Suzanne Elshult Wins at PNWA!

Author and EPIC Member Suzanne Elshult won First Place in the PNWA (Pacific Northwest Writers Association) 2021 Literary Writers Contest (Nonfiction/Memoir Category) with an unpublished manuscript: Search for the Dead: True Tales of a Search and Rescue K9 Team. Congratulations to Suzanne!

 EPIC Member Laura Kemp wins screen writing honors at La Femme International Film Festival

EPIC Board Member (and Newsletter editor) Laura Kemp's screen play Burn Pattern has been named a top finalist in the Breaking Walls Thriller Screenplay contest, a finalist in the Bigfoot Script Challenge, and an official selection of the 2021 American Screenwriting Conference, the Lady Filmmakers Festival, and LA Femme International Film Festival. 

In addition to these successes, Laura's screenplay Burn Load has been awarded Third Place in the Screenwriting/TV Pilots category at the PNWA Writers' Conference. ​Congratulations to Laura. 

Judith Works Wins at PNWA!

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​Congratulations to ​EPIC Board Member Judith Works, who was awarded Third Place at PNWA in the Adult Short Topics category for Mangled. Congratulations, Judith!

EPIC Poets Read at the 2021
​Edmonds Art Festival!

On Saturday, August 28 members of EPIC's poetry group presented at the 2021 Edmonds Arts Festival to great acclaim. 
Our presenting poets were Carol Tiebout, Dave Baldwin, Alison Ersfeld, Irene Myers, James Backstrom, Susan Pittman, and the chair of the poetry group Gerald Bigelow.
​Thanks to Kizzie Jones for the wonderful photographs. 

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 Do you have an Instagram account? If not, you are missing out on weekly inspiration to keep you up to date with what our members are up to and some extra motivation to keep your own writing on track. Every post will revolve around the following ideas: EPIC Writing Prompts, EPIC First Lines, Humor about the Writing Life, Publicity for our Members and their Publications, EPIC Craft Books, a Poem of the Day, and much more.  We hope it becomes a daily stop for you in between zoom calls and doom scrolling on the internet.  Keep your chin up and your pens on the page.  We encourage you to follow us: @Epicgroupwiters and #epicgroupwriters.  

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 In addition, as a community of writers and artists, we will actively search for ways for all our members to create and share their dreams through listening, expressing, and finding words to build a better future.​
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