Meetings & Events 2012

GCWA usually meets on the LAST Saturday afternoon of each month

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Guest Speaker: Mary Beth Ellis

www.blondechampagne.com

Mobile Writers Guild member and college-level Writing Teacher

"Let's Write" Literary Contest Banquet 2012

Guest Speaker: Mississippi author Valerie Winn

          It is 1937 in Mimosa, Mississippi, and fourteen-year-old Max Brinkmann is an active adolescent in the lively railroad town: he has a newspaper route, builds tree houses with his brothers, and prides himself in making and flying kites. He dreams of running track and playing baseball at Mimosa High School. But when Max's father, Josef (a devout Roman Catholic), announces that the small Catholic school in Mimosa is closing, Max's world is turned upside down. Not only is Josef moving the family to a farm in the middle of nowhere (to remove Max and his six younger siblings from the temptations of the city), the only option for a Catholic education is enrollment at nearby St. Agnes Academy, an all-girls school.

          Max is overwhelmed by classes of young women and more nuns than he has ever seen, not to mention a new home without electricity or indoor plumbing. Even worse, his hard-hearted, Rosary-a-day father seems intent on making his oldest son as miserable as possible. Friends? Forget them. Hobbies and dreams? Not hardly. Even one speck of something close to fun? Sorry, Max, go chop the wood. Forsaking Mimosa is a timeless story of a disillusioned boy who grows into manhood in a most unlikely environment. Along the way he comes to know the redeeming power of home as he faces tragedy, falls in love, and prepares to become a World War II soldier. These circumstances and others lead him to important discoveries about himself, his faith and, ultimately, his enigmatic father.

General Meeting - Gulfport

Guest Speaker: Author of Southern Kingdom: Don Stanford

Southern Kingdom:  Adam Blythington relocates to America with the ambition of buying cheap land in the defeated south and living the life of a country squire. In only a few years, with the aid of a corrupt land speculator, he finds himself the owner of two vast plantations. When he acquires his first plantation, Hannah Leblanc, the beautiful and sensuous housekeeper, offers herself as his mistress.

          Although he marries the beautiful daughter of a wealthy landowner for convention's sake, and has an affair with hi brother-in-law wife, Hannah remains steadfastly loyal to him. Together ruthlessly battle anyone, even resorting to murder, who threatens their dream of wealth and power.

          Although he amasses land, riches, and power, the gratification he desired remains elusive.

General Meeting - Gulfport
bbGuest Speakers: Grady Howell, Mississippi Historian

Check out his youtube video at: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yT5AHs-fczw

General Meeting - Gulfport

GCWA & the Bay St. Louis Little Theatre present the 2nd annual

Valentine's Day Love Poem Contest DEADLINE

General Meeting - Gulfport
Guest Speaker: Judge Frank Pierce

A special lecture by author M.H.A. Menondji

Golden Corral
12255 Hwy 49
Gulfport MS