2025 NFPW Communications Contest now open!
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Professional Communications Contest accepting entries! The contest is open to writers, authors, bloggers, copy editors, page designers, public affairs professionals, photographers, publishers and others in the communications field. Communicators of all ages are invited to enter. The professional contest includes categories for work appearing in college media and for college media advisors. All entries must be published in 2024. The early deadline to submit entries – and avoid a one-time additional fee of $25 – is Jan. 29, 2025. The final deadline for books is Feb. 5, 2025, and the final deadline for all other entries is Feb. 19, 2025. The contest is sponsored by NFPW affiliates. If you live in a state without an affiliate hosting a contest, you are eligible to enter the At-Large contest. First-place-winning entries in the affiliate and at-large contests are eligible to advance to the national competition. To enter the national contest, the entrants must be NFPW members, or must join by March 15, 2024. National winners will be notified in June. Contest awards will be presented during a banquet on Sept. 13, 2025, as part of the 2025 NFPW Conference in Golden, Colorado. Contest categories and rules have been reviewed and updated for the 2025 competition. Look for minor changes throughout and for new opportunities to enter in several categories, including Books, Short Stories and Verse, Photography, Radio/Television and Collegiate/Education. Visit https://www.nfpw.org/professional-contest for more details. |
APW Central Chapter 11/9 meeting – Pelletier
Susan Anderson is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: APW Central Chapter Meeting 11/9 with John Jay Pelletier
Date: Saturday, November 9, 2024
Time:10:00 AM Arizona
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John Jay Pelletier has had a life full of adventure, starting out in Boy Scouts where his Troop raised enough money selling fireworks to travel down the Grand Canyon on a river trip. He became an Explorer, worked at Disneyland as a Matterhorn climber, and joined the Army where he became a Green Beret. He attended survival schools and eventually became an Instructor at the Air Force Academy teaching survival skills. Now retired, he teaches desert safety and survival at the Superstition Mountain Museum and has written the Desert Safety and Survival Guide. John will speak about desert safety and survival in Arizona.
APW Book Club 10-26-24 – Elaine Auerbach
October APW Book Club Meeting: Fairy Tales for Women Who Have Been Through the Mill by Elaine Auerbach
Karen Lateiner is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting.
Topic: APW Book Club with Elaine Auerbach
Date: Saturday, October 26, 2024
Time: 10:00 AM Arizona
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Passcode: 117047
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About Elaine: Elaine started writing poetry at eight and has been writing ever since. As an adult, after a brief stint on as a city newspaper journalist, I joined Reader’s Digest, where I served as an editor for thirteen years. After returning to school for her MBA, she put her new skills to work for corporate America, working for PepsiCo, Inc. for about 30 years doing all aspects of corporate communications. Since retirement, she writes for the joy of it. Fairy Tales is her third book, plus her work has appeared in anthologies.
About the book: Fairy Tales for Women Who Have Been Through the Mill presents new and original fairy tales for today–with lovers who can’t commit, husbands who cheat or tune out and women who somehow end up with all the burdens and none of the benefits. Gone is the trite “and they lived happily ever after” ending. Yet, there are happy endings as each tale leads the reader to self-awareness and empowerment that can be translated into personal growth.
President’s message October 2024
Typerider Newsletter – APW – October 2024
One of our members, Bobbie Bennett writes the award-winning Beaver Valley Newsletter. The October issue highlights Beaver Valley Days.
I have a fond memory of going to a Beaver Valley Day Pancake Breakfast. Bing Brown (he and
Carol are sorely missed as APW members and human beings on the planet) was happily filling plates with pancakes and link sausages.
I don’t like my food to touch. Yeah, I am one of those people. Bing must have seen my face as the syrup he’d just ladled on my pancakes ran into my sausage and I quickly nudged my scrambled eggs to the side. He encouraged me to taste the sausage. “You’ll like it!”
You can guess how I almost always eat sausage now. (My eggs sit on a plate alone.)
I hope you make lots of fond memories this month!
If you have any writing-related announcements you would like included in an upcoming newsletter, please email them to me.
