Early members of the group included Alice Cromie<\/strong>, Eleanor Devine<\/strong>, Carol Spelius<\/strong>, Fran Podulka<\/strong>, Dolores Weinberg<\/strong>, M. M. M. Hayes<\/strong>, Lois Hauselman<\/strong>, Anne Brashler<\/strong>, Jane Howard<\/strong>, Rita Turow<\/strong>, Norma Connor<\/strong>, and June Rachuy Brindel<\/strong>, Rochelle Distelheim<\/strong>, and others whose names I am inadvertently omitting.\u00a0 That’s one thing about The Writers<\/strong>; members have been exacting with their words but less so with the records.\u00a0 Each year, there’s a new president (or as we do it now, co-president)\u00a0 and somehow in passing the torch and passing the files, there’s been some loss in documentation.\u00a0 This is dismaying but it also characteristic of the group in that it is always about the writing and less focused on the bureaucracy of it.\u00a0 We have only a few rules.\u00a0 Lucky that some of the early members like Lois,\u00a0 Norma,\u00a0 Fran and Rochelle are still in our ranks to guide us.<\/p>\n Members of The Writers<\/strong> have written books and stories and poems and plays that have won awards. They’ve started literary magazines and presses. They (We) have helped each in their writing and in promoting each other.<\/p>\n The Writers start the annual calendar each fall, and I always feel like a kid going back to school. The Writers<\/strong> gives me structure, support, and centers me.<\/p>\n I could go on and on about the accomplishments of our members and of the moderators we hire to teach us, but I’d be certain to get some facts wrong and to leave out important stuff so I am taking the easy way out and showing you some of the books that have come out of this little group. And this shows just some of the books and none of the prizes or distinctions our members have accrued, like the Dana Portfolio Award<\/a> or the Faulkner-Wisdom Award<\/a> and many others.\u00a0 I tell you, I am in with a great group.<\/p>\n
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