ChicagoHotels.org sponsors writing contest
Posted: 8/24/2010 9:52:34 PM
ChicagoHotels.org will sponsor our first "My Kind of Town" writing competition. Details coming soon.
ChicagoHotels.org offers a selection of more than 300 hotels in Chicago. It belongs to CheapHotels.org network of hotel booking sites.
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CWA's 2010-11 Speakers Bureau
Posted: 8/17/2010 9:48:00 PM
Check out this year's Speakers Bureau at
http://windycitywriters.com/program-menu/
"In just its second year, the Chicago Writers Association’s Speakers Bureau has emerged a go-to resource for event programmers seeking dynamic and compelling presentations," Speakers Bureau Director Danny Smith said in announcing this year's programs.
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Special winter-themed edition of The Write City
Posted: 12/2/2009 8:54:38 PM
CWA is proud to announce the release of its special winter-themed edition of The Write City magazine. Just cozy up next to a warm fireplace and click on THE WRITE CITY MAG. There's a little something in it for everyone. There's Cynthia Clampitt's poetic look at one of the coldest days ever in Chicago, January 18, 1994, when the mercury plunged to 21 degrees below zero. In Donald G. Evans' short story Christmas Releases, a girl stumbles into old movie theatre showing classic holiday movies and fi
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The Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
Posted: 10/5/2009 12:48:06 PM
Web site launched, nominees announced
Who are Chicago’s all-time literary stars?
That’s the question the newly launched Chicago Literary Hall of Fame is trying to answer.
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CWA Speakers Bureau 2009-10 Program Menu
Posted: 8/1/2009 11:57:25 PM
The Chicago Writers Association Speakers Bureau is a collection of some of the Association’s most accomplished members, all of whom have compelling programs for audiences of all ages and interests. Speaker programs cover a diverse set of topics from writing workshops and Chicago life to current events and career.
See the 2009-10 Program Menu:
http://windycitywriters.com/cwa-speakers-bureau/
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First Things First! Writing Contest Winners
Posted: 8/1/2009 10:47:25 PM
The winners of the CWA's First Things First! writing contest, in order of finish, are: Bethany Hiitola, Mary T. Wagner and Gracie Hill. Their challenge was to take one of ten famous opening sentences from literary works and build from there. There were no restrictions on how they built it. They could use poetry, fiction or nonfiction. But they were limited in how big they could build it. Five hundred words to be exact.
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CWA Announces Chicago Literary Hall of Fame
Posted: 5/3/2009 8:46:35 PM
We are one city, but our literature is as big as the world.
Over here: the ghost of Frankie Machine at Milwaukee Avenue’s Bit of Poland. Over there: the dandelions in Maud Martha’s parents’ backyard. Charlie Citrine stumbles into a Russian Bathhouse on Division. Look at Studs Lonigan with his Sweet Caporal and Beneatha’s straightened hair.
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First Things First! Writing Competition
Posted: 4/24/2009 9:09:37 PM
Writers, make 2009 your year to shine by entering our "First Things First!" writing competition.
Compete for cash and other prizes:
1st Place: $100
2nd Place: $50
3rd Place: $25
Plus, the top three all get a CWA T-shirt and a Comfort and Joy gift basket. Not to mention bragging rights, and of course, your “15 minutes of fame!”
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CWA Teams Up to Mentor Teen Writers
Posted: 1/22/2009 10:22:16 PM
It may seem like a long time ago, and for some of us it might have been a long time ago. But if you're a writer now, you were once a teen writer. You might not have even known it then. But that's what you were.
You might have kept a secret diary. Or wrote for the school newspaper. Maybe you even started writing that great American novel and tucked it away under your bed at night.
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The Wintry City Writing Contest
Posted: 12/6/2008 9:54:56 AM
Chicago is known as The Windy City. But this year it seems more like The Wintry City. So warm up those writing fingers and pen your best short story, essay or poem, no more than 1,000 words, using the theme: The Wintry City.
First place winner will receive a $50 Barnes & Noble gift card, a gift basket filled with writerly goodies, a CWA T-shirt and coffee
mug, and publication of the winning entry on our Windy City Writers blog.
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