Carol Baxter, APW President
Read the rest of the newsletter including the date for the State Conference and chapter news by clicking this link
Rim Country Chapter Hybrid Meeting 9/18/24
Connie Cockrell is inviting you to a scheduled hybrid in-person/Zoom Rim Country Chapter meeting.
Topic: Sharing and discussing our new work
Date: Wednesday, September 18, 2024
Time: 01:00 PM Arizona
Location: Majestic Rim Living, 310 E. Tyler Parkway. Meet in the chapel off of the main lobby.
Or join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 865 7761 4978
Passcode: 987543
Find your local number: https://us02web.zoom.us/u/kcRQs4IRxr
Hope to see you there!
APW Book Club selections 2024-25
APW BOOK GROUP SCHEDULE
Meeting via Zoom fourth Saturday of every month at 10 AM
Contact: Karen Shiffman Lateiner, kslateiner @ gmail.com, 973-997-7204
Mission: To support each other as authors (and authors in progress) by reading each other’s books, reviewing them on Amazon and/or Goodreads, and discussing them at our meeting.
2024-25 Calendar
February 24, 2024 First Encounter by Connie Cockrell
April 27, 204 The Downtrodden by Connie Cockrell
May 25, 2024 Candy, Cigarettes, and Murder by Brenda Whiteside
June 22, 2024 Leaning into Curves: Trusting the Wild Intuitive Way of Love
by Linda Sandel Pettit
July August No Meeting
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Sept 28, 2024 MacKenzie Chronicles, Secrets of The Ravine by Brenda Whiteside
Oct. 26, 2024 Fairy Tales for Women Who Have Been Through the Mill by Elaine Auerbach
Nov. 23, 2024 Hidden Dragons by Kathleen Osbourne
December NO BOOK GROUP – Happy Holidays
Jan. 25, 2025 Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss – an update by Karen Shiffman Lateiner
Feb. 22, 2025 California Missions Sketchbook by Robert Hershberger and Sandy Carver
Mar. 22, 2025 Finding Zachariah in a Community Garden by Nancy Marshall
April 26, 2025 The Guatemala Reader by Mark Walker
May 24, 2025 Title TBD by Kathleen Kelly
June 28, 2025 Southern Women by Kathleen Parrish
Books previously read and reviewed
- October 24, 2020 Timeless Dance: A Story of Change and Loss by Karen Shiffman Lateiner
- November 28, 2020 Surrender by Marylee MacDonald
- December 26, 2020 Children with Special Needs: Angels on my Shoulder by Jody Sharpe
- January 23, 2021 Everything by Susan Anderson
- February 27, 2021 Skirting Traditions: Arizona Women Writer and Journalists 1912-2012.
- March 27, 2021 On Traigh Lar Beach by Dianne Beeaff
- April 24, 2021 Tessie’s Tales: Growing up Italian in New York City by Marie Fasano
- May 22, 2021 What’s the Growing in My Sour Cream by Brad Graber
- September 25, 2021 Miracle of the Salt River by Meredith Whiteley
- October 23, 2021 – Nanise: A Navajo Herbal: One Hundred Plants From the Navajo Reservation by Barbara Bayless Lacy and Vernon O. Mayes
- November 20, 2021 Joyous Lies by Margaret Spence
- January 22, 2022 Boca by Moonlight by Brad Graber
- February 26, 2022 Power’s Garden by Dianne Beeaff
- March 26, 2022 Voices of the ER by Kathleen Kelly
- April 23, 2022 Body Language by Marylee MacDonald
- May 28, 2022 20 Moon Road, An Angels Tale by Jody Sharpe
- June 25, 2022 No speaker due to technical difficulties
- July 23, 2022 NO BOOK GROUP – Payson Book festival
- August 27, 2022 A Rattler’s Tale by Nancy Hicks Marshall
- Sept. 23, 2022 Democrazy, Version 2020 by Elizabeth Graham
- October 22, 2022 Second Son: A Novel of the Deep South by Kathleen Parrish
- November 26, 2022 NO MEETING HAPPY THANKSGIVING
- December 24, 2022 NO MEETING HAPPY HOLIDAYS
- January 28, 2023 My Saddest Pleasures by Mark Walker
- February 25, 2023 Diary of an Alzheimer’s Caregiver.by Robert Hershberger
- March 25, 2023 Summer of Angels by Jody Sharpe
- April 22, 2023 Elizabeth Graham presentation
- May 27, 2023 Goodbye, Walter: A Reporter’s Notebook Ruthann Hogue
- June 24, 2023 A Dry Hate: Power vs The People by Nancy Marshall
- July August NO MEETINGS HAPPY SUMMER!
