Sarasota Fiction Writers

December 27, 2007

January Meeting Announcement

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news_annoucement_clip   General meeting info!

This month’s guest speaker is N. H. (Nicole) Kelby. The NEW YORK TIMES bestselling author has written several books including  Murder at the Bad Girl’s Bar and Grill (forthcoming Shaye Areheart/ Random House), Whale Season (Shaye Areheart/ Random House), In the Company of Angels (Theia/Hyperion), and Theater of the Stars (Theia/Hyperion).

Read more ….

Date: Wednesday, Januray 2, 2008

Time: 6:30 p.m.

Location: Selby Library, Sarasota

Don’t miss this special evening with Nicole Kelby!

December 18, 2007

Summer Contest Winners Announced

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SFW Members Only Annual Short Story

Competition Winners Announced! 

 Each year the Sarasota Fiction Writers conducts a series of writing workshops during the summer.  The workshops are designed to help writers focus on specific areas of writing, such as creating dynamic characters, or an interesting setting, or a mood, etc.

This year our workshops focused on the archetype character.  In conjunction with the workshops, the club also sponsors a writing contest for the members.  Information learned from attending the current year’s or earlier workshops is then put to practical use in the form of a short story.  This year’s contest guideline was to  1.) create a story that involved a “Road Trip,” and to  2.)  maintain a word count of no more than 1750 words.  Several entries were submitted, which were professionally judged by a nationally recognized award winning author.  

For those members who were unable to attend this year’s Christmas party, the winners of the 2007 Members Only Short Story contest are:

 first-place-ribbon.jpg    bill-carrigan-first-place.jpg   Bill Carrigan  

Click Here to read the winning entry: 

 To Windmill Hill    

Second Place:

nadja-bernitt-second-place.jpg   Nadja Bernitt

Story Title:  The Gun 

Third Place: 

jack-scherer-third-place.jpg    Jack Scherer

Story Title:   Every Cloud has a Silver Lining

Congratulations to the winners and all who participated!

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