Sylvia Nickels
Hello, I'm Sylvia Nickels, ramblin scribe, avid reader, (almost) Tennessee native, and wannabe web designer.
On these pages, you'll find links to helpful writing sites and some of my pieces published online. You can catch the Ramblin Scribe's latest column by clicking on the Ramblin with Sylvia link above. From that page you can go to all my previous columns.
I've had stories published in print and online. Several are archived on the web and can still be read, if you should be so inclined. If you 'Google' my name, those stories along with the pages of this website will come up. Also my Authors Den, Associated Content links, etc., as well as my personal website sylvianickels.com.
Several writers groups flourish in my local area. Click on the links for each organization to find out more about them. FLOW-For Love of Words, is a very small group which has been meeting in my hometown for ten or twelve years. Members of the Lost State Writers Guild, a somewhat larger group, have been together a little longer.
I'm a board member of the Appalachian Authors Guild and Associates, which includes new and well-known writers from all over the area covered by the Appalachian Regional Commission, as well as a couple from Western states. Look for us at regional festivals, such as the highly-acclaimed Virginia Highlands Festival in Abingdon, Virginia, which takes place in July/August each year, and events marking historic occasions all around the Mid-Atlantic region.
The first annual Appalachian Heritage Writers conference in June, 2009, hosted by Southwest Virginia Community College in Richlands, VA was a great success, judging by participant evaluation remarks. Other sponsors of the symposium included Dominion Power and Clinch Valley Bank as well as individual donors. Winning entries in the writing contests may be found at Appalachian Heritage Writers Symposium
If you'd like to hear more about the Lost State Writers Guild or the Appalachian Authors Guild and Associates, email Sylvia or click the Contact Me link in the sidebar.
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