PenPoints newsletter
PenPoints newsletter
IWPA 2007-08 Programs November 17, 2007: Amy Cook, attorney and Editor in Chief of the Chicago Bar Magazine, contributing editor of Writer’s Digest and former literary agent will present “Legal Aspects of Writing.” December 10, 2007: Jane Addams Day. Program on December 8 at the Chicago History Museum. February 16, 2008: Michele Weldon, IWPA member, award winning-author of nonfiction memoirs and Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University professor will present “Adapting to a New World in Journalism.” March 29, 2008: WITASWAN—Proclaimed the first ever “International Swan Day,” Chicago’s Landmark Theatre will host a celebration of women in the arts cosponsored by IWPA and WITASWAN (Women in the Audience Supporting Women Artists Now), AAUW, and the Fund for Women Artists. April 19, 2008: Janice Castro, founding officer of Online News Association and senior director of graduate education at Medill School of Journalism, Northwestern University and a reporter, writer, and editor at Time Magazine for more than 20 years, will present “The New Media.” May 19, 2008: Megan Mawicke, Sports Anchor for CBS Channel 2, WMAQ-TV in Chicago. |
Member News
Welcome to IWPA’s newest members:
• Arthur Brauer follows wife Susan into the IWPA fold. He is vice president and technical manager of Dreamers Tapestry Inc. in Palos Park (www.dreamerstapestry.com). This team also will be chairs of the 2008 Printer’s Row Book Fair.
• Marcela Toledo is project managing producer at AnswersMedia, a broadcast TV and interactive production company in Chicago. She lives in Berwyn.
• David G. Clark, owner of Windy City Road Warrior, in Chicago, historian and author. His books, Route 66 in Chicago and Exploring Route 66 in Chicagoland, were in the October 20 IWPA Book Fair.
• George Scheber lives in Sheldon and is a writer, editor, Web site director and publisher (Make Me
a Story Press). He plans to open the Children’s Storybook Research Center at the Carnegie Library in Gilman in mid-2008. His books at the October 20 IWPA Book Fair were Peanut Butter Apple Pie, Hollywood and Chicken Big.
• Mary T. Wagner, a Chicago native, is a former Milwaukee Journal reporter and freelance writer,
now a state prosecutor in southeast Wisconsin. Her byline has also appeared in the Washington
Post, Philadelphia Inquirer and San Francisco Chronicle. Ten years ago she never anticipated how much she was going to miss writing when she started law school, so she now posts essays on her website, www.runningwithstilettos.com, and is working on a crime novel.
Best wishes and speedy recovery to Barbara Land. After traveling all over Europe this summer, she had a car accident close to her home just a few days before the NFPW Conference, where she was slated to be a suffragette in the “Bold Women of the Past” fashion show.
Helen Gallagher has a book workshop and signing November 5 at 4 pm at the Book Stall at Chestnut Court for her latest book, Release Your Writing: Book Publishing Your Way, to aid new and established writers in publishing their work, tangling with technology, and finding resources for marketing and promotion. More information is available at www.releaseyourwriting.com .
IN THIS ISSUE:
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November, 2007 PenPoints Page 1
Good Journalism Still Matters Page 2
Publishing-savvy Author Page 3
IWPA Makes Its Mark Page 4
Bringing Illinois Authors Together Page 6
IWPA Programs/Members News Page 8