2010 Fall Writers Contest

$ 2,000 Plus in Total Prizes

Six FirstPrizes $300 Each Genre

Plus $200 More For The Cream Of The Crop:
Total-$500.00

No ties. Guaranteed first prize is $500.00

Contests page

Short Story Winners:

First Place.

The Dinner Party,Shavonne Smith, Houston

Second Place, Guilt, Sara Henderson and Kristi Pritchett, League City
 

Third Place:
Bob the Ghost, Joe Lanza, Sugar Land

6-word Novel
Tim Talbert, San Antonio For Sale. Wedding dress. Twice used.

Welcome!

This is the official website of the Houston Writers Guild. This is the only official website of the Guild. We were formerly the Fort Bend Writers Guild, and if you link to our website, you should change the link you already have or add on to www.houstonwritersguild.org.

We have our weekly meeting every Tuesday at the Borders in the Fountain, Fountain Lake Circle at Highway 59, Stafford, Texas. Visitors are welcome on a one-time basis. After that, membership is required. See our Meetings page for details.

Our weekly critique MEETINGS are devoted to helping each other polish manuscripts for publication. Our members write commercial fiction which covers genre novels, including mystery, romance, historical, women's interests, sci-fi, memoir, young adult. Many of our members are published. If you are writing for self-gratification or anything of a pornographic nature, we are not interested in your MS.

In addition to weekly meetings, Houston Writers Guild sponsors WRITERS CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS and WRITERS CONTESTS.

Mini-Workshops

Free to members

If you're not a member, this is your opportunity to join!

Mini-workshop
Aug 28 First Colony Library
2121 Austin Parkway
9:30-12:30 pm

Christie Craig

Characterization, Emotion
and those hard to write sex scenes

Saturday Oct 9
One Day Workshop
Holiday Inn Southwest
8:30-4 pm

Sam Havens

Techniques for the Successful
Novelist and Screenwriter

Popular professor of Drama at Saint Thomas. No one can make writing as exciting as Sam does, with movie clips to illustrate his points. A day you will never forget!

Plus a second track

“Three Ways to Makes Yourself Irresistible to an Agent or Editor”

Larsen & Pomada

The most powerful literary agency in the West!

Michael Larsen

Elizabeth Pomada

And all day presentation with Larsen and Pomada from Northern California's oldest literary agency which has helped writers launch careers since 1972. Members of the AAR, Elizabeth, who represents commercial and literary fiction plus narrative non-fiction, and Michael, who handles prescriptive non-fiction, have sold hundreds of books to more than one hundred publishers. More on them is the upcoming newsletter.  Michael is author of:

Plus much more! Click here for more information.

See details on our Workshop Page.

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