April 2010 President’s Message from Lani Longshore

April seems a good time to ask about your writing resolutions. Are you keeping up with your journal? Have you entered a contest? Queried an agent? Artists across America are preparing for the fairs and festivals that seem to occupy every weekend from now until Halloween. Why not join them, and call this Contest/Query season? Put those manuscripts in order and send out the book proposals – and perhaps by Christmas you’ll see your name in print.