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Volume 8 Issue 6
Georgia Writers News/Mag

November - December 2001

MEETING DATES AND SPEAKER PROFILES
November 10 - SPELL President asks, "Where have all the editors gone?
Richard Dowis, author or co-author of six books, answers a question many of us have asked, as we have watched the English language take a dive.

Dick has more reasons than most to ask where all the editors have gone. The president of the Society for the Preservation of English Language and Literature (SPELL), he also has an extensive background as a writer, editor, teacher, and public relations executive. He was a senior vice president with an international public relations firm when he took early retirement to pursue a career in writing, consulting, and teaching. 		 

 

An award-winning speech writer, he was voted the best writer in the Georgia public relations community in 1990. He was manager of publications for The Coca-Cola Company, where his publications won numerous national awards, and he edited weekly and daily newspapers in Georgia and Alabama. Hundreds of people have attended his business-writing seminars at universities and other locations.
The already published books he has authored and/or co-authored are: How to Make Your Writing Reader-Friendly; The Write Way (Pocket Books, 1995); Sleeping Dogs Don’t Lay, a Book-of-the-Month Club Selection (St. Martin’s Press, 2000); The Lost Art of the Great Speech, a how-to book for speech writers and speakers; and Poor Farm Road, a novel (Publish America, 2001). He has recently completed a children’s mystery novel, which will be published soon.
To learn more about what has happened to the English language, come hear Dick’s warm and knowledgeable presentation. To learn more about SPELL, visit the web site at http://www.spellorg.com.
December 15 - Members' Holiday Pot Luck Dinner Party, Ya'll Come!
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In our seven and a half-year life, GWA has brought together writers who have come to Georgia from many places, with Georgia natives... writers of widely diverse genres, disciplines, attitudes and cultures... and we have become a homogeneous lot, learning and growing, getting better.

Each year as the holidays approach we gather together to celebrate, acknowledging our fellowship and our dedication to the written word... and to have some fun together.

Though we have been sobered by the events of September 11 and the subsequent state of war, our human nature surges toward the familiar and normal, so let’s celebrate some of the best things in life on December 15th; dress up, eat well, laugh together and be thankful.

As always, a few enthusiastic volunteers will be needed to help set up and break down.
Please call Cathie Calabro at 770-455-0038 to volunteer or Judi Gullatt at 404-669-8090 to RSVP.

  

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