MEMBERS: Please send your 2010 accomplishments and/or
your bios to Donna Volkenannt, website editor dvolkenannt (at sign) charter
(dot) net
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We welcome our new members who joined us in 2010
Sue Becherer, King Christian, Jason DePriest, Charlene Engleking,
Jennifer Hasheider, Leslie Heiser,
Melissa Howart, Mike Hudspeth,
Kara Hunt, Luella Isbell, Mary Jane Jarka,
James P. Lambert, Bill Mueller, Alice Muschany, Dan Neill,
Susan Nelson, Gail
Nichols, Nancy Olson,
Becky Povich, Annette Rey, Linda Russell, Brandi
Schmidt
(If you are joined Saturday Writers in
2010 and your name isn't shown above, please contact dvolkenannt (at sign)
charter.net
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Member News:
July:
New bio and photo for Deborah (Debbie) Marshall, Vice President of MWG.
Nic Nixon and his old band will be giving a FREE
concert on Tuesday July 20th from 7-9 p.m at the park in Wright City,
MO. "The park is in Wright City, on the south service road. Get off the
first exit, turn-left cross hwy, turn right four blocks to the park. wear
shorts and t-shirt or? Brang a lawn chair or a blanket. see ya dare. nic"
Judy Moresi will be signing copies of Widow's
Walk on Saturday, July 24th, 12-2 pm at Rose's Book House, 8935
Veterans Memorial Pkwy, O'Fallon.
Jennifer Hasheider has a new bio posted below.
June 2010
Lonnie Whitaker, Jason DePriest and Brandi Schmidt
have new bios and photos posted below.
Joy Wooderson will be doing a
book signing at Main Street Books in St. Charles from 1:00-3:00 p.m. on
Saturday, June 26. Vicki, from Main Street Books, says she has other
individuals/groups coming in before and after her slot in conjunction with
the Christian Booksellers Association conference in town that weekend, so
there will be a lot of activity.
Claudia Shelton was a finalist
in the RWA San Diego, Spring into Romance Contest for Courage and
Azaleas (based on the first 25 pages).
Sheree Nielsen's story "Return
to Folly Beach" was printed in the May 14 edition of the Folly Current
Newspaper, along with a personal photo of a wooden fence on Folly Beach. It
is on page 12 of the newspaper. Click on
http://follycurrent.com/online-issues/2010-issues/05_14_10/ and then
click on online issues. "The Forecast Called for Rain" has been published in
the April/May/June edition of Storyteller Magazine.
A Special Announcement from Debbie Marshall:
"As you know, I'm VP and chair for the 2011 MWG conference.
Here's the important part of the announcement:
"The 2011 Missouri Writers' Guild Conference will be held April
8th-10th at the Westport Plaza Sheraton Hotel in St. Louis.
Speakers in all genres, agent/editor pitch sessions, and panel
discussions featuring agents and editors and another featuring
literary journals. Keynote speaker for the Saturday luncheon will
be St. Louis author Mary Troy, director of UMSL's MFA program and
editor of "Natural Bridge." Keynote speaker for Saturday night's
banquet is former St. Louisan and best-selling author Elaine Viets.
"We'll be having booksales and signings to give MWG members and
speakers an opportunity to promote their work. You don't have to be
a member of MWG to attend the conference, but please consider this.
Saturday Writers is a chapter of the Guild. The Guild has given our
chapter grants for some of the events we have held; it is important
that these two organizations support one another. Yes, I am
campaigning for members! While publication is a requirement for
membership, MWG also has a STUDENT level that any college student
interested in writing should consider.
"Now for the final plea. I spent a great deal of my time at this
year's conference bragging about what a wonderful chapter Saturday
Writers is. This is something I strongly believe in. I've visited
other writers groups and Saturday Writers is the one I joined
because it is here I found writers from the novice level to the
professional level, who are knowledgeable and willing to share their
experiences, supportive, friendly, and kind. There are
many subcommittees involved in planning a conference. Shepherds,
decorations and gathering freebies are just a few. If you have the
desire to volunteer or make a speaker suggestion, topic, or anything
else you want to share, please contact me at
marshall_deborah@sbcglobal.net."
May 2010
Sarah Whitney and Donna Volkenannt spoke to
more than 400 students about "The Writer's Life" at Harris Elementary School
in St. Charles.
Judy Moresi signed copies of her mystery novel,
Widow's Walk, at World News on May 21 and a radio interview on KTRS.
She also had a signing at Big Sleep Books on May 22.
Margo Dill will be teaching a class an online class through WOW!
Women On Writing this summer called: "Blogging 101:
Start a Blog, Make it Unique, and Keep it Going"
It starts on
Monday, July 12 and lasts for five weeks. The cost is $125. Here's a
description: Blogging is one of the best and cheapest ways
to achieve an Internet presence. This class will help students start a
blog. If you already have a blog, it will help you target the readers
you want to reach. Students will also learn how to create a unique blog,
build followers and/or drive traffic to their blogs, blog on a schedule,
connect posts to social networking sites, and monetize their blogs. This
course is for beginning and intermediate bloggers or for people who are
looking to spice up their blogs! **Please note: you do not have to be
technologically savvy to start a blog and keep up with it! To sign up
for the class, please visit:
http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/WOWclasses.html#MargoDill_Blogging101
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Sarah Whitney has a new blog,
Sarah's Notebook
www.sarahsnotebook.com
Sheree Nielsen has a new blog,
Warm Fuzzies,
www.shereenielsen@wordpress.com
Dianna Graveman will be a guest
on "What's Write for me" on Red River Blog Talk Radio out of Florida on May
26. Dianna also won first place for short fiction in the 2010 Missouri
Writers' Guild awards.
April 2010
Donna Volkenannt received a note
from William Peter Blatty (author and academy-award winning screenwriter of
THE EXORCIST) after reviewing his latest novel, DIMITER, for
Bookreporter.com. Mr. Blatty wrote, ". . . thank you not only for your
utterly marvelous review of DIMITER but also for catching the error . . .
which escaped me, two editors and one copy editor . . ." Donna also spoke
about writing and editing short stories to Dianna Graveman's MFA class at
Lindenwood University.
