Hello there FWG members! For those of you that have been with us for a long time, you will be excited to hear that we are bringing back the monthly newsletters! For those newer to the guild, we once produced monthly newsletters to tell people about things like new open markets and guild news. We’re hoping to bring this back to give all our members information to help them thrive while writing anthropomorphic fiction!
First it’s been a very busy month for the guild. We updated our website, got a new logo, opened up a new Discord channel, updated our membership listings, and voted on new by-laws and a new code of conduct. With all of our listing updates, we are showing 114 active members! We’ll keep accepting any updates as they come in, but we’re happy so many of you got the form filled out fast.
The vote to implement our new by-laws and code of conduct passed with over a 90% majority of members, so these will now be put into place. You can now see them on our website. With this in mind, this opens up several new officer positions within the guild. If you might be interested in becoming our Public Relations Officer, Markets Manager, or potentially the Cóyotl Awards Chair, please get in contact with a guild officer so we can talk to you!
Speaking of the Cóyotl Awards, where are they? We did hold our vote for the 2019 awards and have the results tallied. Issues with the current Covid 19 pandemic have made getting our normal supplies for our special coyote trophies a bit difficult as well as makes sending them out to winners tough. We are considering a special awards stream for the winners hopefully very soon and we promise to keep you posted.
If you haven’t joined the new official FWG Discord, you’re missing out on a lot of fun. One of the new features on the Discord is our special beta reading program, so we would like to spotlight Rockie Thiger (@Thiger on Discord) for providing the most beta reads for fellow authors this month! If you’d like to learn more about this new program or simply jump into the conversation come join us on Discord.
We would also like to welcome the newest members of our guild: Rockie Thiger, David “Ryft Sarri” Yenser, Resolute, Stacy Bender / P.C. Hatter, Dan Leinir Turthra Jensen, Jensyn Grayves, Metassus, and Herr Wozzeck! We are very excited to have these wonderful writers join our ranks.
In honor of Asian Pacific Heritage Month, we interviewed FWG member Allison Thai! You can find that full interview here. We’ll also be featuring some authors during Pride Month on the blog, so keep an eye out!
One last bit of guild business, we would like to remind our members about our Microfiction Monday initiative. Any writer, non-members included, that can write a Tweet sized story has the opportunity to have it featured on our Twitter! You can learn more about the program and how to submit here.
Several new books have been released over the last couple of months including:
- Furry Haiku edited by Thurston Howl
- Whip and Boot by Herr Wozzeck
- The Complete Dragonsbane Saga by Ian Madison Keller
- Gruesome Games: Howlers Volume 3 Edited by Thurston Howl
- Purgatorio: The Ten Regions Of Furry Purgatory Edited by Weasel
- Species: Wildcats edited by KC Alpinus,
- Difursity: Stories by Furries of Color edited by Weasel
Goal Publications also has two novels available for pre-order now including:
- Ritual of the Ancients by Ian Madison Keller
- When a Cat Loves a Dog by Mary E. Lowd
We want to express some particular excitement for Awoo, Who’s This? Coming from Bound Tales, this special anthology features members of the Furry Writers’ Guild trying to write in the style of other members. Funds from this anthology go to help the guild so consider giving it a look!
Part of our website update was making our Furry Writers’ Market better than ever before! You can find all of open markets for furry writing we can track down here: https://furrywritersguild.com/furry-writers-market/
Currently, these anthology markets are open:
- The Furry Gameshow Network (Deadline: July 10, 2020)
- Leave The Lights On (Deadline: July 20, 2020)
- Dread Volume 2. (Deadline: August 7, 2020)
- 1921: Furries In Fedoras (Deadline: October 31, 2020)
- Reclamation Project: Year Two (Deadline: October 31, 2020)
- Electric Sewer 2: Boogie Nights (Deadline: December 1, 2020)
Consider checking out our page for details and writing up a story for one of these awesome anthologies!
We know there’s been a lot going on lately, but we hope the guild can keep working together to keep making this an awesome space for all of our members. If you have any ideas for special programs we could work on, be sure to let us know! We have more projects around the corner that we’re very excited to show off when they are ready. Stay safe all of you wonderful furry writers!
– FWG President Linnea “LiteralGrill” Capps
Furry Writers’ Guild 