Northwest Arkansas Writers

Ozark Creative Writers 2010

Share in some of the fun we've had!



Fun at OWL's November Meeting

Jan, guest speaker Malena Lott, and Ruth.
Audience members Jim, Pam, and Duke await words of wisdom.
Velda and Pam schmoozing pre-awards.
Bud expounds après-awards.
Ruth relaxes in her room.
Barbara sports hillbilly glitz.


Northwest Arkansas Writers Workshop

When? March 12, 2011
Where? Ozarks Electric Cooperative
3641 West Wedington Drive
Fayetteville, AR

Northwest Arkansas Writers Free Workshop

We will be holding a free workshop on Saturday, March 12, 2011 from 8:30am until 4:00pm at the Ozarks Electric building at 3641 W. Wedington Drive in Fayetteville. Lunch will be available for $7.00.

Scheduled speakers are:

Linda Apple - Writing for Chicken Soup Linda has been published with Chicken Soup 12 times and is a well-known inspirational speaker and author.

Patty Stith - Making Your Movie Trailer Patty recently made a trailer for her book and will share what she learned.

Jeanie Horn - Writing For Paying Markets Jeanie is multi-published in magazines and newspapers and is a professional editor.

Velda Brotherton - A Sense of Place Velda is an award winning writer, published in both fiction and nonfiction, and teaches workshops on the craft of writing.

Dusty Richards - Writing 101 Dusty is an award winning writer with over 100 published books and tons of workshops to his credit.

To Register:

CONTACT DUSTY RICHARDS AT dustyrichards@cox.net

OR VELDA BROTHERTON AT vebrotherton@gmail.com

Click here for a map to Ozarks Electric.

Ann Holbrook and Dusty Richards
Brenda Brinkley and Greg Bartlett
Bud & Jan Hanks
Bud, Jim Davis, and Ann
Bud
Dave Bahnks and Dusty
Dave and his groupies
Delois McGrew and Lou Turner
Girls!
More Girls!
Jan Morrill and Rhonda Penders
Jan & Stephen Morrill
Jim and groupies
Linda Apple and Linda Black
Pam Jones and Rhonda
Patty Stith and Jan
Russell Gayer and Max McCoy
Russell and Connie Gayer
Ruth Weeks and Dusty
Ruth and Johnny D. Boggs
Ruth and Patty
Sue Hardesty, Dusty, and Rhonda
Velda and her groupies


NWA Writers Workshop 2010

Velda and Radine
The Group
Bud
Linda
Cell Sign
Ruth
Charles
Delois
Dusty


NWA Writers Summer Fling

Lots of good food, fun, and companionship!
Yummy!
You can almost gain weight just looking at the desserts!
Getting ready for the Flash Fiction contest.
Duke Pennell won first place in the Flash Fiction contest with "Evicted." Jeannie Horn and Ned Downie took second and third place.


Success at OWFI!

Many of our members attended OWFI and some of them performed very well in the contests.
Ruth Rakestraw won First Place in Historical Novel for her work titled "The War for Florida."

She also won Third Place in Western Novel for "Aubrey Roberts' Fight."
Ann Holbrook won Third Place in Adult Short Story for her work titled "Life Everlasting."
Jan Morrill won Fourth Honorable Mention in Prose Humor for her work titled "Glory, Lost and Found."


Whether they entered any contests or not,
as you can see by the pictures,
a good time was had by all!







We held a Free Conference on Saturday, March 14th, 2009.

Everyone who attended gave the event high marks. Here are copies of the presentation handouts. Enjoy!

Molly Lemmons
How to turn family memories into
entertaining and informative stories.


Jan Morrill
Instruction on manuscript formatting.







Jim Fairbanks, book signing at Nightbird Books
Saturday, February 28, 2009!