"Grandma's Porch" written by Debbie Hedges won the April members-only
poetry contest.
The Missouri Writers' Guild, Margo Dill Balinski, Amy Harke-Moore, Lou
Turner, Cindy Allen, and Donna Volkenannt sponsored the 2010
Annual Workshop and Children's Awards Meeting on April 24. Becky Povich
created and provided certificates for award recipients. Doyle Suit
served as hospitality chair. Margo Dill Balinski served as
workshop chair and children's program chair.
Tricia Sanders was final judge for the Saturday Writers Teen Writing
Contest.
Doyle Suite was final judge for the Saturday Writers Children's
Writing Contest.
Amy Harke-Moore and David Lee "Kirk" Kirkland served as judges
in Saturday Writers 2010 One-Page Poetry Contest.
David Lee "Kirk" Kirkland's
book The Last Dark Elf is a finalist for
2009 book of the year
in the Science Fiction/Fantasy Category.
Judy Moresi
participated in a panel and book signing at the Missouri
Writers Guild Conference,
April 16-18, Drury Plaza Hotel,
Chesterfield, MO.
Dianna Graveman and her husband Don signed copies of Missouri
Wine Country: St. Charles to Herman on Saturday, April 24, from 1-3 p.m.
at Main Street Books in St. Charles. They will also give a presentation and
sign copies of the same book on Monday April 26, at 7 p.m. at the Kathryn
Linneman Library, 2323 Elm Street in St. Charles.
Donna Volkenann't story "Snow Job" received First Place in the 2010
Flash Fiction contest sponsored by the Pikes Peak Branch of the National
League of American Pen Women.
Virginia (Caroline) Stone has a new bio below.
March 2010
Doyle Suit judged the
Members-only March Madness contest.
Bill Mueller's
book Peaches and Cream was
reviewed by Harry Levin in the St. Louis Post Dispatch. Here's an
excerpt: "The book takes its title from two characters in the first
story--two strippers who call themselves Peaches and Cream. The two
show up one day in the late 1940s in an office at Grand Avenue near
West Florissant Avenue, where no-nonsense private eye Zach Bannister
hangs his hat. But most have a wham-bam, violent edge, like 'some
damned Jack Warner move,' as Bannister muses. . . Jack Warner
movies-on-paper will entertain you. Let's hope to hear more from PI
Bannister."
Sarah Whitney's article about
Judy Moresi's book signing appeared in the March 9 Suburban Journal.
Alice Muschany is an Opinion
Shaper in the Journal. Here's a link to one of her hilarious columns.
http://suburbanjournals.stltoday.com/articles/2010/03/10/warren/opinion/0310war-opsh0.txt
David Lee "Kirk" Kirkland made
the short list for Take Five: Best Contemporary Tanka, Volume Two. Every
year our editorial team sets out to read all tanka published in English with
a view to selecting approximately 300 for publication in the anthology.
February 2010:
Tricia Sanders judged the Members-only Love Story Contest.
Dianna Graveman is a judge for the 2010 Letters About
Literature contest, sponsored by Missouri Center for the Book. She will
teach the prose-writing cluster in the MFA program at Lindenwood University
this spring. Please visit
booktour.com for
upcoming events surrounding the release of Don and Dianna's second book,
Missouri Wine Country: St. Charles to
Hermann.
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Margo Dill, Judy Moresi, Becky Povich, Donna
Volkenannt, Stan Wilson, and Dianna Graveman have new bios posted below.
**
Donna Volkenannt's essay "Coming Home," a true story
about a trip she and her sisters Bridget and Kathleen made to Ireland, was
recently published in
Blue Mountain Arts' Irish Inspirations: Stories
that Celebrate the Magic of the Emerald Isle.
Donna Volkenannt recently interviewed Sylvia Forbes,
publisher of Snow Flake Press, and editor of
Bylines Writers' Desk
Calendar on Donna's Book Pub
http://donnasbookpub.blogspot.com
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Judy
Moresi will be signing copies of her book, Widow's Walk,
at the following locations over the next few months:
The Wine
Bottle, 810 O'Fallon Rd, Weldon Springs,
March 6, Saturday, from 2-5 pm:
wine tasting and book signing. (636-329-1116)
Main Street
Books, 307 S. Main St, St Charles, MO 63301,
March 20, Saturday, from 1-3 pm:
signing.(636-949-0105)
Popular
Culture Assoc/American Culture Assoc Conference(PCA/ACA),
March 31-April 3, Renaissance Grand Hotel, St. Louis: speaking with
other authors on a panel and signing books.
Missouri
Writers Guild Conference,
April 16-18, Drury Plaza Hotel,
Chesterfield, MO: speaking on panel and signing books.
World News, 308
Westport Plaza, St Louis, (date to be set).
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Dianna Graveman is writing an eight-part series on the
St. Charles Citizen Police Academy for Suburban Journals. She is
enrolled in the program and is writing the series from the perspective of a
recruit. You can read about her peek into the Citizen's Police Academy on
this
link to the Journal.
Dianna and her husband Don have recently completed
their third book for Arcadia Publishing's Image of America series, titled
Washington.
*
Donna Volkenannt's flash fiction piece "Rule Number
Three" won an honorable mention in the
Reading Writers
Flash Fiction snow-themed contest.
Donna Volkenannt interviewed Newbery honor author
Kathryn
Lasky for Kidsreads.com and
reviewed her latest
book Lone Wolf.
**
Treasurer David Kirkland sent this link to
a senior love story
contest sponsored by Ehlers' Group.
January
Pat Wahler served as judge for
the Saturday Writers "Write to Win in 2010 1/1/1 Kick-off Contest." Her
story "Myrtle" won Second Place in the Saturday Writers 8th Annual Short
Story Contest. Pat is a finalist in Chicken Soup for the Soul: Thanks,
Dad. She should know by March if her essay will be included in the
anthology.
*
Donna Volkenannt's story "Rule
Number Three" made it through the first and second rounds in the
Reading Writers
Winter Flash Fiction contest. Her essay "Santa Wore Cowboy Boots"
received Honorable Mention and a commendation in the Friends of the Decatur
Public Library Annual Writing Contest.
