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Message from the President / March 2022
07 Mar 2022 9:50 AM
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Message from the President
I love the old adage “in like a lion, out like a lamb” to describe March. It sounds as if we’re brash, bold and determined at the beginning of the month. It inspires me to seize the day, be energetic and bold! To get unstuck on projects that have stalled since the 2022 New Year’s spark.
I know lamb time is coming. There will be a chance to rest and reflect and enjoy the flowers as they bloom and all that spring has to offer. But for now – ROAR!
March is my favorite month of the year in part because it’s my birthday month but also because it’s an annual milestone – the end of the first quarter, the nudge into a new season. It’s when we emerge from the long winter and find things new, hopeful and budding. March is full of hope for what’s to come. It doesn’t dwell on what has been but looks forward to what can be.
For a perpetual optimist, March allows yet another opportunity to plan and execute great ideas and our SCWA leadership has been busy!
The Events &Education team has been hard at work organizing a variety of programming including this month’s Become an Author event with
Angela Belcher Epps
“Get into Your Write Space” all about connecting to that intrinsic motivation for inspiration. If you’re not registered yet,
click here
to get your spot.
The Board of Directors is hard at work organizing and formalizing committees. As we move toward a governing board configuration, we are decentralizing the operating work through committees. Committee work is a low-impact, high reward way to lend your voice, your time, and your talents to SCWA. Existing committees include Finance & Fundraising, Membership & Recruitment, Events & Education, Technology, Marketing, and Diversity. Interested in serving? Email me at
scwritersassociationpresident@gmail.com
and we can discuss what might be a good fit for you.
Our chapters are hard at work getting work polished and ready for submission. We have winners among us!
The 2022 Charlotte Lit
LIT/south awards
include flash fiction winner
Amber Wheeler Bacon
, fiction finalist
Mary Alice Dixon
and poetry finalist
Yvette R. Murray
.
The SC Academy of Authors awarded the 2022 Carrie McCray Nickens Fellowship in Poetry to Columbia III writer
Danielle Verwers
for her work “Between Two Poles.”
We’re so very, very proud of all of you! Congratulations!
Welcome to March, writing friends. I hope you’ll find inspiration and motivation in the roar of the lion and gratitude and hope in the soft down of the lamb.
Kasie Whitener
President
SCWA Board of Directors
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