Note: for copyright reasons, several minutes were cut from part 2, but the corresponding topic can be found in the slides. Follow along yourself with these slides: trakhtenberg_FlashYourFiction_slides2016 Many thanks to Izolda for the great presentation!
To start the new year off right, at our 20th January meeting we’ll get our creative juices flowing with this interactive workshop from Izolda Trakhtenberg. Don’t miss it! Flash Your Fiction! What comes first–dialogue, characters, plot, or setting? Any of these can inspire us to create or present stumbling blocks…
Be sure to mark Wednesday, December 16th on your busy calendar! For MWAA’s last meeting of the year, we’ll be joined again by always-popular speaker Ally Machate, whose humorous, practical, and realistic writing advice helps us all to up our game. Polishing Your Work for Publication Each year, more than…
Be sure to join us on Wednesday, 18 November for MWAA’s first-ever Members’ Read & Sale Night. This exciting event gives some of our chapter’s published authors the opportunity to read from their work, and gives the rest of us the opportunity to buy autographed copies of their work–just in…
Part 1: Jennifer Yacovissi, “Publishers, Publicists, and a Reading Public” MWA talk, part 1 from wdj on Vimeo. Part 2: Part 3:
Jenny Yacovissi, local writer and current president of the Annapolis MWA chapter, will share her ongoing experiences as a debut novelist at the chapter’s monthly meeting on Wednesday, October 21st. Her talk, “Publishers, Publicists, and a Reading Public,” focuses on many of the lessons she’s learned the hard way leading…
On Wednesday, August 19th, MWAA hosted its first-ever Open Mic Night. Not only was the room packed, but we all got to enjoy hearing the wonderful work–both published and still in progress–from the participants. We will definitely be repeating this event in 2016, so stay tuned for more details. Here…
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“Turn WordPress Into a Powerful Publishing Platform” Photo from right before the talk:
Coming June 2015, the Annapolis MWA will have the following offices open: President (Kat Spitzer is stepping down), Treasurer (Sally Whitney is stepping down), Program chair (David Joyner is stepping down). Please consider volunteering for one of these this summer!