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2008
1st ANNUAL
PWP
WRITING CONTEST
Short
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& Non-Fiction
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for PWP's 2006-08
Board meeting venue!
Extra special thanks
to the Prescott Public
Library, PWP's "home base."
Our
gratitude to
Prescott College
for use of the
Crossroads Center
meeting room
during the 2006
PPL renovation.
Our
appreciation to
the Hassayampa Inn
for the PWP Board
meeting venue in
2003, 2004 & 2005!
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Officers 2008
Board Members
 President
Jeri
Castronova, PhD
Jeri
is
a clinical psychologist who recently retired
from Napa State Hospital in California and
moved to Prescott. She is the author of
PAINT
THE SKY AND DANCE: WOMEN AND THE NEW MYTHS,
and
the book's companion workbook and video,
which she uses in her classes and seminars
designed to enhance spiritual and
professional development. Her passion for
ancient Egypt, Biblical history, Archeology,
and Psychology merge in CODE
OF THE KING - an award-winning
unpublished novel in the annual Arizona Authors Literary
Contest.
Dr.Castronova is also a healer and Ordained
Minister of Rev. Rosalyn L. Bruyere’s
Healing Light Center, and the High Country
Liaison for Arizona Authors
Association.
She loves to travel, paint, and play with her granddaughter
in her spare time.
 1st VP Programs
Arlene
Eisenbise
At
age twenty-eight, Arlene asked for a
challenge. She signed up for her first
writing class at a vocational school in
northern Wisconsin and has felt challenged
since. Her feature articles covering theatre,
musicians and travel were published in
Wisconsin’s leading newspapers. In 1965
she helped get the Rhinelander School of
the Arts off the ground. It
is still going strong. As a student at the
RSA, Arlene studied with such notables as
Teri Rios, author of the book on which the
Flying Nun TV series was based, and two of
Wisconsin’s most prolific authors,
August Derleth and Norbert Blei, among others.
While there she was exposed to the stories of
Studs Terkel, Chicago’s man-on-the-street,
and Marc Connelly, a member of the Dorothy
Parker Algonquin Circle.
In 1970, Arlene placed
first in the Wisconsin Regional
Writers Jade Ring Contest. Her poetry appeared
in Wisconsin History in
Poetry and in several UW-SP
literary publications. She quit her federal
job for a year and attended the UW, taking
all creative writing and literature courses—a
gift to herself after raising five children.
She participated in script-writing workshops
with Linda Seger, Hollywood’s “script
doctor.” Arlene wrote and directed
children’s drama and has been an active
member of SCBWI since 1994. She also co-facilitated
a workshop in Anaheim, in Minneapolis and in
Toronto titled, “Let Your Characters Do
the Walking.”
But Arlene dreams of
seeing her fiction published. Since
relocating to Prescott Valley in 1997, she’s
completed a series of chapter books for early
readers, a young adult historical novel and
has nearly completed book two in a trilogy
for YA/adults. She plans to continue writing
and submitting her work.
 2nd
VP Membership
Marian
Powell
I was born and raised in Los
Angeles. Began scribbling bad poetry and
stories at an early age. I'm happy to say I
published my first story at age 14 and
paid $5.00 by American Girl Magazine. A
few decades passed before I published
again. In the meantime, I went to
college and then in the early 70s did some
Sixties things like hitchhiking across
Europe, working as a volunteer on a kibbutz
in Israel, and then upon returning to the
USA, working as a waitress at the Grand
Canyon and picking crops in Oregon. Then
settled down a bit. Eventually earned
two Masters degrees and in recent years have
focused on writing.
I now have a number
of online book reviews,
Days Past features about
Prescott, AZ history with the Prescott Daily Courier, and a story, Neither
Cain Nor Abel, in an anthology
edited by
Ahmed A. Khan (Whortleberry
Press, March 2007),
and another story
soon to be released. Next goal, a novel.
 Secretary
Elaine
Greensmith Jordan
I grew up at
a time when
Southern
California was beautiful, and I have the
stamp of that setting and time—the
Fifties—on my soul. I read Nancy Drew,
absorbed every movie my parents would allow
me to see, and attended school amid the
orange trees of San Gabriel, a mission town.
At a small college, Pomona, I earned a B.A.
and later a M.A. in literature. I married my
college sweetheart and taught English in our
high school. I’d planned my life like
many in the Fifties: to teach for a few years
and then stay at home and have babies and
raise them to be exceptional people. Then
life intervened. I divorced, got a degree in
religion, adopted two children, moved to
Prescott, and turned into an essayist.
I've
published in journals, magazines, and
won some prizes for writing. My book-length
memoir is currently 'under survelliance' at TCU Press.
One of my recent publishing successes is an essay, Great
Art and the Gods,
featured in the Spring 2007 UUWorld Magazine for Unitarians. I won Third Place for the 2006
Meyers Memoir Prize from the American PEN Women of San
Francisco for Swimming with Joan Baez, a piece
about my life as a mommy. I've published a piece in the Cup
of Comfort Anthology, have another coming up there next
fall, and also two essays in the Georgetown Review
and one in the South Loop Review.
