News and Events

See website www.blackwritersguild.org  

for updated information

Winter 2023 calendar

BWG Members and Supporters:

An Important Message from 

BWG President Jim Wright

There is still rapidly changing news regarding the Coronavirus (COVID-19) and BWG is concerned with everyone's safety.  

The monthly webinars are free for current BWG members on ZOOM. 

For non-members, the cost is $5.00 plus the Eventbrite fee (which can be paid on the website or by mail).    

Annual membership is $40.00.

July and August- 

Summer Recess (no meetings) 

 If you have any questions or concerns, please email us at bwg@blackwritersguild.org.

Sincerely, Jim Wright, President 

Black Writers' Guild of Maryland

 Please see the Pratt Library's website www.prattlibrary.org for when we may be meeting there again .  Meanwhile they do have regular hours and electronic resources available online.

Eventually our physical  workshops will  resume from 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. 

on the first Saturday of each month 

(exceptions--

no meetings/workshops July and August.)

Our meetings/workshops are open to the public. 

Donations ($5.00)  per meeting/workshop can be made via the BWG website: www.blackwritersguild.org.  

Annual membership is $40.00.  

Tell a friend!

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Date to be announced.

 Rosa L. Griffin conducts a workshop  entitled “Owning Your Copyrights”.  [But she will not be conducting workshops during the Coronavirus (COVID-19) beginning March 2020]  

Understanding copyright law can be frustrating.  I would appreciate you  joining me for an informative workshop for writers which attempts to guide participants through the muddy waters of what can and can’t be used in your writing projects and much more!

Topics covered:

1. How to copyright your work

2. What can’t be copyrighted

3. How to earn income from others’ use of your work

4. How you can use someone else’s work

5. How to copyright your work in other forms

Rosa L. Griffin is the author of an adult fictional short story collection entitled Attraction:  Sexy Tales of the Good, Bad, and Ugly Relationships.   One of the stories in her collection, “Life-Box”, received honorable mention in a Writer’s Digest Magazine contest. 

Rosa earned two A.A. degrees in Human Resource Management and Secretarial Science at Baltimore City Community College. 

She also served as immediate past secretary for the Black Writers’ Guild of Maryland for  8 years.   

Her expertise in copyright is based on her work experience at the Johns Hopkins University Press and her research of the  Library of Congress website, https://www.copyright.gov.    

Rosa L. Griffin is available to conduct a workshop for you for a negotiated fee.

Thank you for your time and consideration. 

  
Digital resources remain available 24/7.  Bookdrops are open and fines will not be incurred.  Hours are practically back to normal.  On-site services are  available.

Check with library for updates  at www.bcpl.info.

Rosa L. Griffin physically participates monthly on  third Thursdays at 6 p.m. 

 at the Woodlawn Library 

Page Turners Bookclub except for July, August, and December.   Check with library for details.

We just finished meeting 

after reading:

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The Silent Patient

by Alex Michaelides

Thursday, 

November 16, 2023

6 p.m.

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As I mentioned before, the Page Turners Book Club  meets in-person at 6 p.m. usually on the third Thursday of each month at the Woodlawn branch of the Baltimore County libraries, 1811 Woodlawn Drive, Woodlawn, MD  21207, https://www.bcpl.info/locations/woodlawn/index.html, 

contact the library at 410-887-1336

 for  information.

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All adults are welcome to the discussions