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EPIC Membership Year Begins on September 1!Stay tuned for exciting new plans to be announced in August for the upcoming EPIC membership year beginning on September 1, 2021.
Check back here to join or renew your membership beginning August 5! For EPIC Members ONLY
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August 4 -- Jennifer Bardsley will answer questions on Making the Jump from YA (Young Adult) to Adult Romance.
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Author Jennifer Bardsley
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2021 EPIC Writing Contest Winners Announced!
Congratulations to these award-winning writers!
Click HERE to read the winning entries!
Click HERE to read the winning entries!
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Adult Prose
First Place Winner - Christine Pinto Title: Del Second Place Winner - Naomi Wark Title: The Hunt Honorable Mentions Tom Frank Title: Sleight of Hand Terry Sager Shuck Title: Curtains Neely Stratton Title: Ghosts Linda Summersea Title: The Beauty Shop ~ ~ ~ Adult Poetry First Place Winner: Ellen Dugan Title: Let the Big Man Dance Second Place Winner: Lylium Walsh Title: A A Lone Blade Honorable Mention Vicki Hone Smith Title: Farm House |
Student Prose
First Place Winner - Colby Allen Title: Mr. Perpetual Second Place Winner - Neha Jain Title: Missing Honorable Mentions Samson Woldemichael Title: Almost Kidnapped Roan McAuley Title: End of the Hallway ~ ~ ~ Student Poetry First Place Winner - Lynn Le Title: Mornings Second Place Winner - Ashley Chung Title: Cloud Painter Honorable Mentions Ella Ray Title: Won't You Stay My Neighbor? Shobhit Mehrotra Title: To Measure the Pulse of Conflict |
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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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Need some writing inspiration or just a reason to write? Want to get to know other writers? Love to be part of a group learning experience? EPIC offers free writing groups each week!
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EPIC Membership Why join EPIC? Read more about joining EPIC and membership details. Membership Click here. |
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Annual Writing Contest
Each year EPIC is proud to sponsor its Annual Writing Contest for Adults and Student Authors (grades 8 through 12) in Prose and Poetry categories. Check back for more information about EPIC's 2021 Writing Contest.
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We Stand in Solidarity
We want to assure our members and the public we serve that our core values are rooted in diversity and inclusion. As a writing organization made up of community members, EPIC GROUP WRITERS is dedicated to providing a safe place for writers of all colors to voice their sense of grief, rage and fear and for the rest of us to listen to their stories and reflect on their experiences.
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.
We want to assure our members and the public we serve that our core values are rooted in diversity and inclusion. As a writing organization made up of community members, EPIC GROUP WRITERS is dedicated to providing a safe place for writers of all colors to voice their sense of grief, rage and fear and for the rest of us to listen to their stories and reflect on their experiences.
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.
Please note: the purpose of this website is to provide pertinent member and writer-related news to the EPIC writing community and is not an endorsement of any product or activity.
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