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The Gulf Coast Writers Association provides a forum for fellowship, education and information among writers in the community. We promote writer's welfare and spirit by encouraging members and others to pursue writing for pure joy or for compensation, whichever purpose better gratifies the individual.
 ommunity’s Next Meeting |
Date: August 21, 2010 |
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| Members $3.00, Non-members $5.00 | Time 10 a.m. | Directions to Meetings |
riters' Upcoming Events
Sept 18- GCWA meeting. Speaker: Dr. Brad Busbee, FGCU - Topic: The Beginnings of English Poetry [more]
The Lee County Alliance for the Arts is holding their “Walk through the Arts” on October 30. Sign up for a table to sell your books. [more]
The 2011 GCWA Writers Contest kicked off in July. Florida Weekly is sponsoring our contest, providing advertising and publishing first place winners. The guidelines and entry forms are available under news - writing contest.
National Puntuation Day is Friday, September 24, 2010. It is the Seventh Annual Celebration! www.nationalpunctuationday.com
CALL FOR ENTRIES - The Tampa Writers Alliance is pleased to announce its redesigned and improved Annual Writers' Contest for 2010-2011. Entries will be accepted from September 1 through October 31, 2010. [more]
Attention Writers and Poets! The Sanibel-Captiva Review is offering a wonderful opportunity for writers to showcase their work in a publication with a reputation for presenting the most deserving talent available. (more)
Prole is launching its first poetry competition. Full details are on the website, but we have provided a brief summary.
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GCWA and Pine Island Writers have signed a reciprocal membership agreement. [more]
On August 19th, two of Joe Pacheco's poems were featured on prominent poetry websites: YourDailyPoem and bardball. Members interested in visiting the websites can go to the following: http://www.yourdailypoem.com/ & http://bardball.com/. Also check our Members' Poetry page [more]
The new Peace River Center for Writers Writing Currents for August is available on our site.
Patrick Parker's book Ben's Tale is a finalist for the Royal Palm Award of the Florida Writers Association. The winner will be announced in October.
From Carmen Lombardo: "We have been honored and blessed to have a multi media production company, Learning Edge, select Dobdinob as a documentary to instill a movement for more creativity among people of all ages, especially in our schools." [more]
David Hauenstein will be reading aloud on "Listen to the Writer's Words," on Shell Point TV's audio channel. He is looking for your poems, stories, essays, and descriptive pieces. [more]
Thanks to Becky Elam, Membership and Denise Holbrook, Photographer we are able to start putting faces to names of New Members. Check out this month's new members @ members - new members. Also check out the photos of Board Members @ members - boards.
Publishing, Marketing & Queries go hand-in-hand. They've been completely updated. If you have additions to these pages please pass them on.
Check out the new Books page. It can be found under Resources - Books. Many books have been added and wherever possible links to the Lee County Library and to online bookstores have been added. Members, please email your favorite writer's books and reference books-on-writing.
A page for Member's Published Books has just been added to the GCWA site, with links to the bookstores and and the Lee County Library. Please send listings of your published or soon to be published books by email, including links to where the books can be purchased.
Island Getaway Contest North Captiva Island Resort Club. July's winners were Russ Miller and Tracy Jacobs. (more)
first time guests – free