Event News
(& Contests)
Events:
See our Speakers page for upcoming GCWA meetings.
The GCWA Twentieth Century Classics Reading Group is looking for new members for 2012. [more]
Island Coast High School in Cape Coral is looking for writers to talk to creative writing class. [more]
Story Tellers Power Tools workshop will be held from 9 a.m. to 1 p.m., February 4, at Covenant Presbyterian Church, Fellowship Hall, in south Fort Myers. Admission $10 at the door. [see flyer]
Arts in the Park, the first Discover the Inlands Festival is Saturday, February 4, 2012 at Barron Park in LaBelle from 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. with music until 8 p.m. Fill out the vendor form for your booth space TODAY!
South Florida Writers Association Mango Writers Conference 2012 at Miami Dade County Health Department, February 4, 2012, 8am to 5pm.
Poetry of Witness, a day to explore the art and craft of poety led by Dorothy Brooks, will be held at Mother of God House of Prayer in Alva, FL, Saturday, February 11, 2012, 10:00 a.m. to 2:00 p.m. (bring a bag lunch) [more]
Famous Author Series (prices have been reduced) at the Davis Art Center in Downtown Fort Myers - Sunday, Feb 12, 2012 - Brad Meltzer
Reception for the New Volume of San-Cap Review, Sanibel Library, Friday, February 17, 2012, 3 - 5 pm. [see flyer]
Famous Author Series at the Davis Art Center in Downtown Fort Myers - Tuesday Feb 21, 2012 - James Rollins
Arts of the Inland general meeting, Tuesday, February 21, 6 - 8 pm. [brochure & membership application]
Collier County Adult Education is offering classes in Creative Writing and NonFiction Writing beginning Feb 21, 2012 at Baron Collier H.S.
Pionieers & Legends of Lee County's past 125 years - a lecture series - begins Wednesday Feb 22, 2012, 2-3 pm at Fort Myers Lee County Library. [See Flyer] More in the series on Feb 24, 27, 28. More about Lee County Anniversery Celebration here.
Southwest Florida Poetry Group contiues to meet the fourth Thursday of each month at the Fairfield Inn. Next meeting February 23, 2012, 6:30 - 8:30 pm.
Art/Poems at Big Arts, Sanibel, February 24, 2012, 7:30 pm, Reception 6:45 pm. GCWA participants: Dorothy Brooks, Carol Drummond, Marsha Perlman, Joe Pacheco, Larry Stiles, Lorraine Vail.
Mini Conference - Southwest Florida Romance Writers SUPER SATURDAY. Editors and Agents will be taking pitches. At The Hyatt Place, Coconut Point Mall, Estero, FL, Friday night and Saturday, February 24/25, 2012. [more]
The GCWA Beginning Writers’ Workshop is scheduled for February 25, 2012. Contact Ken Feeley to sign up.
Art/Poems at the Alliance for the Arts, March 1, 2012, 7:30 pm, Reception 6:45 pm. GCWA participants: Dorothy Brooks, Carol Drummond, Marsha Perlman, Joe Pacheco, Larry Stiles, Lorraine Vail.
Famous Author Series at the Davis Art Center in Downtown Fort Myers - Monday, March 12, 2012 - Andrew Gross
Silken Sands Writers Conference, Hampton Inn, Pensacol Beach, FL. March 16-18, 2012.
Southwest Florida Reading Festival, Saturday, March 17, 2012, 10 am to 4 pm at the Harborside Event Center in Fort Myers. Contact Ken Feeley to sign up for a table. [Press Release]
The Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest, Deadline March 30, 2012.
The Doug MacGregor/Joe Pacheco video Stranger in My Eye, from Art/Poems is available for viewing on the web.
The Cape Coral Historical Society/Museum is looking for a person capable of writing a one hour documentary. [more]
The Peace River Writers Tea, held the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 1 to 3 pm, has moved to the second floor of the Library at the corner of Gertrude and Aaron Streets in Port Charlotte. [more]
Don't forget the Tamiami Tale Tellers meeting every third Thursday evening, 7 PM at Grand Court, south site of College Pkwy, one block east of Winkler Ave. It's informal, just come, sit down and tell a story when the spirit moves you. A good place to get started. Master story tellers are in charge.
Peace River Center for Writers has published their December newsletter Writing Currents.
Paul Holmes from Peace River Writers has set up a Yahoo Newsletter to keep writers in the area current with events. (more)
David Hauenstein will be reading aloud on "Listen to the Writer's Words," on Shell Point TV's audio channel. He is looking for your poems, stories, essays, and descriptive pieces. (more)
Several upcoming events at Shell Point are open to the public to be held in the coming months at Shell Point. Contact Teri Kollath for more information.
Check for events in Charlotte County on the Peace River Center for Writer's Peace River Writers Calendar and the Charlotte Arts Calendar.
Contests:
Prole Laureate competition 2012 for poets is now open. Deadline March 1, 2012.
