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Cindy Cramer recently won first place in the Write on the Beach 2002 contest sponsored by Associated Arts of Ocean Shores. Cindy's short story Escaping Peace is about a young girl's encounter with her idol, an older girl who is back in her hometown after a failed attempt to make it in Hollywood. Cindy offered a big thank you to Writergrrls—she heard about the contest in the e-mail list digest.

Versatile Caren Gussoff's newest endeavor is teaching a free monthly writing workshop at the downtown Seattle Barnes and Noble store. Titled You Took the Words Write out of my Mouth!, the workshop is held at 6:00 p.m. on the fourth Wednesday of each month.

"Each month will have a different topic; anyone is welcome to attend," said Caren, an instructor of writing and literature at Cornish College of the Arts.

Caren's previous work credits include apple cider press operator, phone sex actress, social worker, and dot-com lackey. She received her MFA from the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, is the author of Homecoming (Serpent's Tail, 2000), and has a collection of short stories, Sight Unseen, forthcoming in 2002.

An online course offering a rigorous introduction to sentence structures has been developed for Pierce College by Jeanie Murphy. Titled An Introduction to English Grammar, the course is geared toward those who need to analyze writing in a practical way: teachers, editors, writers, and business people.

Jeanie Murphy has taught college English for over 15 years and also worked as a technical editor and writer at Microsoft and Boeing.

Kathleen Miller has started a group for... you guessed it... Mothers Who Write. The group, plus kids, is meeting about once a month at the Crossroads shopping center in Bellevue. Look out for Kathleen's meeting announcements on the Writergrrls e-mail list. For more information contact her at millerk@eskimo.com.

The Writergrrls Zine always welcomes new writers and editors to the team. It is a great opportunity to express yourself, develop skills and share your knowledge. Explained Facilitating Editor Stephanie Shenk: "Writing for the Zine can help you build clips, get experience working with editors, and give you good writing practice writing about ideas that interest you—we're not a 'hard sell'."

We welcome contributors on all levels, from unpublished beginners through to old hands willing to act as mentors. The Zine team holds monthly meetings and communicates via its own e-mail list and Web site. If you want to know more about how the Zine team works, take a look at the Join the Zine Team page.

To put an announcement on the Bulletin Board, please write a brief description of your announcement, including any contact information and links if appropriate, in 200 to 300 words. Take a look at the information on submitting articles for details of how to send it in.

For information about Writergrrls meetings and events, including our monthly members meeting, take a look at our Calendar page. This also includes links to the events of other writing-related groups in the Seattle area.

Emma Marl is a legal alien who favors the right brain. She volunteers as a Zine Editor and is a member of the Writergrrls Founding Board.