*
Bios posted this month for: Pat Wahler,
Alice Muschany, Nick Nixon and Sarah Whitney.
*
DIANNA GRAVEMAN
and her husband, DON'S second book for Arcadia Publishing,
Missouri Wine Country: St. Charles to
Hermann, is scheduled for release April 19, 2010. The book will be
launched at a signing at Main Street Books in St. Charles on Saturday, April
24th from 1:00 to 3:00.
DIANNA
has also been invited to work as a freelance consultant for a new east coast
communications group,
Word Leaders.
They will be setting up profile pages for the freelancers they've selected
to work with them shortly.
*
Margo Dill interviewed Joy Wooderson on the WOW blog about her
experiences self-publishing her memoir. To read the interview, visit
http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com/blog.html
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Note for members:* Bios should be true
* Written in third person
* Around 250 words
* No obscene or crude language
Be sentimental, be silly, be playful, or be
profound--but don't be shy. If you are sponsoring a contest, have an editing service, a publishing
business, a web site, or a blog, be sure to mention it.
Also, besides being a writer, if you're a
psychiatrist, a psychic, a private eye, or a pirate--we want to know.
Thanks! Donna Volkenannt, Web site Editor
(donna at saturdaywriters dot org)
*****
MEMBER BIOS (* Board Member)
Contact information for board members is on
the Home page.
Cindy Allen *
(Defiance)
Enthusiastic
Writer. Nature Lover. Professional Pilot. Favorite Quote: "The
greatness of a nation and its moral progress can be judged by the way
its animals are treated."---Gandhi. cindyallen.inc@mac.com
Sue Becherer (Lake Saint Louis)
Kim Berkley (St. Peters)
Beverly Brannon
(House Springs)
Matt Braun (St. Peters)
Robert Coates
(Ballwin)
Lilah Contine
(St. Charles)
Nancy Cook (St.
Charles)
Carolyn Davis (Ferguson)
Jason
DePriest (St. Peters) was born in 1975 to
hard working, self-employed parents living in Memphis, TN. His childhood
was unremarkable save for the development of a love of learning. He is a
self-taught computer geek who has been working in data and information
security for more than a decade. Always a voracious reader (if there aren't
any books or magazines around, he may read the dictionary,encyclopedia, or
ingredients from a box of cereal), creative writing has developed from
"obsession" to (with the proper medication and the companionship of a
loving, encouraging wife) a much more manageable "hobby." He enjoys writing
horror and sci-fi, normally with a philosophical or religious undertone and
sometimes with a tinge of romance. He has a small catalog of short stories
and a smaller list of poems. Never published, unless you count
self-publishing a book so his mom could be proud, he would very much like to
learn the tricks of the trade and the ins and outs of a business that stands
impenetrable before him. At the moment, he's too paranoid (he does work in
data security, after all) to have much of an online presence so there are no
blogs or Facebook or MySpace.
Trista DiGiuseppi
(St. Peters)
Margo
L. Dill
*
(Mahomet, IL)
is a freelance writer, business
writer,
editor (link:
http://margodill.com/editor-911-services), and elementary school
teacher, living in Mahomet, Illinois. She is a columnist, contributing
editor, and instructor for WOW! Women On Writing (link:
http://www.wow-womenonwriting.com). Her work has appeared in
publications such as
Grit,
Pockets,
Missouri
Life,
ByLine
Magazine, The Chicago Tribune, True Love, and
The
News-Gazette. Her first book,
Finding My
Place,
a middle-grade historical novel, will be published by
White Mane Kids. She also runs a blog for teachers, parents, and home
schoolers called “Read
These Books and Use Them.” (link:
http://margodill.com/blog/) When
she's not writing, she loves spending time with her husband, stepson, and
two dogs—Chester, a boxer, and Hush Puppy, a basset hound. You can read more
about Margo at
http://www.margodill.com.
Irene Dodson (St.
Peters)
Larry Doyle (St.
Charles)
Cathy Durand
(O'Fallon)
Jacqueline K.
Endraske (O'Fallon)
Heather E.L.
Farrar (Warrenton)
Cassy Gilliam
(Marthasville)
Mary Gilliam
(Marthasville)
Dianna Graveman
(St. Charles),
is
an award-winning short fiction and nonfiction writer with over a decade of
teaching experience and a background in corporate training development.
She is co-author of four
regional histories for Arcadia Publishing, three of which will be released
in 2010. Currently employed as an editor and as faculty in the MFA in
Writing program at Lindenwood University, Dianna is a member of Missouri
Writers Guild and a St. Louis Writers Guild "Member of Distinction."
Visit her at
Write in the Midwest or at gravemanbooks.com.
Amy Harke-Moore *
(Old Monroe)
leads
a semi-hermit existence on her farm in rural Missouri, though stories always
seem to find her. Her work has appeared in The Writer, Chicago
Quarterly Review, The MacGuffin, Grit, and Permafrost,
among others. She divides her time between writing, family, and the
inevitable chores that make up farm living.
Jennifer Hasheider (St. Peters)
lives with her husband, their two young sons, two ancient cats, a
rambunctious puppy, two fish and a frog. She was a Paralegal for many years
and ran a successful photography studio until her second son was born. She
now devotes most of her time to her boys, writes when they allow her the
luxury and enjoys creating mixed media type art when they aren't looking.
Currently Jennifer is working on a paranormal-romance book and from time to
time writes a mom-blog
www.jenniferahasheider.com
Debbie
Hedges (St. Peters)
Lenora Hobbs
(Foley)
Barbara Hodges
(Hazelwood)
graduated with
a Bachelor of Science Degree from Trenton State College in New Jersey.
Her alma mater has changed names twice since then. She has three
diplomas due to this event. Lindenwood University is where she earned a
Master's in Education. Married for almost 39 years to a wonderful guy
named Jim, who recognizes her love for writing, they stay busy enjoying
eight grandchildren ranging in ages three months to 12-years old. She
was an opinion shaper for the Suburban Journals, published a
monthly newsletter for one of the greeter groups at her church, and has
written many poems for her friends and family. Making gift baskets and
passing them out to her friends is something she loves doing. Along with
each basket, she attaches a poem that is about the basket's contents.