Writer's Network of South Florida is holding its 14th annual writing contest in four categories: Short Story, Short Play, Poetry, and Young Adult. [see flyer] Deadline March 15, 2012.
The Southeast Review 2012 writing contests. Deadline March 15, 2012.
The Theatre Conspiracy New Play Contest, Deadline March 30, 2012.
Writer's Digest Your Story competition. Every other month, Writer's Digest presents a creative challenge for fun and prizes.
New Writing Contests from freelancewriting.com - poetry, essays, fiction.
Writing Contests from writers-editors.com.
Writing Contests from The Fan Story.
The GCWA Twentieth Century Classics Reading Group meets the first Monday of February, April, June, August, October and December. We read and discuss our impressions of the writers work. It might include the author’s style, sentence structure, narrative process, techniques of storytelling and many other aspects of the work. We have three openings for 2012 and welcome members to contact Richard Georgian at rgeorgian@embarqmail.com if you are interested in joining this reading group. Our book for February 6, 2012 is “Of Mice and Men” by John Steinbeck. We meet at 6:30 in the lounge of the Marriott, Fairfield Inn across from Barnes and Noble on U.S. 41.
GCWA member and local children's book author, Kyle L. Miller, was interviewed, along with Dot Lee and her blind raccoon, Trouper on Thursday, Sept 29, 2011, on NBC Channel 2 News at 11:00 a.m.
Trouper is the subject of an upcoming book for the whole family, One More Day, the Story of Trouper the Blind Raccoon, by Kyle L. Miller. The book tells the true story about an eight week old critically beaten baby raccoon in North Carolina and his rescue by wildlife rehabilitator, Dorothy Lee, his treatment, rehabilitation, and relocation to Florida in order to save his physically challenged life. Trouper is blind, cannot smell, climb, or feed himself. He has become an animal ambassador and travels with "Miss Dot" and Ms. Miller for educational presentations.
Island Coast High School in Cape Coral is looking for witers to talk to creative writing class.
"I am teaching a Creative Writing II class at Island Coast High School. I have a group of enthusiastic young writers who I would like to expose to the real world of writing. Do you have members who would be willing to come speak to my students? My class meets every other day for 84 minutes and I would love to bring out a different type of writer once a week. Please let me know if this is possible. Thank you in advance."
"I am set for January but still need to fill in February, March, and April. I am mainly looking for fiction writers and poets. Can you help with this?"
Jan E. Klein
Island Coast High School
JanEKL@LeeSchools.Net
458-0362 x 2107
DE Public Speaking, Creative Writing, Freshman Success
Future Educators of America
How to get heard
“Listen to the Writer’s Words” is an audio program on which your words can be heard. David Hauenstein will be reading aloud on an audio channel of Shell Point TV, which is received only in the 1,200 apartments at Shell Point. Examples of your poems, stories, essays and descriptive pieces will make people laugh and cry, think and wonder. Several GCWA members have submitted material for David to read aloud on this weekly closed circuit program. Not incidentally, our own Joe Pacheco is teaching “The Joy of Poetry” to sold-out classes at Shell Point. This is fertile ground.
David has read material by members Pat Janda, Tom Nelson, Russ Miller, Chuck Wood, and Robert Dornburg. On the list for use in January/February 2011 are contributions from Jan Nieman, Ken Feeley, Dave Wilcox, Martha Jeffers, Joseph Xavier Martin, W.C. Highfield, Pat Janda, and Mark Billson.
Your writing can be a significant part of the mix of material David will read. He will credit you, of course, and tell his listeners where they can find out more about your work. Tell him how your piece or excerpt represents what you write about. If interested in getting your name and work into another venue, talk to David about it by emailing him at david-hauenstein@usa.net. He's an old radio guy who knows his way around words and would love to read yours aloud.
The Writers Tea is held the 3rd Tuesday of each month from 1 to 3 pm .
"Writers of poetry and stories are invited to join us in a relaxed atmosphere to
read their writings. Listeners are welcome to attend also. Herbal Teas will be served. Guests are asked to
bring munchies of some kind to share. The next teas will be Aug 16 and Sept 20, 1-3 pm.
For our Sept Tea, we are asking anyone who would like to participate, to write a poem or story about
happenings in Sept., such as Labor Day, 9--11, or the beginning of fall."
Subject: Writer's Tea is moving!
From Mary Grace Patterson:
The Peace River Writers Tea Is moving! We have been invited to have our
meetings at the Port Charlotte Library near the Cutural Center, which is located
on the corner of Gertrude and Aaron Streets.
The room is on the second floor. There is an elevator and starirs to gain entrance to the second floor.
Signs will be posted for your convience! We will continue to meet the third Tuesday of each month
starting Oct 18 from 1-3 pm.
Please bring snacks to share. Tea will be provided.
If you have any questions, you can call Arlene Kincaid 625- 7312 or Mary Grace Patterson 575-0739.
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