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Contents
Articles
Tax Tips for Writers ………….……. 4
Book List ……………………………. 24
Columns
Board Decisions & Actions …………… 19
From Time to Time—Members’ Letters . 23
Just the FAQs ……………………….. 19
Midnight Musings ………………… . 17
Writers’ Markets & Jobs ……………… 28
Calendar ……………………………… ... 14
Club News ……………………………. 5-12
Fall Conference ………………….... 29-35
Information & Announcements … 14-15
Members’ Writing ……………….. 20-27
Marta Hartung Crane ……… …………..20
Don Schambow ……………………. 20, 22
Claudia Anderson ………………….. 21
Patty Miler …………………………. 21
Art Schmitz ………………………… 22
Peg Sherry …………………………. 22
Marsha Jordan ……………………… 22
Cary Fellman ……………………….. 23
Pat Fitzgerald ……………………….. 23
Boyd Sutton …………………………26, 27
Kathy Conger ………………………. 27
Mary Downs ……………………….. 27
President’s Message ……………………..36
WRWA Officers ……………………...….18
The Wisconsin Regional Writer is published
quarterly by the Wisconsin Regional
Writers’ Association, Inc. solely for the
benefit of its members. Submission deadlines
are February 15 (spring), May 15
(summer), July 15 (fall), and November
15 (winter).
Send all e-mail submissions to the Editor
at bdsutton at centurytel dot net or
newsletter at wrwa dot net. Send regular
mail to Boyd Sutton, 23059 Old 35, Siren,
54872.
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Editor’s Corner
Page 3
This edition marks the end of my second year as
Editor of The Wisconsin Regional Writer. It also marks
the real beginning of your Wisconsin Regional Writer
as both newsletter and literary journal of the Association.
In effect, TWRW has become the Association’s
magazine. Although we have published some members’
creative writing for several issues now, it has always
been on a “space available” basis. Starting with this
issue, four to six pages per issue will be set aside for that purpose. If advertising
supports the additional pages, I hope to increase that. We are, in effect, bringing
back some aspects of an earlier WRWA publication—Creative Wisconsin, which
used to be published as a companion to the Association’s regular newsletter.
I was disappointed by receiving so few creative submissions for this edition.
Thanks to members of the Online Discussion Group, submissions picked up near
the deadline. I hope that WRWA members will begin to realize that their work can
get published here and will submit it for consideration. Your writing not only gets
disseminated to members via the hard copy Wisconsin Regional Writer, it appears
in the online version and is accessible to millions of readers. I Googled some of
the authors published in the summer and fall editions (which are now online) and
got links to their stories and poems. All submissions go into a folder. Those not
selected for one edition remain eligible for future editions.
Just as you got used to seeing e-mail addresses in a strange new format, our
webmaster, Ralph Davis, discovered a way to present them online in the standard
format without risking that they will be harvested by Web bots and sold to spam
mongers. Accordingly, e-mail addresses will again be listed in the standard format.
I’m also going back to listing addresses, phone numbers, and e-mail addresses for
Board members and Club Reporters. These data are all presented on the WRWA
Web site’s page for Local Groups. It seems silly for me to keep them out of the
newsletter when the same information is elsewhere on our Web site.
Readers will see more coverage of how the Internet affects writing. More than
75 percent of American households now have computers with Internet connections.
Many publishers accept queries and submissions by e-mail, quite a few only
by e-mail. Some even allow you to go to their Web sites and submit articles and
photographs directly to the Web site. Many writers don’t use correct Internet terminology,
or spell the terms incorrectly. So I’ve included an item in this edition to
help writers get it right (page 27). Finally, the Internet is an incredibly rich resource
for writers. Thus, I’m inaugurating a new regular feature, “Useful URLs,”
to identify especially useful Web sites for writers (page 26). I welcome reader contributions.
Finally, because this is such a long edition, I have used 10 point type throughout.
That allows me to get in two extra pages with no increase in cost. If readers
find that too small, please e-mail or call me to let me know and I’ll return to the
font size I had been using.
I hope that all of you have a Merry Christmas, Happy Chanukah, or whatever
you celebrate at this time of year.
Boyd Sutton
Copyright Notice
WRWA members whose writing is published in The Wisconsin Regional Writer
retain the copyright to their work. Submission of your work grants one-time rights
for publication by TWRW. Items printed here should be regarded as “published”
and authors should make this known when declaring “prior publication” when
submitting the work elsewhere. Because of our limited distribution, most editors
probably will not regard that as an issue. Finally, the editor will do his best to uphold
high standards of quality in the selection of what is printed here so authors
may be proud of having their writing presented to the full WRWA membership. #