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
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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. The Denton Writers League is accepting submissions from local writers for a
new anthology.
POETRY CORNER
Poetry Group Open Mic Night
Please submit your stories, essays, and poetry as soon as possible to allow for
enough reading time. The deadline is June 30, 2008.
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.
3rd Saturday
10:00 am
Emily Fowler Library
502 Oakland St
Denton, TX
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