UPDATE: MEETING DATES AND SPEAKERS

We meet from 10-12 on the first Saturday of each month at Carnegie Library in downtown Lake Charles, Louisiana. Join us when you can.

2009 Officers

President - Jessica Ferguson
Vice President – Jan Rider Newman
Secretary – Chris Baldauf
Treasurer - Beverly Martin
Historian - Hillene Deaton
Publicist - Pat Marcantel
Newsletter Editor – Mindy Blanchard
Member @ Large – Lena Roach

Meeting dates/Speakers

JANUARY 3, 2009
business & discussion
Speaker: Jan Rider Newman

FEBRUARY 7, 2009
Speaker: Marymarc Armstrong
Critiques

MARCH 7, 2009
Writing prompts/critiques


APRIL 4, 2009
Keaghan Kane - Poetry Out Loud
Writing prompts/Critiques

MAY 2, 2009
Speaker: Novelist Sylvia Dickey Smith

JUNE 6, 2009
Speaker: Norman German
Note our BWG CONTEST DEADLINE

JULY 11, 2009
Business and Critiques
please note the date change


AUGUST 1, 2009
Speaker: Erin Cormier
Assistant fiction editor of Sotto Voce


SEPTEMBER 5, 2009
BWG CONTEST WINNERS ANNOUNCED
Speaker:Stella Nesanovich, retired Professor of English from McNeese State University in Lake Charles, Louisiana, is the author of A Brightness That Made My Soul Tremble: Poems on the Life of Hildegard of Bingen (Blue Heron Press, 1996) and Vespers at Mount Angel: Poems (Xavier Review Press, 2004) and editor of Points of Gold: Poems for Leo Luke Marcello (Xavier Review Press, 2005).

OCTOBER 3, 2009
Elections/Critiques

NOVEMBER 7, 2009
conference discussion/Critiques
CONFERENCE IS SET FOR NOV. 14

DECEMBER 5, 2009
CHRISTMAS PARTY

Meet our 2009 Conference Committee
Angie Dilmore, Conference Coordinator
Chris Baldauf
Beverly Martin
Walt Dutton
Curt Iles
Keaghan Kane
Linda Todd
Pat Marcantel