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Alaska Writers Guild
Supporting Alaska's writers

The Alaska Writers Guild is an organization supporting published and unpublished writers in the state of Alaska.

If you have written, are writing or are thinking of writing, you will want to be a part of this dynamic group, which meets monthly for fun, fellowship and programs of interest to writers at all skill levels.

Membership meetings are held the third Tuesday of every month. For meeting locations please check this site.

ALaska Writers Guild Guest Speaker

Date Tuesday, October 21, 2008, 7:00pm

Place: Barnes & Noble (cn Benson and C St.)

Speaker of the Month: Professor John Strohmeyer

Topic: The Joys and Tortures of Being Published

Professor Strohmeyer won a Pulitzer traveling fellowship for finishing first in his class, at the Columbia School for Journalism in New York, and a Nieman fellowship from Harvard University while a reporter for the Providence Journal. He has a Pulitzer Prize for editorial writing and in 1983 was awarded an honorary Doctor of Humane Letters degree from Lehigh University.

In 1984 Professor Strohmeyer won a national competition for an Alicia Patterson fellowship that enabled him to research and write a book about the rise and fall of the nation's steel industry, he also wrote"Historical Anchorage an Illustrated History" of the largest metropolis in Alaska, its changes in character and growth over the last century. Gold exploration, railroad boom and bust, military occupation, air age discovery, oil fever, earthquakes, and finally massive oil wealth all figure into transforming this relatively recent wilderness site into a jewel of a city. Anchorage is celebrating over 300 years of rich history.

Professor Strohmeyer has been listed in Who's Who in America and is profiled in a 1980 edition of Contemporary Authors.

We look forward to seeing you!!!

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Date Tuesday, Sept 16, 2008, 7:00pm

Place: Barnes & Noble (cn Benson and C St.)

Guest Speaker: Bob Bell

Bob Bell was raised in Ephrata, Washington and a graduate of Washington State U. After completing a tour in Viet Nan as an Army Officer, he moved to Alaska in 1969.

He is the founder of F. Robert Bell and Associates, one of Alaska's largest engineering firms, providing land surveying and administration services. He has served on the Boards of many organizations including the Anchorage Municipal Assembly, Municipal Building Board, Anchorage JC's and the 1% for the Arts Committee. Bob is also a current member of the Alaska Writers Guild.

Bob is married with five children and four grandchildren. Bob's published book, "Oh No! We're Gonna Die" is a compilation of short stories about close calls in Alaska.

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New Writers Always Welcome!!!

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The Ralph Williams Speculative Fiction Writing Contest was also cancelled by Board action but is being picked up by the Ralph Williams Speculative Fiction Contest, an entity which is not associated with the Guild, although Stephanie Patel continues to chair the contest. The deadline is being extended for submissions. The link to the new website for the contest is www.rwcontest.blogspot.com. You may also contact Stephanie at stpatel@gci.net with any questions.

If you have submitted a manuscript you will also soon receive communication regarding the Contest. If you haven�t submitted one yet, take heart�there is a new deadline of September 10, 2008, or until a total of 300 entries are received, which ever occurs first. Check out the new website for additional information.

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Winner of April (Awarded in May) Writing Contest
Darrell Keifer

Congratulations to Darrell Keifer for his wonderful story
"My Sophomore Year"
which won the $50.00 First Prize

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Announcement
2008 Honorary Member Named

The Guild is pleased to announce our
Honorary Member for 2008:

Andromeda Romano-Lax
of Anchorage, Alaska
author of The Spanish Bow
which had such an auspicious debut in 2007

Check out the member book links at left for more information about The Spanish Bow, now available in a bookstore near you.

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Announcement
BI-MONTHLY WRITING CONTEST FOR MEMBERS

Sponsored by:

Ken Jelinek, Re/Max Properties, Inc.

Kevin O'Conner has become Chairman of the AWG's Bi-Monthly Writing Contest. Kevin can be reached at kesoconnor@gmail.com.

From now on all submissions should be sent to him including the poetry contest scheduled for June as well as the 'children and teen' contest for this month.

AWG is pleased to announce a new program for members. Six writing contests, with winners to be announced and awards to be presented at the February, April, June, July, August, October, and December monthly meetings.

First place winner receives $50.00

Second and third place receive certificates.

All winning entries will be posted on AWG's web site.

2008 genres will be:

February genre ----- General Fiction

April         genre ----- Humor

June        genre ----- Poetry

August     genre ----- Children & teenagers

October    genre ----- horror

December genre ----- Non-fiction/essay

2009 genres will be:

February   genre ----- News reporting

April        genre ----- Romance

June        genre ----- Technical/How to

August      genre ----- Fantasy

October     genre ----- Mystery

December  genre ----- Plays/Screenplays

CONTEST RULES:

Entries must be submitted by email to kesoconnor@gmail.com by the 5th of the contest month. Please put "BI-MONTHLY WRITING CONTEST FOR MEMBERS" in the subject line

Example: For the August contest the entry deadline is August 5th.

Entries must include a cover sheet containing the author's name and email address, as well as the genre. Entries containing any reference to the author's identity within the body or in headers/footers will be disqualified.

Each member is limited to one entry per bi-monthly contest.

Entries must be no longer than five (5) pages, double spaced, Courier New type face, at font size 12 with standard one inch margins.

Do not include art, waves, videos, pics or other embellishments unless the contest specifically asks for such.

All entries will be given submittal numbers and the cover pages removed before being emailed to the judges.

Items not found on this page may be found by clicking on the Archive Page at the top left of Home Page.

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Contacts: Our Board Members

President............................Jim Misko ................... jim@jimmisko.com

Vice President, Programs�David Brown ��......dbeci@myexcel.com

Secretary��...Michele Quam��.....katasee@amail.com

Treasurer��Glen Bobo ��......Glen.Bobo@amail.com

Member at Large�� Vonice Larsen...claudia4zero@yahoo.com

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