Author, educator, scientist, business and technical writer and essayist Judith Steininger has joined the Council for Wisconsin Board of Directors. Judy won last year’s Kay W. Levin Short Non-Fiction Honorable Mention for her article “The Girl(s) from Montana” published in 2018 in the Montana Quarterly. That award was one of several writing awards she has received. Among her writing credentials are more than a thousand business, technical and industrial-related articles and columns. She is Professor Emeritus at the Milwaukee School of Engineering where she continues to teach. She also teaches courses at the University of Wisconsin-Milwaukee School of Continuing Education. She is a former Teaching Fellow in Boston College’s Literature Department and was a Peace Corps Volunteer for two years in Kenya. CWW will benefit in many ways from Judy’s wide-range of experience, talent and service. Members of the Board extend her a warm welcome.
Jan. 31 is Deadline for Wisconsin Writers Awards Contests
Less than ten days remain to get entries submitted by Jan. 31, 2019, for the 54th annual Wisconsin Writers Awards, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers.
The Council invites Wisconsin writers to submit work published in 2018. Contest categories include book-length fiction, nonfiction and poetry, short fiction and nonfiction, children’s literature, and a set of five poems, two of which must have been published in the contest year.
First-place winners in those categories receive $500 and a one-week writer’s residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point, WI. Honorable mention recipients receive $50 and a one-week writer’s residency at the Painted Forest Study Center in Valton, WI. Entries must be postmarked no later than Jan. 31, 2019. Writers who enter must be current Wisconsin residents.
New for this year: The Young Writers Award, previously an essay contest, now accepts poetry, fiction, essay, memoir, journalism, humor and drama. This award recognizes Wisconsin high school students who excel at the craft of creative writing. The first-place winner receives $250 and the honorable mention recipient receives $50.
The entry fee for all contests except the Young Writers Award is $25. There is no fee for Young Writers Award entries. CWW membership is not required, but members are entitled to one free entry. Out-of-state judges will make the selections. First-place and honorable-mention awards will be presented at the Council’s Annual Awards Banquet in May 2019. CWW’s Major Achievement Award, which honors a Wisconsin writer for work that deserves special recognition for literary merit without regard to genre or category, is also scheduled to be presented. The recipient will be chosen by the CWW Board of Directors.
Specific guidelines, entry forms, and important additional information for each award category are available in the 2018 Entry Forms section of the CWW website at wiswriters.org/contest-entry-forms.
Please address general questions about the contest to CWW Publicity/Blog Manager Jerrianne Hayslett at jfarhsi@aol.com. Questions about individual contest categories should be addressed to the category co-chair. Co-chairs are listed on the 2018 Entry Forms section of the CWW website at wiswriters.org/contest-entry-forms.
State poet laureate’s book wins WLA Award
Congratulations to former CWW board member and Wisconsin Poet Laureate Karla Huston on the selection of her book Grief Bone for an Outstanding Achievement Award from the Wisconsin Library Association. Anyone interested in more information about Karla, Grief Bone or her other publications, please go to karlahuston.com.
CWW Contest Entry Deadline is Tomorrow, Jan. 31
Tomorrow, Jan. 31., is the last day Wisconsin writers and poets have to enter work published in 2017 for the Council for Wisconsin Writers contests.
All entries must be postmarked by midnight Jan. 31, 2018. That’s tomorrow. Wednesday.
CWW Contests Jan. 31 Entry Deadline Looms
10 Days to CWW Contests Jan. 31 Deadline
Ten days left to get entries in the mail for the Council for Wisconsin Writers contests for work published in the calendar year 2017!