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Hawaii Writers Guild's Member Newsletter
Co-Editors: Joy Fisher & Cecilia Johansen
We are pleased to announce issue Number 3 of our
Membership Newsletter
Welcome from our Co-Editors
Joy Fisher
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Cecilia Johansen
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Welcome from our Co-Editors
Welcome to the third issue of Member News, the Hawaii Writers Guild biannual publication that shines a spotlight on our members and their writing lives and accomplishments.
In this Fall issue, we have three feature stories. At the top of the list is a story about our members’ gradual return to in-person readings after more than two years of absence from public venues mandated by state and county regulations banning live performances. The bans, promulgated to counter the spread of COVID-19, began to loosen in April of this year when there was an Earth Day celebration in North Kohala in which Guild members participated as in-person readers. Over the next few months, more in-person events occurred and Guild members took part. Finally, we got word that the Volcano Writers Group was publishing its second book together and is planning a live public reading at Ira Ono’s Volcano Garden Arts and Café on October 23, a week before Halloween. If you’re on the Big Island and hankering to hear some good storytelling, mark your calendar!
Our second feature takes us back to the founding of Hawaii Writers Guild as recounted by our co-editor Cecilia Johansen, who, as a founding member, was in the room where it happened. Accompanying the story is an artefact of the very fist public reading the group ever gave—at the Kahilu Theater, no less—in March of 2016, when it was still calling itself the “Writers of Hawaii”. Take a look at the program and see how many names of readers you recognize.
Our third feature is something we’ve been wanting to do for a while: a story about our farthest-flung member, Meliha Advic, who lived in Bosnia when she first joined the Guild and currently lives in London, England. She tells us how she found Hawaii Writers Guild and why she wanted to become a member of an organization so far away.
We also devote space to two regular columns that we plan to include in each issue. Genre Corner is a column which provides an opportunity for a member (or members) to sound off—either pro or con—about some aspect of their favorite genres. Transitions is a column we developed to provide news of members who are moving into or out of various positions, functions or duties with Hawaii Writers Guild or other aspects of their writing lives. Sometimes these transitions create openings for new members to contribute their efforts to the work of the Guild, so if you are interested in getting more involved, take a look at the Transitions column to see whether there is an opportunity for you.
And, of course, we have stories and pictures of our new members, so you have a chance to “meet them” soon after they join the Guild. Not every new member takes advantage of this opportunity to introduce themselves to us, but we are happy to shine the spotlight on those who do.
In every issue, we also devote space to saying “Congrats!” to our members who have published their work since the last issue. Issue after issue, we hear reports from several members who have reached that coveted goal, and this issue is no exception.
We hope you will enjoy reading about your fellow Guild members and their accomplishments in this issue of Member News. Please let us hear from you if you have suggestions for stories to include in future issues.
Joy and Cece
(click a name to email either one of them)
Welcome from our Co-Editors
Welcome to the third issue of Member News, the Hawaii Writers Guild biannual publication that shines a spotlight on our members and their writing lives and accomplishments.
In this Fall issue, we have three feature stories. At the top of the list is a story about our members’ gradual return to in-person readings after more than two years of absence from public venues mandated by state and county regulations banning live performances. The bans, promulgated to counter the spread of COVID-19, began to loosen in April of this year when there was an Earth Day celebration in North Kohala in which Guild members participated as in-person readers. Over the next few months, more in-person events occurred and Guild members took part. Finally, we got word that the Volcano Writers Group was publishing its second book together and is planning a live public reading at Ira Ono’s Volcano Garden Arts and Café on October 23, a week before Halloween. If you’re on the Big Island and hankering to hear some good storytelling, mark your calendar!
Our second feature takes us back to the founding of Hawaii Writers Guild as recounted by our co-editor Cecilia Johansen, who, as a founding member, was in the room where it happened. Accompanying the story is an artefact of the very fist public reading the group ever gave—at the Kahilu Theater, no less—in March of 2016, when it was still calling itself the “Writers of Hawaii”. Take a look at the program and see how many names of readers you recognize.
