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Catherine G. Tripp If Catherine’s writings were expressed in one color, it would be yellow, bright as sunlight, highlighting the salient portions, deconstructing air brushed stories, and finding humor and courage in the unloved corners. A scribbler since childhood, Catherine has published financial columns, short stories, poetry, essays. Since leaving banking behind, she seeks to inspire readers to notice people, to laugh, to question accepted history and shift the dominant paradigm. She lives in Hawaii where she is writing a historical novel about a brave entrepreneurial abolitionist, Ms. Mary Ellen Pleasant, as well as polishing her craft through conferences and workshops. Check out Catherine's website here.
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Gwyndolin Gorg Gwen grew up in Los Angeles, California where she met her husband when they were both involved in the Civil Rights Movement. Their documentary films Autobiography of a Hopi, and The Savages, have won awards nationally and internationally. Another of her films, Living the Blues, starred the legendary Blues man Sam Taylor, winner of Filmtrax award at Belgium’s Ghent International Film Festival. She co-created and performed the History of the Blues for students at The International House of Blues Foundation. Ms Gorg was president of African Americans on Maui Association from 2012 until 2021. She was an instructor at the University of Hawaii, Maui from 2010 until 2019. Darlene’s Awakening was her most recent book. I Am Bigger Than Nigger, Nice Lady a Lighter Approach To Alzheimer are other books she has written, in addition to I Am The Blues, a history of the Blues for children.
Well, it’s finally here! After many long weeks of evaluation, editing, finalizing and publishing, the long-awaited Fourth Edition of Latitudes, our online Literary Journal, is finally finished and available for viewing on our website. There’s a veritable goldmine of terrific Fiction, Nonfiction, Poetry, and Drama available for your reading pleasure available here. And if you’re a bit gun-shy about clicking suspicious links, just scroll back up to the MORE menu at the top of this page. Look for Literary Review and click on “LITREVIEW FOURTH EDITION” near the bottom of the MORE menu and you're there. But give yourself plenty of time. There’s a helluva lot of great reading there.
And speaking of Latitudes, the first three editions of the journal, are also available online for your reading pleasure. You can get to them by using the same "MORE" menu above and choosing the LITREVIEW FIRST EDITION or LITREVIEW SECOND EDITION or LITREVIEW THIRD EDITION choices at the bottom of the dropdown list.
And speaking of Latitudes, the first three editions of the journal, are also available online for your reading pleasure. You can get to them by using the same "MORE" menu above and choosing the LITREVIEW FIRST EDITION or LITREVIEW SECOND EDITION or LITREVIEW THIRD EDITION choices at the bottom of the dropdown list.
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HELP WANTED
Your favorite nonprofit writers guild is looking for a few good wo-men to serve on the Board of Hawaii Writers Guild as candidates for elected office for one-year terms. The four elective offices up for grabs for the year 2022 are those of President, Vice President, Secretary, and Treasurer. The only qualification requirements are;
a. Must be a member of HWG in good standing (a dues-paid member for at least 12 months), and
b. Must be willing to attend and contribute to monthly Board of Directors meetings (live or Zoom), and
c. Must be enthusiastic about the potential and future of Hawaii Writers Guild.
Hawaii Writers Guild is an equal opportunity employer, treating all writer-members, from fledgling newbies and published wannabes to midlevel DIY self-published writers to full-on, major trade-book-published veterans, equally.
Position descriptions are displayed below.
If you know such a person or are such a person yourself, please submit your nomination(s) via email to: [email protected]
