by @PatNichols16 Nine years after I retired from a twenty-seven-year corporate career, a young woman who had drifted in and out of our lives for two decades tragically lost her life. As a cathartic exercise I began writing a fictional story loosely based on her life, but with a happy…

by Blythe Daniel @BlytheDaniel I was recently asked, “What do you love about your job?” and I shared what I always share: “I love helping people look at their idea or ideas and help them continue to shape it and find the right publisher as we think about who the…

by Sandy Kirby Quandt @SandyKQuandt Forty years. That’s a very long time to wait. But that’s how long Moses spent in the land of Egypt, learning what it meant to be a leader in preparation for the great mission God had in store for him. A mission Moses had no…

By Sandra Kay Chambers @PrayWaves All writers know about the Bottom Drawer—it’s a writer's cemetery! The place where unfinished books and writing projects go to die. I had a book that was stuck in the bottom drawer of my desk for over 10 years. It was about prayer. I knew…

by Ramona Richards @RamonaRichards I’m about to write something that may be a bit controversial, and you are free to disagree with me. But if I hear the question that every writer gets, usually from other writers, again, I may become violent. “You write? Are you a plotter or a…

BY Eva Marie Everson, Contest Director @EvaMarieEverson The Directors’ Choice Awards are given to published writers who are a past or current conferee (past faculty members who are not also past conferees are not eligible). [tweet_box design="default" float="none" inject="#Writing #Writingcontest #BRMCWC"]BRMCWC DIRECTORS’ CHOICE AWARDS by @EvaMarieEverson on @BRMCWC[/tweet_box] Rules, Guidelines & Fees: Any…