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Free Write and Mingle
Location:P.F. Chang’s71800 CA-111 Ste C-104Rancho Mirage, CA 92270
Registration is not required for this free event.
Members only. Feel free to bring a guest.
Free Write begins at 3:30 p.m. Mingle begins at 5:00 p.m. and ends at 7:30 p.m. Attend either or both.
We may take photos and/or videos at any of our events for promotional purposes.
Ready to become a member of the Palm Springs Writers Guild? Please click here.
Event Contact: Matt Lancellotti pswg@geographilia.com
Announcing our next Challenge
Chat with Your Protagonist
About Write 500 words about "Chat with Your Protagonist" and get written feedback from a professional editor!
PLEASE SEE THE RULES AND JUDGING CRITERIA BELOW.
We look forward to reading your entries!
Entry Submission Rules
Be sure to comply with all requirements. As with most professional writing submissions, there is no leeway on the rules. Questions? Please contact: kathy.weyer@att.net.
1. Must be a member of Palm Springs Writers Guild with current, active status. 2. Entries accepted between the opening date and submission deadline posted above. 3. Please enter contest by registering online with a $15 entry fee for each entry; you can enter up to 3 times. Submit multiple entries separately. 4. Each entry is 500 word maximum 5. Must be submitted as a MS Word document 6. One inch margins, double-spaced 7. 12-point Times Roman or Times New Roman 8. Indented paragraphs 9. Title must be included in the document header. You may not use the contest theme as your title 10. Pagination must be included in the document footer. 11. Do not include your name anywhere on the submitted document, only in the body of your e-mail. 12. Please submit your entry as an email attachment and send it to kathy.weyer@att.net, no hard copies accepted. 13. The subject line of your email will read the title of your work (not the contest theme name) 14. Blind submission entries are critiqued by a professional editor. 15. Entries will be returned with edits and feedback on your story and presentation. 16. There are no refunds for this event. Judging Criteria
Announcing our next Special Event
So You Want to Write? Kathy Weyer
About Kathy Weyer
Kathy is the Membership Chair and Treasurer for PSWG. She has published three books of Women’s Fiction and several short stories and articles.
Description of talk:
Free workshop open to non Guild members who want to get started writing. We will do writing exercises, have open discussions, and answer questions. Bring paper and pen or a laptop and be prepared to get energized.
Five things you will learn:
REGISTER
To cancel your registration so someone else may register, go to palmspringswritersguild.org and click on the blue icon at the top right of any page. Enter user name and password and click "LOG IN". On the next screen click "My event registrations". Select event and cancel registration.
Meeting begins at 3:00 p.m. and ends at 4:30 p.m.
Event Contact: Kathy Weyer kathy.weyer@att.net
Announcing our
October General Meeting
Contribute to the changes and improvements that will help the Palm Springs Writers Guild better help you. Free, in-person monthly gathering.
Meeting begins at 11:00 a.m. and ends at noon. Refunds are not available for this event.
Event Contact: Eduardo Santiago santiagogo@aol.com
Announcing our next In-Person Workshop
Pie & Passion Amy Wallen
About Amy Wallen
Amy Wallen is the bestselling author the memoir, When We Were Ghouls, the novel, Moonpies and Movie Stars, and most recently, the delightfully delicious, How to Write a Novel in 20 Pies: Sweet & Savory Secrets for Surviving the Writing Life.
Recipes for a delicious life! Amy shares her secrets and insights into her writing life: her inspirations, methods, wild ideas and daily routines; on the pleasure and the pain in achieving literary goals; on how she started out and how she hopes to continue. She will outline some golden rules for staying on track and talk candidly about what goes wrong as well as right. Be ready to put pen to paper or tips to key board. And pie!
Takeaways:
Students need only bring a dream to write a book, an appetite for pie, and a sense of humor.
To receive a full refund minus a $25 cancellation processing fee, attendees must cancel their registration 5 days before the event. No refunds will be given after that time. To cancel your registration, go to palmspringswritersguild.org and click on the blue icon at the top right of any page. Enter user name and password and click "LOG IN". On the next screen click "My event registrations". Select event and cancel registration.
Meeting begins at 12:30 p.m. and ends at 2:30 p.m.
Location:Mélange, The Chateau at Lake La Quinta78-120 Caleo BayLa Quinta, CA 92253
Announcing our next Online Lab
Magic and Music Margaret Lucke
About Margaret Lucke
Margaret Lucke flings words around as a writer and editor in the San Francisco Bay Area. She writes tales of love, ghosts, and murder, sometimes all three in one book. She is the author of four novels—House of Desire, House of Whispers, Snow Angel, and A Relative Stranger (an Anthony Award finalist)—and is the editor of Fault Lines, a short story anthology from the Northern California chapter of Sisters in Crime. She is a former president of Mystery Writers of America NorCal.
Margaret has also published two how-to books on the craft of writing and more than 60 short stories, feature articles, and scripts for mystery weekends. For many years she has taught fiction writing classes for UC Berkeley Extension and other venues. Visit her at www.margaretlucke.comand https://www.facebook.com/Margaret.Lucke.Author/
Magic and Music: How to Develop a Powerful Writer's Voice
What’s meant by a writer’s voice? Voice is an elusive concept, hard to define, but it’s a quality that every editor seeks in a manuscript. It’s that unique combination of language, imagery, lyricism, ideas, attitude, and style that gives your fiction its own distinctive personality. Having a powerful voice will help make your manuscript more appealing to publishers and more rewarding and satisfying for your readers. This workshop will help you explore and strengthen your own writer's voice. If you are writing fiction, memoir, personal essays, or narrative nonfiction in any form, you will benefit from attending this session. What you will learn:
Location: Zoom Online
You will receive an invitation to the Zoom online meeting after you have registered and payment is complete.
Unable to attend, no problem, all paid registrants will receive a video replay of this presentation.
Event Contact: Ariella Moon authorariellamoon@gmail.com
Location:849 Restaurant and Lounge849 N Palm Canyon DrPalm Springs, CA 92262
November General Meeting
Book To Film Stephen Molton
About Stephen Molton
Stephen Molton is a screenwriter, author, librettist, producer, professor, and former film executive. He has written movies and miniseries for Showtime Networks, New Line Cinema, Paramount Television and Viacom Productions.
Among his many accomplishments is the adaptation of the novel, Border Crossing, by Pat Barker into the film, The Drowning, starring Josh Charles and Julia Stiles.
His books include Brave Talk (Harper/Collins) and Brothers in Arms: The Kennedys, the Castros and the Politics of Murder (Bloomsbury USA), co-written with Gus Russo and nominated by its publisher for the Pulitzer Prize.
He lives in Rancho Mirage and New York City.
Book To Film: The Art & Craft of Literary Adaptation
Kindle Vella Krissi Dallas
About Krissi Dallas
Krissi Dallas' Kindle Vella spy thriller, Icarus Flight School, spent eleven weeks as the #1 Top Faved story in Teen and Young Adult and just released in paperback and hardcover. Her ongoing serial romantic comedy, Wish Upon A Streaming Star, is a consistently Top 25 Faved story on Kindle Vella where new episodes release every weekend.
Kindle Vella: Growing Your Readership One Episode At A Time
Attendees will discover how serial fiction is different from novel writing and how you can grow your readership through Kindle Vella whether you're a bestseller or a debut author. What you will learn:
