[stylist] 2010 Writers' Division meeting agenda

[Robert Leslie Newman]

Dear members and interested parties
 
Here is the agenda for the NFB Writers' Division's annual meeting  taking
place in Dallas on July 5th.
 

AGENDA

National Federation of the Blind Writers' Division

Annual Meeting

Dallas, Texas

July 05, 2010

 

I. Introductions- All introduce themselves

 

II. Business Meeting-

 

A. President's Report- Robert Leslie Newman 

 

B. Secretary's Report- Allison Hilliker

 

C. Treasures Report- Michael Floyd

 

D. Old Business-

 

E. New Business- 

 

1. Announcement of winners for writing contest

 

a. Adult short story winners are announced: Judges: Robert Gardner, Shelley
Alongi, Debby Kent Stein

 

b. Adult poetry winners are announced: Judges: April Enderton, Barbara
Hammel

 

c. Youth contest winners are announced: Judges: Allison Hilliker, Chelsea
Cook, Shelley Alongi

 

d. contest discussion- improvements, additions, etc. 

 

2. Report on youth writing workshops- Lorie Stayer, Chelsea Cook; Robert
Leslie Newman, Ivan Weich, Bridget Pollpeter 

 

3. Status of "Slate and Style"- Robert Leslie Newman

 

4. Update of http://www.NFB-writers-division.org our Division's website-
Peter Donahue, Webmaster

 

5. Guest Speaker- Author of "Care and Feeding of the Long White Cane,"
Thomas Bickford

 

6. Guest Speaker- Author of "Anne and Alex 1996; Book One," Robert Jaquiss 

 

7. Guest Speaker- Author of "Once Upon A Challenge: Hearing Is Believing,"
Nancy L. Burns

 

8. Guest Speaker- Elizabeth Campbell, Chairwoman of the Journalism interest
Group

 
Robert Leslie Newman
President NFB Writers' division 
Writers' Division Website-
http://www.nfb-writers-division.org <http://www.nfb-writers-division.org/> 
Personal Website- 
http://www.thoughtprovoker.info