Donna gives her presentation on critique sessions
January 25 SEMO Writers’ Guild Minutes
Jan welcomed members back for a new year of meetings, and
asked visitors to introduce themselves. Visitors included: Gary Case, Susie
Ryan, Roy Meyer, Christa ?, and Marcie Upchurch.
2014 Officer Elections: This year, the current officers
wanted to add a Historian/Web Coordinator to the list of positions. Also, the
Secretary/Treasurer position will be divided into two separate positions—as
noted in the original bylaws.
Reminder: The Missouri Writers’ Guild ‘Fifty Shades of
Writing’ conference will be held April 11-13, 2014 in St. Louis. Check out the
MWG website at: missouriwriterswguild.org for details about faculty and
workshops.
Anthology: The
officers decided that the anthology would be a Print On Demand book this year.
That way there will be not output of SEMOWG monies upfront. Donna stated she
has the entries in InDesign, but the book isn’t ready for editing just yet.
Mini-Conference:
Jan asked Mary Rechenberg, President of Heartland Writer’s Guild and SEMOWG member
about getting together with the HWG to put together a mini-conference sometime
this summer. Mary said that HWG meetings are held on the third Sunday of each
moth from 2-4 p.m. at the Jackson Steck House on Washington Street.
Jan also mentioned that the ‘Memoir Writers’ group meets at
the library and that maybe we could contact them to see if they would want to
be included in the conference preparations.
Members were asked to provide feedback to officers as to
what they would like to see presented at this conference. PLEASE SEND FEEDBACK
TO SEMOWG email:
semowg@gmail.com. Or
send to Donna Essner at
semowgpres@gmail.com.
Mary Rechenberg shared that there will be an Open Mic at the
Coffee House and a booksigning at the Cape River Heritage Museum. She said she
would let the library know of these presentations as well. Dates and times will be announced later.
News and Updates from
Members – Marybeth Niederkorn will be presenting at the National Conference
for Graduate Students in February. Mary Rechenberg won the Judges Pick for her
literary essay recently. During a critique session at the November SCBWI
Regional meeting, Donna Essner met with Regina Brooks of Serendipity Agency on
her new novel. Miss Brooks stated she would like to see more when the novel is
completed.
2014 Officer
Elections
President – Donna J. Essner
Vice President – Rick Duniphan
Secretary – Samantha Deusinger
Treasurer – Laura Luttrell
Historian/Web Coordinator – Jan Cannon
Assistant Historian/Web Coordinator – Tom Neumeyer
Note: Jan Cannon was elected Vice President, but then
declined so that she could run for the Historian/Web Coordinator position.
Speaker/Presentation:
Donna Essner then presented a short talk on Critiques: A Necessary Evil?
She stated she will send out a signup sheet and the detailed
information page to members on Critique Guidelines.
The meeting was adjourned.
Next meeting:
Saturday, February 22, 2014. Lisa Miller, Walrus Publishing, LLC will be the
speaker.
Minutes respectfully submitted by
Donna J. Essner, Secretary/Treasurer (former)
