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Our Mission
The Greater Philadelphia Christian Writers Fellowship
exists to help you respond to God's call to write. We want to come alongside to encourage and equip you to get your work in print. We are a Christ-centered fellowship with a strong emphasis
on prayer and Bible study, but also on learning the craft of writing and marketing. We want to help you become an effective communicator of God's truth in both Christian and secular markets.
Together we really can make a difference!
Our History
Marlene Bagnull
founded GPCWF in
1983 with a small group of Christian writers drawn by announcements they
read in the newspaper. Since then we have met monthly (except in the
summer) and sponsored four day-long seminars, six two-day
conferences, and eight three-day conferences. I've often said that if I knew
what God had planned I would have told Him, "I'm not
qualified," and run the other way. But I'm so grateful I didn't. He
really is able to do "exceedingly, abundantly beyond" (Eph. 3:20).
CWF meets monthly on a Thursday
morning from 9:30 to 12:30 at Springton Lake Presbyterian Church
(www.slpca.org). 3090 South Newtown
Street Road, Newtown Square 19073. (For door-to-door directions go to
www.mapquest.com.) The church is at the intersection of Route 252 &
Media Line Road, on the left just past the Springton Lake Reservoir and
Delaware County Community College (if you're going north on 252).
New Season
of Meetings Beginning September 2009
Our 26th year of ministry!
September 17
October 15
November 19
December 17 - bring a Christmas story or poem and a dish to share at our
luncheon.
2010
January 21
Writing Stories that Change Lives - Marlene Bagnull
Stories, whether fiction or nonfiction, have the power to change lives.
We'll look at seven essentials and pitfalls, ask some important questions,
and hopefully end up with an outline (of sorts) for a saleable short
story.
February 18
"Ask Me Anything About Writing a Good Story" – Joyce Magnin
Bring a page or two of something you're working on. We'll read it
together, on the spot,
and then talk about it and answer some questions.
If you've participated in "Would they read on?" at the conference,
this will be similar but with an opportunity for discussion.
March 18
Writing & Selling Articles - Karen Whiting
Karen has had over 500 articles published in
more than four dozen publications. She was a contributing writer for Focus
on the Family’s parenting magazines for two years, wrote children’s church
curriculum for Charisma Life, and currently writes a short column for
Enrichment magazine as well as a monthly family page for a newspaper. She
will be writing a column for a new online magazine with the Assemblies of
God churches to provide tips for ministry leaders. Karen is also an author
of eleven books with three others under contract.
Karen will have free copies of Focus on the Family’s new magazines, some
news from magazine editors from the Florida conference. Her talk will
include:
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The best ways to break into
magazines.
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Karen believes in developing
relationships with editors to become part of the team of writers
magazines use regularly and will discuss how to make yourself an asset
for any magazine editor.
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How to study a magazine and
target an article to fit the editorial needs.
Also, if you would like to stay for the optional critique time and have
something to be critiqued by the group, please email your manuscript in
the body of your message or as a Word attachment to
michele@michelecscott.com
by Tuesday evening. It will be distributed ahead of time so other members
can prepare feedback for you. You will also want to bring a few copies to
the meeting for those who are not yet on the Yahoo group.
April 15
May 20
June 17
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