Rockford Writers' Guild

11/27/2025

Sending warm Thanksgiving wishes to our American writers. Enjoy! And maybe write a poem or 2 about your feast... 🦃🎃🥧🍂

11/19/2025

My November Guest by Robert Frost

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11/17/2025

Thank you to author Charlotte DiGregorio for speaking to us yesterday! We enjoyed learning more about how to promote our own writing and your further advertising expertise.

Sunday, December 21st 1-3pm Rockford time will be our last RWG on Zoom meeting of 2025! Attendees will be sharing their writing on the prompt "gifts" and/or "gift giving". All Zoom meetings are open to RWG members! Zoom link sent via email. Join us 1-3 PM Rockford time. If you are interested in seeing how we run our Zoom meetings without becoming an RWG member right away, please email president Sally at [email protected] for the Zoom link.

11/04/2025

11 more days! Be sure to encourage the youth in your life to enter their writing!

Any questions, please email Sally the RWG president at [email protected] OR [email protected]

Happy Writing!

✨✨Roughly 1 month out until the deadline for the youth poetry and prose contests!✨✨Be sure to share!

ROCKFORD REVIEW YOUTH POETRY CONTEST
*Open to all kids up to age 18, deadline November 15, 2025
*Cash prizes plus publication in Winter-Spring edition of The Rockford
Review!

Winner in 13-18 age group — $150
Winner in 12 and Under — $150
2nd Place in 13-18 age group — $100
2nd Place in 12 and Under — $100
3rd Place in 13-18 age group — $75
3rd Place in 12 and Under — $75
Honorable Mention, 13-18 — $25
Honorable Mention, 12 and Under — $25

* Send 3 poems, each 50 lines or less, no more than 60 letters/spaces
per line
* Please include contact information, age, and school (or home school)
* Submit via online form here:
https://www.rockfordwritersguild.org/online-submission-form/ or send to
[email protected]

ROCKFORD REVIEW YOUTH PROSE CONTEST
* Open to all kids up to age 18, deadline November 15, 2025
*Cash prizes plus publication in Winter-Spring edition of The Rockford
Review!

Winner in 13-18 age group — $100
Winner in 12 and Under — $100

* Send up to 3 prose pieces (stories or creative nonfiction), each 1,300
words or less
* Please include contact information, age, and school (or home school)
* Submit via online form here:
https://www.rockfordwritersguild.org/online-submission-form/ or send to
[email protected]

11/01/2025

Come see RWG at Bennie's Cleaners for the Grown-Up Book Fair 5pm-10pm today! $5 TRR copies for sale! It will be a blast! Can't wait to see you!

10/26/2025

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10/19/2025

🎃👻 Today's RWG meeting was filled with spooky and not-so-spooky stories as well as poems shared by our very talented members in time for the Halloween season! Thank you to all who shared their work today! 🎃👻

Our next RWG on Zoom meeting will be held on November 16th 1-3pm Rockford time. Author Charlotte DiGregorio will be our featured author of the month. She will share recent work: Learn to Be Your Own Publicist and Sell Your Books!

Hope to see you there, and have a great Halloween, writers!

10/10/2025

✨✨Roughly 1 month out until the deadline for the youth poetry and prose contests!✨✨Be sure to share!

ROCKFORD REVIEW YOUTH POETRY CONTEST
*Open to all kids up to age 18, deadline November 15, 2025
*Cash prizes plus publication in Winter-Spring edition of The Rockford
Review!

Winner in 13-18 age group — $150
Winner in 12 and Under — $150
2nd Place in 13-18 age group — $100
2nd Place in 12 and Under — $100
3rd Place in 13-18 age group — $75
3rd Place in 12 and Under — $75
Honorable Mention, 13-18 — $25
Honorable Mention, 12 and Under — $25

* Send 3 poems, each 50 lines or less, no more than 60 letters/spaces
per line
* Please include contact information, age, and school (or home school)
* Submit via online form here:
https://www.rockfordwritersguild.org/online-submission-form/ or send to
[email protected]

ROCKFORD REVIEW YOUTH PROSE CONTEST
* Open to all kids up to age 18, deadline November 15, 2025
*Cash prizes plus publication in Winter-Spring edition of The Rockford
Review!

Winner in 13-18 age group — $100
Winner in 12 and Under — $100

* Send up to 3 prose pieces (stories or creative nonfiction), each 1,300
words or less
* Please include contact information, age, and school (or home school)
* Submit via online form here:
https://www.rockfordwritersguild.org/online-submission-form/ or send to
[email protected]