We had a
nice turnout for the May meeting of the Hill Country Women of Words.
We
started out with a writing prompt. World Weaver Press has a call for
submissions for an anthology about Mrs. Claus – who is she? What’s her name?
Does she drive a Porsche or a minivan? We wrote for 10 minutes and had a ball –
a snowball – doing it! Then we each read what we’d written and laughed and
laughed. Hopefully, some of us will finish our short stories about Mrs. Claus
and submit them. The deadline is May 30th and you can read the full
guidelines here: http://www.worldweaverpress.com/submit-anthologies.html
Barbara
Loyd is polishing up her poem, “The Plein-Air Painters.” It
is now 7 stanzas. Barbara plans to submit it to an artist magazine. She also
brought an essay called, “A Sad History,” about the history of European Jews in
the 14h century. Such a tragic past.
Lynn
Harris read us more of her current story. Charlie has robbed a
bank and been shot dead, which is kinda OK since he was sabotaging his
employer. We cried no tears for cold, dead, dishonest Charlie.
Mary
Eckert was with us and brought her friend, Judy Koch. Mary is in the process of trying to find an agent for her book, “Where
Was God When I Cried.” I helped her out with some information I had, a web site
where you can find what agent sold which book where (if the author used an agent).
There are two web sites for that - http://agentquery.com
and
Megan
Willome has resurrected her crow poems. Remember those? She
plans to rework some of them, edit others, and try to see if they will “fly”
with a publisher. Get it? Ha!
Sally
Clark read her story, “Sidney’s Story,”
which is a shortened version of her story, “The Christmas Card” which was
previously published in Tyndale House’s anthology Life Savors. I plan to
submit it to Purpose Magazine.
We were so proud to applaud Shelley Burkhalter for winning Third Place in the Fredericksburg Writers Conference Annual Contest! Someday
(whenever Ken Cook remembers to put it in the newspaper) there will be an
article in the paper.
Sheila
Kale, Shelley Burkhalter, and Linda Christensen were at the meeting, but didn’t have anything to read.
Judith
Rost has gone north, to Minnesota, for
1-6 weeks, for family gradations and weddings. Her husband says one week,
Judith says six weeks. I think it will be six weeks.
Hugs all around,
Sally
