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Chattanooga Writers Guild Announces
WHAT: Success Stories from Guild members
WHEN: Tuesday, August 12, 2008; 7:00 to 8:45 PM
WHERE: Downtown Branch - The Chattanooga-Hamilton County Bicentennial Library
This meeting is free and open to the public. Come and meet four members of the CWG that have recently been published. Find out what they did and how can be published also.
Priscilla Shartle coauthored the book "Signal Mountain" from Arcadia Publishing's Image of America Series with Mary Scott Norris. She has since held book signings at the Signal Mountain Library, at the North Chattanooga book store A Novel Idea, the Brow Gallery in Signal Mountain, and the Signal Mountain Lions Club Annual Fourth of July Barbecue. She has also given several television interviews since publishing her book. Pris is the former editor of the Signal Mountain Mirror newspaper. Her first book "Ellis Smith: One of Signal Mountain Early Rural Letter Carriers" was published in 2007. She and her husband Mark are the parents of four grown children, and two grandchildren. They are the owners of the GRAPEViNE
stores in Chattanooga and area.
Georgiana Kotarski is the author of Ghosts of the Southern Tennessee Valley. She graduated from the University of the South in Sewanee, Tennessee, with a B.S. in forestry in 1976. In 1983 she graduated from Kennesaw State University with a B.B.A. in accounting and returned to Chattanooga. Georgiana then started a mail-order herb business and wrote her first article for a garden magazine. From 1992 until 1997, she served as the director of the Chattanooga Area Food Bank. Now, she directs the Sequatchie Valley campus of Chattanooga State Technical Community College. She also has a masters degree from the University of Tennessee at Chattanooga.
Marsha Brantley put out a challenge to her Chattanooga Writers Guild critique group to write and submit a short story for the 8th Annual Short Short Story Competition. She took the challenge herself,
writing and submitting the story Dirty Little Secrets. In February of this year, she learned the story had taken second place in the contest. "The story was written, critiqued, polished, and submitted in about three weeks time. I had no idea it would place so high," Brantly Said. Marsha lives in Cleveland with her husband and three dogs. When she's not chasing one of the dogs off the couch, she enjoys spending time outside and working on her novel for young adults. More recently, Marsha has provided the opportunity for a writers group to begin in Cleveland. "I feel privileged to be acquainted with these wonderful writers. I feel like we can learn from each other."
Prem Chopra, Ph.D., is Professor of Engineering Management, at the University of Chattanooga and CEO of Integrated Voice Solutions, Inc. A renowned international speaker and author, Dr. Chopra teaches Leadership and Ethics at the
University of Tennessee at Chattanooga. His experience includes management and leadership roles at the Boeing Company and the University of Chicago's Argonne National Laboratory, service on the boards of prestigious journals and international professional organizations, keynote lectures, and organizing and chairing of conferences and seminars around the world. With the publication of "The Purpose and Meaning of Life, If I had Known..." in February, 2001, Prem Chopra formed the Brook of Life Project to share his teachings on leadership, ethics and personal growth beyond the halls of academia. The project provides practical wisdom and guidance to those who wish to improve the quality of their personal and professional lives.
Sherry Poff will present Anne Lamott's bestselling book, Bird by Bird: Some Instructions on Writing and Life. .
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Lantz Powell, President
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