WSW Newsletter | April 14

April 17, 2016 | 2:00-4:00p

Cost: Free!
901 N. Main St. 27262

You'll need to hear Mark Mathosian, P.I., a 30-year veteran investigator of financial fraud share his analysis of how crooks commit the most popular economic scams, such as stock and advance fee loan swindles, as well as mortgage, bank, and business opportunity frauds. You'll need to know who investigates, how the criminal justice system responds, and the language and methods specific to big-dollar financial fraud.

This program is a very welcome gift offered to the community and Murder We Write, the Triad Chapter of Sisters in Crime, by our Triad neighbors, Winston-Salem Writers, at the High Point Library.

This 2-4 program will be followed by the presentation of a permanent Memorial to Joyce Lavene, president of the Murder We Write chapter until her death October 20. Joyce and her husband, Jim, authored more than 70 national best-selling books over the past 10 years under various pseudonyms and in simultaneously running mystery series under contract to several major publishers.

Murder We Write has commissioned two wooden boxes custom-made that will hold magazines, used but in good condition, for readers to take home as part of a unique Bring One Take One Exchange. Although the number of magazines will be limited for this first presentation to only one brought and one taken per attendee, once the boxes are at home on the 3rd floor of the library the quantity exchanged will not be limited, and the exchange will continue on the honor system.

(A similar system currently operates in the Benjamin Branch of the Greensboro Library where reading enjoyment is recycled like books.

(Free publications, such as Guilford Woman or Greensboro's O'Henry magazine, are not eligible.)

Flying South 2016- Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry Contest
Deadline: May 31, 2016

Sift Through Those Stacks

The Annual Winston-Salem Writers Book Drive begins in April. Last year we were able to contribute over 260 books to the Forsyth County Prison and Jail Libraries.

We would love to surpass those donations in 2016, so check your shelves for some dusty books and repurpose them with another reader!

Contact any WSW Board Member to arrange pick-up or bring them to any of our numerous sponsored events – Open Mics, Writers Night Out, any Workshop, the Ten-Minute Play - and we will help them find a new home.

May 7, 2016 | 2:00-4:00p

Cost: Free!
717 S. Marshall St., WS.

April 22, 2016 | 6:30-10:00p
Join us for a fine night of writing and friendship.
Location: the home of Donna and Hugh Wallace
623 Lissara Lodge Dr.
Lewisville

April 26, 2016 at 7:00p
WSW will now be Co-Sponsoring a SECOND Open Mic!

EXPLORE THESE OPPORTUNITIES

Savannah Authors Anthology

Deadline: April 20

Fee: $10
Submissions for the 2016 Savannah Authors Anthology are now being accepted. The competition is open to all legal residents of the states of Georgia, South Carolina, Florida, Alabama, Tennessee, and North Carolina. There is no age limit. Twenty or more pieces of original prose are selected for inclusion in the short story anthology. Click HERE for more information.

Visual Poetry Walk Seeking Artists & Poets

Deadline: April 30

No submission fee
Be a part of the Gate City’s first-ever Visual Poetry Walk where artists and poets are paired to create Poem Boxes on a walking trail for public enrichment. The Writers Group of the Triad (WGOT) is accepting applications from Triad poets and artists during April, National Poetry Month.

Visual Poetry boxes will be installed in different sites downtown and mapped on a walking trail. Folks of all ages can enjoy poetry and art while exploring downtown from August to October, with special focus during the National Folk Festival in September. Visual Poetry Walk is inspired by the work of Ana Flores, POETRY-OF-THE WILD, and by the Little Free Library concept, which brings literacy to the people. Locations may include from The Children’s Museum to Just Be to Elsewhere.

Details and applications are available at all Greensboro Public Library branches or online (www.facebook.com/visualpoetrygso). These must be returned by email to visualpoetrygso@gmail.com , or by mail to Visual Poetry Walk, 1911 Rosecrest Drive, Greensboro 27408, by April 30. For more information, call 336-288-7555 or email address above.

Longleaf Press 19th Annual Chapbook Contest
Deadline: April 30
Award: $200

Longleaf Press at Methodist University invites chapbook submissions of 18 to 23 pages of poetry for its 2016 Chapbook Contest from poets who have not yet published a full-length collection. Click HERE for more information or contact RGREENE@METHODIST.EDU

Backbone Press Call for Poetry Chapbooks

Deadline: April 30
Fee: $5
Join this stellar list of emerging and established poets: Dariel Suarez, Allison Joseph, Tyree Daye, Tara Betts! Based in Durham, we focus on publishing poets of color and poets writing about culture. Now accepting chapbook manuscripts. Please submit manuscripts between 24-30 pages. Payment is publication and author copies. Click HERE for more information.

James Applewhite Poetry Prize

Deadline: May 1
Award: $250 and publication
The winning poem will be selected by James Applewhite. The North Carolina Literary Review's poetry editor, Jeffrey Franklin, will select the finalists, who will also be published. Submitters must be an NCLR subscriber to submit to the James Applewhite Poetry Prize competition. You may subscribe to NCLR when you submit. Click HERE for more information.

Call For Children's & YA Authors
We are a publishing company of innovative children’s and YA literature. We are launching soon and always looking for new authors, published and unpublished to write our historical fiction stories. We have pioneered a unique learning technology for 3rd to 8th graders and up, from the hard to teach to the already head-of-the-class, with interactive literary adventures that engage readers in brand new ways. We welcome inquiries from unpublished authors – all you need is talent, passion and a story to tell. We’re not a content mill, vanity press, or self-publishing service…we’re a publisher of educational books that promise to engage a new generation in reading, and change the way children learn. Click HERE for more information.

Flash Fiction Contest

Deadline: May 1
Award: $100/ $50/ $25
Fee: $10 / $8
Each year the Pikes Peak Branch of the National League of American Pen Women Inc. sponsors a national flash fiction contest that challenges authors to "tell a story" using only 100 words. Writers are invited to submit a complete but very short story of 100 words or less (excluding story title from total word count); entries MUST be narrative in form (must tell a story) and pertain to the author's choice of theme ... STORM ... HIDDEN ... or ... CHANGE. Click HERE for more information.

Peregrine

Deadline: May 31
Peregrine, the literary journal of Amherst Writers & Artists, is accepting online submissions of poetry and short prose March 31—May 31, 2016, for publication in Volume 31. Click HERE for more information.

Guy Owen Poetry Prize

Deadline: May 31
Award: $1000 and publication
Fee: $20 (includes 1-yr subscription)
Submit 3-5 poems (10 pages maximum). Sponsored by Southern Poetry Review. Click HERE for more information.

Pat Schneider Poetry Contest

Deadline: July 1
The Sixth Annual Pat Schneider Poetry Contest will open May 1st – July 1st, 2016. You may submit up to three poems for the submission fee of $18. The winner will receive $1000 and publication in Peregrine. Click HERE for more information.

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The WSW Board Meetings are open to members and held on the first Monday of each month
7 p.m. in the Milton Rhodes Center for the Arts first floor conference room.