President's Message
What’re you going to submit? It’s that time of year again and the 73rd annual Jade Ring Writing Contest is open. Fiction – short story, flash, novel excerpt, romance, humor, mystery – whatever. Nonfiction – article, essay, memoir, you name it. Poetry – poets, you know what to do.
Like last year, besides winning an actual Jade Ring and $200, our first-place winners in each category will be invited, free of charge, to one of the Shake Rag Alley Center for the Arts writing retreats during the winter/spring of 2022 – 2023. A fabulous prize. Have a look here.
As always, we’ve got a crack team of judges.
Fiction: Dave Rank – Founder of the Novel-in-Progress Bookcamp and past president of WWA
Poetry: Bruce Dethlefsen – Wisconsin Poet Laureate, 2011 – 2012
Nonfiction: Orange Hat Publishing and Ten16 Press editors – Sean Malone, Jenna Zerbel, and Kaeley Dunteman
But wait, there’s more. Submissions will be a breeze! New for this year, WWA now has the Duosuma Submission Manager Platform (from Duotrope, the long-established writers resource service). Easy, easy.
So, be part of the community of Wisconsin writers, be part of a seventy-three-year Wisconsin institution – the Jade Ring. I ask again: What’re you going to submit?
Submission guidelines and all other details are here.
More workshops and events coming up. We’ve got a flash fiction workshop with author and teacher Finn Burnett in April. Nature writing with Laurie Scheer in May, and screenwriting with John Roach in June. Marvelous. Stay tuned for details.
And save the date for our Annual Conference – September 30 – October 1, up in Superior WI. It’ll be fabulous. In-person, on the shores of Lake Superior. The real deal.
Like I always say – you’re a Wisconsin writer. Keep on writing. Keep in touch.
Barry