- Sept 23, 2023 Dirty Linen: How Women Sued The Readers Digest and Changed History by Elaine Auerbach
- Oct 28 , 2023 Both Sides of the Fire Line by Bobbie Scopa
APW Book Club 9/28 with Brenda Whiteside
Karen Lateiner is inviting you to a scheduled Zoom meeting. For our September selection, we will be reading MacKenzie Chronicles, Secrets of The Ravine by Brenda Whiteside.
Date: Saturday, September 28
Time: 10 a.m. AZ
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MacKenzie Chronicles, Secrets of The Ravine
Lies can haunt, but the truth will kill. Magpie MacKenzie doesn’t believe in coincidence. But when a ringer for her long-dead love walks into her life the same day skeletal remains are unearthed, she’s convinced the universe is sending her a message. Fearing her father will be accused of the crime, Magpie will do whatever it takes to find the truth. Even risk her heart on this familiar stranger who may hold critical clues to the unsolved mystery. While visiting purportedly haunted Joshua, Arizona lawyer Zac Peartree is instantly drawn to the free-wheeling shopkeeper. His attraction propels him on a collision course between past and present where digging up secrets could prove fatal. Using decades-old clues and Zac’s déjà vu moments, the couple embark on a treacherous race to prove her father’s innocence before Magpie becomes the next victim. Can they save her from a murderous fate, or will love be the final casualty?
See you there,
Karen
Secrets of the Ravine is available on Kindle Unlimited for free or in paperback. https://www.amazon.com/Secrets-Ravine-MacKenzie-Chronicles-Book-ebook/dp/B08GPRFJBT/ref=sr_1_1
President’s message August 2024
Arizona Professional Writers
Typerider Newsletter
August 2024
Have you taken to writing in the cooler hours of this neon-hot Arizona summer? I have! And I still seem to get more done pushed against a deadline.
The 9th Annual Payson Book Festival was a success although a bit quieter than in 2023. Rim Country Chapter President Connie Cockrell and her team put hundreds of hours into making the event worthwhile for authors and the public. Cue applause!
Next up: (Click here for pdf of flyer – White Mountain Book Festival 8-3-24
SURVEY RESULTS
To the 19 out of 75 members who responded to the survey, my humble THANKS!
I hope this information will assist our chapter presidents when they seek someone to speak at chapter meetings.
If have yet to respond, kindly look for it in your email (July 17th from carol@talesofalifetime.net) take a few moments out of your busy life to do so. What you want from APW matters to me.
This email and the survey are accomplished via MailChimp, the email services company I have used for more than a decade. I assure you Mail Chimp is a safe company.
Retreats and Online Workshops
“I think of a “writing retreat” as 2-7 days of mostly undistracted writing time at a lovely location that includes a few short writing classes, and optional interaction at other times. I think of a “writing workshop” as an interactive event with classes, writing prompts, panels, etc. These might not be your definitions, but please keep them in mind as you answer the next few questions. Are you interested in an overnight writing retreat in 2026?”
12 yes*, 8 no * Note that 14 people answered the next question!
To read the rest of Carol’s August message click here for the full message.
Carol Baxter, APW President.
Rim Country Chapter hybrid meeting 8/21 with Carol Baxter
Date: Wednesday, August 21, 2024
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Passcode: 103077
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Handmade quilts, home-baked rolls, and the meter of poetry filled my childhood and although it is a tossup as to whether the rolls or the poetry made the most impact, since 2005 I have made my living in print as a successful grant writer, marketing copywriter, editor, and award-winning features journalist. I am Carol Baxter and I have helped dozens of people write their memoirs, the truest family heirloom you can share with future generations. Isn’t it time to share yours?
Website: https://www.talesofalifetime.net/
Linked In: https://www.linkedin.com/in/caroljeanbaxter/
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