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Elena Hartwell Taylor WORKSHOP - Don't miss this one!

Writing is Re-writing
January 18, 2020
9:30am – 1:30pm
 Presented by award-winning author and development editor (and EPIC member!) Elena Hartwell Taylor.  Join Elena at the Frances Anderson Center in Edmonds for a half-day workshop on the revision process. Develop techniques to identify the most common issues that regularly challenge novelists, narrative non-fiction writers, and memoirists.
 Space is limited! Click HERE for more information and to Register!

~ Send Us Your Best ~
Prepare for writing success -- 
Enter the 7th Annual EPIC Writing Contest!

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Submission period: February 1, 2020 through midnight on Thursday, April 9, 2020
Submissions welcome in the following categories:
Prose - Adults and Students in grades 8-12 (fiction or non-fiction)
Poetry - Adults and Students in grades 8-12
Cash Awards in Adult & Student Categories.

You're invited to take the challenge!

For more information, visit the Writing Contest Rules page and get ready to
​submit your work on Saturday, February 1, 2020.
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EPIC member Susan Frederick's short story published on Prime Time Northwest!
Susan Frederick's short memoir Ghosted has been published online on Northwest Prime Time. Ghosted also won Honorable Mention at the 2019 Write On the Sound Writers Conference. Click here to read Ghosted.

EPIC members win big at Write on the Sound Writers Conference!

EPIC members James Backstrom, Vanessa Arpin and Susan Frederick won awards for their writing at the recent 2019 Write on the Sound (WOTS) Writers Conference held in Edmonds, Washington. James was awarded 2nd Place for Poetry, Vanessa was awarded Honorable Mention for Non-Fiction, and Susan was awarded 1st Place for Poetry and Honorable Mention for Non-Fiction.
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