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| On Thursday, September 16, the Guild is sponsoring a Self-Publishing Seminar conducted by Sylvia Forbes. The event will be publicized nationwide and only 24 attendees can be accommodated. Sign up early. $25 RESERVATION FEE covers speaker and materials. |
| The Guild will meet for regular business on Thursday, September 23. |
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| Focusing on the theme of the Guild's 2010 booklet (1929-39 Depression), members recently had the pleasure of interviewing at Westport Estates. (It was a great experience!! Fantastic stories!! Authorene Phillips) |
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 | Marshall Writers Guild presented their minutes and manuscripts to directors and staff of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia in Ellis Library on the University of Missouri campus. The group was treated to a tour of the facility and an explanation of available research possibilities. |
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 | Lexie McDanel wins the 2010 Writers' Guild Grant. More |
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| In April Mary-Lane Kamberg, an award-winning poet and journalist who has published fourteen books, hundreds of poems and articles, and some short fiction, spoke to students at Bueker Middle School and led and energized the Guild's 2010 Workshop. Kamberg's topic: What's So Funny? Her latest book, The I Love To Write Book: Ideas and Tips for Young Writers, can be purchased from amazon.com. Kamberg is co-leader of the Kansas City Writers Group and belongs to the Missouri Writers' Guild, the Oklahoma Writers' Federation Inc., and the Kansas Authors Club. After lunch she spent one-on-one time with participants desiring publishing suggestions while Night Writer Melanie Dees Campbell led the group with open mike presentations. New faces were present. Guild member and reporter Jacob Hatfield's review: Writers' Guild speaker offers advice on writing humor, Source: The Marshall Democrat-News, 4/29/2010 | General Workshop Details |
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| April is Poetry Month and the Guild is celebrating with the Marshall Public Library. On Tuesday, April 6 at 6 PM Night Writer Melanie Dees Campbell will MC an Open Mike for readings. All are welcome. |
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2009 Annual Meeting |
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| Guild members share recipes. Source: The Marshall Democrat-News, Sydney Stonner, 12/9/2009 and 12/16/2009 |
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| Guild member Ed Richards publishes rare memoir of college life in the early 1950's. More |
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| Guild members salute Lavinia Lower Lile (2/131912-7/16/2009) for her "lifelong devotion to language and the written word." Source: Carole Kays Schaefer in Saline Silhouettes |
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| Dr. Mark Adderley educated, informed and charmed those attending the 2009 Workshop. Dr. Adderley, a Missouri Valley English professor and medieval scholar, is writing a fictional series on the Arthurian legend. The first book in the series, The Hawk and the Wolf, is available from amazon.com or visit www.markadderley.net. Both day and night writers were present at the workshop and a good time was had by all. Local author discusses first book, publishing process at Writers' Guild workshop, Source: The Marshall Democrat-News, Jacob Hatfield, 5/1/2009 | General Workshop Details |
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| More Marshall MOments, the 2008 booklet from the Guild, remains available. The Marshall Democrat-News, 12/8/2008 | MoreThe Saturday Writers of St. Charles have announced that Carole Kay Schaefer's essay, "Hobbies I Have Known," has been accepted for publication in their literary magazine, Cuivre River Anthology Volume IV.Carol Raynor signed her book, Water Carried Up Hill, at Sedalia Book and Toy on Saturday, May 24. MoreOn April 17 the Guild held its annual Workshop with guest speaker and author Sharon Kinney Hanson. She was inspiring.Marshall MOments, 2007 booklet from the Guild, and Personalities, 2006 booklet are sold out. MoreGuild members gather for a group book signing at Sedalia Book and Toy from 2 - 4 pm on Friday, November 30, 2007.Guild president Authorene Phillips' Arrow Rock: the Story of a Missouri Village is available. MoreGuild member Carol Raynor's Water Carried Up Hill: A Sense of Place and Past is available. More |
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| David E. Moore, Associate Director of the Western Historical Manuscript Collection-Columbia, University of Missouri, featured speaker at the October meeting. More from The Marshall Democrat-News, Kathy Fairchild, 10/23/2007.Dr. Ben Nelms featured speaker at Annual Workshop ~ Source: The Marshall Democrat-News, Kathy Fairchild, 4/24/2007. |
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| Local educator, Carole Schaefer, was surprised and honored when her teaching project was chosen to appear in the spring issue of School and Community, a Missouri State Teachers Association publication. The article highlights a writing project Schaefer developed and implemented in the classroom to improve student writing skills and help raise MAP test scores.With encouragement from the local writing group, the Marshall Writers' Guild, Schaefer wrote up her project and submitted it to School and Community.Schaefer says in addition to having her project in print and being able to share it with educators through out the state, hearing from many teaching acquaintances with whom she had lost touch, has been wonderful. Schaefer has taught in public schools for 30 years. More from Carole |
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| Congratulations to Ed Richards who was published in the "Where I've Been" in the travel section of The Kansas City Star ~ More from Ed |
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| These letters by Authorene Phillips are included... |
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| New Guild member Katherine Bennett invites writers to write about a fictional character who lived in the fictional dollhouse being constructed to be auctioned for the cancer unit at Fitzgibbon Hospital. Guidelines are on the internet -- Fitzgibbon Hospital Dollhouse Project Album. |
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| The Marshall Writers' Guild presented this collection of books by Saline County writer, Loula Grace Erdman, to the Saline County Historical Society following a program at the Marshall Public Library presented by Carol Raynor (right). Erdman's cousin, Jean Redford, (left) added personal remembrances. |
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| Erdman's novels often featured Missouri and Missourians. She is buried in Blackburn, Missouri. The donated books are Another Spring, The Edge of Time, Far Journey, The Good Land, Life was Simpler Then, Many a Voyage, Save Weeping for the Night, The Wide Horizon, The Wind Blows Free, The Years of the Locust, A Time to Write (autobiography). Funds for purchases were provided by a grant from the Missouri Writers' Guild and private donations. |
| Anyone who would like to donate one of Erdman's books, or who has letters or photos from this author is encouraged to contact Amy Crump, Director, at the Marshall Public Library, 660.886.3391. June 2006 Note: Carol Raynor was contacted by a researcher of Erdman who will provide additional materials for the collection to be housed at the Saline County Historical Society. More from The Marshall Democrat-News, Mark Lile, 6/28/2006 |
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