How about that for having a captive audience! Barbara has also enjoyed
making a difference in the lives of all her third graders who have been
under her care over the years.
Jeanette Hollman
(Hazelwood) Over the years,
this Red Hatter has used her writing as a catalyst through which her
emotions flowed and her sanity was maintained. It was the thread that she
clung to when everything around her had disintegrated into nothingness.
Writing became her first love in high school English class, but dreams of
becoming a published author were forgotten after graduation. Preparing for
an empty nest, Jeanette's quest for fulfillment led to publishing several
feature stories in her local community newspaper, while working as feature
editor of her college newspaper. Three of her short stories were runners-up
and published in Joyous Publishing anthologies, 2006, and 2007. Her credits
include: The Storyteller; Good Old Days Special; and ByLine
magazines. One of her pieces, "Dad," won honorable mention in a
ByLine contest and also appeared on Sweetgum Notes on the web.
Her passion for writing is detailed in "Rediscovering a First Love," in the
Cuivre River Anthology, Volume III.
She belongs to several writing groups, where she finds encouragement and
plenty of kudos on her endeavors. Jeanette and her "second love" of 43 years
are enjoying retirement and time spent with their two granddaughters.
Amanda Holtom (formerly Amanda Joann Smith) graduated Summa Cum Laude from Jefferson College, where she
studied English and creative writing. Her work has won first prize in
poetry and essay competitions, and in 2006, she founded The Write Group of
St. Louis, holding various positions over three years. Currently, Mrs.
Holtom is a member of Saturday Writers as well as the Society of Children's
Book Writers and Illustrators (www.scbwi.org).
Some of her recent work has been published in Six-Word Memoirs on Love
and Heartbreak: by Writers Famous and Obscure (Harper Perennial, Jan.
2009). Amanda is a devoted mother of two, a passionate storyteller, and
she's trying to prove the theory that diet soda negates dessert. (So far,
it's not panning out.) Forever a Jill of all trades, Amanda Holtom writes
fiction, non-fiction, and everything in between.
Mary Horner (St.
Peters)
has read many books and understands some of them.
Her poetry can be seen in green and blue spiral-bound notebooks in boxes
in her basement, although a few from high school may be in boxes in a
friend’s basement, but probably not. She went to Yale University once on
the way to her brother-in-law’s wedding in Connecticut. The couple has
since divorced.
She introduced herself
to Stevie Wonder in a hotel lobby in Chicago during a fertilizer
convention (she was managing editor for a fertilizer association
magazine), and saw Imelda Marcos going into a bank in Los Angeles. While
in Los Angeles for a medical writer’s conference, she stayed in a hotel
featured prominently in the opening credits of the hit television drama
“L.A. Law.” For the next year or so she would point at the T.V. and
shout “I stayed there” whenever they ran the opening credits for “L.A.
Law.” Even so, her color-blind husband still lives with her. He just
doesn’t know that when she is mad at him she buys him pink shirts and
tells him they are white. Pink clashes with his beard. If she could be
any animal, she would be a French-speaking guinea pig named Madge with
her own talk show. Until that "favorite animal" thing pans out, she will
continue to teach communications at St. Louis Community College and work
on her novel "True North."
Luella (Luelie)
Isbell (Creve Couer)
Janet Jansen
(O'Fallon)
Kathleen Kaiser
(St. Charles) is the author of "Strategic Planning for
Downsizing and the Human Resource Factor" and published short story "The
Flour Sack Dress." She is constantly changing it up with her writing and
life. Recently she changed the locks on the door at home so none of her
adult children, ex-spouses, or ex-boyfriends could move back in. She is
working on a new book," If Motherhood is a Life Sentence Put Me Out on
Parole," inspired by the new phase in her life. As a young girl, she wanted
to travel, be a writer and teacher. She has an MBA from Lindenwood
University, which she received while working full-time and raising four
children as a single parent. Kathleen currently works as Service Specialist
for Brown Shoe Company, owns a small consulting firm, and was an Instructor
of International Business at Saint Charles Community College. She has
traveled all over the world. Egypt and France were intriguing, but she does
not forget she was a farmer from Greenville, Illinois. She now resides in
Saint Charles, Missouri near her four children but not with them.
Jenny Kerr (O'Fallon)
Jack Davis Kline
(Louisburg, KS)
David Lee
Kirkland * (St. Charles)
with ancestry out of the Ozarks and
Appalachians, holds dear the art of storytelling, and aspires someday to
use in his own writing all of the following: quiet as a dead man’s
ghost, sullen as a caught possum, having no more heart than a hollow
log, hated worse than a tick hates liniment, cried like a pinched baby,
clouds clabbered up to rain, and, peaceable as a full kitten. He
resides in a house overlooking the Missouri River valley and has been
known to dawdle in the shank of the evening under the shade of his
cherry trees. His first book, The Yesteryear Tales, is scheduled
for publication in July, 2008. Further information is at his writer
website,
www.davidleekirkland.com
Marilyn Kister
(St. Charles)
Mary Ann
Kohenskey (Maryland Heights) is a
member of Saturday Writers and The Write Group of St. Louis. She has written
three novels, numerous short stories, placed in the top six 2007 Frontiers
in Writing Contest for her novel, MyBrother's Closet, and placed in
the top ten 2007 Fort Bend Summer Contest for her novel, Desperate
Chance. As a child, MaryAnn experienced a near death incident and became
"enlightened." She is a professional psychic in the Greater St Louis area
and highly involved in the metaphysical community. Most of her stories are
sprinkled with the paranormal. When not writing, she enjoys challenging card
games with ghosts, also known as Tarot readings. To read an excerpt from
Desperate Chance, visit her at
www.writegroupstl.com. If you like it, let her know what you think at
kohenskey@sbcglobal.net. If you
don't like it, send her a telepathic message. Her motto: It's impossible to
remain in a cocoon when holding hands with a butterfly.
Shelly Kovoth (O'Fallon)
James Lambert (Carbondale,
IL)
James P. Lambert
(Lafayette, LA)
James Lattimore (Defiance)
Lee Lumpkins
(Foristell) lives outside the St.
