What's New with the Knoxville
Writers' Guild?
Upcoming
Guild Workshops! Stay tuned for times/location/cost. Open to
Guild members and nonmembers.
May
7: Writing Dialogue (w/Lisa Soland,
Pamela Schoenewaldt, Shannon Burke and Russell Schaumberg,moderated by Terry
Shaw) Register
today!
May 14: From Pen to
Publication with Judy DiGregorio. Register
today!
June
4: You've Written a Novel, Now What? with Chris Hebert
July
23: Beginning the Novel with Amy Greene
September
TBA: Writing the Historical Novel with Pamela Schoenewaldt
Guild
adds new genres to 2011 Contest
The Knoxville Writers' Guild sponsors the following annual literary contests with more than $1,200 in prizes for poetry, fiction, and essays. Enter as many of these contests as you like: The newly extended deadline is midnight April 30. Previous contest winners can be viewed on the Career Achievement Award page for each year.
Poetry, in honor of Libba
Moore Gray
Fiction, in honor of Leslie Garrett
Young Writers' Prize in Poetry
Creative Nonfiction
Novel Excerpts
Flash Fiction
Blog Writing
For guidelines and submission information....click here!
Three
new Writing Groups: Novel Writing,
Crime & Mystery, and Advanced
Crime & Mystery. Check out all
the Writing Groups.
Add
your blog! If you are a Guild member who writes a blog, share it
with us, and we'll add it to our Members'
Websites & Blogs page.f
Nashville
--Speaker'
Bureau: Speakers
selected to represent the Knoxville Writers Guild
are not paid by the Guild, but have agreed to donate 10% of all honoraria,
compensation and book sales to the KWG. Search the list of speakers or select
a particular category such as Poetry Nonfiction, Songwriting,
or Regional Writing and choose a writer with expertise in that category.
More...
John Reaves polls writers on the how-to books that
help them most.
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Online with Amazon.com Bookstore ! See our featured books: some written
by members of the Guild and some pertaining to the Guild's mission or to
our region. Explore links to find great books, videos, CD ROM's, toys,
and more. The Guild will receive 5-15% of the selling price of
each item you buy through the Guild web site. These funds will be used to help the
Guild reach its goals.