The Virginia Writers Club

Virginia Writers Club logo A 501(c)(3) nonprofit organization of writers and poets, screenwriters and playwrights, journalists and essayists, and other publishing professionals whose purpose is to support and stimulate the art, craft and business of writing, as well as advocate the literary arts in the Commonwealth.

URGENT NOTICE!

Dear Fellow VWC Members,

As you probably know by now, all weather services are predicting a major snow event beginning this coming Friday and extending throughout Saturday, the day normally scheduled for our first yearly BOG meeting in Fredericksburg. I have been contacted by the Campus Safety at Univ. of Mary Washington and informed that in all probability the campus will be closing sometime Saturday and emergency snow rules will be in force prohibiting parking. Because of this and the potential danger to members coming from considerable distances, I feel it is best postpone the scheduled meeting. Any people who have sent me checks for lunch should know I will be holding them pending future decisions. I will be distributing some timely material by email to the BOG members for action in the coming week. Should it be necessary, we may want to reschedule for the first week in March, but I will leave that eventuality open for now. Please take good care of yourself during this winter emergency and I will look forward to seeing you again soon.

Jim Gaines, President

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President Jim Gaines A Note from the President

Blue Ridge Writers did it up in style for our annual meeting on November 7 at the Omni Hotel in Charlottesville! They turned out in impressive numbers to welcome people from all over the state, offering exciting displays, a tasty dinner, and a most interesting presentation by speaker John Amen. It was an encouraging close to a busy year.

We now enter the season of renewal, spiritual and physical. One aspect of this is renewing our memberships in Virginia Writers Club and I am sure you will all be responding to the emails and contacts urging you to send in your checks and your personal information for our Executive Director. One of the benefits of membership is our Golden Nib contest and we distributed awards at our Charlottesville annual meeting to a new crop of winners, whose work will soon appear in the online anthology organized by Rod Vanderhoof and Greg Mitchell on our web page.

As Christmas approaches, we move forward with our fund-raising challenge spearheaded by John Henry to raise money for our Educational Fund. We also make plans for an upcoming short story contest that we hope will stimulate a lot of you to contribute your best prose. We look forward to the February Board of Governors meeting to be held in Fredericksburg on the campus of the University of Mary Washington, where the student poetry group Paris Mutuel will host us to the poetry, sights, sounds, and perhaps even tastes of Charles Baudelaire, one of the great masters. More information on this event, to which you are all invited, will be reaching you as the winter season sets in.

I wish all of you blessed holidays and a bounty of creative energies to pour into your writing. I hope that there will be some notable publications under your trees and among your holiday presents. Let’s look forward also to a New Year of innovation in our organization in 2010!

Jim Gaines, President

Many thanks to our Virginia Writers Club

LIFETIME MEMBERS - $500.00
Sky Phillips Beaven - Alexandria, Virginia
A.B. "Bud" Feuer - Roanoke, Virginia
James F. Gaines - Fredericksburg, Virginia
Betty L.B. Marcum - Fredericksburg, Virginia
Paul Schutte - Williamsburg, Virginia
Barbara D. Smith - Newport News, Virginia

2009 SUPPORTING MEMBERS - $100.00
Sandy Boyd - Williamsburg, Virginia
James L. Doherty - Richmond, Virginia
James W. Morrison - Moneta, Virginia
Jennifer Stanley - Richmond, Virginia

2009 EDUCATIONAL FUND CONTRIBUTORS
Gerrie Beck - Virginia Beach, Virginia
Maxine Clark - Fredericksburg, Virginia
Andrew Torres - Virginia Beach, Virginia
Sarah Bird Wright - Midlothian, Virginia
Lauvonda Lynn Meade Young - Palmyra, Virginia

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