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Valley Writers Chapter

News & Events for Writers

If you'd like to add an event or activity to our Events calendar, please email our Editor, Becky Mushko, shown here shamelessly peddling books with Jim Morrison. Put your event information in the body of the email, not as an attachment, and put "Valley Writers Event" in the subject line.

Publishing Events

Up-coming anthologies: Dick Raymond will have a story in Spiritual Visitations (Zumaya, 2008).

Valley Writers Chapter Activities

Regular Evening Meetings: First and third Thursdays of every month at St. Thomas of Canterbury Anglican Church, located at the intersection of Hershberger and Hubert Roads (two blocks east of Williamson Road) in northeast Roanoke, Virginia. Meetings begin at 6:30 PM and usually last two hours.

2008 Valley Writers Chapter Events

2008 Virginia Writers Club Writing Contests

Virginia Writers Club Two-Tier Contest: August 1, 2008 is the deadline for the Valley Writers Chapter first-tier portion of the annual VWC contest for fiction, nonfiction, and poetry. (Valley Writers winners' entries are to the second-tier contest by September 5.)

See http://www.virginiawritersclub.org/rules2008.html for contest rules.

VWC’s “Inside the Back Cover” poetry contest: August 1, 2008 is the deadline. See your last copy of the Virginia Writer for details.

Roanoke Area Events

Roanoke Regional Writers Conference: January 23-24, 2009. Hollin University. $50 includes wine at Friday’s reception and continental breakfast and lunch on Saturday. Participants may select six classes on Saturday. Southern Living Editor Cassandra Vanhooser is keynote speaker. For details, contact susan.cousins@bizjopurnal.com.

Roanoke County Library often has literary events. (In the past, the Valley Writers Club has presented some of its events there.) Click the logo to see what the library currently offers.

Roanoke City Library also sponsors literary events. Click the logo for more information.

2008 Virginia Events

James River Writers Conference: October 10-11, 2008. Library of Virginia in Richmond. Details TBA. http://www.jrwf.org