Our third feature is something we’ve been wanting to do for a while: a story about our farthest-flung member, Meliha Advic, who lived in Bosnia when she first joined the Guild and currently lives in London, England. She tells us how she found Hawaii Writers Guild and why she wanted to become a member of an organization so far away.
We also devote space to two regular columns that we plan to include in each issue. Genre Corner is a column which provides an opportunity for a member (or members) to sound off—either pro or con—about some aspect of their favorite genres. Transitions is a column we developed to provide news of members who are moving into or out of various positions, functions or duties with Hawaii Writers Guild or other aspects of their writing lives. Sometimes these transitions create openings for new members to contribute their efforts to the work of the Guild, so if you are interested in getting more involved, take a look at the Transitions column to see whether there is an opportunity for you.
And, of course, we have stories and pictures of our new members, so you have a chance to “meet them” soon after they join the Guild. Not every new member takes advantage of this opportunity to introduce themselves to us, but we are happy to shine the spotlight on those who do.
In every issue, we also devote space to saying “Congrats!” to our members who have published their work since the last issue. Issue after issue, we hear reports from several members who have reached that coveted goal, and this issue is no exception.
We hope you will enjoy reading about your fellow Guild members and their accomplishments in this issue of Member News. Please let us hear from you if you have suggestions for stories to include in future issues.
Joy and Cece
(click a name to email either one of them)
But wait! Before we turn you loose to read the stories in this issue, there are two more important things we want to mention:
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FIRST: Don’t forget, the deadline for submitting to the next edition of Latitudes, the Guild’s own literary review, is November 1!
Once a year, as members of Hawaii Writers Guild, you have the distinct privilege of being able to submit your best work, be it poetry, fiction, nonfiction or drama (10-minute plays, monologues or short screenplays) for consideration for publication in Latitudes. Here’s a link to submission guidelines for our 4th annual edition as well as to copies of our first three editions, which you can read for inspiration: https://www.hawaiiwritersguild.com/literary-review.html And here’s a link to a recent interview of Latitudes’ Managing Editor Bob Lupo by Diann Wilson on her program, Write On!, available on the Guild’s own YouTube channel here: https://youtu.be/fzOtrXG38oI If you have any remaining questions, you can contact Bob directly at his email address: [email protected] Do take advantage of this perk of membership. Share your best writing with us through Latitudes. |
SECOND: The Kauai Writers Conference is going to be an in-person event this year and Hawaii Writers Guild will have a presence there as we have in the past. Master classes will be from November 7-10 and the three-day weekend conference will be November 11-13. If you are planning to go to one or both of these aspects of the conference, please get in touch with Joy Fisher. She will be attending both and would like to know who else from HWG is going. It would be nice if we could arrange for Guild members to get together there.
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Contents
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Featured Stories
New Member Spotlight
Here are six new members who joined since our last issue. Click on any name to learn about that new member. 1. Meet MK Chelius 2. Meet Gwyndolin Gorg 3. Meet Lucy L. Jones, Ph.D. 4. Meet Angela Leslee 5. Meet Sharon Ludan 6. Meet Rebekah Moan |
Genre Corner 1. Community Saga - A Genre??
by Lucy L. Jones, Ph.D. 2. Poetry: My “Take-Charge” Genre
by Nancy Baenziger, Ph.D. Transitions
Recently Published
Here are eight members who have published recently. Let's give them all a hand! Click on any name to go directly to that member. 1. Published! Congrats to Zach Ehrmann 2. Published! Congrats to Jim Gibbons 3. Published! Congrats to Cece Johansen 4. Published! Congrats to Angela Leslee 5. Published! Congrats to Don Mules 6. Published! Congrats to Tessa Rice 7. Published! Congrats to Heather Rivera 8. Published! Congrats to Greer Woodward |
