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HRW's 2012 Traveling Pen Series Workshops

2012 Writers' Conference

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Hampton Roads Writers--your connection to reader/writer events, including open mics and an annual writers' conference in Virginia Beach

Hampton Roads Writers--your one stop place to find a critique group, writing workshop, writing coach, or editor

Hampton Roads Writers--your connection to resources needed to build a solid publishing platform

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Want to honor or memorialize someone special? For a TAX-DEDUCTIBLE contribution of $500 or more, you can endow HRW's 2012 Nonfiction Prize in that person's name.

Congratulations to the winners of the 4 FREE writing contests that were part of HRW's Third Annual Writers' Conference.
Frank Lawlor Memorial Fiction Prize:
1st Place - Lisa Kearns
2nd Place - Valerie Wilkinson
3rd Place - James Paulson
Hon. Mention - Anne Nowlin

Juvenile Fiction Prize:
1st Place - Lisa Kearns
2nd Place - Tracy Grimaldi
3rd Place - Skip Keith
Hon. Mention - Donna Young

Nonfiction Prize:
1st Place - Mae Walker
2nd Place - Lauren Hurston
3rd Place - Kay Brownlow
Hon. Mention - Jim Craig

Barbara Dunn Hartin Memorial Poetry Prize:
1st Place - Mae Walker
2nd Place - Skip Keith
3rd Place - Karen Armstrong
Hon. Mention - Shampriest Bevel

. . . Thanks to everyone who supported HRW's 21 OPEN MIC EVENTS in 2011. Check out our 2012 Open Mic schedule . . . . Looking for an inexpensive writing workshop? . . . . See Other Literary Happenings in Hampton Roads . . . . Want a Writing Prompt/Exercise? . . . . Hear the Experts . . . . Meet our newest member. . . .

HRW thanks the Virginia Beach Arts and Humanities Commission for a $500 grant in support of HRW's 2011 writers' conference and the Virginia Commission for the Arts and the National Endowment for the Arts for the generous supporting grant in 2010.

As of Jan 22, 2010, HRW's mailing address has changed to:
Hampton Roads Writers
P.O. Box 7607
Norfolk, VA 23509-0607

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Hampton Roads Writers

Hampton Roads Writers, Inc. is a nonprofit, Virginia Beach, Virginia-based group of professional and aspiring writers, friends, and supporters of the arts who have joined together to promote the craft and passion of writing and the love of reading and literature in Virginia. We aim to encourage readers and writers of all ages and talents, as well as acknowledge and celebrate awareness of local and contemporary authors and their work. We serve as a resource to our community by creating and supporting literary events throughout the Hampton Roads area.

In compliance with the Americans With Disabilities Act and Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act of 1973, HRW does not discriminate against persons with physical or mental disabilities and makes every effort to accomodate anyone who might need special assistance to partake of HRW sponsored activities.