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2018 MWA Book Awards
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2017 MWA Book Award Winners
And the Winners Are...
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MWA Announces 'The Writing Roller Coaster' Conference in Annapolis
Annapolis -- Writers, authors and publishers from all over t...
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Teen Writing Clubs Win Grant
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Montgomery Writes! Contest Winners 2016
The Montgomery Chapter of MWA announces the winners of the M...
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Events
Howard County Chapter: Getting Those Fight Scenes Right
August 17, 2017
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Owen Brown Community Center
6800 Cradle Rock Way
Columbia, MD 21045-4809
http://www.owenbrownvillage.org/contact-us.html
Keith R.A. DeCandido, who is both a veteran writer of genre fiction and a second-degree black belt in karate, discusses the ins and outs of writing action scenes, from accurately portraying hand-to-hand combat to describing it in such a way that still fur
From Brain to Bookshelf
March 23, 2018
12:00 AM to 11:45 PM
Sheraton Columbia
Maryland Writers' Association 2018 Conference
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