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MARCH 2012 E-NOTES:

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PNWA NEWS:
 

March Member Workshop and Meeting

Thursday, March 8, 2012 @ 7:00pm

Chinook Middle School
2001 98th Ave NE
Bellevue, WA 98004

Speaker: Robert Dugoni, New York Times Bestselling Author
Topic: Catching and Keeping an Agent's Attention

Robert Dugoni's latest novel in the David Sloane series, The Conviction, will be released June 12, 2012. His debut novel, The Jury Master, became a New York Times bestseller, with the Seattle Times and Library Journal likening Dugoni to a young John Grisham and calling The Jury Master "a riveting tale of murder, skullduggery and treachery at the highest level."  Dugoni's second novel, Damage Control, reached number 8 on national independent booksellers' lists. Mysterious Reviews touted Wrongful Death, the 2009 highly anticipated sequel to The Jury Master, as "among the best books to be published this year." Booklist wrote, "Mixing the suspense of a Grisham legal thriller with the political angle of a Baldacci, Dugoni is knocking on the A-list thriller door." Dugoni is also the author of the non-fiction expose, The Cyanide Canary, a Washington Post 2004 Best Book of the Year.

The meeting will be open to PNWA members only, so please bring your membership card.

 

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Live Access to Member Meetings

During this week's monthly Member Workshop and Meeting, you have the option of listening to the workshop from the comfort of your home as we continue to provide members with live webinar access to our monthly workshops. If you are unable to attend our meeting or webinar, you can also listen to a recording of the workshop online from PNWA's member website a few days after the workshop.

 

To access our webinar, please check one of the two instructions listed below:

 

1. Open your PNWA email this Wednesday, March 7th. Subject line: PNWA Webinar

  • Click the "Join the Webinar" link and follow the instructions.

OR

 

2. Log in to the PNWA Member Site (if you forgot your username and/or password, contact us before Wednesday, March 7th by 3:00pm to retrieve them)

  • Click on the Member Meeting link located on the left-hand side of the page.
  • Download the PNWA Webinar Instructions.doc
  • Paste the GoToMeeting link into your browser.

MEMBER NEWS:

 

PNWA member Mary Brockway announces the publication of her third book with Wings ePress the first week of March 2012. Of Dove and Falcon is a 110,000 word  fifteenth-century historical novel and the first of a trilogy on the FitzStephen family. This novel placed in a PNWA literary contest, and is Mary's second recently published prize winner from PNWA.  The book will be available from Wings ePress, Amazon, Fictionwise and other outlets, in paperback or e-download.

 

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PNWA members Tess Hardwick, Terry Persun and Laura Zera are among 13 authors featured in the upcoming anthology Write for the Fight: A Collection of Seasonal Essays, from Booktrope Publishing. Co-authored by Hardwick and Tracey Hansen, proceeds go to the National Breast Cancer Foundation. It will be available on March 5 in Barnes & Noble's NOOK Book catalog and at all other major online retailers in April. 

 

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PNWA member John Trudel's novel God's House is getting great reviews and is "available everywhere books are sold." If you are interested in getting a copy from your local library and it is not available, please feel free to call and request that they carry it. John is giving away free copies to libraries through his website, www.johntrudel.com. PNWA members who write thrillers and wish to explore ways to help each other are invited to contact the author through his website as well. John's next novel Privacy Wars is in final edits and will be out this summer.

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After two years in the making, Lewis Senior and Laura Senior Garcia announce the immediate availability of their website  - www.readourbooktoday.com - as a pre-launch to the official publication of At the End of the Day on June 8th, 2012. At the End of the Day is an inspirational memoir about transformational change and was ghostwritten by PNWA member TJ Bennett. The book was a finalist in the Pacific Northwest Writers Association's nonfiction/memoir category.

 

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Book Group Seeking Members

Calling all Fictioneers: PNWA member Lynn Knight is starting a monthly book club for writers who want to improve their craft through reading, analyzing, and appreciating the published works of other writers.

 

We will aim for a wide scope of reads-from best sellers to literary masterpieces.  What did the author get right? What could the author have done more effectively? By focusing on such questions, we hope to stretch our writerly selves, and apply what we discover to our own work.

 

Time and place to be decided.  If you're interested, please email: [email protected]

  

 


CLASSES/WORKSHOPS:

  

Upcoming Writing and Editing Courses Offered by Western Washington University

These courses are open to the community (formal admission to Western is not required).

