2014

GHOSTWRITERS: BEHIND THE SCENES

Nancy Dorman Hickson Amanda Rooker Joyce Winslow Charlotte Reather

Nancy Dorman Hickson and Amanda Rooker, who specialize in assisting aspiring authors; Joyce Winslow who helps presenters shape speeches, and Charlotte Reather who likes to add a comedic touch to her scriptwriting, will reveal the gamet of ghostwriters’ eclectic projects at a noon Wednesday January 15, 2014 panel at the National Press Club. Speech ghostwriter Sarah Gray will also participate.

The panel program will be noon-1 p.m. Wed Jan 15, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For more details, See News & Updates Page

50-state Project honors women writers from: Utah, Vermont, Virginia, Virgin Islands. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

2013

EMILY D as COMEDIENNE? WHO KNEW?

Martha Nell Smith Nelly Lewis Lambert

Whether hilarity or merely Mona Lisa smiles, Martha Nell Smith and Nelly Lewis Lambert, towering national presences in Emily Dickinson authorship, will reveal little-known comedic aspects of the American poet’s work. Smith is a University of Maryland English professor, and a founding board member of the Emily Dickinson International Society. Lambert, who has published on Dickinson’s baking skills as well as her humor, is secretary of the Emily Dickinson Society. Dickinson (1830-1886) was born in Massachusetts.

The panel program on Emily Dickinson’s humor will be noon-1 p.m. Wed Nov 6, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public. No reservations are required. For more details, See News & Updates Page

50-state Project honors women writers from: Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania & Rhode Island. For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

Words & Music by Note-able Women

Ellen Frankel Janet Peachy Frances McKay

Librettist Ellen Frankel will discuss the writing craft with women who also navigate aspects of the musical world. Frankel, whose work includes opera, is a Phi Beta Kappa from the University of Michigan, who holds a doctorate from Princeton. Panelist Janet Peachy composes opera, ballet, chamber and vocal music, and is a Fulbright grantee who holds music degrees from Catholic University of America. Panelist Frances McKay composes musical works about water which include sound files recorded at Rock Creek. She is chair of Composition and Theory at Levine School of Music.

The Words & Music by Note-able Women panel will be noon- 1 p.m., Thursday October 10, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project honors women writers from: New York, North Carolina, North Dakota, and Ohio For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

THE BUSINESS OF ROMANCE

Email AWWNM1@gmail.com to reserve Nora Roberts
autographed books for purchase at event!

Janeen Solberg Rebecca York/Ruth Glick Cassandra Corcoran/Avery Flynn Joyce Lamb

Janeen Solberg, award-winning manager of mega-selling author Nora Roberts' bookstore in Boonsboro, Maryland, will headline a noon Thursday September 19 panel at the National Press Club, discussing "The Business of Romance". Roberts has sold more than 400 million books worldwide. Joining Solberg will be heralded USA Today Money section copy editor and romance genre blogger Joyce Lamb, Cassandra Corcoran (who writes as Avery Flynn), Ruth Glick (who writes as Rebecca York ), founder of Light Street Press and author of more than 125 romance novels.

The Business of Romance panel will be at noon- 1 p.m., Thursday September 19, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project honors women writers from:Nevada, New Hampshire, New Jersey and New Mexico For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

DRAMATIC WOMEN WHO PLAY WRIGHT

Mary Hall Surface Jennifer L. Nelson Renee Calarco

Extraordinary women playwrights will discuss their craft of interweaving writing with staging. Mary Hall Surface's plays have included 15 productions with the Kennedy Center's Theatre for Young Audiences. Jennifer L. Nelson is director of Special Programs at Ford's Theatre. Renee Calarco teaches playwriting at GWU, and authored a play which received the MacArthur Award in 2007.

The Dramatic Women Who Play Wright panel will be at noon, Wed June 5, in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project honors women writers from:Kansas, Kentucky, Louisiana, Maine For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

SWEET HOME ALABAMA

Dr. Trudier Harris Dana Williams

As part of AWWNM's 50 state Project to showcase women writers from each state, the Alabama Center for the Book will cosponsor a Wed May 15, 2013 presentation by Alabama writer Dr. Trudier Harris, Professor of English at the University of Alabama, Tuscaloosa.

"Bama Bones: A Black Southerner Talks Place & Creativity" will be noon-1 p.m. May 15 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

Dana A. Williams, Chair and professor of African American Literature in the Department of English at Howard University, will introduce Dr. Harris.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project honors women writers from:Idaho, Illinois, Indiana, Iowa For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

FOIA WOMEN: THRU the LOOKING GLASS

Lucy Dalglish

Angela Greiling Keane

Angela Canterbury

How much information can federal agencies be forced to surrender? Wed April 17, women who know their FOIA will explain how to best use FOIA (Freedom of Information Act) to extract information. Nationally heralded FOIA expert, attorney Lucy Dalglish, Dean of Merrill College of Journalism, University of Maryland;
Angela Greiling Keane, President of the National Press Club and transportation reporter for Bloomberg News; Angela Canterbury, public policy director at the Project on Government Oversight, will headline.

