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DWW Annual Spring Readings

Please join us at Charley’s Crab, located at 5498 Crooks Rd, Troy, MI 48098, 248.879.2060, on Sunday, May 18, 2008 at 1:00 p.m. for brunch and to hear the winners of DWW’s annual members-only writing competition read their winning entries. We encourage all aspiring and established writers to attend this special event to meet our talented authors and learn more about DWW. Cost: adults, $20; children (ages 5-12), $10. Advance payment is required. Click here for full details.

 

The winners have been announced! For the complete list, CLICK HERE (.pdf file; Adobe Acrobat Reader required).

 

Essay Workshop at the Royal Oak Public Library

In this one-time evening lecture on Tues., May 20 at 7:00 p.m., DWW member Cindy La Ferle will discuss the importance of finding universal heart in our personal stories. Drawing from examples in her essay collection, Writing Home, she'll talk about finding the right markets for essays, how to "recycle" previously published material, and how to pitch your pieces to the right editors. “Getting Personal: An Essay Workshop” is offered through the Royal Oak Public Library’s Writer-In-Residence series. The event is free to the public, but advance registration is required. Click here for full details.

 

When does she sleep?

 

DWW member Terry Blackhawk has been one busy poet! In addition to her duties as founder and executive director of the InsideOut Literary Arts Project in Detroit, Terry was featured panelist at the University of Michigan on March 8 for the conference titled "Writing in Public," honoring Karl Pohrt founder of Ann Arbor's Shaman Drum; she read on March 26 for the Tom and Stan Wick Poetry Center at Kent State University, on April 4 at the Downtown YMCA in Syracuse, NY, on April 18 with Blair at the Howell Opera House and on April 27 for the Princeton Public Library, which was posted as the podcast of the day. She has also been invited to submit poems to an anthology of women's poetry from Autumn House Press, edited by Andrea Hollander Budy, and her third full length collection, The Dropped Hand, is going into a second printing soon. Blackhawk is also now a board member of the AWP, and received the 2008 Michigan Youth Arts Festival Creative Writing Educator of the Year (for the second time). We are honored to have you as a member, Terry.

 

Short stories for your reading pleasure...

 

Congratulations to DWW member Robin Gaines, who recently had two short stories accepted for publication: "Innocence" in The Homestead Review (Spring/Summer 2008 issue); and "Double-Speak" in Willard & Maple this summer.

 

Another DWW member website launches

 

Check out member Cindy Hampel’s new website: www.cindyscoffeehouse.com.

 

Wells announces new book

 

DWW member Joyce Ferman Wells is pleased to announce the publication of her first full-length suspense novel, The Peace Seekers. The novel is available through Amazon and the publisher, Jasmine-Jade Enterprises.

InsideOut featured in the Detroit Free Press

http://www.freep.com/apps/pbcs.dll/article?AID=2008804080329

In memory of Jean Maddern Pitrone

DWW was saddened to learn of the passing of member Jean Pitrone on Mar. 12. A past president of Detroit Women Writers (now Detroit Working Writers) and accomplished pianist and organist, Jean wrote and published countless short-stories and articles for numerous publications, and a dozen biographies. She was an editorial associate for Writer’s Digest School and frequently spoke at writer’s conferences, One of her biographies, Tangled Web: Legacy of the Auto Pioneer John F. Dodge, resulted in appearances on Kelly & Company, Unsolved Mysteries, and the Phil Donahue Show. Our sympathy goes out to the Pitrone family.

 

Madgett, Elster inducted into SPIRIT Awards Class of 2008

Naomi Long Madgett, poet laureate of Detroit and author Jean Alicia Elster were among those honored at the 4th Annual Literary Jam/SPIRIT Awards at the Southfield Public Library on Mar. 5. The awards, originated by DWW past president Darlene House, owner of House of Communications, recognize “innovative educators” who are individuals, companies, non- or not- for profit corporations/organizations that have carried on the legacy of the visionary seven founders of Sigma Gamma Rho Sorority.

 

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