Peninsula Writers-- PW News and Announcements

Henceforth all submissions will need to be submitted electronically. Details can be found in our Members Only page. Follow the link (and write to the webmanager at peninsulawriters@att.net if you don't remember the log in info):

New: Members' Only page

Newer still! Click here to see the all new Peninsula Writers website, now open!
Now in beta release.
Soon we will be moving all current PW files and photos to the new site, along with even more features.
Available now: room for member comment and interaction.
Coming soon: access to members only pages by personal user IDs,
plus the ability to join discussions, upload text and photos, and more.

Visit the PW blog at www.pwwriter.blogspot.com
your host: Sarah McElrath

Please visit the PW site on Facebook where you can post/view photos of PW events, start or add to our line-by-line stories and poems, and connect with other PW members. Click and follow this link.

Events &c.

Scroll down for new writing/publishing and workshop opportunites

PW publishes Growing Writers, an annual anthology of student writing. This features the work of pupils of those members who are teachers, in any grade through college. Now non-teaching members are invited to submit the writing of their school-age children or grandchildren.

The guidelines are very general: unless space permits the editor will choose between pieces submitted by any one child; the language must be appropriate for an audience through middle school; all work should be single-spaced for brevity, and submissions are welcome electronically, but must then be accompanied by signed permissions forms by fax. Non-teaching members do not need do get a teacher’s signature for their children’s work, however. Also, students over 18 do not need guardian signatures, but would still need the signatures of the PW member-teacher who is submitting their work to the anthology. --Marci Woods

download a 2008 Student Anthology flyer here

Your ever humble Web Mangler has a request: send me a headshot! I would like to add pictures of ourselves to our profiles in future membership directories, printing-technology- and directory-publisher-willing, so we can all put faces with names. (OK, I speak primarily for myself.) For now I'll let your conscience and whimsy be your guide. See the examples below, then see what you can find lying around your hard drive, and send it to me at peninsulawriters@att.net. Thanks!

Carol Finke	Cerise Fuhrman	Clarice Thompson	Deborah Johnson Wood
Mark Wolfgang	Webster the Wordless Dog	Phyllis Miner	Tricia McDonald
Chris Henning	Richard & Nancy Court	Rich Travis	Sarah McElrath
Your picture should be here	MaryAnn Donahue	Sandy Callis	and here

Anyone wishing to join PW is invited to write to the webmanager. Requests will be forwarded.

PW members are invited to submit news and announcements to: peninsulawriters@att.net