DENTON WRITERS LEAGUE
FIRST EDITION
May 2008 VOL. 19 NUMBER 5

DWL Home Page: http://byjoni.com/dwl

If you would like a copy of the newsletter e-mailed to you instead of through the US post,
please contact George Avera-George Avera-george.819471@verizon.net or Joni Latham-bleuunicorn@verizon.net.


WHERE WE MEET AND WHEN

The second Saturday of every month, at the

Denton Library-Emily Fowler Branch - click here for map 
502 Oakland St
 Denton, TX

General Meeting 10:30 a.m.

Lunch at Noon at the
 Evergreen Super Buffet - click here for map 
1006 W. University Dr
Denton, TX

NEXT MEETING: May 10, 2008


Guest Speakers

June 14 - Joe O'Connell
July 12 - P.N. Elrod - Meeting will be held at Hastings
August 9 - TBD
September 13 - Jeff Crilley
October 11 - TBD
November 8 - Cindy Vallar
December 13 -  TBD

GUEST SPEAKER

Jeremy Smith is a gallery artist as well as the cartoonist of the feature Ropeburn. He was awarded the Xeric Grant in 2007. His work has been printed in various periodicals such as the Portland Mercury. Visit Jeremy's blog : http://jeremysmith6.blogspot.com/


MEMBERSHIP RENEWAL TIME

May begins the new fiscal year for the Denton Writers League.  We will begin collecting the $15 membership fee in May for the 2008-2009 Membership Year.  I am including a copy of the membership form for those of you who need to update your contact information.  Membership forms are also available on from the DWL website (the link is located at the top of the main page).  For those of you who have joined in the last few months, your membership will be grandfathered for the new year.


PROJECT FOR 2008

Thank you to those of you who have submitted to the anthology.  We still need more submissions.
Please submit your stories, essays, and poetry as soon as possible to allow for enough reading time.  The deadline is June 30, 2008.

The Denton Writers League is accepting submissions from local writers for a new anthology.

Submission Guidelines:

Any story, poem or other written work submitted must be your own original work. You must own the copyright and all publishing rights. The author retains ALL RIGHTS to his/her work.

Submissions are open to all genres except erotica, please keep it PG13. Also, works promoting racial hatred or violence, sexism or homophobia will not be accepted.

There is no minimum word count required. Short stories and non-fiction pieces are limited to 7000 words. Poems are limited to 50 lines.

Submissions must be double-spaced using Times Roman font and saved in either RTF or WORD format.

Send submissions as a RTF or WORD attachment to dwlsubmissions@verizon.net with [SUB] title in the subject line. Snail mail submissions will be accepted for those who do not have access to a computer but communications will be delayed to due the staff not being able to contact the author by e-mail. Send snail mail submissions to DWL Anthology, 810 Egan St, Denton, TX 76201. Multiple submissions are acceptable but not simultaneous submissions.

Submissions will be accepted beginning January 15, 2008 and ending June 30, 2008.

There is no reading fee, but if your work is selected for publication, you are required to become a member of the Denton Writers League since the Anthology is a league project with the contents written by our members. The fee to join to League is $15 a year. We meet the second Saturday of the month at the Emily Fowler Library from 10:30am to noon.


POETRY CORNER

Poetry Group
3rd Saturday
10:00 am
Emily Fowler Library
502 Oakland St
Denton, TX

Open Mic Night
4th Wednesday
7:00 pm
Recycled Books
200 N Locust St
Denton, TX


ANNUAL CONVENTIONS
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CONVENTIONS

Convention                   Month    Place                    URL             

ConDFW                   Feb     Dallas, TX       http://www.condfw.org/
Texas Frightmare         Feb     Dallas, TX       http://www.texasfrightmareweekend.com/lifetype/
AggieCon                 March   Bryan, TX        http://aggiecon.tamu.edu/
Dreamin' in Dallas       April   Dallas, TX       http://www.dallasromanceauthors.com/conferences/
ApolloCon                June    Houston, TX      http://www.apollocon.org/
ConMisterio              July    Austin, TX       http://www.conmisterio.org/
Conestoga                July    Tulsa, OK        http://www.sftulsa.org/conestoga/
Armadillo Con            August  Austin, TX       http://www.fact.org/dillo/
Mythcon                  August  Norman, OK       http://www.mythsoc.org/mythcon37.html
Bubonicon                August  Albuquerque, NM  http://bubonicon.home.att.net/
Fencon                   Sept    Dallas, TX       http://www.fencon.org/
     A comprehensive list of other conventions    http://www.fencon.org/links.html#calendar
World Fantasy Con        Nov     Austin, TX       http://www.fact.org/wfc2006/  


On-Line Writers resources

Author's Network-for writers about writing based in Europe, but interesting- http://www.author-network.com/
Copyright Forms- http://www.loc.gov/copyright/forms/
The New Covey Cover Awards - http://thenewcoveycoverawards.blogspot.com
Dallas Screen Writers- http://www.dallasscreenwriters.com/
Denton Public Library - http://www.cityofdenton.com/pages/library.cfm
Fort Worth Book Blog - http://booksblog.guidelive.com/
Glimmer Train Press, Inc.-A quarterly magazine of about 260 pages of literary fiction - http://www.glimmertrain.com/
How Stuff Works - Want to know how something works, try this link - http://www.howstuffworks.com/
Lulu.Com - A Self-Publisher - http://www.lulu.com/
MeetUp.Com - A place to find MeetUp groups in your area  - http://www.meetup.com/
   Jeff Crilley's DFW Do-It Yourself PR Group - http://freepublicity.meetup.com/1/
National Association of Women Writers - http://www.naww.org
National Writers Union - http://www.nwu.org/
Northeast Texas Writers' Organization - http://www.netwo.org/
Para Publishing Website - a good writing, publishing, and promotion source - http://www.parapublishing.com/sites/para/
Preditors and Editors-a resources to check out agents and publishers http://www.anotherealm.com/prededitors/
Printing for Less - Good prices and I understand good product - http://www.printingforless.com/index.html
Ralan's Webstravaganza-speculative fiction resource http://ralan.com/
Society of Children's Writers and Illustrators - http://www.scbwi.org/
Texas Coalition of Authors, Inc. - http://www.texasauthors.org/
The Market List-the online resource for genre fiction writers http://www.marketlist.com/
The Novelist's Workshop-essays and advice on how to publish your book- http://www.monash.com/writers.html
Vista Prints - inexpensive business cards, postcards, etc - http://www.vistaprint.com
Writer's Exchange - http://www.writers-exchange.com/epublishing/
Writer.com - on-line classes and other writer's information - http://writers.com/
Writers' League of Texas - http://www.writersleague.org/
Writers Net-source for information for writers, editors, agents, and publishers - http://www.writers.net
Writing-World.Com - http://www.writing-world.com 
Writing.Com - Community for readers and writers of all skills levels and interests - http://www.writing.com

There are multitudes of writing resources available on the Internet. Go to any search engine and ask for writer's resources, writer's markets, writer's contests, writer's conferences, etc


DWL OFFICERS:

President       Joni Latham ( joni1957@verizon.net) - 940/382-4865
Vice-President  Kelly Christiansen
Newsletter      George Avera (
george.819471@verizon.net) - 940/
387-8315

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