You Have Friends Here!Welcome to St. Louis Writers Guild's temporary website! We're working on a new one, but until it's done this site will have the latest information on workshops, lectures, open mics, contests, community events, and more!
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How can St. Louis Writers Guild help you? For workshops, lectures, and special events - SLWG Events For information on our writing contests - Contests For Membership information - About SLWG Information about SLWG and its history - About SLWG Critique Group information - Members The Scribe, members' books, and more - Book Room
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A Quick Guide to St. Louis Writers Guild Events - it's as easy as One, Two, Three! Workshops for Writers - First Saturday of every month 10am to Noon at the Kirkwood Community Center Station Open Mic - Second Tuesday of every month 7pm to 9pm at the Kirkwood Amtrak Station SLWG Lecture Series - Third Thursday of every odd month 7pm to 8pm in the Buder Family Student Commons at Maryville University SLWG Webinars - Third Thursday of every even month Members only, an email invitation is sent out ______________________________________________________________________________________
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ATTENTION: Pardon our mess, but as we switch servers to create the new website, our email addresses have to temporarily change. They remain the same, only the .org needs to be .net for the next few months. Feel free to continue using the old email addresses they should work and will in the future, but if we don't answer or you feel your message didn't reach us please use one of the new email addresses. For any questions please contact info@stlwritersguild.net _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Workshops for Writers - Focus on Fiction: The Road to Publication with Lynn Cahoon, Warren Martin, H.C. Beckerr, and Pam DeVoe
Saturday, May 4, 2013 10am-Noon
The Kirkwood Community Center, 111 S. Geyer Rd, Kirkwood, MO 63122
Free
for members, $5 for non-members
Fiction can be broken into many genres, Romance, Sci-fi/Fantasy, Historical, Mystery, and more. What do these genres share in common and what how do they differ? A panel of fiction writers discusses these topics as well as their personal roads to publication in this can’t miss Workshops for Writers.
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SLWG Author Series with L.S. Murphy author of Reaper
Thursday, May 16, 2013 7-8pm
New Location!All on the Same Page Bookstore 11052 Olive Blvd. Creve Coeur, MO 63141
Free and open to the public!
St. Louis Writers Guild has a new format for our long-standing Lecture Series. Like the webinars, the SLWG Author Series is now available online. There are three ways to view the interview.
1: Come like you always have and see the lecture live.
2: Watch live online and ask questions via text chat or Twitter.
3: Watch the recorded lecture on the SLWG website after the event.
As a benefit of membership with St. Louis Writers Guild, an email will be sent with a link to the live online broadcast of the interview.
To purchase Reaper by L. S. Murphy
http://www.jtaylorpublishing.com/books/19
L.S. Murphy
REAPER (J. Taylor Publishing)
A REASON TO STAY (Calliope - an imprint of Musa Publishing)
http://lsmurphy.com
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Workshops for Writers - The 12 Step Program: How to Show, How to Not Tell presented by Suzann Ledbetter Ellingsworth
A special workshop by noted author and editor Suzann Ledbetter Ellingsworth! Saturday, April 6, 2013 10am to Noon Kirkwood Community Center 111 S Geyer Rd. By Suzann's definition, wrediting is an editing perspective evolved from experience on both sides of traditional publishing: as a writer undergoing the editorial process, and as an editor teaming with writers to bring their stories to compelling life. Teaching is the core of Suzann's private client editing process. Her unique techniques will hone and polish a current project, and pay dividends applicable to future ones, too.
