SDCWG President Jennie Gillespie (left) presents the 2014 Sherwood Eliot Wirt Lifetime Achievement Award to Judith Deem Dupree at the 2014 SDCWG Writers Conference at Maranatha Chapel in San Diego, California. Judith Dupree is one of the founding members of our guild. She was recognized with a Lifetime Achievement Award for her work as an author and poet, and for her years of mentoring, teaching, and encouraging others in their writing and their faith.
Back row (left to right): Cary Boyle, Christa Kinde, Michael Mendoza, Joanne Bischof, Francine Phillips
Front row (left to right): Jenny LaBahn, Gale Nelson Bones, Viola Vazquez
2014 SDCWG Writing Awards
Congratulations to the 2014 San Diego Christian Writers Guild writing award winners!* Nancy Bayless Award For excellence in writing to Jenny LaBahn
* Best nonfiction book: Gail Bones for Living Crosswise
* Best fiction book: Joanne Bischof for My Hope is Found
* Best poem: Cary Boyll for A Summer Evening
* Fiction Book – Honorable Mention: Christa Kinde for The Broken Window
Unpublished Manuscript Contest Winners
*Unpublished Manuscript (Fiction): Veola Vazquez for Nickel Nuisance
* Unpublished Manuscript (Nonfiction): Francene Phillips for The Truth Swing
* Unpublished Manuscript-Honorable Mention: Michael Mendoza for The Hand of Vengeance
Praise Reports: If you attended the Fall conference on Friday and/or Saturday and have a praise report please post it here! We heard so many good things from the faculty and from those who attended. Share your story here and be a blessing and encouragement to others. Email info at sandiegocwg.org with subject: Conference Praise Report
We’ve added even more great faculty to our Fall conference lineup! Check our web site for more details!
Faculty
* Philip Yancey: Author of The Jesus I Never Knew and What’s So Amazing About Grace
* Ellie Kay: National Speaker and author
* Barbara Nicolosi-Harrington: Act One
* Lynn Vincent: NY Times bestselling writer
* Chip MacGregor: Agent, MacGregor Literary Agency
* Holly Lorincz: Agent, MacGregor Literary Agency
* Brett Burner: Publisher, Lamp Post.
* Kim Bangs: Sr. Acquisitions Editor, Baker Publishing
* Kathi Macias: Sr. VP of Acquisitions, Elk Lake Publishing
* Professor Michael Clark: Fiction Editor, Relief: A Christian Literary Expression
* Susan Meissner: Award-winning novelist
* Jeff Gerke: Award-winning editor and novelist.
* Dr. David and Lisa Frisbie: Authors
* Renee Fisher: Author
* Cliff Albert: KOGO Radio
* Arlene Pellicane: Author
Faculty Consultations
Our 15-minute private consultations with faculty are always a highlight of our conference. If you have registered, you should have received a form and instructions on our signup process. For more info please visit our web site.
Conference Hotel
The conference hotel is the Rancho Bernardo Radisson. It is located at 11520 W. Bernardo Court, San Diego California 92127. All rooms are suites. Please ask for the special rate for those attending the San Diego Christian Writers Guild conference.
Workshops
Workshop information is now available on our web site.
If you have news, information about an upcoming writing event or would like to share what you’re reading with the Guild, please send your information to sdcwg at yahoo dot com.
Philip YanceyEllie Kay
San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference: October 24-25, 2014. Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127
Main Stage Speakers Philip Yancey & Ellie Kay. Sign up today at sandiegocwg.org
Tiffany Hayden
The Santee critique group will meet the third Wednesday only in August (August 20) from 6:00 – 7:30 pm at the Santee Library.
David & Lisa Frisbie
David & Lisa Frisbie: We will be featured at this year’s edition of “Mountain Festival” at 108 E. Tehachapi Boulevard. We will meet guests and sign many of our recent books from Noon to 3 PM on Saturday, August 16th. In addition We have just signed a contract for our next book, on the topic of parenting teens. The publisher is Beacon Hill Press of Kansas City — this is our sixth book with Beacon Hill.
Diana Taylor
Diana Taylor: Very exciting news. I’m a finalist in the Historical Fiction category for the ACFW Carol Awards. The book is Claudia, Wife of Pontius Pilate. I’ll be attending the American Christian Fiction Writers conference in St. Louis at the end of September along with my agent, Joyce Hart, who is up for Agent of the Year. Also, My new booklet, Halloween; Harmless Fun or Risky Business (Whitaker House) is just out. It’s an expose’ on all of the customs associated with Halloween and the dangers of participating for believers. Some of my own story is included. I’ve been teaching a memoirs writing class to seniors at the Clairemont Salvation Army complex and having a great time. I’m also in the process of setting up a creative writing class as a Life Group in September with Newbreak, the church that adopted our small Oasis congregation after our pastor retired
Madam Curie’s Notebook
Madam Curie’s Notebook: 100 years later Marie Curie’s notebooks are still too radioactive to be handled without protection. They will continue to be until at least 3511. The physicist and chemist was the first woman to win a Nobel Prize, the only woman to win in two fields and the only person to win in multiple sciences.
Your Royalty Note is published on the following schedule:
First Monday: Upcoming Events
Second Monday: Member Writing & Publishing News
Third Monday: What We’re Reading
If you have news, information about an upcoming writing event or would like to share what you’re reading with the Guild, please send your information to sdcwg at yahoo dot com.