 

Knockout Editing: From Polish to Publish 

The first draft of a story or essay can be wonderfully inspired - and unfinished. For many writers, the grueling stretch begins when it's time to revise and rearranging a few commas isn't going to cut it. Learn developmental editing techniques successful writers and editors use to turn a good start into a great final draft with minimal artistic pain. Instructor: Laurel Leigh

Classes are Thursdays from 6:30-9:30 p.m. on Western's campus and begin on April 5.

 

Writing Children's Literature

Writers with a passion for children' books will experiment and sample the field exploring children's fiction and nonfiction, including picture books, chapter books, middle-grade books, and books for young adults. Focus will be placed on essential literary elements such as plot, character, setting, dialogue - and that all-important first chapter. Instructors: Nina Laden, Paul Owen Lewis and Laurel Leigh

Classes are Tuesdays from 6:00-9:00 p.m. on Western's campus and begin on April 3.

 

Join us at an upcoming information session to learn more!!

--Tuesday, March 13th from 5:45-6:45 p.m. at Village Books, Fairhaven

 

For more information on these and other programs offered through WWU Extended Education, please visit www.ExtendedEd.wwu.edu.  For questions, don't hesitate to call (360) 650-3308 or email [email protected].

  

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Monthly Open Mic in Issaquah

The Issaquah Arts Commission sponsors the Poetry & Prose on Tap every 3rd Tuesday of the month at the Issaquah Brewhouse, located next to the fish hatchery on W. Sunset Blvd.  All ages are welcome, as are writers of all stripes and abilities.  Sign-ups to read start at 6:30 PM and the readings go from 7:00 PM to 8:00 PM. Typically, for a prose reading, 5 or so minutes would be allowed and for poetry, perhaps up to 3 minutes.  Food and beverages are available as is ample parking nearby.  There is no charge to participate.   

 

CONTESTS/SUBMISSIONS:
 

Emerging Writers Novel Contest

The Whidbey Writers MFA Alumni Association is sponsoring the Emerging Writers Getaway Contest, with a grand prize of a seven-day retreat at a fully furnished, rustic-luxury Smoky Mountain cabin in North Carolina, with daily continental breakfast ($2,000 value), plus a cash award of $300. Second and third place winners receive cash and other prizes. Submissions are welcome from February 15 through May 15, 2012. Pulitzer Prize winner William Dietrich is the final judge. Three finalists' entries will be reviewed by Andrea Hurst Literary Management for possible representation. The top twenty-five entries will each receive two critiques from members of the association. Winners will be announced on August 5, 2012. All profits from the contest will go towards creative writing student scholarships. For official contest details, cabin photos and submissions, please go to http://www.whidbeymfaalumni.org/.

 

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Palettes & Quills, in conjunction with Tom Holmes, the editor of Redactions: Journal of Poetry and Prose, we again are running our chapbook contest.   Open to all writers, this year's contest will be judged by the  west coast poetJ. P. Dancing Bear, author of nine collections of poetry, most recently, Inner Cities of Gulls (2010, Salmon Poetry).  Bear's poems have been published in DIAGRAM, No Tell Motel, Third Coast, Natural Bridge, Shenandoah, New Orleans Review, Verse Daily and many other publications.  He is editor for the American Poetry Journal and Dream Horse Press.  Bear also hosts the weekly hour-long poetry show, Out of Our Minds, on public station, KKUP.  His next collection, Family of Marsupial Centaurs (and other birthday poems), is forthcoming from Iris Press. For contest details, visit www.palettesnquills.com

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SHARK REEF's Winter Edition Online Now

Submit by March 31 for Summer Issue

 

SHARK REEF produces a summer and winter issue with March 31 and September 30 submission deadlines. For more information, check submission guidelines at sharkreef.org. Archival issues are stored on the website, and readers can search easily for favorite writers and artists without having to open every past issue.

 

Please consider submitting your work to us. We're eager to see it!

 

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The Writer's Workshop Review is accepting submissions for their seventh issue.


We publish the best in creative nonfiction and fiction from established and emerging writers. We love strong narratives, compelling characters, stories told with style, verve and wit. Send us narrative nonfiction, personal essays, short stories, short shorts, as well as travel, food and wine writing with a strong narrative element. We prefer submissions of 1000 to 2500 words, with the exception of short shorts, and occasionally will consider something longer. We also publish one interview per issue on the art and craft of writing. Visit http://www.thewritersworkshopreview.net for submission guidelines.


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Silver Boomer Books is pleased to announce our Call for Submissions for a new holiday anthology, "Times to Remember," to be released Fall 2012. We welcome submissions on any commonly celebrated holiday. Writers will find guidelines at the "FOR WRITERS" link on our web site:

http://silverboomerbooks.com/sbb/wp/for-writers/times-to-remember/
 

 

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