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Molly Shallow
President
George Thoman
Vice President
Marguerite Gardner
Treasurer
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A few of the 40 Guild members
Back row: Jim Thomsen, Garnet Ricks, Molly Shallow, George Thoman.
Front row: Orvelo Wood, Valerie Ridenour, Ann Simonds, Tom Ansbro
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The Key West Writers Guild was formed on September 5, 1995. The primary mission of the Guild is educational. Its goals are to provide opportunity for critiquing writers work, procuring information about finding an agent, sharing advice on formatting, learning about the marketing of writing, and about the current, fast changing publishing industry. The Guild also helps writers to learn about self-publishing, desktop publishing and Internet offerings of writers' work
The Guild conducts an annual short story contest, a party to announce the winners of the contest, and an annual Christmas dinner. Our first anthology, Key West and Beyond was published in 2004. Another anthology is in the works, as well as a CD consisting of members reading their own short stories.
In collaboration with the Florida Keys Council on the Arts, the Guild presents an annual grant to a writer with a book in progress.
The Writers Guild always meets on the second and fourth Saturday of every month at Kelly's Caribbean Bar and Brewery at 303 Whitehead Street, in Key West, Florida, upstairs in the Writers Room from 10:00am to 12:00 noon. All writers, published and unpublished, are welcome. Guests are always welcome. Membership dues are $10 per year.
The Guild is a not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible
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