We are having problems with the newsletter portion of our website. If you have not received the latest newsletters, don’t panic. The information you missed is included below in four parts:
- EZINE/CONTEST REMINDER
- ANTHOLOGY REMINDER
- SUBMISSION REMINDER
- MEETING REMINDER
EZINE/CONTEST REMINDER
Our August 2023 Ezine/Contest is LIVE!! This month brings us 10 fascinating reads and many different Walls Talking. You won’t want to miss these stories (and one poem). Just click on the link below, locate the ENTRIES table and start reading (click on the titles one by one, then return to this page for the next entry you want to read)
August 2023 Entries & Voting Page (click here)
Password this month: Email admin @ portlandwritersmill . org (remove spaces)
Please make note of which THREE entries you found most fascinating – for whatever reason. (You are both READER and WRITER after all!) YOU do this by way of the three ballots found at the bottom of the page linked above. They are below the ENTRIES table.
Ballots must be completed by next week, Thursday, August 17th (you have 10 days), in order for us to share the “votes” at our August meeting on Sunday, August 20th.
ANTHOLOGY REMINDER
| Many thanks to those who have volunteered to help with this year’s anthology. We still need volunteers to be: |
- Editors
- ArtistsTitlers/cover creators
- Playlist creators
- Assistant formatters
- Assistant/Replacement for Sheila (who may be out of town and away from her computer for a while)
Please email anthology @ portlandwritersmill . org to volunteer, or plan to sign up (on paper or in chat) at the August meeting.
SUBMISSION REMINDER
| We also need volunteer authors for the anthology! Don’t forget to send your submissions to anthology @ portlandwritersmill .org (remove spaces) before the end of the first Sunday in September (Sept 3rd). |
- No more than 5 submissions per person
- No more than 5,000 words in total per person
- Submitting your work gives us permission to publish it, so please don’t change your mind
- There is no set theme or topic. Just send your stories, poems, essays, chapters, previous contest entries etc, and our brave titlers and playlist creators will work out how to put it all together.
MEETING REMINDER
| We meet, as usual, on the third Sunday (August 20th) of this month, upstairs at the library and online over zoom. Watch for an email with the zoom link nearer the time. If the email doesn’t arrive, email admin @ portlandwritersmill . org BEFORE THE DAY OF THE MEETING. Sheila will try to respond to any such emails, but she can’t time-travel, and she can’t run a meeting, be the speaker at a meeting, and look for emails from people who can’t find the link, all at the same time. (For reference, you can contact the library at any time to ask for the link, or you can try using an old link – it will probably work.) This month’s meeting will include: |
- Contest results: Lyndsay is our contest host this month and will announce the results.
- Speaker: Sheila is our speaker this month, and will talk about editing, in particular self-editing and invisible editing.
- Anthology information: In the second half of the meeting, Sheila will present more information about the anthology, we will finalize our volunteer list, and we will discuss possible timelines.
| Happy Writing – don’t forget to read the ezine and listen to the Walls! |