website at http://www.tmwi.org

Social Media for Writers Workshop: Feb. 19 Dale Mackey

The Knoxville Writers' Guild is sponsoring the workshop "Social Media for Writers" from 1:oo to 3:30 p.m. on Saturday, Feb. 19 at the Redeemer Church of Knoxville, 1642 Highland Ave. Taught by Dale Mackey of Community Television, the workshop costs $15 for Guild members; $20 for nonmembers.

Mackey will introduce writers to accessible tools for maintaining an online presence and will explore the use of social media to enlarge one's readership.

 

"It's going to be casual and laid back," Mackey said. "We're going to be covering a lot of information, so it will be a general overview of different online tools for outreach that workshop attendees can choose to further investigate, based on their needs and goals."

Topics will include self-branding, creating a personal website, maintaining a mailing list, blogging, Facebook, Twitter and integrating media.

 

"I'm going to go over some easy ways to capture video and images of readings and other events authors might want to share - and ways to share them, including Flickr, YouTube, Vimeo and other sites," Mackey added.

 

An Illinois native, Mackey receive a degree in Women's Literary Studies at Iowa's Grinnell College. In addition to serving as Youth Program Coordinator for CTV, she has worked as Outreach Coordinator for Appalshop Art and Media Center in Whitesburg, Ky, and has taught creative writing classes at a women's prison. She co-founded Artistic License, an organization dedicated to fostering creative collaborations in the Knoxville community. An upcoming project will pair visual artists with Alzheimer's patients to create pieces of art based on the patient's memories.

 

To sign up, go to www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/orderpaypal or send your check to KWG Workshops, P.O. Box 10326, Knoxville TN 37939-0326.

 

For further information, call Terry Shaw at 865.963.7633.

*ball and jacksIs your Guild membership current?
Life gets busy, and sometimes we forget.  Please update your Guild membership and rejoin your Knoxville-area circle of writers, publishers, poets, and performers. To renew, please visit
http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/orderpaypal.htm

If you are unsure about your membership status, please contact the Guild's Membership Coordinator. Click here.

* Many of those individuals listed in the Guild's Speakers' Bureau are no longer Guild members. If your membership has lapsed, your name, photo, and bio will be removed from the Bureau's page. http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/speakersbureau.html 

Autumn2Guild Memberships and tote bags make great gifts!

 

What are the benefits of a Guild membership?

 

-Receive the bi-monthly East Tennessee Writer
-Access contests and calls for submission
-Discounts on all Guild anthologies
-Monthly programs to inspire and inform
-Join a study group to work on your favorite genre

 

For more information, visit: http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/membership.htm or visit the Guild's online catalogue:  http://www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/orderpaypal.htm

 

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Disclaimer: As a service to members, KWG shares announcements of literary competitions and publishing opportunities. If you have any questions about the listings, please contact the sponsor. Unless specifically noted, these are not KWG-sponsored projects.
 
The Knoxville Writers' Guild meets the first Thursday of each month at the Laurel Theatre, 16 St. and Laurel Ave., Knoxville, TN at 7:00pm. For more information about the Guild, visit www.knoxvillewritersguild.org.
 
 To become a Knoxville Writers' Guild member or to renew your membership, go to www.knoxvillewritersguild.org/member.htm.  Membership is $30/year, $15/students.