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New Items:
- Special offer for WIWA members from Seattle Arts & Lectures
- WHIDBEY ISLAND WRITERS CONFERENCE News and Events
- WIWA ANNOUNCES GRAND PRIZE WINNER OF THE SPIRIT OF WRITING CONTEST
- WIWA announces the WIWA WInter Class Schedule and the Whidbey Island Writers Conference Saturday Series Workshop Schedule
- Holiday Gift: Special December discount on Soundings Review - click here for details.
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Check out our lineup of Winter Classes for 2010:
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Check out our WIWC Saturday Workshop Series:
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2009 Spirit of Writing grand prize winner -- Whidbey Island Writers Association announces the Grand Prize winner of the 2009 Spirit of Writing Contest. David Hearn takes the 2009 Spirit of Writing grand prize with his short story, "The Truth of Relationship." This year's prize is "A Day at the MFA," one day's participation in the January residency schedule of the Whidbey Writers Workshop Master of Fine Arts degree program. The Whidbey Island Writers Association and the Whidbey Writers Workshop are sponsored by the Northwest Institute of Literary Arts.
The Sno-Isle Branch Libraries will host literary reading programs, featuring the Spirit of Writing 2009 winners in Poetry, Fiction, Essay, Memoir, and Children's Literature. Program dates and times are:
January 21 - Oak Harbor Library at 3 PM
January 21 - Coupeville Library (at Au Sable Institute) at 7 PM
January 25 - Freeland Library at 7 PM
January 28 - Langley Library at 7 PM
February 4 - Clinton Community Hall at 7PM
The hour-long programs end with refreshments and an opportunity to visit with the authors and purchase In the Spirit of Writing 2009, an anthology of 2009's winning works. For more information about WIWA or the MFA program, call 360-331-6714 (WIWA), 360-331-0307 (MFA) or go to writeonwhidbey.org or writeonwhidbey.org/mfa.
Coupeville Writers Group Open to New Members -- The recently formed Coupeville writers group welcomes new members, especially those interested in writing poetry and literary fiction. The group meets the first and third Tuesday of the month in the lunchroom at CamBey, 50 N. Main St, from 12:30 to 2:45. For more information, contact Brett Rebischke-Smith.
Mechanics for Writers -- The Whidbey Island Writers Association presents workshops for writers at various sites from Mukilteo to Anacortes on the first Saturday of each month, an opportunity to improve your writing craft, find new inspiration and meet other local writers. Watch this spot for the fall schedule.
Header Photo by Bob Richardson