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GENERAL MEETING Wednesday, May 7 7 P.M. IMPORTANT! NEW LOCATION! |
IMPORTANT! Our LOCATION has CHANGED! We will be meeting at the Jimmie Keel Public Library at 2902 West Bearrs Avenue, Tampa, 33618. This is west of I-275 and east of Dale Mabry on the south side of Bearrs. LOTS of FREE Parking! and a SAFE neighborhood! Siouxie Boshoff - CEO, Author, Web Marketing and SEO Expert Siouxie (pronounced Susie) Boshoff is the CEO of Visual Edge Design, Inc., a full service web design, hosting, and web marketing firm located in the Tampa Bay area. She is also a wife and mother, active in her community as a volunteer, an SEO and Web Marketing expert, author, mentor and more. |
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TWA's President... I suppose you might like to know a little about me. I am a married thirty-something with three dogs, but no children. I enjoy writing, reading, worship, sports, and strategy gaming when I can fit it in. I self-published a science fiction novel called Hoplite Renegades in mid 2006 via a POD publishing company. I am currently working on a science fiction novella, which I plan to self-publish as well, to complement my novel. There are also a crossover fantasy/modern/supernatural novella and another full-length science fiction novel in the works with ideas for a dozen more short stories and novels waiting for me to get to them one day. So, you can see that writing clearly is a major focal point in my life. I am striving to become a fulltime writer so that I can leave my day job (sound familiar anyone?) in the cigar business as an inventory manager. I have been a successful supervisor and manager for eight years now, so I like to think I am experienced adequately to provide leadership for the TWA. A goal of mine is to find more opportunities for TWA members to sell and market their books while still helping each other improve our writing skills no matter what level they are. Certainly, we all have full schedules and I am no different, which is why we need everyone to pitch in where they are able and willing. Please join me in extending good tidings to the TWA’s current critique groups, novel pods, and poetry groups that meet around the Tampa area separately from the monthly general meetings. Al Lucas and Warner Conarton both deserve recognition for the services and leadership they provide these groups every month. Hats off to Jim Young for putting together the newsletter every month. Please give a large salute to James Durlacher and Sandra Kischuk for constantly updating the website. Additionally, I am certain there are more of you whose help is critical and noteworthy in these and other endeavors for the TWA. I hope to meet you soon. If there is anything they need, I will do whatever I can to assist.
President's Invitation... The Tampa Writers Alliance is an organization of writers in the Tampa Bay area covering many genres and levels of experience. The Alliance membership includes published novelists, travel book authors, feature and newspaper journalists, and others who are just beginning to write or just have an interest in the literary world. All enjoy the networking opportunities, programs and peer critiques offered by the various work groups. Membership is open to all adults, and the public is invited to attend all general meetings. The Alliance supports the community as judges for the Hillsborough Teachers of English annual writing contest and through workshops and presentations to schools about writing. |
Tampa Writers Alliance Critique Groups...
TWA Critique Group
– Charles Greenwood,
Coordinator
2nd & 4th
Wednesday at 7:00 pm. NO
MEETINGS IN DECEMBER.
Visitors are welcome to
attend but only members'
works will be discussed,
generally 4-5 pieces per
session. Works to be
critiqued are distributed to
TWA members via e-mail
approximately two weeks
before the next scheduled
meeting. The author has a
chance to respond after
verbal critiques are
finished. Emphasis is on
constructive criticism. For
further information, visit
our Website at:
www.tampawriters.org
Please e-mail submissions to
Charles Greenwood,
charles_greenwood@yahoo.com.
We accept and critique all
genres except poetry. The group
meets the 2nd and 4th Wednesday
of each month from 7-9 PM in the
right rear of the Barnes and
Noble bookstore at 11802 North
Dale Mabry Highway (next to
Piccadilly cafeteria). That's
just south of Stall Road. If you
see Borders, you're too far
north.
Not a member? Want your work
reviewed at our TWA Critique
Group meeting?
Warner Conarton, TWA Poetry
Group Coordinator
warnerdconarton@netscape.com
The Tampa Writers Alliance
Poetry Group
meets on the 4th Thursday of
every month, (excluding December
and important holidays,) at the
Barnes and Noble Booksellers
(North.) That's just south of
Stall Road on North Dale Mabry
in Tampa. (Fletcher is one
traffic light further north than
Stall.) We meet at 7 pm. We
sit around the table in the back
and enjoy each other's poetry.
Sometime a dozen of us, sometime
twice that. It's not a big,
noisy thing, although sometime
folks bring songs and an
occasional guitar or bong drums.
Most stuff goes, unless it is
totally gross. It's a
membership thing, but anyone's
invited a couple of times to
check us out. The TWA is a
splendid support organization
for writers and poets and
playwrights. Come by, bring
copies if you can so we can read
along. Think up nice things to
say.