By Lynn Obermoeller | February 28th, 2010
Welcome to Announcements Blog
Calling all writers age 16+! Chesterfield Arts is hosting a Big River Writing Contest celebrating Mark Twain and the Missouri river valley this spring! Entries will be accepted in poetry and prose with winners reading their works at the May 12 River Valley Readings at Chesterfield Arts. Winners will also enjoy more prizes and chances [...]
Are you a Scrabble maniac? Then invite your friends and experience everyone’s favorite word game in a whole new way on March 5 at 7:00 p.m.! Sign up for a chance to win prizes, play quick word-inspired games of skill and chance, enjoy snacks and a cash bar, and have a great [...]
I’d like to hear a BIG Round of Applause for the Winners of the
2009 ST. LOUIS WRITERS GUILD ANNUAL SHORT STORY CONTEST!
First Place: Jaclyn Devey for “Confessions of a Coffee-aholic Vampire” (St. Louis, MO)
Second Place: Matt Sorrell for “The Process” (St. Louis, MO)
Third Place: Andi Gregory Pearson for “The Good Day” (Golden, CO)
Honorable Mentions [...]
Hi Everyone! Please visit my blog, www.beckypovich.blogspot.com and enter to win a free book. All the information you need is posted on my blog, dated Jan. 17, 2010. Please stop by and good luck!
I’ve been recently hired as a regularly featured columnist for Tiny Lights online and print magazine, as of this month. Please check out their site. It’s wonderful and the Editor-in-Chief, Susan Bono is a fantastic person!
Also, please don’t forget their Essay Contest that is going on now! Big Money Prizes….small entry fee!
http://tiny-lights.com/contest.php
First a couple of announcements:
1) Don’s and my second book for Arcadia Publishing, Missouri Wine Country: St. Charles to Hermann, is scheduled for release April 19, 2010. We are in the process of lining up book signings/events surrounding that release.
2) I’ll also travel to Kansas City in January to read at the launch of [...]
It just so happens I have a story included in this book, co-authored by Cecil Murphey (NY Times Bestseller, 90 Minutes in Heaven) and Marley Gibson.
That being the case (and even if it wasn’t the case), I’d like to announce that the authors of Christmas Miracles, along with the book’s fifty contributors, will be the [...]
LUMINA is a program offered through BJC Hospice to interested patients at the ends of their lives, along with their families. It offers patients the opportunity to preserve the stories, values, ideals, and experiences that have defined their lives.
In conversations with trained volunteers patients relive their loves, successes, talents, challenges, adventures, and moments of transformation [...]
SLWG members, Linda O’Connell and Becky Povich, will participate with other local writers in a book-signing on Saturday, December 12th, 2009 from 1-3 p.m. at Main Street Books, 307 S. Main Street, St. Charles, MO 63301. The event is called “Chicken Soup for the Soul….Canned Soup for the Body”.Customers can bring in a canned [...]
CLAIRE APPLEWHITE, author of The Wrong Side of Memphis will have a book signing at Big Sleep Books on Saturday, December 12, from 1:00-3:00 PM. Refreshments and gift wrapping available. Big Sleep Books is located at 239 North Euclid, St. Louis 63109. You can visit: www.claireapplewhite.com for info on The Wrong Side of Memphis.
