APW Typerider Newsletter – January 2025


TYPERIDER – JANUARY 2025
Get ready for EMPOWERED COMMUNICATION! |
Experience the synergy of being in a room filled with professional writers at our 2025 conference. You are invited to learn, chat with friends, and network on May 17th.
Save 20% when you buy your ticket by February 28th!
The cost for members only is $40 when you pay via Zelle or mail a check. (arizonaprofessionalwriters@gmail.com)
SWAG opportunity!
MEMBERS ONLY: Mail 60 of your bookmark, or promotional item to me (Carol Baxter) by April 30 and I’ll include it in the goodies for attendees. (P O Box 1384, Pine AZ 85544)
In addition to our three fine speakers, we will honor brilliant Southwest artist, author, and staunch APW member Barbara Bayless Lacy. Her artwork is featured at the event venue.
If you are reading this on Wednesday, January 15th before 1 p.m. you can catch the Tim Country Chapter’s meeting via Zoom (links below). Attendees will be chatting about writing.
A bright, happy, healthy new year to you!

EARLY BIRD APW MEMBERS SAVE
Buy your $40 ticket by February 28th and pay via Zelle.
(arizonaprofessionalwriters@gmail.com)

JOIN OR RENEW YOUR MEMBERSHIP NOW!
NFPW Professional Membership dues are $90.
APW membership dues = $15.
It is $105 to renew both, click here.
You must be a member of NFPW to enter the yearly contest.
If you only want to renew AZ dues, you can send a $30 payment via Zelle to ArizonaProfessionalWriters. Go to the JOIN tab to download the application to update your information and to find the address if you’d prefer to mail a check.
Enter, I dare you!Categories and Requirements
Early Bird entries until January 20, 2025 NFPWProfessional Communications Contest |
CHAPTER NEWS
Rim Country
The next meeting is Wednesday, February 19th.
Meetings are held at 1 p.m. on the third Wednesday of each month via Zoom and in-person in the chapel at Majestic Rim.
10th Annual Payson Book Festival
Author tables are selling quickly. Register here: https://paysonbookfestival.org/
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Author Betsy Love is the featured speaker at the next regular meeting is February 8th at 10 a.m. via Zoom (link emailed to members later).
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BOOK CLUB Meeting
We will discuss Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss by Karen Shiffman Lateiner, M.Ed. Timeless Dance was the first book our group reviewed on October 24, 2020. In light of current controversies regarding transgender issues, and since we have many new members, Karen, host fo the Book Club, took the liberty of listing it again for discussion.
Saturday, January 25, 2025 via ZOOM at 10 am
(link emailed to members later)