 Treasurer
Leota Hoover
Leota is a native of Arizona who lived in Alaska for over
twenty-four years, raising her children and earning a living
as a single mother. Alaska is a character in much of her
writing, as are moose, salmon and freezing weather. She is a
trained grief therapist and addiction counselor, and works
in the field today. Her most transforming experiences came
during her work with the renowned innovative thinker,
Elizabeth Kubler Ross, who inspired her writing and shook
her world. Ross is the subject of Hoover's memoir in
progress.
Leota
is featured in the 2009 Byline Calendar, and she has
published a piece about her charming parrots in Companion
Parrot Quarterly.
2008 Committee
Appointees
 Librarian
Chris Hoy
Chris has always enjoyed creative
writing. He has a master's degree in
English and taught composition,
literature and the history of cinema at
a community college in upstate New York. He
taught those subjects at nearby Attica
State Prison, too, as a voluntary
participant in the college's state-directed
prison program. During his teaching days, his
short story Cache la
Poudre was included
in a social science textbook published
by Little, Brown alongside work by Erica
Jong and Phillip Roth.
In recent years
he's completed one novel, four short
stories, and published one children's book,
THE ELK
IN THE ATTIC
(Primrose
Press, 2007) . He is currently at work
on his second novel. When Chris isn't
writing, he's busy being President of
the
Citizens
Water Advocacy Group.
 Networking
Karen
Despain
Karen Despain, an Arizona
native and graduate of the University of
Arizona (many eons ago), retired in 2005 from
a long career in journalism, most recently as
managing editor of the Prescott Daily Courier.
After her retirement, she wrote many articles
for Yavapai Magazine, which ceased
publication in September 2007, and she is now
fishing for freelancing opportunities as are
many PWP members. Karen says, "Let's
hope our PWP networking sessions help us hone
our talents and open doors to publishing our
gifts."
Karen is also on the
Prescott Area Habitat
for Humanity
Board of Directors and the Arizona's Children
Association
regional board, where she 's editor of PAHH's
quarterly newsletter and helps ACA with
publicity to promote its mission of helping
children and families. Karen has a daughter
and a granddaughter, who is the joy of her
life, especially when she drives her mother
nuts - a payback she especially enjoys.
 Newsletter
Susan
Lanning
Susan,
a native of Ohio, is a retired English
teacher who enjoyed instructing her students
in her greatest love – writing. She's
written novels off and on since 1970,
preferring suspense and mystery, though she's
also tried her hand at writing romances.
Since moving to Arizona in 2000, she joined
PWP and has found much support in her work.
She's served on the PWP board for five years,
four of those as newsletter editor. Susan is
the author of a mystery thriller,
HARPER'S
BLUFF (2006) and
THE
DANESBORO LINE
(2007),
a romantic
suspense,
both published with
with iUniverse.
 Publicity
& PR
Leslie Hoy
Leslie is a retired
small business owner and personal coach. She
enjoys writing press releases for PWP and the
Citizens Water
Advocacy Group,
as well as other issue-oriented projects.
Leslie balances her role as citizen activist
with a love of nature. "My office window
is on the edge of a tiny patch of forest,"
she says. "When I peek out at the deer,
they peek back."
Leslie recently wrote her
very first short story - a flasher that won
second place in the 6-Word Short Story
Contest at the 2006 PWP Holiday Party.
Webmaster
Kate
Robinson
Kate
began
her literary career writing bad poetry in Des
Moines, Iowa at age ten. After working as a
grocery clerk, nursing assistant and home
health aide, a variety of clerical and
secretarial positions, city bus driver, and
museum aide, all while attending college and
raising a family, fiddling with the fine art
of writing looked like a suitable diversion. Kate finally
received a BA from Prescott College in 1999, and amuses
herself when not writing by substitute teaching,
freelance editing,
studying
Tibetan Buddhism,
bicycling, and of course, volunteering for PWP and butting
heads with computers. She lives on a star-studded ridge in
Chino Valley with her two teenagers and two wily ferrets.
Kate is the author of two middle-grade
reference texts,
THE
NATIONAL MALL
and
LEWIS & CLARK: THE MYSTERY
BEYOND
(Enslow Publishing, 2005 & 2009), and a
smattering of short fiction, creative
nonfiction, and poetry featured in a variety
of venues:
Literary
Mama,
Absolute
Write,
Kaleidoscope,
Jerry
Jazz Musician,
Sandcutters,
and
June
Cotner's
acclaimed prayer and poetry anthologies,
among others. A sci-fi story, The Upstairs Room, is
slated for November 2008 publication in a slipstream sci-fi
anthology, Subtle Edens -
Allen Ashley, Ed. - by London's award-winning
Elastic Press.
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