North Texas RWA

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North Texas RWA

Meetings Join Us

Meetings

Due to COVID-19, our meetings are being held via Zoom through the end of 2020. Please contact us if you'd like to attend our virtual programming.

Get Published!

Our GetPublished! initiative was designed to assist and support our not-yet-published authors get published. We offer short craft and skills workshops at 10 am prior to each meeting, keep a "toolbox" full of useful info, and encourage each author to FINISH THE MANUSCRIPT. Our GetPublished! programming is currently being presented via Zoom.

Going Virtual

For the rest of 2020, NTRWA programs will be presented via Zoom. Basic accounts are free. Sign up for yours now and be ready. ZOOM is also available via cell phone app. Information regarding meetings will be sent directly to members and friends of NT via the newsletter mailing list.

February 22, 2021

March 2021 Meeting Info

Join us March 20, 2021 ~ 11am for

Martha Engber

The Road to Flaming Great Dialogue Starts With Growing Great Characters!

There’s no way your character can authentically voice a fabulous comeback, desperate plea or brilliant courtroom argument until you know exactly how s/he operates! Through discussion and writing exercises in which you’ll actively work on your own characters and scenes, Martha Engber, author of GROWING GREAT CHARACTERS FROM THE GROUND UP will first explain how to grow your characters, whether for a memoir, novel, screenplay or other project. Then she’ll teach you the secret to fantastic dialogue that leads to exciting, unforgettable scenes where your characters truly speak for themselves!

Martha Engber is the author of The Wind Thief, a literary novel, and Growing Great Characters From the Ground Up: A Thorough Primer for the Writers of Fiction and Nonfiction. A freelance editor and workshop facilitator, she’s had a play produced in Hollywood and fiction, poetry and essays published in Watchword, the Berkeley Fiction Review, Iconoclast and other literary magazines. She received her Bachelor of Journalism degree from the University of Missouri — Columbia before working as a freelance reporter for the Chicago Tribune, St. Louis Post-Dispatch and other national publications. She currently resides in Santa Clara, CA, and also works as a personal trainer and fitness instructor.

Martha’s program is free to NT members, but will cost $$ for non-members.

PLEASE PAY FIRST! PAY HERE!

After making your payment, REGISTER HERE.

February 19, 2021

Upcoming Programs Include:

March 2021

~ Martha Engber ~ The Road to Flaming Great Dialogue Starts With Growing Great Characters!

Please Note: March programming is free for NT members and will cost $20 for non-members. Registration and payment info will be available in February.

April 2021

~ Becca Syme ~ Seven Productivity Myths and Why You Should Stop Believing Them Right Now

Please Note: April programming is free for NT members and will cost $10 for non-members. Registration and payment info will be available in March.

May 2021

TBD

June 2021

~ C.S. Lakin ~ The 10 Keys Scenes that Frame Up Your Novel

Please Note: June programming is free for NT members and will cost $10 for non-members. Registration and payment info will be available in May.

December 19, 2020

The Carolyn Readers Choice Award

is now closed for entries

Thanks to everyone who entered and best of luck.

Finalists to be announced sometime starting late March.

December 18, 2020

2021 Meetings

For the health and safety of our membership,

NTRWA programming will be presented via Zoom

for the first half of 2021 at least. Thanks.

Program information, including Zoom info, is sent out via mailing list and via Facebook group.

If you’re interested in joining RWA/NTRWA, go here.

December 17, 2020

GetPublished!

Upcoming Programs

Suggestions wanted and welcome!!

Email getpublished @ ntrwa . org (minus the spaces).

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GetPublished! Programming for 2021

JAN ~ Kimberly Packard ~ Vellum discussion & demo

FEB ~ Jennifer Looft ~ maximizing a writers retreat

MAR ~ Lisa Fenley & Jen FitzGerald ~ series guides / bibles

APR ~ Jen Geigle Johnson ~ virtual assistants

MAY ~ Devin Ochoa ~ Amazon, Facebook, Google, Bookbub Ads

August 17, 2020

Free Anthology — Lone Star Love

Welcome to Dew Drop, Texas, the iced tea capital of Texas.

This year’s Iced Tea Festival is chock full of love.

To celebrate the chapter’s 35th anniversary, NT authors came together to write a Continuity — all stories take place in fictional Dew Drop, Texas, during the annual Iced Tea Festival. While each story focuses on different main characters, you might see familiar faces and places show up in each!

Visit the anthology page to see all three books.