Louis metro area and belongs to Saturday Writers. She was coordinator
for Wentzville Writers Forum, which has folded. She has been published
in "Echo Magazine" in Wentzville, MO,"Newstime" ,a weekly newspaper for
Lake St. Louis; "Sweetgum Notes" an on-line magazine, in the fall 2006
edition; Lee has also been quoted in the Post-Dispatch. She writes
short stories for her family and writes a regular newsletter for her
large extended family. She is in the process of writing her life story.
Joanna C.
Massmann (Wentzville)
Deborah Marshall
(Florissant)
is a recovering newspaper reporter
turned fiction writer. She began writing at age six on Big Chief tablets
with Ticonderoga pencils after learning that Mark Twain had lived in
Hannibal, just across the river from her childhood home in Illinois.
Unwilling to steal her neighbor’s thunder as a fiction writer, Debbie
instead became a staff writer for the Hannibal Courier-Post, where
she also gained the distinction of becoming Missouri’s first female
sportswriter. She also interviewed Nick Nixon when he played in East
Hannibal Illinois at a location that was washed away in the Flood of ’93.
After Hannibal, Debbie landed in Nashville where she was news editor for
“The Belle” suburban newspaper before winding up at “The Tennessean,”
working alongside Al Gore and Tipper. All good things must come to an end.
Debbie returned to the Midwest and Al and Tipper…well, you know.
Her work has been published in magazines, trade publications
and literary journals. Debbie has won awards for both fiction and creative
non-fiction and recently completed her first historical fiction novel,
The Brewmaster’s Ladies, the story of Lillian “The Lavender Lady”
Handlan Lemp and other women in the life of brewer William Lemp, Jr. She
received her BA in English and an undergraduate writing certificate from the
University of Missouri at St. Louis in 2007. While there, she also served
as an editor for LitMag, the UMSL undergraduate literary publication
and was a new student mentor.
Debbie is the 2011 vice president of the Missouri Writers’
Guild and chair for the annual April conference. She also belongs to the
Association of Writing Programs and Presbyterian Writers Association.
Judy
Moresi (St. Charles).
Award-winning author
Judy Moresi, A.K.A. J. Hassler Moresi,
has had
fifteen articles and twenty-five photos published in
St. Louis
Marketplace--A Forum,
St. Louis, The
Missouri State Trooper, and
Rural Missouri
magazines. Her short fiction has appeared in University of Missouri-St.
Louis' literary
magazine Lit Mag
and the Ozark Writers League's anthology,
Echoes of the Ozarks, Volume III.
Her suspense novel, Widow's Walk,
the first book in a Missouri-based mystery series, was released from L&L
Dreamspell February 2010. A member
of Mystery Writers of America, Ozark Writers League, St. Louis Writers
Guild, Missouri Writers Guild, Saturday Writers, and Sisters in Crime,
Judy is a Board Member for the Greater St. Louis Chapter of SINC.
Currently,
she is hard at work on Cat's Cradle, the second book in her
mystery series. Visit her website at
www.JudyMoresi.com for event dates or contact her at
tjmore232@charter.net
Rebecca Muchow
(Waterford, WI)
William (Bill)
Mueller (Chesterfield, MO)
Joyce Munder (St.
Peters)
Helen Musenbrock
(Lake Saint Louis)
Alice Muschany (Flint
Hill)
Her hobbies
include: hiking, biking, writing and photography. She also enjoys spending
time with her eight grandchildren. Her publications include Cup of
Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors, Chicken Soup for the Soul True Love
and Sasee Magazine. Her essay "One Damaged Headlight" took first
place in the St. Louis Post Dispatch Unbeatable Caregivers Breast
Cancer Contest. Alice is also an Opinion Shaper for the St. Charles
Suburban Journal.
Stan Nelms (Grover)
Gail Nichols (St.
Peters)
Sheree Nielsen*
(Wentzville) enjoys writing memoirs about
beach and scubadiving adventures, her family and animals. Working on an
essay/photography book in hopes of publication someday, Sheree is busy
editing. The personal experiences will reflect on faraway and familiar
places, family and furry friends. Her travel memoir, "The Perfect Day" has
been published in Cuivre River Anthology IV, and her photo, "Sandy Creek
Covered Bridge" was used for the cover of the anthology. She has been a
finalist in the Caribbean Travel and Life Magazine's Photo Contests
2005-2007. Sheree was especially excited when her photo "Yellow Anemone"
graced the cover of the St. Charles Mosaic Festival booklet along with five
other artists in 2007. Other publications include Caribbean Travel and Life
"Postcards", St.Charles Convention Center Newsletter, Storyteller Magazine,
Folly Beach Current Newspaper, St. Charles Suburban Journals and Saturday
Writers Newsletter. In her spare time she volunteers as a Youth Sponsor at
O'Fallon Christian Church and offers her writing/photography skills for
C.H.A.M.P.S. Assistance Dogs. Sheree and her husband own Ocean Spirit
Photography and live in Wentzville along with their five animals. Visit her
photography website at
www.oceanspiritphoto.com. Visit Sheree's Warm Fuzzies, a blog, at
www.shereenielsen@wordpress.com
Nick Nixon (Wright City)
joined Saturday Writers in the middle of 2009 and has the
most fun at the critique group meetings. He has been a country music
singer/performer and is founder and president of the "Gateway Country Music
Association," a not-for-profit group formed to compile a history of Country
Music performers, writers, agents, and live music buyers that are, or was a
part of the local live country music scene. The association promotes live
country music, [the kind that employs live, breathing musicians, no Karaoke,
or dee-jay record spinners] sends out quarterly news letters, and sponsors
fund raiser jams, to aid pickers that have had difficulty coping with
today's financial realities. Nick says he knows first hand, and it's well
known in music circles, “what do you call a country 'sanger' that has no
wife or girl friend?, "Homeless." He has had marginal success at song
writing, and is currently working on a love ballad entitled ..."You Caught
My Eye When Your Husband Knocked It Out." He's written for the GCMA
newsletter and has one short story is in progress. But mostly Nick writes
essays. Now retired. However, with the writing thing, lately he boasts "I've
been busier than a set of jumper cables at a Nixon family funeral. He
regards Saturday Writers as the best thing to happen to him since his first
guitar. Has four children by a previous marriage, Paul, Suzanne, Sandra and
[used to be the baby] Lori, they all sing and play instruments. It's a
musical family. Nick often brags that "even my mothers sewing machine was a
Singer." Kimberly, his wife of twenty two years, eight-year old daughter
Autumn Rose, and Nick, presently live in a small, one-hundred year old
Lincoln County farm home between Troy and Wright City, Mo.
