Mystery writers of color please take note:
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Supporting Wisconsin writers from 1964 to 2022
by jhayslett
Mystery writers of color please take note:
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by jhayslett
Ed Werstein, winner of last year’s Council for Wisconsin Writers’ Lorine Niedecker Poetry Award for the best collection of up to five poems published in literary magazines by a Wisconsin-based writer, expresses appreciation for his writing residency at Shake Rag Alley School for Arts and Crafts in Mineral Point, Wisconsin. The award includes the residency and a $500 prize.
I’d like to thank the CWW once again for their support of Wisconsin writers, and for sponsoring the Lorine Niedecker Prize for Poetry. Being last year’s recipient, I was awarded a week-long residency at Shake Rag Alley in Mineral Point, WI. I spent the week of January 13th at The Tuckpoint, one of the residences operated by Shake Rag Alley.
Located about a block from the main Shake Rag campus, The Tuckpoint is indeed unique. It was built on a vacant lot, and is a front, back and roof between two previously existing buildings, using the exterior walls of the adjacent buildings for its interior walls.
Constructed by local stone mason, potter, and artist, Roland Sardeson, the interior is filled with artifacts and artwork created by him, and other local artists, as well as antique oddities scavenged by Sardeson over the years. Just one example: the banisters are salvaged scythe handles.
Mr Sanderson lived there until 2009 when he turned the building over to Shake Rag Alley to manage. After his death in 2016, Shake Rag assumed ownership.
The quiet, solitude of winter is the perfect time for a writer retreat, and I was able to accomplish some of my writing goals, as well as get as much reading done in a week as I usually do in a month. I completed a chapbook manuscript of poems about my youth that will be forthcoming from Fireweed Press.
Please support Shake Rag Alley and CWW in any way that you can.
Ed Werstein
by jhayslett
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.
by jhayslett
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.
by jhayslett
The entry deadline for 54th annual Wisconsin Writers Awards, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers, is Jan. 31, 2019.
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.
by jhayslett
The 54th annual Wisconsin Writers Awards, sponsored by the Council for Wisconsin Writers, opens for submissions on Nov. 1. 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.