Did you know that Los Angeles has an award-winning writers’ group that’s been in existence since the late 1940s?
Or that they have monthly speakers…publish an annual anthology, featuring members’ work…and included a certain Mr. Ray Bradbury among their members and as a mentor, for many years?
Meet Southwest Manuscripters–who continue to encourage writers with two blogs, presentations on such topics as self-publishing and guest appearances by noted authors.
At the Los Angeles Times Festival of Books, current anthology editor Dan Lambert and Executive Editor and Project Director Ildy Lee talked about their experiences with Southwest Manuscripters, their 2013 anthology When Words Collide, and the work each of them has published in this year’s edition!
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Great job, Dot!
Very professional.
🙂
Dan
Very nice tribute to the Southwest Manuscripters; I am a member of SWM (located in California), but live in Virginia. The Write Stuff newsletter keeps me “attached,” to the organization, as well as encouraging me to write and perhaps enter contests. I was thrilled to be a part of the anthology–from afar. Ildy and Dan did a wonderful job pulling it together. Kudos.