Northwest Christian Writers Association

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Our membership ranges from experienced published authors to beginners. Whether you're a veteran writer or are exploring the arena of writing for the first time, you'll fit right in.

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December 2, 2024 -- Matt Mikalatos

Lessons from Saint Nicholas

Matt Mikalatos is the award-winning author of fifteen books, both fiction and non-fiction, including his highly acclaimed memoir Sky Lantern, for which Matt was featured on the TODAY show. He is the co-creator, alongside NYT bestselling author Hugh Howey, of AMC’s Evergreen and Sony's The Disciple. His first graphic novel, God With Us, releases April 1st of next year. He lives in the Portland, OR, area with his wife, three daughters, and a giant rabbit named Bruce.

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Meetings

Our monthly meetings include a featured speaker providing insight, instruction & encouragement for our writing journeys. Opportunities for members to make presentations and share milestones.

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Membership

Membership includes some great benefits in addition to our meetings. The benefits include critique groups, members-only Facebook group, access to a membership directory and editors connection page.

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Conference

Our annual spring Renewal Conference features dynamic speakers, a line of workshops, editor/agent appointments, professional manuscript critiques, and other things to encourage you in your writing.

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Access to Recordings Available

Taming the Self-Editing Beast - Non-Fiction

Take your writing to publishing-industry expectations (and beyond) with Dori's comprehensive suggestions for examining your content, with examples from an actual content-edited manuscript.

In this workshop you will learn about message, theme, engagement, continuity, goal, rhythm, and structure.

Taming the Self-Editing Beast - Non-Fiction Recording 

Taming the Self-Editing Beast - Fiction/Memoir

Take your writing to publishing-industry expectations (and beyond) with Dori's comprehensive suggestions for examining your content, with examples from an actual content-edited manuscript.

In this workshop you will learn about characterization, plot tension, pacing, dialog structure, point of view, theme, scene balance, and author voice.

Taming the Self-Editing Beast - Fiction/ Memoir Recording 

Taming MS Word's References Beast

Citing sources properly using Word's References system saves so many headaches as your file moves through the editing and typesetting process! In this workshop, discover the publishing standards for citing sources (some surprising changes in recent years). We'll discuss the dos and don'ts and whys, plus you'll receive Dori's updated formats for citing sources. You can still register to receive access.

Taming MS Word's References Beast Recording 

Taming the Editing Level Beast

Author and editor, Dori Harrell, presented a workshop on the various levels of editing. It covered what type of edit occurs at each level and what you need to do to prepare. You can still register to receive access to the recording.

Taming the Editing Level Beast Recording

Taming the MS Word Beast

If you missed Dori's Workshop on tips for using MS Word for your manuscript. You can still register to receive access to the recording. For more information and to register click the link below.

Taming the MS Word Beast Workshop Recording

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