BAWL & Friends Newsletter

November 2025 Edition

Hello, Writers,

On the BAWL website, there are multiple resource pages with links to various sources of help for writers and publishers. As a reminder, here are a few: 

Reedsy - Established in 2014, Reedsy offers tools, education, and human resources to help writers and publishers. Sign up on their website and for their newsletter to receive emails like this one about Generative Search for Books to help your marketing efforts. 

Writing Mastery Academy - This is the website for the author who wrote Save the Cat! You can subscribe to the Weekly W.R.I.T.E.R. here.

Kindlepreneur - Dave Chesson's site teaches people how to self-publish a book and sell more copies online. Their mailing list/newsletter can be very informative. Most of their content is free. Book Marketing 101, for example. 

Authors Publish - Every newsletter they distribute includes information for writers on contests, publishers seeking stories, and manuscripts and poems. There is all sorts of helpful information on the site. Check it out. Here is the link to one from last week: https://authorspublish.com/32-themed-submission-calls-and-contests-for-november-2025/

These four just scratch the surface of what is available to help you on your writer's journey. If you have suggestions for the Resources pages, please send them to editorBAWL@gmail.com

Becky Ellisor has provided another installment of On Writing, which is the November Feature for members. 

As another reminder, there will be no in-person end-of-the-month BAWL meetings in November or December.

The 2025 BAWL Anthology will be out in December. Kate Sanger, the anthology Editor and President of BAWL, will announce the date as well as a December get-together and signing soon.

Happy Writing!

- Kelley

Inspiration Needed?

Writing Prompt Image of the Month Needs Your Art or Photo!

Hey! You photographers out there! Have you taken a thought provoking photo? Send it to editorbawl@gmail.com so we can use it as the Writing Prompt Image of the Month. You keep all rights to your image. We just put it here for all (about 80) newsletter recipients to see.


WRITING PROMPT IMAGE OF THE MONTH

submitted by Kelley Garcia. 


Inspirational Quotes of the Month:

"The central project of my adult life as a writer is to know and love what we have been given, and to urge others to do the same.”

—Barry Lopez

“With a little more time, patience, and hard work, and above all with a more sensitive taste for the formal aspects of arts, he would have managed to write mediocre poetry, good enough for a lady’s album – and this is always a gallant thing to do, whatever you may say.”

― Gustave Flaubert, November

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