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GENERAL MEETING: Usually... First Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM. |
August Meeting: Wednesday the 6th at 7:00 PM. Jan Platt Library located at 3910 S. Manhattan Ave., Tampa, FL 33611 |
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President Message Programs Membership Member Website Links Write Connections Newsletter A Writer's Life Writing Contest Wordsmith Anthology TWA EXECUTIVE COMMITTEE 2008 - 2010 President: Michael Darling Vice President: James Durlacher Secretary: Chris Taylor Treasurer: Paul DuBose Member at Large: Marianne Alluoto Past President: Sandra Kischuk APPOINTMENTS Write Connections Editor: James Young Contest Coordinator: James Young Publicity: Adele Walter Webmaster: James Durlacher Wordsmith Editor: Sandra Kischuk CRITIQUE COORDINATORS Critique: Charles Greenwood Poetry: Warner Conarton The Writers Spot: Your chance to shine in this little area of our website. It can be a blog or some text you wrote. Make sure you include a link to your website or e-mail if you want contact. Send submissions to webmaster. Please show your support for fellow TWA members and Ann Cook and Steve Meador this month. Ann will be signing "Micanopy in Shadow" at the Carrollwood Barns & Noble on July 12th at 6pm, and at the University Village on July 22nd at 2pm. Steve Meador's book "Throwing Percy from the Cherry Tree" won a national poetry book contest at a small press in NC, D-N Publishing. It was released in April and is available at Amazon, Barnes and Noble and the publisher's site (which is being updated) www.d-npublishing.com It has done very well at Amazon, several times falling into the 20,000s in sales ranking. That is somewhat exciting considering they sell millions of books. A second printing is coming soon since the publisher is running low on inventory already. You can contact Ann at Acook1@tampabay.rr.com and Steve at: meador.poetry@gmail.com. Congratulations to both and good luck! |
President Michaels' Monthly Message: Spotlight is on: Julie Ann Howell. She is the president of Peppertree Press in Sarasota. Having only been open for business since January of 2006, Peppertree Press already has 83 authors published or in process of being published under 103 titles. The Peppertree Press team have been very busy. Meet up with us for a energizing meeting in August! Here are some words from Julie and Teri: Welcome to the Peppertree Press, a Sarasota, Florida Professional Publishing Company where Seeds are Planted and Flourish Worldwide! An opportunity is clearly defined as a favorable or advantageous circumstance, or simply a chance for progress or advancement. As the late Eleanor Roosevelt so eloquently stated, "If you prepare yourself... you will be able to grasp opportunity for a broader experience when it appears."... A wise woman indeed, if I say so myself, she virtually pinpointed my thoughts when The Peppertree Press came to fruition in January 2006. My name is Julie Ann Howell, Publisher/President, and along with Teri Franco, Editorial Director are proud to introduce to you a company that offers professional publishing with a personal touch! Together we have planted the book publishing seed and with great enthusiasm have launched this fine company to aspiring authors who have dreams and aspirations of turning their manuscripts into masterpieces. Based in Sarasota, Florida, our authors are coming from all over the globe and embracing this opportunity in both hands and are able to share their untold stories worldwide. All projects that come to The Peppertree Press are thoroughly screened and evaluated before acceptance and are professionally edited and enhanced by our graphic design team. We are proud of our authors, who have incorporated meticulous research and a passion for writing that shows how they care for their readership. In addition, each author has a relationship with The Peppertree Press for promoting their book through public speaking, book signings, reading festivals, and contacts with both print and electronic media. We welcome you to go on the grand tour of our Web site at www.peppertreepublishing.com and take the first step in turning your manuscript into the next bestseller. Looking forward to seeing you soon. Sincerely from both of us, Julie Ann Howell; Publisher/President Teri Franco; Editorial Director. ------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ Greetings from Michael Darling:I met an incredibly talented artist at the science fiction convention I attended last month in Panama City. His name is Garrett DeChellis and he just graduated from the Ringling College of Art and Design. He was selling his artwork at the convention. I bought a poster and swapped contact info with him. I was so impressed that I plan to use him on future projects of mine. Garrett will be residing in St. Pete beginning in August. His rates are very good, cheap in fact considering the exceptional quality of art he produces. The actual rates depend on how complex the artwork you need is. Garrett is not limited to just science fiction or fantasy either. If you are in need of a very good artist for covers or anything else, even before August, please shoot him an e-mail at GDeChell@gmail.com
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 Coordinator – Charles Greenwood
Charles is taking some time off, and Warner Conarton will be leading the group for a while.
The Tampa Writers Critique Group meets 2nd & 4th
Wednesday at 7:00 pm.
NO
MEETINGS IN DECEMBER.
Please e-mail submissions to
Warner Conarton, in the subject line of your e-mail, mention "TWA Critique Group" This 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.
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. (HHhmm...What is constructive criticism?)
Want your work
reviewed at our TWA Critique
Group meeting? Become a Member!
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 of your writing so we can share.
