SEATTLE FREE LANCES

Professional & Social Networking
For Published and Aspiring
Writers of the Northwest

Established 1921

Dinner Meetings

January 5:

Successful Author Events,
with Deborah Schneider, Public Programming Coordinator for KCLS, and Wendy Manning, Events Coordinator, Third Place Books.

---> And followed by a
Special Presentation on the Espresso Book Machine by Robert Sindelar, Managing Partner, Third Place Books.

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Words Matter

Originally founded as a society of professional writers, in recent years Seattle Free Lances membership has grown to include publishing industry professionals and writers who are actively working toward publication. It is our goal to support the continued success of our published members while also encouraging the aspirations of those writers whose ultimate aim is to become published.

We continue to meet once each month, on the first Tuesday evening, to share our stories, seek encouragement and enjoy the fellowship of our peers.

A Message From Our President

Jennifer McCord, SFL President

Dear Writers,

Welcome to Seattle Free Lances home page. I am delighted to have you glancing through and reading about our organization. Founded in the early 1920s to gather together Northwest writers to talk and share with colleagues their writing life, writing, and information, we continue forward in their stead.

It is an honor to be the new president of this association, the oldest one in the state of Washington connected to the writing profession. I have been around most areas of the writing and publishing life for close to thirty years. I was an avid reader from when I learned to read. Reading and writing is part of my daily life as much as having a cup of coffee.

As our association starts its 2009-2010 season, it will be an interesting time. It has been decades since the publishing world experienced so many changes. One of those early milestones much resembled the modern book: the codex — composed of leaves bound together between two covers. Another major advancement was the Gutenberg press — a print technology. Now, we have the e-book — the electronic book. However, regardless of the technological changes, writing is still writing.

Writers still have to put words down on paper or into the computer. Readers still have to find the articles, books or e-books to read. The writing must go on.

Seattle Free Lances continues to offer writers a connection to the writing and publishing world through our monthly dinners and speakers. Our sense of community and common shared experiences and goals enables all of us to persevere through these times of change. Never has this been more true than in today's world. Please join us.

—Jennifer McCord