Kelly Oliva (O'Fallon)
was born and raised in Kelowna,
British Columbia, so don't ask her which St. Louis high school she
attended! At seventeen, Kelly moved to Missouri after accepting a
scholarship to play field hockey for Lindenwood University. After three
years as a high school English teacher in the Wentzville School
District, she decided she wanted a life that didn't revolve around
grading papers. Kelly is in the process of earning her masters degree
from MU, and was recently hired as a school librarian. Kelly was
published three times during the last year: once in Wentzville's ECHO
Magazine, once in Lake St. Louis' Newstime, and on the
website
www.ehow.com.
She is currently working on an untitled young adult novel, and would
love to enter some writing contests in the coming year.
Nancy Olson (St. Charles)
Mary Pat O'Malley
(St. Louis)
Steve Ortwerth
(St. Charles)
born in St. Louis in 1954, he
graduated Mercy High in 1972 and attended UMSL before enrolling in hotel and
restaurant courses at the community college. Ortwerth served a chef's
apprenticeship at the St. Louis Country Club then enjoyed 15 years in the
food business. In 1988 Steve married, moved with his wife Gloria to St.
Charles and began working for CitiMortgage, Inc. with a new schedule
allowing time for both work and family. Chefs unavoidably work nights,
weekends and holidays.
With CMI, Steve has written a wide range of professional correspondence.
Their son James is 14 and will attend St. Charles High School next year.
Their daughter Julie lives in San Antonio with her husband Ron and two
sons. Steve is an outdoorsman, loving to camp and canoe float. He spent
many summers back packing in the Rockies. He'd often considered literary
writing, and in 2001 began his first novel, a futuristic fiction thriller,
completed last year. He is now seeking agent representation.
His new fictional project involves the paranormal. Recreationally he reads
books like The Hunt For Red October; The Lord of the Rings, and
The Firm. Short-term goals: learn to format his work so that an agent
will offer their representation; learn to move his story through active
dialogue and avoid the roadblocks of background narrative. Through Saturday
Writers he has connected with people who have already helped him
tremendously. He recently entered his first writing contest and is working
on several short articles.
Mike Parsons (St.
Charles)
Patt Hollinger Pickett
(Lake Saint Louis)
Joseph Pini (St. Peters)
Ray Poninski (St. Peters)
Becky Povich (St. Peters)
began
writing in May 2001. In December of that year, she became one of the
St. Charles County Journals Opinion Shapers. When that stint ended
in January of 2005 she began pursuing other writing venues, including
Chicken Soup for the Soul. In 2007 and 2008, she had four stories
accepted and published in four different books. Since then, she's been
hired as a weekly columnist for the Adair County Free Press
(Greenfield, Iowa), and as a monthly columnist for Tiny Lights; A
Journal of Personal Narrative, an online and print publication based
in Petaluma, California.
In
February of 2010, she received the news every writer wants to hear. A
small publishing company, High Hill Press, has accepted her book! No
publication date as of yet. Please check out Becky's blog at
www.beckypovich.blogspot.com for fantastic contests, great quotes,
other interesting information, and updates on her book from time to
time.
Julie Renaud (O'Fallon)
Linda Russell
(Marthasville, MO)
Annette Pratt
(Elsberry) writes fiction, short
stories, novels, and poetry.
Patricia Sanders*
(Foristell)
is a former
instructional designer and corporate trainer who has been writing since she
received her first chubby pencil and Big Chief tablet. Her first short
story "Christmas in July" was
published when she was in fourth grade. Her essays and short stories have
won numerous awards and have appeared in
ByLine,
Sasee,
The Cuivre River Anthology II and III,
Magnolia Quarterly,
Great American Outhouse Stories; The Whole
Truth and Nothing Butt and the 2007
Seven Hills Review. She is currently working on a novel-length
murder mystery. She blogs about the road to publication in her new blog
triciasanders.blogspot.com. Her website
www.triciasanders.com is under construction.
Brandi
Schmidt
is an aspiring author and
avid blogger. She writes and loves paranormal Christian. Brandi has written
her first novel and currently working on a second. She is a wife to a
wonderful husband and mother to two beautiful children. She is also the new
Member-At-Large for the Missouri Writer’s Guild.
www.brandischmidt.com
Paul Schmit
(O'Fallon)
Robert Sebacher
(Foristell)
Claudia Shelton
(O'Fallon)
has been published in Sweetgum Notes and Cuivre
River Anthology, Volume III. plus her short fiction has received
numerous awards. She is a member of Romance Writers of America, MORWA
(Missouri Romance Writers of America), Saturday Writers and the weekly
Coffee & Critique Group. She has completed her first manuscript, Freedom
and Magnolias; a 100,000 word single-title contemporary with romance and
suspense. New characters and scenes running rampant in her mind have
convinced her to begin the second novel in The Path to Peaceful Lake series
titled Courage and Azaleas. She is also actively searching for an
agent or editor.
Claudia enjoys
attending writer’s conferences, workshops and individual meetings to not
only learn the craft, but for the networking with other writers, agents and
editors. She feels critique groups are a great place to hone your writing
skills—just be sure to take what you like and leave the rest. No matter
what, remain true to your own writer's voice.
www.claudiawriting.com
Bernice Siros
(St. Charles) has an associate of Arts degree
from St. Louis Community College at Florissant Valley with majors in
Journalism and Public Relations. She has served as reporter for Missouri
Extension and Mid-America Moto-Cross and as Program/Public Relations
chairman for the Missouri Association for Children with Leaning
Disabilities. Bernice retired from Drake and Company, a public
relations/association management firm. She has published articles in the
St. Charles Journal, Banner News and her college newspaper. Bernice is
presently writing a science-fiction fantasy novel and memoirs of her twelfth
summer. Besides writing, her interests are in metaphysics, theater, music,
movies, reading and auctions.
