Member News

Member Success

Monique Rardin Richardson’s  poem “We’ll Always Have The Moon” was published in Wingless Dreamer’s Dulce Poetica anthology. Her poem “Now She Knows” will be published in the Wingless Dreamer’s Poetry on Life anthology.

Member Publication

James Morehead published a new book, The Plague Doctor, on April 8, 2023. It is on-sale now (Amazon and Barnes & Noble) and signed copies are available from Viewless Wings.

Patricia Boyle

Member Success

Patricia Boyle’s poem, “Conus marmoreus,” about a cone snail species, won second place in Livermore’s Science Poetry Contest, “Poetry in a Test Tube.”

Member Success

Pamela Pan’s two poems, “A Song for a Strong Soul,” and “My Home City” have been accepted for publication in the upcoming Tuleburg Poetry Anthology. And her memoir essay “ Not a Soft Persimmon” won the prize of Honorable Mention in the Flash Memoir Contest by Writer Advice.

Member Presentation

Judy Lussie made a presentation to LitWits, a book club from John Knox Presbyterian Church, on Tuesday, April 11, 2023. She read excerpts from her latest novel, Bought Daughter and had a Q&A with the group on Zoom.

Award Winner

Barbara Flores’s middle-grade novel, The Miraculous Mind of Dee Dee Alvarez, took first place in the SCBWI FL 2023 Rising Kite Contest this January. SCBWI is Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators.

Member Presentation

On January 25, 2023, Rose Owens gave an author presentation to three fifth grade classes at Vintage Hills Elementary School in Pleasanton, California. This was part of their Read-a-Thon program. Rose read chapter one from Stolen Years, the second book in her Maryalise Trilogy. She discussed the process of writing and Indie Publishing and answered student’s questions.