Past Events

Visit the Seattle Writergrrls booth at Book Expo

We're all going to miss NW BookFest this year, but Great Ideas of the Northwest is producing Book Expo to help fill the gap. The event will feature authors, publishers, exhibitors, contests, workshops, live music, entertainment and interactive activities.

SW members who want to feature their published work at Book Expo are invited to show their stuff! We're asking for a donation of up to $40 per entry to help defray our cost for the booth; participation will be limited to 4 authors.

And, we're kicking off the weekend with a Fall Potluck & Open Mic Extravaganza on Friday, October 22. Watch the list for details.

If you're interested in sharing the SW display, or if you would like to volunteer to help staff the booth, email SWBookExpo@aol.com .

For the latest information on Book Expo, visit their website at www.greatideasnw.com/bookexpo.html

Date: Saturday, October 23 & Sunday, October 24
Time: Saturday: 10:00 am - 9:00 pm
Sunday: 11:00 am - 6:00 pm
Location: The Commons at Federal Way (formerly SeaTac Mall)

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Members Meeting:
Spring Fling and Open Mic Extravaganza
Join us to celebrate the sunshine and a new year of SW events and programs. We'll also have the Grand Prize Drawing for everyone who submitted an email address with their Membership Survey.

Date: Monday, April 19
Time: 6:00 p.m. – 9:00 p.m.
RSVP: If you're performing, RSVP by April 15th to SWParty@aol.com. Please let us know the title of your act and how you would like to be introduced by our distinguished MC!
Location: Richard Hugo House
1634 Eleventh Avenue Seattle, WA
Food and refreshments available for purchase at the Cafe.

Donations Encouraged
Money collected at our events goes towards paying for Web site space, our e-mail discussion lists, and costs incurred producing events.

If you'd like to donate to the organization by mail, send a check made out to Seattle Writergrrls to PO Box 24011, Seattle, WA 98124.

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Seattle Writergrrls "Guilty Pleasures" Holiday Party and Open Mic

Seattle Writergrrls is turning five and the holidays are right around the corner, so it's time to P-A-R-T-Y!!

Join us to celebrate the season, our 5th Anniversary, and the winter issue of Uncapped (themed "Guilty Pleasures") at the home of Facilitating Editor, Stephanie Shenk.

Date: Saturday, December 6
Time: 7:00 - 10:00 p.m. – Potluck Noshfest
Wanted: Your favorite Guilty Pleasures Nibbles (Comfort Casseroles, Appetizers, Salads, Munchies & Dips, Sinful Sweets)
10:00 p.m. - ??? – Open Mic Extravaganza
Come show your stuff!  Sign up NOW to read your poetry, sing, tell a story, unleash your Inner Comedian, play an instrument, act a scene or otherwise Express Yourself!
Location: Stephanie Shenk's house
830 17th Avenue in Seattle

Contact SWParty@aol.com to R.S.V.P. and let us know what you'll be bringing to the potluck and/or open mic.

Contact Stephanie Shenk, Facilitating Editor for details and directions.

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Special Event—Niche Writing
A panel of three journalists for local and national publications will share their stories about how they broke into their specific genres:

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Special Event
Featured Speaker—Career Coach Leslie Collins

If you wonder how career coaching works, what it can do for you, how to choose the best career coach, or if you're just thinking about what direction to take in your career, this event featuring career coach Leslie Collins is for you.

When Leslie Collins worked at Sakson & Taylor recruiting technical writers, she spoke at the Writergrrls panel "What Recruiters Want" in fall of 2001. She returns to explain how career coaching helps women writers focus their time and energy, use practical tools, get motivated, and truly commit to a vision. Although Leslie uses some of her skills as a therapist in her process, she stresses that career coaching uses a more results-oriented approach. Come check it out!

Date: Saturday, March 29, 2003
Time: 1:00 p.m. – 3:00 p.m.
Location: University Heights Center, University District
5031 University Way NE

Questions? Contact Bronwyn Doyle.

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Members Meeting—Start off the New Year with a Book

At the first members meeting of the New Year, we will discuss good reads for 2003. Come with a pen and paper to write down titles that sound interesting to you. If you'd like, bring some suggestions of your own. Speaker TBA.

Date: Saturday, January 11, 2003
Time: 12:30 p.m. – 2:00 p.m.
Location: Uptown Espresso
2504 Fourth Ave. Belltown, Seattle (corner of 4th & Wall)
Accessible by many bus routes.

Contact the Infogrrl for details.

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Members Meeting—Northwest Bookfest
If you've never been to Bookfest, you're in for a treat. Not only will you find a panoply of books, authors' panels, and creative activities, but Seattle Writergrrls has a lot of great plans for its booth this year. Here are just a couple examples:

Zine display: There will be a print version (chapbook) of three different Zine issues on display for people to peruse at the booth. Thanks to Wendy Blake for all her work on this!

Matchmaker: We can't promise to help you find your dream date—but we will connect you with writing-minded booth visitors who want to meet a Seattle Writergrrl like you. On your literary blind date you can network and discuss common interests, or maybe make a new friend.

And you! Would you like to be the face of Seattle Writergrrls? Then volunteer to work at the booth on either Saturday or Sunday. We'll also need to help with set-up on Friday evening Oct. 18, so if you have a flexible schedule, please let us know.
How you can help: Please e-mail Z. Sharon Glantz with your availability and "shift" preference, morning or afternoon, and which day is best for you.

Date: Saturday and Sunday, October 19 and 20, 2002
Time: 10:00 a.m. – 6:00 p.m., both days
Location: Sand Point Magnuson Park
7400 Sand Point Way NE, Seattle
Free parking is available in lots and along the streets inside the park, and street parking is available in the surrounding neighborhoods. Wait at the shuttle stop tents along Sand Point Way and throughout the park for a shuttle to take you to the festival entrance.

Metro bus routes 74 and 75 serve the park along Sand Point Way N.E. Connections are in the University District (Routes 74 and 75) and Northgate (Route 75).

Contact the Infogrrl for details.

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Members Meeting—Screenwriting for Feature Length Films
Please join us for a casual conversation about screenwriting. This month we have a special guest who recently emerged from the "cave" of finishing a script.

Date: Saturday, September 14, 2002
Time: 12:30 – 2:00 p.m.
RSVP: Jenny Neill
Suggested Donation: $5
Location: Uptown Espresso
2504 Fourth Ave. Belltown, Seattle (corner of 4th & Wall)
Metered street parking available. Accessible by many bus routes.

Mary Elder entered the ranks of bonafide screenwriters in January with the sale of FLOWER GIRL, a family film comedy, to Warner Brothers Pictures. The long road to her first deal included eight years of writing scripts, winning the Disney Fellowship in Screenwriting, and optioning a screenplay to Phoenix Pictures. Mary's background includes creative work in museums, publications, education, and media. She grew up in New Hampshire and holds a BA from Cornell University.

Come hear Mary Elder talk about how she became interested in screenwriting and sold her screenplay idea.

Money collected at our events goes towards paying for Web site space, our e-mail discussion lists, and incidental costs in producing events.

If you'd like to donate to the organization by mail, send a check made out to Seattle Writergrrls to PO Box 24011, Seattle, WA 98124.

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