Sandra Smith
(St. Charles)
Virginia (Carolyn) Stone
(Foristell) Carolyn loves to write short
stories, and two have been published on online at
www.divinecaroline.com.
"Not Ours to Keep" a poem in 6/2/09 and a short story "The
Hand' on 10/17/07 under the name "Carol Stone". She is just
now finding time to send off some of her written works, as she
is now retired from Boeing for over 33 + years. She is a wife
of an retired airline employee, a mother of three children, and
grandparent of five wonderful grandchildren. Her great loves
are; God, family, writing, and traveling. Carolyn knows that
God has blessed her with being able to write, to travel free,
and to pick up such good books to read, from the authors, when
she attended her Saturday Writers club each month.
Camille
Subramaniam (St. Charles)
lives
with her husband in St. Charles, Missouri. She writes and teaches writing
at Southern Illinois University Edwardsville. She enjoys spending time with
her family, who lives very close, and her husband's family, who lives in
faraway Malaysia. Luckily, she loves to travel.
Doyle Suit * (St.
Charles, MO)
writes short fiction and
nonfiction prose. His completed novel, "The Ouachita Rambler," is currently
looking for a publisher. He has received more than a dozen contest awards,
and his work has appeared in The St. Louis Suburban Journals, Storyteller
Magazine, Good Old Days Magazine, Spring Hill Review, Sweetgum Notes, The
Cuivre River Anthology, and other publications. When not writing, he
plays and sings bluegrass music, and he tries to keep up with his lovely
wife of a half-century and his grandkids.
dsuit@sbcglobal.net
Jerrel (Jerry) Swingle
(O'Fallon) Retired art teacher - 1 ea. - High
mileage, slightly worn. Happily married forty-five plus years. Began
writing to take up the creative slack. Enjoys writing short stories,
flash fiction, fantasy, humor, parody, satire, poetry when feeling great
- essays and opinion pieces when grumpy. Work has appeared in Good
Old Days, Woman's Corner, The Storyteller, America's Funniest Humor,
eClips, Sweetgum Notes, Echoes of the Ozarks, Well-Versed, Missouri
Teachers Write, Applecart, Cuivre River Anthology. Enjoys entering
contests, placing in several. Little remuneration, but great
satisfaction. Continues to work at learning the craft while enjoying life
in general. (Or is that phrase oxymoronic?)
Magdalin Szabo (Chesterfield)
Rochelle Thurman (Florissant)
Sharon Tricamo
(Imperial)
Louella Turner *
(St. Charles)
grew up in a small rural town
on the banks of the Illinois River and trapped her first alligator before
she turned ten. Wait a minute, that was one of her characters. Let's try
again. Once, while playing cards with Wild Bill Hickok, Louella witnessed
the shooting of a card cheat. No, again, that was in one of her books. Was
she abducted by aliens? She says she can't remember anymore. Like many
writers, Louella writes because she has to give the characters who live in
her head a life of their own. And in that endeavor, she often finds herself
not only in the company of her characters, but in the company of genius in
the guise of other writers, some of them well-known, some just beginning
their amazing journey. Louella Turner writes and lives in St. Charles,
Missouri, and has recently begun another adventure with her husband, Bryan.
They have started High Hill Press, their own publishing business, and are traveling to
conferences in search of writers with stories to tell.
Donna
Duly Volkenannt
* (St. Peters)
lives in St. Peters, Missouri, with her husband Walter and their
grandchildren, Cari and Michael. As a teenager, Donna
Duly
got her first
bylines in the St. Alphonsus (Rock) High School newspaper, The Rocket,
and as a reporter for Prom, a St. Louis-based magazine for teens.
While a reporter for Prom Magazine she met Johnny Rivers and the
Righteous Brothers, as well as other celebrities whose names might be
familiar to anyone old enough to collect Social Security. Also in high
school,
some classmates
voted
Donna "most likely
to become a go-go dancer." After graduation, instead of buying go-go boots,
Donna got at job as a stenographer working for the Army, attended night
school at the University of Missouri (St. Louis) and married Airman First
Class Walter Volkenannt.
UMSL was one of many colleges she attended while moving around the country
and overseas with Walter and their children, Julie and Walt. Other colleges
were Cochise Community College in Arizona and the University of Maryland in
Germany, where she received a BS in Business and Management.
When not spending time with her family, trying to meet
deadlines and wondering if she would’ve made it as a go-go dancer, Donna
blogs about writing, publishing and life in general on
Donna's Book Pub
http://donnasbookpub.com
Pat Wahler* (St.
Peters)
has a
master's degree in nonprofit management. A resident of St. Peters,
Missouri, she balances family, full time job, and freelance writing
with varying degrees of success. Her work has won recognition from
ByLine Magazine and Saturday Writers, and appears in numerous
anthologies which include Cup of Comfort for Cat Lovers and Chicken
Soup for the Soul: What I Learned From the Dog. Pat is a member of
Saturday Writers, Ozark Writer's League, and Coffee and Critique.
She blogs all things animal at:
www.critteralley.blogspot.com
Lonnie Whitaker (High
Ridge)
grew up in Missouri Ozarks and attended a
two-room country school; managed to survive the sixties and Missouri
University Law School; and is now the district counsel for a federal agency.
His writing credits include several articles in Missouri Life, The
Ozark Mountaineer, and Out of the Ozarks Literary Guild Journal. He
placed 3rd in a nationally advertised fiction contest; was
awarded a 30-day residency at the Writers Colony at Dairy Hollow; served as
associate editor for an Hourglass Books anthology, Peculiar Pilgrims:
Stories from the Left Hand of God, and received honorable mention in the
2009 Saturday Writers annual short story contest. His first novel, Geese
to a Poor Market, is a geographical slice of Americana set in the 1950’s
Ozarks, which has one leg that wants to boogie, and the other planted on a
pew. It will be published the summer of 2010 by High Hill Press.
Sarah Whitney (St. Peters)
earned her first byline as a fifth
grader when she won a children's writing contest sponsored by the Hayner
Public Library District in Alton, Ill. She still remembers the crisp smell
of the $50 award check.
