Blog: Conferences, Contests and Projects -Yippee!

I'm sorry for the lack of blog updates recently, but I have lots of news.

This month must be the month for writing events. So far I've attended the Ozark Creative Writers Conference, the Poets Roundtable of Arkansas's National Poetry Day, and next weekend one of the local poetry groups meets. In addition, I have been working on several writing projects that have been consuming my time (even more than normal).

The most exciting news, I can't tell you yet. I will (hopefully) be able to officially announce it in the next week or two, so please check back again soon!

When I have more time, I plan to post a blog about some of the interesting panels at the Ozark Creative Writers Conference. David Morrell (creator of Rambo) was the keynote speaker and he had lots of interesting things to say.

Speaking of conferences, I do have some news about the PRA contests. My poems won first place in two of the contest categories at the PRA Poetry Day!

The PRA is looking for new members, so if you are interested in poetry, check out your local branch. There are branches all over the state of Arkansas. They also sponsor several student poetry contests which should be open for submissions now. Contest info is on the PRA website (just change the dates to 2012 if that hasn't already been changed on their website). Some of the student contests are only open to students in Arkansas, while others are open to students from any state. Check their website for details.

In other news, the new format for the FaceBook feeds has made lots of posts made by pages disappear from the feeds. Mine included. It happens most often when I post a link on my Author page. To not miss my posts on FaceBook, you will need to either add my Author page to a custom list or manually check posts on my Author page.

I tend to update on FaceBook and Twitter more often than I update the blog, so feel free to follow me on either of those sites for more frequent updates.