Suzann Ledbetter Ellingsworth is multi-published, fiction and nonfiction writer and an editor--in her parlance, a wreditor. Suzann is a Writers Hall of Fame of America inductee, past faculty member for Washington University's Summer Institute, and a contributing editor for Family Circle magazine for a decade. www.TheWalkingDeadline.com www.SuzannLedbetter.com www.SuzannEllingsworth.com Get some great tips to complete your manuscript before the Missouri Writers Guild Conference! _______________________________________________________________
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SLWG Author Series: Linda Austin
An interview with Linda Austin Author and publisher of Cherry Blossoms in Twilight Thursday, March 21, 2013 7 - 8 pm The Buder Family Student Commons at Maryville University Maryville University Dr, 63141 Free and open to the public! St. Louis Writers Guild has a new format for our long-standing Lecture Series. Like the webinars, the SLWG Lecture Series is now available online.
There are three ways to view the lecture.
1: Come to Maryville like you always have and see the lecture live.
2: Watch live online and ask questions via text chat or Twitter using @stlwritersguild.
3: Watch the recorded lecture on this website after the event. As a benefit of membership with St. Louis Writers Guild, an email will be sent with a link to the live online broadcast of the lecture. To purchase Cherry Blossoms in Twilight by Linda Austin Cherry Blossoms in Twilight _______________________________________________________________________________________
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Workshops for Writers: March 2
Sit Down and Pitch A workshop to prepare for the 2013 Missouri Writers Guild Conference Saturday, March 2, 2013 10am to Noon Kirkwood Community Center 111 S. Geyer Rd. Free Do your palms sweat and your mouth run dry? Does the mere mention of the word ‘pitch’ send you clinging to the ceiling? It doesn’t have to be so terrifying. Pitching to an agent or publisher might be the scariest thing a writer has to do, but this workshop will not only teach you how to pitch but we’re breaking into groups and perfecting our pitches. Even if you don’t have a pitch when you come, you’ll have one by the time you leave. Note: these will only be practice pitches; no agents or publishers will attend the workshop. They will be at the 2013 MWG Conference. The 2013 Missouri Writers Guild Conference: Bringing Writers Together April 26 - 28 Sheraton Westport - Lakeside Chalet Hotel For more information about the conference please visit, http://mwgconference.blogspot.com/ http://www.missouriwritersguild.org/Conference2013v6/index.htm _________________________________________________________________
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For turn by turn directions to the Maryville University Auditorium please click on the pdf link below.
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The Poets Laureate of Missouri an evening with David Clewell, William Trowbridge, and Walter Bargen Friday, March 15, 2013 7:30pm Maryville University Auditorium Maryville University Dr., St. Louis, MO 63141 Free and Open to the Public! Reception and Book Signing will follow the reading The Medart Lecture Series Sponsored by Maryville University with the participation of St. Louis Writers Guild St. Louis Poetry Center For more information and biographies please visit the event page. _________________________________________________________________
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Congratulations to the 2012 Annual Short Story Contest Winners presented by St. Louis Writers Guild! 1st Place Winner – The Pieties and Sacrifices of Mrs. Odetta James by Kimila Bowling 2nd Place – Tappy by Peter Green 3rd Place – Wheaton House by W. E. Mueller 1st Honorable Mention – Tan Shoes and Pink Shoe Laces by Kimila Bowling 2nd Honorable Mention – Leviathan by Stan Wallach 3rd Honorable Mention – Dead Frequency by Cori Bair
Many thanks to our judge, mystery author, Christine Matthews! Hear the winners read their stories at the January Open Mic Night. Tuesday, January 8, 2013 from 7pm to 9pm at the Kirkwood Amtrak Station, 110 W Argonne Dr. __________________________________________________________________
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Congratulations SLWG Young Writer Awards Winner! 6th - 8th Grade Division First Place - Being Myself by Nicolette LoGrasso Second Place - Agreed by Noah Karolczak Third Place - The Stray App by Maya Speckhard 1st Honorable Mention - The Time Telephone by Jacob Price 2nd Honorable Mention - Low Battery by Cole Hanson 3rd Honorable Mention - App-Venture by Kaitlyn Swanson 4th & 5th Grade Division First Place - Geocaching by Rasti Jahul
Thank you to all who entered, and our judges Tricia Sanders and Jud Miner _________________________________________________________________
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