She spent college in the newsroom of The
Daily Eastern News, Eastern Illinois University's student newspaper, as
an editor. Her reporting earned her a first-place, feature-writing award in
the 2008 Society for Collegiate Journalists national competition for the
article “We are EIU because of Lou,” a profile about Eastern's president.
She also won a 2005 intern scholarship from The Press Club of Metropolitan
St. Louis for her internship at The Alton Telegraph. A 2006
copy-editing internship at The Naperville Sun-Times instilled in her
a profound respect for all copy editors because she's not one, despite the
positive opinions of her friends and family who e-mail her their college
papers to edit.
Sarah seriously started writing fiction after
she wrote a profile about Eastern's 2005 faculty laureate, Dr. Fern Kory, a
children's and young adult literature professor. The interview sparked an
on-going dialog about YA fiction, which spanned the next two years. During
this time, Sarah's YA fiction won two consecutive Louise Murray Awards for
Children's Literature. The contest judge compared her first winning story “A
Man and His Cat” to work by authors Terry Pratchett and Philip Pullman. She
graduated cum laude in 2007 with a bachelor's in journalism after a 14-day
class in England. Sarah now works as an award-winning reporter for The
Suburban Journals of St. Charles and Warren counties where she earns a
bi-weekly paycheck, which despite being slightly larger, just doesn't smell
as nice. Contact her at sj.whitney26 <at> gmail <dot> com.
Stan Wilson (St.
Charles) grew up in Southern Indiana. He has
lived in the St. Charles area the past 40 years. Married and has
two grown sons. Holds a B.S.E.E. degree and attend several local
universities taking selected graduate courses in business
management.
The past 25 years Stan operated his own small
business and engineering consulting firm. A successful writer of
numerous award winning high technology engineering grants and
proposals; he’s currently interested in free-lance writing of
technical grants and business plans for small firms and
organizations.
Fiction writing is strictly a hobby, however,
he does write every day. Stan considers his self a novice writer of
short stories and flash fiction. He is attempting to hone his
skills by taking courses in writing and English at the local
community college.
Troy Windom
(Ripley, TN) grew up in Central
Alabama and attended school at Graysville Jr. High. After school he
moved to Richmond, Va. Troy earned his GED, while in Virginia. He
attended J. Sergeant Reynolds Community Collage in Richmond, where he
took several courses in writing, maintaining a 3.0 GPA. Some of his poems
have been published in the Herald Progress, a small newspaper,
in Ashland, Virginia. Others have been published in the monthly
newsletter where he worked as well as in the newsletter of the
Fraternal Order of Foresters. His poems have also been read on late night TV. In a radio interview at WRFK
(an NPR radio station in Richmond),
Troy read two of his poems. The interview was aired several times. Troy
has had a love for writing since his youth and wrote his first poems
while still in grade school. He also writes songs and sings them in the
church he attends. He is in the process of having some of his songs set
to music. He is currently working on a short story that keeps growing
and may become a novel before it's finished. Troy is retired and spends
his time at home in West Tennessee with his lovely wife Barbara. He
likes Country and Southern Gospel music and old time radio and has a vast
collection of all three.
Joy Wooderson
(O'Fallon)
Late-bloomer nonfiction essay writer (“Writing
that inspires, informs, and amuses . . .”) loves good food but totally inept
in the kitchen, sports car fanatic (owned five Pontiac Firebirds in varying
colors), daydreamer and adventurous world traveler (twenty-five countries to
date), avid reader of
mysteries and spy novels. No husband, no children, no pets. Part-time dog
lover—aunt to a Welsh corgi. Housekeeping ability questionable. Maybe this
explains the "no husband" bit? Born in South Africa, lived in Toronto,
Canada, Atlanta, GA, and now O’Fallon, MO. Naturalized U.S. citizen since
1977. Works part-time as a proofreader to keep the frozen dinners coming.
Check out her website
www.joywooderson.com to see if she reveals deep dark secrets!
Ed Wright
(Brentwood)
Marilyn W. Yust
(St. Charles)
Honorary
Members
Walter Bargen
(Ashland)
Pat Carr (Elkins, AR)
Max Gersh
Angie Fox (Valley
Park)
Debra Peppers
(St. Louis)
Patricia Rice (Chesterfield)
Dusty Richards
(Springdale, AR)
Shelly Schneider (St.
Peters)
Bobbi Smith (St.
Charles)
Regina Williams
(Maynard, AR)
Amy Willoughby-Burle
(Candler, NC)
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Membership Information
Mission:
To network with local writers by offering support and by sharing ideas and
markets for publication. We strive to assist writers in achieving their
publication goals so they may qualify for membership in the Missouri
Writer’s Guild, our parent organization.
Background:
Saturday Writers was established in January 2002 as a chapter of the
Missouri Writer’s Guild, which is a 501(c) (3) non-profit educational
association. While the Missouri Writer’s Guild has publication requirements
for membership, Saturday Writers does not.
Membership
Requirements: Members must be over
age 18 and pay annual dues. Saturday Writers members do not have to be
published.
Dues:
New member annual dues are $20, payable in the month joined and renewable in
January
of each year. New members joining after September shall be paid through the
next year. Dues cover attendance at monthly events, a copy of the quarterly
newsletter, and the right to include a member bio on the Saturday Writers
web site: www.saturdaywriters.org .
Meetings are held the
last Saturday of each month from 11 a.m. to 1 p.m. at the St. Peters
Community & Arts Center, 1035 St. Peters Howell Road, St. Peters, MO 63376.
Please fill out the
attached form and send it, along
with your check for $20 payable to Saturday Writers, to Joy Wooderson
(Membership Chair), 2140 Farnsworth Drive, O’Fallon, MO 63368-7152. Keep
this page for your records.
The web site,
www.saturdaywriters.org , includes a calendar of upcoming events and
speakers. For additional information, e-mail Tricia Sanders (President) at
president at saturdaywriters.org
* PLEASE NOTE: EFFECTIVE JANUARY 1, 2008 there is a change in membership
dues:
New
Members - $20.00 (New members who join after September will have the
following year included)*
*Members who joined after Sep 07 are paid up until Dec 08
Current Members - Annual
Renewal $15.00 (due January 1)
Current Members - Late Renewal $20.00 (after March 1)
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