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LoginShapiro Claims Traditional Poetry Stifles Creativity Karl Shapiro was born in Baltimore, Maryland, his family moved to Chicago, and then returned to Baltimore where Shapiro finished his education at Baltimore City College. He attended the University of Virginia (1932-1933), ...
Read MoreNotable Maryland Authors
In 2018, MWA launched a Writers' Round Tables program to herald Maryland authors of note, to celebrate our 30th Anniversary Year and to encourage Marylanders to have fun writing and playing with words. We are continuing that focus on Maryland authors here, with monthly profiles on local writers across different genres. We continue to encourage Marylanders to try their hand at a writing prompt in that genre.
Calling Maryland Writers
Check out the writer profiles below and give writing in a new genre a whirl. Then submit your writing effort, based on the current month's writer / genre by the 25th of the month, and your prompt may be considered for publication along with next month's author profile.
Submit Your Notable Maryland Authors Genre Prompt
Notable Maryland Author Profiles & Prompts
Taylor Branch is an American author and public speaker best known for his landmark narrative history of the civil rights era, America in the King Years. The first book, Parting the Waters, won the Pulitzer Prize and numerous other awards in 1989. The next tw...
Read More"I’m secretly still 11 years old in my head." - Elissa Brent Weissman Elissa Brent Weisman grew up on Long Island, New York in a Jewish community and then attended Johns Hopkins College in Baltimore where she met her future husband and where she ended up teaching....
Read MoreNotable Maryland Authors PARTICIPANTS
NEWSPAPERS
Brunswick Citizen - Brunswick
Calvert County Recorder - Calvert County
Cumberland Times-News - Cumberland
Daily Times - Salisbury
Frederick News-Post - Frederick
Herald-Mail - Hagerstown
Maryland Independent - Charles County
St Mary's County Enterprise - St Mary's County
Times Record - Denton
Valley Citizen - Brunswick
ARTS COUNCILS
Arts & Humanities Council of Montgomery County
Charles County Arts Alliance
Worcester County Arts Council
Organizations participate in the following ways:
- Publishing the Notable Maryland Authors articles in their newspapers and newsletters, posting them on their bulletin boards, and handing them out to their students or members. We ask all participating organizations to do this.
- Sponsoring a Teen Writers' Club by providing a meeting location and coordinator, with MWA providing writing mentors.
- Sponsoring a MWA chapter by providing a meeting location and coordinator. MWA will assist with meeting agendas, speakers, and writing mentors.
MWA invites local and state-wide organizations, including newspapers, libraries, arts councils, colleges, public and private high schools, homeschool associations, civic groups, museums, to participate. If your organization would like to register as a participant, please contact Jim Brewster, MWA Communications Chair, at [email protected].
