Submit to the CWC Bulletin

Our CWC Bulletin includes a number of features about which our editorial team wants you to be aware.  First and foremost, its contents now include:

Submissions. We want to feature the works of our California Writers Club, prose writers, poets, and essayists. We are looking for striking, well-written material that’s ready for print. Please send your material (500 words for prose and up to 100 lines of poetry) to editor@calwriters.org. To help with your submissions, here are some important guidelines:

• File type: Word document (*.docx)
• Typeface: Times New Roman, 12 pt. font
• Featured Prose: We will consider a flash fiction submission or an excerpt from a longer short story, novel, or memoir, etc. The maximum length for any prose submission is 500 words. We are looking for work that will intrigue readers. The piece must stand on its own.
• Featured Poetry: You can send in as many as three poems (in one file) for a total of 100 lines.
• Featured Essayist: We accept personal essays and essays on writing. Please limit yourself to 500 words.
• It is the CWC policy that the CWC Bulletin will not print gratuitous vulgarity, obscenity, explicit sexual content, or political or religious rants or proselytizing.

Member Publication Notices. We want to celebrate your publishing successes. If your novel or short stories, poetry, play or essays have been recently published or accepted for publication, let us know. Send us a 50-word maximum Member Publications Notice to editor@calwriters.org and put “Member Publication” in the subject header. Please include your branch affiliation exactly as it appears on your branch’s website, and follow this format.

Author Name (CWC Branch) Title (Publisher, year published or to be published). Brief description of work. List of where the work is available to be purchased or viewed, including websites.

Upcoming Branch Events. Please send in news releases or articles (maximum 250 words) about upcoming branch events that would be of interest to the entire CWC membership. Let almost 2,000 fellow members know about your upcoming speakers, workshops, contests, conferences, and special events. One person at each branch should be designated to submit this material to editor@calwriters.org. Your submission should include details such as title, date, time, cost, registration, Zoom link, etc., in case members of other branches wish to participate.

We will also be running articles about the CWC board and other news of interest to the state’s entire membership.

Deadlines for all submissions for our quarterly CWC Bulletin are February 15, May 15, August 15, and November 15. Publication dates are a month later on March 15, June 15, September 15, and December 15

We hope you enjoy and are inspired by the CWC Bulletin. If you have any further questions, you can contact our editorial team at editor@calwriters.org.   

Advertise in the Bulletin

Now advertise 4 times a year!

Want to increase your visibility? Sell your service? Promote your book? Increase speaker engagements? Pump up your web traffic? Or just send a greeting?

Each issue of The Bulletin — published four times a year — reaches close to 2,000 published and aspiring writers, in 21 branches throughout the state. AND it is published here on calwriters.org.

Deadlines:  March 1, June 1, September 1, December 1, with publication occurring on the 15th of those months.

 We are accepting writing-related advertising from businesses, CWC members, and individuals who wish to reach our target market at reasonable prices.

Four tiers of ads are being offered:

• Business card size (2” x 3.5”) ads for $35.. 
• Index card size (3” x 5”) ads for $60. These will be interspersed throughout The Bulletin as appropriate.
• 5″ x 7″ size ads for $90 placed at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief

All of the above can be paid for by check as described below, or by PayPal (below).

We will make available one and one only full-page vertical or horizontal ad (7″ x 10″) for $200. First come, first served, and for that reason, arrangement for this ad must be made by check and submitted by postal mail and by email as described below. Advertisers whose ads are received by mail too late to qualify will be notified of their option to buy a 5×7 or smaller ad and their checks will be returned.

All ads submitted must be self-edited, print-ready, and will be published as received.  We reserve the right to decline material deemed inappropriate at the discretion of the Editor-in-Chief.

All ads must be emailed as a jpg file attachment to advertisingcwc@gmail.com and a copy sent to editor@calwriters.org.

A physical copy of your ad must be enclosed with the postal mailed payment. Please include your return address, email address, and telephone contact number.

Each CWC Branch is eligible to submit one 5×7 ad to publicize a branch conference that they are sponsoring, and this ad will be published free of charge.

Capacity for advertising will be determined by the Editor-in-Chief. In case we receive more ads than can be accommodated, advertisers will be notified of the option to reserve space in the next issue.

Space is limited, and appropriate ads will be accepted on a first come, first served basis. A copy of The Bulletin will be emailed to advertisers upon publication. Please include your preferred email address along with your ad submission. 

Checks or money orders for submitted ads must be made payable to CWC Central Treasury and mailed to:

HDCWC
17645 Fisher St.
Victorville, CA 92395

CHECKLIST:

• Please double-check to be sure you have followed directions closely.

• Design your ad. You can scan it to a jpeg file and send it to advertisingcwc@gmail.com and a copy to editor@calwriters.org.

• Then place the hard copy of your ad in an envelope addressed to the HDCWC address. It is okay to fold the copy if you need to do so.

• Enclose your check made payable to CWC Central Treasury or pay by PayPal on calwriters.org. If you paid by PayPal, please state the amount in your envelope.

• Full page ads purchased by mail only.