Purple Pros Newsletter
Members are encouraged to submit items for publication in our monthly newsletter, the Purple Pros. The publication deadline is the last Friday of each month. Please refer to our Submission Guidelines for details. Looking for a back-issue of the newsletter? Check out our Newsletter Archive.
SWA ANNOUNCES 2012-2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Lee Clevenger
Vice-President: Buzz Bernard
Secretary/Registrar: Kay Eaton
Treasurer: Janet Shepphard Kelleher
Webmaster/Social Media: Amy Munnell
Marketing: Debra Brown
Conference Coordinator: Cappy Rearick
Newsletter Editor: Kellie Baker
Blog: Stu Blandford
Members are encouraged to submit items for publication in our monthly newsletter, the Purple Pros. The publication deadline is the last Friday of each month. Please refer to our Submission Guidelines for details. Looking for a back-issue of the newsletter? Check out our Newsletter Archive.
SWA ANNOUNCES 2012-2013 BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President: Lee Clevenger
Vice-President: Buzz Bernard
Secretary/Registrar: Kay Eaton
Treasurer: Janet Shepphard Kelleher
Webmaster/Social Media: Amy Munnell
Marketing: Debra Brown
Conference Coordinator: Cappy Rearick
Newsletter Editor: Kellie Baker
Blog: Stu Blandford
Members
Member News
- On February 12, Erika Hoffman will talk about how to write inspirational stories for Chicken Soup for the Soul and similar anthologies at the Carteret Writers Meeting in Morehead City, NC. In six years, Erika has had personal narratives published in seven Chicken Soup collections along with a number of other anthologies. Additionally, her essay The World is Too Much with Us will be published in Living magazine and her story, How to Treat an Angel, will appear in Mature Years, Fall 2013.
- Sheila Hudson's article, Wanted: Titus 2 Women was published in the Christian Standard in February. Also, her article, A Shared Story: Overlook It appears on the website AfterFiftyLiving.com.
- Cappy Hall Rearick will judge the Humor Columnist Award for the Delaware Press Association and a speech writing contest at Glynn Academy. Her syndicated columns are now distributed by Senior Wire and read across the U.S. and Europe.
- Patrick Hempfing’s column, Call Me, Maybe, appeared in January’s issue of S. I. Parent (Staten Island, NY), Sonoma Family Life (CA), and Irving Parent and Suburban Parent Magazines (TX).
Get Published!
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A member-only benefit, access to Get Published provides SWA members with information on dozens of contests, publication, and submission opportunities across the country. The information, organized by deadline date, is updated regularly and includes submission details, contact information, and fees - when applicable.
Already a member and need a password? Contact us!
Member Directory
Support your fellow SWA members by checking out their websites and blog!
Support your fellow SWA members by checking out their websites and blog!
- Buzz Bernard
- Cappy Rearick – Simply Southern
- Cappy Rearick – Dew on the Kudzu
- Carol DeVaney – Reflections
- Carol DeVaney – Blog
- Carol DeVaney - Author website
- Cecil Murphey - The Man Behind the Words
- Charlotte Babb
- Charlotte Babb–Be your own Fairy Godmother
- Cheryl B. Dale
- Douglas Lyle MD
- Douglas Lyle MD - Writers Forensics
- Elizabeth McCulloch - The Feminist Grandma
- Emily Sue Harvey
- Emily Sue Harvey–Renewal Stories
- Gary Curlew
- Gerald Cislon
- Glenn Finland
- Harry Rubin–Bard of Hinesville
- Judith Barban
- Kathryn J. Bain
- K.G. McAbee (Gail)
- Kimberly Brock
- Lee Clevenger - Incrediboy
- Linda Joyce
- Linda Joyce – Contemplates
- Lori Quiller – The Writer Gal
- Lucinda Shirley – The Loadstone
- Lucinda Shirley – Poetry Peddler
- Nancy Hatch Woodward – The Writeable Life
- Patrick Hempfing
- Sheila Hudson - Decisions That Will Change Your Life
- Sheila Hudson’s Bright Ideas
- Susan Lindsley - Yesterplace
- Susan Lindsley - Susan Myrick from Gone with the Wind
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