Welcome to the
 ARIZONA  AUTHORS  ASSOCIATION

6145 W. Echo Lane, Glendale, Arizona - 85302 Phone: 623-847-9343 - email: info@azauthors.com

Since 1978, the Arizona Authors Association serves as information and referral center for the community, helping and supporting our local authors statewide. We serve our membership which includes award-winning and best-selling authors of fiction and non-fiction works, as well as beginning writers, aspiring authors, poets, journalists, columnists, song writers, screenwriters, business writers, illustrators, reviewers, editors, etc... 

Discover the winners of the 2007 Arizona Literary Awards HERE
See the pictures of the Arizona Literary Awards Banquet HERE

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UPCOMING  MEETINGS  AND  FREE   WORKSHOPS,  click here

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Join us as a member!
• Free workshop at each meeting
• Discounts on Writers conferences
• Network with the pros
• Our lauded newsletter and calendar keep you ahead
• Our authors get their faces and a link on our website
• Get your books featured on our website
• Join one of our critique groups
• Enter our literary contest and book awards
• Publish columns or articles in our newsletter
• Advertise for free in our Newsletter and Magazine
• Be featured and sign books in our booth at local Book Festivals 
• Join our in-store book signings
• Membership is only $45 a year for writers.  Print the membership form HERE

 

Meeting locations - Please check location for each meeting or event, as we try to cover the east and the west sides of the valley.

UPCOMING MEETINGS & FREE WORKSHOPS: 

Monday, April 21, 2008 - 6:30 to 8:30 pm
Foothills Glendale Library - Roadrunner Room - 19055 N. 57th Avenue  - Directions here

Author Kiki Swanson
presents:

Goals + Objectives = Go !

Bring your pen and paper or laptop


Want to produce more writing or get started on a novel or a long term project? No writer can get far without setting goals for his or her work. Come learn how to decide what goals you need and how to make them work for you. Kiki Swanson’s  novels each revolve around a strong woman who reminds readers of their relatives or neighbors or school friends. Their life stories come out in conversation and their relationships to others. She weaves in historic research, her own love of music, cooking and sewing, and geographic settings from her own life. She and her husband live in Scottsdale, AZ, near three sons and their families.

 

Monday, May 19, 2008 - 6 pm to 8 pm - Chandler
Chandler Public Library, Sunset Branch, 4930 W Ray Road - Chandler, AZ - 480-782-2842


USING INTUITION IN THE WRITING PROCESS

by Sue Henley


SUE HENLEY is the author of the book "Because of Sean. The True Story of a Mother’s Courage."  She talks about grief and loss and provides inspiration and encouragement when things seem at their worst. She is an ordained Minister, Certified Spiritual Counselor, Author and Reiki Master.  Sue has been co-facilitator for the Bereavement Group at The Wellness Community and the support group in Sun City for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  She speaks at various groups around the Valley on bereavement, recovery and encouragement. When you ask, “What should I write?” or “how should this next chapter begin?” always look within to find the answer.  Let Sue assist you in going within to find that answer.

 


Monday June 16, 2008 - 6:30 pm to 8:30 pm - Glendale
Glendale Foothill Library - Roadrunner Room - 19055 N. 57th Avenue  - Just north of Union Hills, on the east side of 57th Avenue. From the Loop 101, exit at 59th Avenue, go south to Union Hills, turn left, then left again on 57th Avenue. The library is about 1/3 mile down on the right.


USING INTUITION IN THE WRITING PROCESS

by Sue Henley


SUE HENLEY is the author of the book "Because of Sean. The True Story of a Mother’s Courage."  She talks about grief and loss and provides inspiration and encouragement when things seem at their worst. She is an ordained Minister, Certified Spiritual Counselor, Author and Reiki Master.  Sue has been co-facilitator for the Bereavement Group at The Wellness Community and the support group in Sun City for the Leukemia & Lymphoma Society.  She speaks at various groups around the Valley on bereavement, recovery and encouragement. When you ask, “What should I write?” or “how should this next chapter begin?” always look within to find the answer.  Let Sue assist you in going within to find that answer.

 

 

DIRECTIONS to our venues:

LIFELONG LEARNING CENTER - Sun City West, 13815 W. Camino del Sol, Sun City West. Next door to Arizona Office of Tourism Visitor Center, 13823 W. Camino del Sol. Lifelong Learning is on Camino del Sol between Meeker and Spanish Garden or further east R.H.Johnson. MAP
From Grand---enter by turning right onto Meeker and pass the hospital.  Third street turn right onto Camino Del Sol and proceed one and a half blocks.  Midway on right hand side is an empty lot then a white stucco building with AZ seal.  Classes are held at the other end of building--PORA in big black letters on the side of that east end of building. Parking at each end and behind.
Coming from east on Bell---enter by turning right onto RH Johnson,(entrance is curvy wall and flowers) proceed to Camino del Sol (just past SAFEWAY at Wells Fargo Bank) and turn left. About four blocks west on Camino del Sol you will see white stucco building with PORA on wall and parking area.  
Sandy Matschke 623-584-4288 and Nancy Damato ndshaman@msn.com

FOOTHILLS  GLENDALE  LIBRARY:
Foothills Glendale Library - Roadrunner Room - 19055 N. 57th Avenue  - Just north of Union Hills, on the east side of 57th Avenue. From the Loop 101, exit at 59th Avenue, go south to Union Hills, turn left, then left again on 57th Avenue. The library is about 1/3 mile down on the right.

CHANDLER   PUBLIC  LIBRARY - Sunset branch
Chandler Public Library, Sunset Branch, 4930 West Ray Road, Chandler - 480-782-2842. From either freeway, 10 or 101, take the Ray Road exit.

See "CALENDAR" for other writers groups meeting dates and other events in the Phoenix area for the Arizona writing community.