Annual Social

Central PA Writers Organization annual social will be held on Thursday, Nov. 15 at Villa Rosa is located at 9916 Allentown Blvd. , Grantville, which is the intersection of Rt 22 and Rt 743. The phone number there is (717) 469-7171. It is an Italian restaurant which also features a brick pizza oven.This social is held in lieu of our scheduled meeting on the 3rd Thursday of the month. This will be our last meeting of the year.The next meeting will be Thursday, January 17, 2008.

Speaker for Sept. 20 Meeting

Alice Rowan, from RowanTree Editorial & Production Services, will be speaking on Editing as Writing, Writing as Editing at our Sept. 20th meeting.

Alice S. Morrow Rowan has twenty years of experience as a production and copy editor, primarily of nonfiction. She worked in-house for Jossey-Bass, a division of John Wiley & Sons, on and off for about ten years, and has operated her own freelance business since 1994. She has been working at home in Lititz since June 2006.

Alice is a Pennsylvania native but spent fifteen years in San Francisco and four years in Washington, DC, before returning to her home state. She earned a bachelor’s degree in human services from the University of Scranton and has seven years of experience working for nonprofit organizations, including the Washington National Cathedral, where for two years she coordinated education programs such as lectures and short-term classes. Even though she reads for a living, she still reads voraciously for pleasure; she also journals and has been known to compose poetry.

Up 'n Running

This blog is now up and running. We are currently researching the long history of CPWO.

If you have information about our history to share or if you would like to find out more about who we are today, contact Rita at
prose-pros@hotmail.com

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