Here’s information about a contest for Wisconsin writers with a March 13 deadline. Lakefly Writers’ annual contest awards prizes in Flash Fiction, Short Story, Poetry and Short Story by a teen writer. Prizes are presented at an awards ceremony in May. Here’s the link for details: https://lakeflywriters.org/writing-contests/
News from WWA and Lakefly Writers Conference
The following courtesy of Wisconsin Writers Association President Dave Rank:
Time to sign up!
WWA’s Bookstore & Writer Services Market
8 a.m. – 3 p.m., Saturday, May 14, 2016
in the Oshkosh Convention Center
as part of the
in the Oshkosh Convention Center
as part of the
Lakefly Writers Conference, May 13-14
For the third year, the Wisconsin Writers Association is partnering with the popular Lakefly Writers Conference to offer a book fair and trade show as part of the conference.
This year, authors may sign up to take part in a bookstore, where WWA will display and sell books for them, giving authors time to mingle with the crowd and enjoy the conference. Authors may also schedule a book signing session, or if they choose, rent a table.
The Writer Services Market will feature book production services. Vendors who offer book or cover design, editing, proofreading, publishing services, website design or hosting, blogging, blog tours, marketing, promotion materials (bookmarks, posters, etc.) workshops or lessons, are all welcome to be part of the Writer Services Market.
To register for either the Bookstore of Writing Services Market, go to our website, www.wiwrite.org. and click on the Lakefly Writers Conference link in the menu.
For Lakefly Writers Conference registration, go to http://lakeflywriters.org/
We’ll also be offering similar Bookstore and Services Market at our WWA conference October 14-16.
Dave Rank, president
Wisconsin Writers Association
Lakefly Writers Awards Presented
The Lakefly Writers Awards were announced in Oshkosh today at the Lakefly Writers Conference. First, second and third places were presented in Five Pages and Synopsis of an unpublished novel, Flash Fiction, Short Story, and Jean Nelson Essay. The winners are:
Five Pages and Synopsis
1st Place: Peg Cadigan who lives in the greater Milwaukee area, for her work Tree Heart.
2nd Place: Ryan Hamann of Oshkosh for his A Woman Without Purpose.
3rd Place: Billy Jean Diersen of Oshkosh for her Forty-Love.
Flash Fiction
1st Place: Dan Anderson of Fond du Lac for his story “Kids on an Overpass”.
2nd Place: Jim Landwehr of Waukesha for his “The Year of Intended Pursuit”.
3rd Place: Nancy Sweetland of Green Bay for her “Hostage”.
Short Story:
1st Place: Jerrianne Hayslett of South Milwaukee for her story “The Funeral”.
2nd Place: Alice Benson of La Crosse for her “Deep Breathing”.
3rd Place: L.R. Babcock of Oshkosh for her “When Temptation Strikes”.
Jean Nelson Essay
1st Place: Cathy Fox of Oshkosh for her essay “Elphaba, Green for Good”.
2nd Place: Kathy Waldvogel of Northwestern Wisconsin for her “Let Me Introduce…Nemesis”.
3rd Place: Michelle Adserias, who lives near Ogdensburg, for her “Antonia”.
Congratulations to each one of these winners!
More writers will be recognized for their work next Saturday, May 16, at the Council for Wisconsin Writers Awards Banquet at the Wisconsin Club in Milwaukee. For information and to make reservations, go to http://www.wiswriters.org/2015%20banquet.htm