The Writers' Guild of Texas (WGT) is a nonprofit organization designed to serve the writing community of Texas.
The Writer’s Guild of Texas is dedicated to providing peer support, information exchange, and formal and informal self-education opportunities for published and not-yet-published writers. |
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Upcoming Events:
March 15 - Agent, Terry Burns from Hartline Literary Agency - "Agent Q & A"
March 27 - Saturday workshop with Charlotte Lanham, multi published Chicken Soup author.
Held at the North Dallas Chamber of Commerce, 10:00 till 2-2:30; $25.00 for non-members and $20.00 for members
Included in this fee is the opportunity for anyone attending the workshop to send Charlotte a Current Needs Chicken Soup story within the following two weeks following the workshop.
Charlotte will judge the stories, select a winner, and give the winning story a free critique and help the author get the story ready for submission. (She has had more than one winner be published in CSS)
Topics covered during the workshop will Include:
Charlotte’s success story, 10 Top Reasons to Write for Chicken Soup, Readings, The Recipe for a Good Story, Current Needs
Hot Tips from the Editor, Actual writing exercises throughout the day. (hooks, titles, good beginnings, good endings, etc.)
If you are interested in writing first person true stories--whether for publication (for Chicken Soup for the soul or others) or to record true family stories for the next generation--you won't want to miss this workshop.
April 19 - American Literary Review Editor, John Tait
May 17 - Rosemary Clement-Moore
June 21 - Read In
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The WGT meets on the third Monday of each month from 7:00 p.m. to 8:30 p.m. in the basement conference room of the Richardson Public Library, 900 Civic Center Drive, Richardson, Texas 75080.
All programs and workshops are free and open to the public. |
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"Getting published isn't a selection process, it's a survival process!" T. Burns
Terry Burns has been with Hartline agency for the last three years and has a substantial list of clients, a growing list of credits, and a reputation for presenting to conferences all over the country. Listed as number three on the Publisher's Marketplace list of agents helping debut authors to publish, Terry comes from a writing background, has over 30 books in print, and is a graduate of West Texas State and did post graduate work at Southern Methodist University. He tries to run a paperless office so he doesn't take hard copy submissions. Terry is a native Texas living in Amarillo, Texas.
Agent Q & A
The most popular session at most conferences are the agent and editor panels. Terry will do a A & A session honestly answering the attendee questions to the best of his ability, not only drawing on his own knowledge and experience, but on that drawn from hearing the responses from over 100 such conferences and sessions.
To learn more, visit http://www.terryburns.net.
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