Member News & Announcements
Looking for a good read to shake off the doldrums?
Check out these titles by some of our SWA members.
Sandra Giles
Sandra Giles led a world build- ing workshop “Not in Kansas Anymore” for the Young Writers Conference at Abraham Baldwin Agricultural College on June 25, 2022. Giles is recording secretary and a member of SWA Board of Directors.

Caleb Wygal
.jpg)
Caleb Wygal’s third novel in his Myrtle Beach mystery series, Death on the Golden Mile (Frank- lin/Kerr Publisher), is scheduled for release August 23, 2022. In this book, Wygal takes readers to one of the most upscale areas of the Grand Strand, the Golden Mile, as the lead character, Clark
Thomas, receives an invitation to a retired Holly- wood music composer’s oceanfront estate. Wygal will be at the Back Again Book Shop, Myrtle Beach SC on August 23 from 11 a.m.-2 p.m.
Ed R. Green
In July, Ed R. Green launched Hope (CreateSpace), the first book in his six-part The Sapphire Prison series. The other five books in the series are finished and ready to be released. He has also completed three of the four books in his subsequent series, The Orb of Ascendance. This series involves the
protagonists who, at the end of the first series, were still breathing.
Rebecca Bruff
Rebecca Dwight Bruff’s 2019 award-winning historical novel, Trouble the Water, was freely adapted by Ellen Geer into a play being per- formed by Will Geer’s Theatricum Botanicum on the outdoor stage in Topanga CA through October 2.
Trouble the Water is the true story of Robert Smalls, the first African American hero of the Civil War. Smalls, who was born into slavery in Beaufort SC, carried his family and others to freedom by commandeering a Confederate warship into Union waters.
Member Websites
Click a name to visit their website!
Past Faculty Members
2022 Faculty Members' Websites
SWA 2021-2022
BOARD OF DIRECTORS
President/Contest Coordinator.............................................
Vice-President /Registrar:....................................................
Treasurer: ...........................................................................
Recording Secretary: ...........................................................
Social Media Director...........................................................
Purple Pros Editor................................................................
Web Liaison.........................................................................
Board Member Emeritus.......................................................
SWA Auxiliary
Social Hours: .....................................................................
Hospitality: ........................................................................
SWA Staff:
Meeting Planner: ..............................................................
Webmaster .......................................................................
Sheila Hudson
Jim Furry
Patrick Hempfing
Sandra Giles
Dana Ridenour
Muriel Pritchett
Tim Hudson
Amy Munnel
Mary Purcell
Cappy Rearick & Mary Stripling
Tim Hudson
Brian Wallace