Newsletter of the Carrollton Creative Writers’ Club Issue Number: 7 Publishers: ADP\LDG Date: January 2008 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 
Welcome 2008. Our dues are due fellow group members. Individual membership cost is $25, or $36 per couple for the year. You may pay the front desk at the Cultural Arts Center. Make your checks payable to CPRCAD and ask for your receipt. We opened this new year with four new members. �� Judi Presnell writes children’s books and is working on a creative non-fiction manuscript about the challenges of facing and fighting cancer. �� Patricia Thornton-Houser and her husband, Mike, fresh from Japan, add to our picture book author population. �� Joy Padgett, president of another writers’ group, has joined us. She is currently working on her memoirs. Welcome to our group. Please make this correction to your CCWC address and phone roster: jhpresnell@bellsouth.net for Judi’s email. The missing h was a typo. As you all know, we have a small evening group to accommodate our members unable to attend the Tuesday day meetings. The Art Center has gone to the expense of hiring someone to keep their facility open for our evening meetings. David Green is the evening moderator of these meetings; please contact him or Mary Wilburn for more details. Thursday evening, David attempted to critique his own work; the night watchperson was not a writer. After 20 minutes, he gave up the ghost and returned home. We felt it important to bring this to your attention for it has occurred previously. Being unable to attend is completely understandable, but it is your responsibility, as members, to do your part to not only continue, but grow as a viable group. In respect of the Art Center’s support, we ask members unable to attend a Thursday evening meeting, to please notify david.green@carrollcountyschools.com . This will prevent an unnecessary drive back into town for David, and a wasted cost to the center, should no one be able to attend. Thank you in advance for this courtesy. 2nd Tuesday of the Month Highlights: Beverly Bruemmer facilitated our January meetings, and what a very fine job she did. Her guest was Angela McRae, publisher of the Newnan Coweta Magazine, an upscale publication distributed free with the newspaper. Angela shared the art of submitting to, and getting accepted by, paying magazines. She opened the door for freelance writers to submit articles relating to Coweta County to her publication. Seeds were planted, and knowledge gained, among our collective creators. Thank you Bev, for such an interesting, informative guest, and the excellent ease with which you facilitated our critique session. 2nd Thursday of the Month Highlights:
4th Thursday of the Month Highlights: Please read above business notes.
Tuesday Morning Thursday Evening As a reminder for the interested, and news for our newbies, the Writers’ Group of the Triad, Greensboro, NC invites us to participate in the Sixth Biennial Greensboro Awards for Poetry and Short Fiction. The prize is $500 for each genre. The postmark deadline is April 30th, 2008. The entry fee is $20. Final judges are Kathryn Stripling Byer for poetry and Shannon Ravenel for short fiction. No children’s or young adult works will be accepted. For submission guidelines visit http://triadwriters.org/Greensboro_Awards.html . Good luck everyone. 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 Mary Cunningham was featured in the magazine, Expressions, a WGCU public media in Southwest Florida. This two page article featured Mary and her three book series of Cynthia’s Attic. Way to go Mary. Bask in that Limelight, you’re in good company. Diana Black is traveling to South Africa. She worked with hospice in Nashville and they are traveling to visit their sister hospice. While there, she will attend a retreat sponsored by Naomi Tutu, Desmond Tutu’s daughter. We will miss her and envy her experience. All of us, if we will, take a moment and send blessed thoughts to Denise and Rose of our group. Both are facing many faceted challenges and could use some good wishes.
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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Carrollton Creative Writers' Club
