Library of League of Vermont Writers

By Annalisa Parent In my coaching work with writers, I’ve come to discover how much many writers detest creating their marketing platforms. I will concede to the fact that marketing is a lot of work, yet I have come to enjoy it. Here’s why...

Cynthia Anderson, a senior at Champlain College, is compiling a Directory of Vermont Writing Resources as her final project. The directory will include writers, editors, publications, and more. She is looking for people who are interested in being included in this directory.

By Wendy Heilig I believe everyone is a writer, though some work at it formally and for publication more than others. However, most any form that takes what we have percolating inside of us and puts it down in some form outside of ourselves is writing...

By Alyssa Berthiaume September 1931: President Walter John Coates, in a typewritten letter to the executive committee, asks them to review the enclosed agenda for the upcoming winter meeting. He signs…

This half-day retreat with Joni Cole will help you cultivate a healthy and productive creative process that will serve you now, and for the rest of your writing life.

By Shawn Thomas Anderson Go to the nearest window. What do you see? Take the next 15-20 minutes to record the view from your window. Get specific, and go beyond the sense of sight. How does it sound out…

By Shawn Thomas Anderson This is our year. I continue to learn through my membership with LVW. In January 2016, I became a Board Member At-Large. Since then, I’ve chaired Writers Meet Agents, jumped…

It is such an honor to be stepping into the role as President of the League of Vermont Writers.  In the time leading up to my new role in this organization, I considered all the factors involved in giving…

By The Website Project Team Over the last three years the Board has taken the time to consider consistent feedback provided through a variety of mediums about programming and membership issues and challenges,…

By Alyssa Berthiaume Overhauling our website also meant stepping into the wonderful world of blogging. LVW’s previous website didn’t have this element, but nowadays most websites include a blog where…

By Alyssa Berthiaume I am told that getting volunteers is one of the hardest things for nonprofits to achieve. That it is always a select handful that get everything done. This has been true since I initially…

League Lines, the official newsletter, began in 1942 as two pages of mimeographed news designed to connect LVW members throughout the year. In the 1970s League Lines was professionally printed on colorful…