We had five editors before the meeting, six afterward. Sheila will send the file to all the editors (with their editing assignments) by the end of Monday. Anyone else volunteering to edit needs to contact her (admin @ portlandwritersmill . org, or anthology @ … etc) before then.
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Anthology Update
The deadline for submissions to this year’s anthology was the end of Sunday August 4th. Many thanks to all who sent in submissions. Work has started on putting them all together and we will send out another call for volunteers soon!
The rules are simple:
- Members only
- up to 5 submissions per member
- up to 5,000 words in total per member
Send your submissions to anthology @ portlandwritersmill . org
And watch this space for further news!
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Topics for 2024
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Watch the Don Baham show!
Congratulations to Mary Jane Erickson, who was invited to read some of her poems on The Don Baham show on Monday, June 25th.
Don is in her poetry group and invited her to share some of her poems on his show along with Louis, the facilitator for poetry at the Cedar Mill Library (Saturdays, once a month); another lady from the poetry group, and Don’s daughter, whom Mary Jane also had a chance to meet.
The show was produced in Beaverton at the Tualitan Valley Community Television on Greenbrier Parkway in Beaverton and can be found on the web on “Don Baham…..YouTube at https://youtu.be/p4EdG2RgJPM
Don is a retired Clinical Psychologist. His web site is “www.donbaham.com“
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