Newsletter of the Carrollton Creative Writers’ Club Issue Number: 6 Publishers: ADP\LDG Date: December 2007 The Carrollton Creative Writers Club is a support group of writers for writers. Our mission: To provide information and critique, and to facilitate the art of all forms of written expression. Meetings at Carrollton Cultural Arts Center: 10:00 am – 12:00 pm, 2nd and 4th Tuesdays 6:00 pm – 8:00 pm 2nd and 4th Thursdays Contact: Mary Wilburn 770-832-0575 
Beverly Bruemmer hosted and arranged our group’s Christmas Party, held at the Mansion on Maple Street. Despite the establishment’s last minute monkey wrenches, Beverly prevailed and our festivities were wonderful. We had a great attendance of members and the display of everyone’s work was awesomely impressive. One of our goals for this dinner was to give our spouses and significant others a chance to meet everyone and see firsthand our group’s professional demeanor and quality of craft. That goal was definitely accomplished. Thank you for all your hard work Bevie. Our group’s website grows more attractive, professional, and informative even as you read this newsletter. Diana Black is doing an expert’s job for us. _____________________________ Our year in reflection: Authors have published this year, some for the first time, some for the second and third or more times. Authors have submitted entries, and won prizes. We extended our group to include an evening session twice monthly to accommodate our nocturnal members. Authors have received contracts for more books. Authors have formed small publishing companies. We have added a degree of structure in the monitoring process to accommodate our growing numbers. We have become an official entity encompassed in an art center where we weren't sure we could continue utilizing as our meeting facility. We have our own website. We've begun organizing; planning and orchestrating our own group book signing events. Some of our members have been, and are scheduled to be, guest speakers addressing larger groups and conventions. Authors have started their own blogs and web sites. Now, aren’t you proud of us? 2nd Tuesday of the Month Highlights: Richard Anderson brought us the gift of Emily Hipchen. Emily spoke to us of creative non‐fiction. A current professor at the University of Georgia, her publications, articles, essays, biographies and autobiographies were too numerous to list, as four pages front and back could not contain them all. Within one hour, Professor Hipchen led us through a fifteen week course on Creative Non‐Fiction. All present agreed that what Emily taught us could apply to every other kind writing, not just non‐fiction. We all came away enchanted, enlightened, and armed with more tools to apply to our art. Emily gave us an assignment, a creative non‐fiction piece, twenty or less pages. For those of us who weren’t in attendance and would like to participate, please refer to the attachment herein. Hopefully, we will have a number of works to read in January. 2nd Thursday of the Month Highlights: No meeting due to holidays.
4th Thursday of the Month Highlights: No meeting due to holidays.
Tuesday Morning Thursday Evening The Spring Writers’ Workshop is Saturday, 1:00 – 5:00 P.M., March 29, 2008 at the Kennesaw State University campus. Dinner will follow with an address from a keynote speaker. Check out www.georgiawriters.org for updates. They offer contest information, free newsletter subscription, and various other amenities to their members. Don’t forget, Mary Wilburn will be speaking in one of the break‐out sessions along with Norman Chastain for Murder Goes South. They will address the pitfalls and paradoxes of getting published for the first time. Murder Goes South’s banquet is on Friday evening January 25th and Mary will speak at the sessions on Saturday, January 26th. The Writers’ Group of the Triad, Greensboro, NC, invites your members to participate in the Sixth Biennial Greensboro Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction. Prize: $500 each genre. Postmark deadline April 30, 2008. $20 entry fee. No children’s or young adult. Final Judges: Poetry – Kathryn Stripling Byer: Short Fiction – Shannon Ravenel. For guidelines: http://triadwriters.org/Greensboro_Awards.html http://www.usu.edu/journalism/faculty/sweeney/resources/ap.htm http://www.bu.edu/com/writingprgm/ap_styleguide1.pdf www.ask.com http://blog.myspace.com/index.cfm?fuseaction=blog.view&friendID=124992397&blogID=3324 Throughout the year, our members have faced medical challenges for themselves and their loved ones. We’ve faced losses of those we’ve cared for, some timely, some not so timely. Through it all, we have proved to be a very strong, caring, loving and talented team. Through it all, our egos are checked at the door when we enter our meetings; we applaud, critique, and guide each other tirelessly. We, as a team, deserve applause, so let’s raise our arms, bend our elbows, and have at it folks. Congratulations on being us. The publishers of this newsletter would like to take this opportunity to extend our thanks to those of you that send us the invaluable information, websites, upcoming events and contests to include in the newsletter. Thank you for your eyes, ears, and hearts along with your time to help us make this newsletter as informative as it is.
See you next month. Please be kind enough to bring any incorrect data, mistakes, or omissions to our attention: amber_pickle@msn.com davidgreen@carrollcountyschools.com Thank you for your patience if they exist in this issue.
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