Jennie Gillespie
The Holy Land Key (Ray Bently with Jennie Gillespie) was just released by Waterbrook Multnomah. The Holy Land Key examines little-known aspects of prophecy, including details revealed in the seven Feasts of the Lord, prophetic patterns discovered in the lunar cycle, glimpses of God’s future kingdom revealed in the stories of well-known figures from Scripture and more.
Lynn Vincent
Heaven is for Real (Sony Pictures), the movie based on the NY Times best selling book, opened in theaters this month. Heaven is for Real brings to the screen the true story of a small-town father who must find the courage and conviction to share his son’s extraordinary, life-changing experience with the world. The film stars Academy Award® nominee and Emmy® award winning actor Greg Kinnear as Todd Burpo and co-stars Kelly Reilly as Sonja Burpo, the real-life couple whose son Colton (newcomer Connor Corum) claims to have visited Heaven during a near death experience. Colton recounts the details of his amazing journey with childlike innocence and speaks matter-of-factly about things that happened before his birth … things he couldn’t possibly know. Todd and his family are then challenged to examine the meaning from this remarkable event.
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It’s time to submit your published writing from 2013 for the Guild’s annual writing awards. Awards will be presented at the Fall Conference in October. Current members, even past winners, are encouraged to submit their best writing published in 2013 for consideration. Please send four (4) copies of your submissions to PO Box 270403, San Diego, California, 92198 (or bring to the Spring Fellowship Event!) The final deadline is May 31, 2014. All entries (except books) may be submitted by sending a PDF formatted copy to info @ sandiegocwg.org.Rules: Material need not be overtly Christian in nature or published by a Christian publisher/magazine but should not be offensive. Maximum of three entries per person. You must be a current member to submit. Past winners are eligible. Board members are ineligible. Entries will not be returned.
Books: Fiction and non-Fiction, traditional or self-published
Articles: Magazines, online or printed
Poems: (Poems do not need to have been published. But they must have been written in 2013.)
Devotions
Songs
Plays
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SDCWG Unpublished Manuscript Contest Deadline: May 31, 2014: It’s time to submit your unpublished, completed book manuscripts. Also eligible in this category are self-published (non-royalty or subsidized) books. Authors of self-published books (published in 2013) can choose to enter the unpublished manuscript category or the regular, published book category for the writing awards (see above). To enter the unpublished category, send the first 25 and the last 10 pages of your double-spaced manuscript electronically to info @ sandiegocwg.org with subject line: 2013 Award Submission. Please include a title page and the title/author/page number on the upper right hand corner of each page. The first place winner of this new category will be guaranteed an appointment at the Fall conference with an editor or agent of his or her choice.
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San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference: October 24-25, 2014. Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127
After many years of hosting the Escondido critique group, which met at 10am on the fourth Wednesday of each month, Jan Flickinger is stepping down as host. A big thanks to Jan for her service to the Guild and other Christian writers over the years.
If you would like to host this group in your home, or if you would like to start a critique group in your area, please contact the Guild (info at sandiegocwg dot org).
Fall Conference Registration Fall Conference Registration Now Open (Members Only):Registration is now open for SDCWG members (only) for our 2014 Fall conference. Open registration begins May 1, 2014. When: October 24 and 25, 2014
Where: Maranatha Chapel in Rancho Bernardo What: Our fall writers conference is for all writers–beginners to professionals, and those who are wondering if this is what they are called to do. Our workshops offer instruction in how to get started, self-publishing, fiction, non fiction, marketing, book proposals, screen writing, script writing, journalism, as well as spiritual inspiration —and more.The Friday evening and all day Saturday conference is designed to instruct, inspire and let you meet the writers, editors, and publishers who are committed to helping you write, get published and follow the Lord’s call on your life. We’re here to help you use your gifts.
One–on-One Faculty Consultation
Reminder: Guild members receive priority for faculty consultation signups. Signup numbers are awarded in the order your paid registration is received. So, as always, we encourage you to join the Guild and to sign up early in order to receive the consultation of your choice.
SDCWG Annual Writing Awards It’s time to submit your published writing from 2013 for the Guild’s annual writing awards. Awards will be presented at the Fall Conference in October. Current members, even past winners, are encouraged to submit their best writing published in 2013 for consideration. Please send four (4) copies of your submissions to PO Box 270403, San Diego, California, 92198 (or bring to the Spring Fellowship Event!) The final deadline is May 31, 2014. All entries (except books) may be submitted by sending a PDF formatted copy to info @ sandiegocwg.org.Rules: Material need not be overtly Christian in nature or published by a Christian publisher/magazine but should not be offensive. Maximum of three entries per person. You must be a current member to submit. Past winners are eligible. Board members are ineligible. Entries will not be returned.
Books: Fiction and non-Fiction, traditional or self-published
Articles: Magazines, online or printed
Poems: (Poems do not need to have been published. But they must have been written in 2013.)
Devotions
Songs
Plays
Unpublished Manuscript Contest
SDCWG Unpublished Manuscript Contest Deadline: May 31, 2014: It’s time to submit your unpublished, completed book manuscripts. Also eligible in this category are self-published (non-royalty or subsidized) books. Authors of self-published books (published in 2013) can choose to enter the unpublished manuscript category or the regular, published book category for the writing awards (see above). To enter the unpublished category, send the first 25 and the last 10 pages of your double-spaced manuscript electronically to info @ sandiegocwg.org with subject line: 2013 Award Submission. Please include a title page and the title/author/page number on the upper right hand corner of each page. The first place winner of this new category will be guaranteed an appointment at the Fall conference with an editor or agent of his or her choice.
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San Diego Christian Writers Guild Fall Conference: October 24-25, 2014. Maranatha Chapel, Rancho Bernardo, CA 92127
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