The FOIA panel will be noon-1 p.m. Wed April 17 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. N.W. 20045.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50 State Proejct honors women writers in: Florida, Georgia, Hawaii, District of Columbia For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

Poetry in an Age of Images

Dana Gioia

Dana Gioia, chair of the National Endowment for the Arts (NEA) from 2003-2009--now a USC professor-- will speak Wed March 27 noon-1 p.m. in the McLendon room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C. 20045, sponsored by AWWNM. www.danagioia.net

Gioia, a poet, opera librettist, and jazz enthusiast, will speak of his new poetry book, his fifth: "Pity the Beautiful", which has garnered national acclaim. His book will be available for sale and signing.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project will honor women writers from: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

ONE OF OURS: WILLA CATHER
PIONEER & PULITZER WINNER

Lora Black
Dr. Martha (Max) Despain
Dr. Joseph R. Urgo	Leslie Levy

Three national experts on American woman Pulitzer winner Willa Cather (1873-1947) will speak Tuesday, March 26, 2013 noon-1 p.m. in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 529 14th Street NW, 13th Floor, Washington, D.C., sponsored by American Women Writers National Museum (AWWNM).

AWWNM Panelists include popular, long-time Nebraska Public Radio announcer--and Cather fan-- Lora Black, (traveling from Nebraska), Dr. Martha (Max) Despain of Silver Spring, board member of the Willa Cather Foundation; and Dr. Joseph R. Urgo, President of St. Mary's College of Maryland, the editor of widely-used teaching texts on Cather.

Moderator will be Leslie Levy, executive Director of the Willa Cather Foundation.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public.
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50-state Project will honor women writers from: California, Colorado, Connecticut, Delaware
For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

11:30 p.m.-noon Meet & Greet

American Women Writers National Museum
National Press Club Building
529 14th Street NW, Suite 960-C
Washington, D.C. 20045

BOFFO! FIRST LADIES' FIRST LADIES
CELEBRATE with a VALENTINE to
AWWNM's FIRST LADIES FIRST ANNIVERSARY!

Kathleen Graddy

Maurine Beasley

To celebrate AWWNM's Boffo! First Anniversary year, a distinguished panel of national First Lady experts will speak at noon Valentine's Day, Thursday, February 14, 2013 in the McLendon Room of the National Press Club, 13th Floor, 529 14th Street NW, Washington, D.C. 20045.

Nationally known "First Ladies" themselves--- panelists include: Lisa Kathleen Graddy, curator of the internationally famous First Ladies Exhibit at the Smithsonian's National Museum of American History, where she also serves as Deputy Chair of the Divison of Political History; Patricia Krider, executive director of First Ladies Library in Canton, Ohio; and Maurine Beasley, Eleanor Roosevelt biographer; author or co-author of four books, and professor emerita of journalism at the University of Maryland.

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public at the National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, 13th Floor, McLendon Room, Washington, D.C. 20045. A buffet lunch is available for purchase.
For more details, See News & Updates Page

50-state Project honors women writers from: Alabama, Alaska, Arizona and Arkansas For more details, See State-Meant 4 U Page

A Journey of MIrrors: Latina Literary Landscapes.
Oprah Winfrey- featured poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Rachel Eliza Griffiths

Maritza Rivera

Carmen Calatayud

Oprah Winfrey- featured poet Rachel Eliza Griffiths will join D.C. area Latina poets Carmen Calatayud, Maritza Rivera and Neida Perez Tuesday, Jan 29, 2013 for readings and a panel discussion entitled: A Journey of Mirrors: Latina Literary Landscapes.

The noon-1:15 p.m. event is cosponsored by American Women Writers National Museum (Janice Law, founder) and Letras Latinas of the Institute for Latino Studies, University of Notre Dame, (Francisco Aragón, director)

All AWWNM programs are free and open to the public at the National Press Club, 529 14th St NW, 13th Floor, McLendon Room, Washington, D.C. 20045. (Program will be in both Spanish and English)
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Also on January 29...

WEST VIRGINIA TAKE ME HOME

Pearl S. Buck

Pearl S. Buck, first American woman to win the Nobel Prize for literature (1938) who also won a Pulitzer Prize in 1932, is one of four premier West Virginia women writers to be honored at 1:15 p.m. Tuesday, Jan 29 including: poet Irene McKinney, songwriter Hazel Dickens, and novelist Denis Giardina.

The 1:15-2 p.m. event is cosponsored by West Virginia Center for the Book and AWWNM will be in the McLendon room of the National Press Club, 529 14th St. NW, Washington, D.C All AWWNM events are free and open to the public.
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