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Spots Available for May Writers Retreat at Pen Arts
Learn morePen Women writers, want to start or finish your memoir, novel, chapbook of poetry, script? The next Pen Woman Writers Retreat, to be hosted at the Pen Arts historic building in Washington, D.C., will take place on May 21-24 and we are accepting applications through May 15.
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Celebratory Poetry Reading at Pen Arts
Learn morePen Arts in Washington, D.C., hosted a reading by the two winning poets in the first non-Pen Woman poetry competition that NLAPW held in the greater Washington, D.C., Virginia, and Maryland areas. Congratulations to poets Joanna S. Lee and Cherrie Amour Woods.
Why Become a Pen Woman?
Cape Canaveral Branch member Donna Puglisi shares brief insights into how the prestigious NLAPW helps professional women in all aspects of the arts to network with fellow artists and expand their horizons. “The National League of American Pen Women, Inc. is a foundation, a bridge, providing building blocks to achieve success in your field. … Sharing our ideas and creative talents, there is no limit to what we can do,” she says.
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Featured Member: Barbara Gurwitz, member-at-large
Read moreBarbara Gurwitz has been painting for 60 of her 82 years. She painted mostly figurative work in acrylics while living in Boston, New York, Spain, and France. For most of the past 45 years, she’s lived in Arizona, where she created fauvist landscapes in oil, often influenced by her travels in New Mexico. After moving into a life-care community, she switched from oil painting to creating colorful new work in India ink and acrylics on canvas.