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      <p align="left"><font face="Arial" color="#ffcc00" size="1">The Downtown Writers 
      Network is a resource for independent writers in central 
      Ohio.<br><br>Located in Columbus, we provide services to freelancers, 
      businesses that use freelance talent, and all creative writers in the 
      dynamic mid-Ohio market.</font></p>
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             <img border="1" src="images/type.jpg" width="125" height="102" align="left" hspace="5" vspace="5" alt="Douglas Gray, Director of the Downtown Writers Network"><font face="Arial" size="2">Douglas 
             Gray's new novel <i><b>Entanglement</b></i> is a semifinalist in 
             the <b>Amazon Breakthrough Novel </b>competition. <br>
             <br>
             Read and comment on a
             <a target="_blank" href="http://www.amazon.com/dp/B00121WEZA">short 
             selection from its first chapter</a>.<br>
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             What's tangled up in <i>Entanglement</i>? <br>
&nbsp; - A military plot to hack databases of every research institute  in America. <br>
&nbsp; - A daughter of a conservative dynasty, with an old sexual grudge to settle.<br>
&nbsp; - A publishing conglomerate poised to crush its competition.<br>
&nbsp; - A most unlikely m&#769;enage a4 trois.<br>
&nbsp; - A fishing village in a remote country on the brink of civil war. <br>
&nbsp; - And at the center of it all, Desmond Coates -- software developer and 
             former male model, with a synesthetic gift for tasting the souls of 
             women.<br>
             &nbsp;</font></p>
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				HREF="6-28-08/thisweek.html">This Week&#39;s Writing Events:&nbsp; 
             July 25 - 31</A></B><br>
             Because of our late July heat wave, this would be a good week to 
             stay indoors. <br>
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             Fortunately, bookstores, cafes and other types of spaces await the 
             summer-weary writers of Columbus. Check out Monday evening&#39;s 
             special Poetry Forum reading at the Rumba Cafe, Tuesday night&#39;s 
             poetry events at Taj Mahal or Urban Spirit Coffee House, or 
             Wednesday&#39;s poetry night at Cafe Kerouac. You can be cool and stay 
             cool at the same time.</font></P>
      <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Visit our <a href="dates.html">monthly 
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      <p><font face="Arial" size="-2">Updated: July 24, 2010</font></p>
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      <p><font face="Arial" size="2">The Lorain Hemingway Short Story Competition 
      has issued a call for submissions to their 2009 contest. The deadline is 
      May 15. All genres of fiction are welcome, with a maximum word count of 
      3,000.<br><br>More information is available at their site: <a 
      href="http://www.shortstorycompetition.com">www.shortstorycompetition.com</a></font></p>
      <p><font face="Arial" size="-2">Updated: February 21, 2009</font></p>
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				size="2"><br><br>On Saturday, April 16th, the University of 
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             $25.&nbsp; Information available at
             <a target="_blank" href="http://www.wayne.uakron.edu/LearCen/writersworkshop">
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             The James Wright Poetry Festival takes place at the Martins Ferry 
             Public Library, April 15-16.&nbsp; Call 740-633-0314 for 
             information.<br>
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             The Antioch Writers Workshop will celebrate its 20th anniversary 
             July 9-15, 2005, in Yellow Springs, offering lectures, panels, and
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             intensives led by noted authors. The workshop is widely recognized 
             for creating a congenial writers' community where participants can 
             meet informally with faculty.&nbsp; Visit
             <a target="_blank" href="http://www.antiochwritersworkshop.com">
             www.antiochwritersworkshop.com</a> or call 937-475-7357 for 
             additional information or to register for the workshop. <br>
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             <a target="_blank" href="http://www.appalachianauthorsguild.com">
             Appalachian Authors' Guild (AAG)</a> has established a new website 
             explaining its latest initiatives in supporting writers in a swath 
             of eastern states, including several nearby counties in Ohio.<br>
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				size="2"><br><br>What are other central Ohio writers up to? Just 
             as important, what have <i>you </i>been doing lately? </font></p> 
			 <p><font face="Arial" size="2">Julie Clark Robinson, a former 
             Columbus resident now living in Cleveland, has placed as a finalist 
             in the USA Book News Award Contest for her self-help book <i>Live 
             in the Moment</i>.<br>
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             Columbus native Kat Jaske, an Upper 
             Arlington High School graduate, has recently had her first novel 
             published, <i><a target="_blank" href="http://www.forhonor.com">For 
             Honor: An Adventure of What Might Have Been </a></i>.</font></p> 
			 <p><font face="Arial" size="2"> <br><br><font size="-2">Updated: 
             September 24,
				2004</font></font></p>
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			 <p><font face="Arial" size="2"><b>In Memory: Jim
				Bosveld</b><br><br>Jim Bosveld, CFO of Pudding House, passed away last week
				after a long illness. <br><br>Together with his wife Jennifer, Jim was a
				tireless supporter of central Ohio writers. They established Pudding House in
				Johnstown back in 1987, and together turned it into one of the most progressive
				and innovative publishing houses for poetry in the country. <br><br>The
				workshops and programs that Jim developed with Jennifer have been helping local
				writers find their voices and hone their craft for more than a decade. There
				are hundreds of us in this community who are grateful to him for his kindness
				and support.<br><br>Jim was also a staunch advocate for the poor and the
				homeless. Before being ordained as a Unitarian Universality Minister in 2003,
				Jim served as a Commissioned Lay Leader for a Columbus congregation for many
				years, and worked for the Legal Aid Society since the mid 1980s.<br><br>We will
				miss Jim's wit, his passion for aiding the poor and the powerless, and his
				goodness. Our hearts go out in sympathy to Jennifer.<br><br><b><font
				size="-2">Posted: March 22, 2004</font></b></font></p>
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				href="articles/database2.html">2003 Update on the Downtown Writers Database of
				Local Professional Writers</a></b><br><br>During 2003, Columbus business
				clients searched the Downtown Writers database of professional writers over
				1800 times. <br><br>They were looking for central Ohio writers to create their
				reports, brochures, advertising copy, catalogs, scripts and public relations
				material.<br><br>At Downtown Writers, we're using the global power of the
				Internet to create a dynamic local network of commercial writers who are
				reaching out to the business community in innovative ways.
				<a href="articles/database2.html">(More)</a></font></p>
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				href="articles/localmarket.html">A Local Market for Columbus Writers and
				Businesses</a></b><br><br>The Downtown Writers Network provides an online
				marketplace where central Ohio writers and business clients can find each other
				easily.<br><br>Strange as it may sound, we based the idea on the small town
				farmers' market. (<a href="articles/localmarket.html">More</a>)</font></p><hr
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