Tired of not making a living wage as a freelance writer or editor? Exhausted by shrinking full time opportunities in the private sector? Why not write for the federal government? BRING YOUR LAPTOP TO THIS MEETING.

Date: Thursday, July 22, 2010
Time: 7-9 pm
Location: Barnes & Noble Longate Shopping Center
Speaker: Nicole Schultheis
Topic: Federal Jobs for Writers

Nicole Schultheis helps jobseekers find federal employment and develop compelling federal resumes and essays for their applications. Her clients include public relations, communications and public affairs specialists, researchers, writer/editors and others. Whether you are are new to the process of getting a federal job, or are a federal worker seeking a change, come find out where the writing jobs are and how to maximize your chances of getting one.

Attorney Nicole Schultheis is the newly elected President of the Maryland Writers' Association. She is a Certified Federal Job Search Trainer and job search consultant for The Resume Place and a West author whose work has appeared in The Daily Record, The Maryland Bar Journal, Brevity, The Vestal Review, and elsewhere. She is also the founder of the Baltimore Writers Collective.

We also need to elect a new president or we could lose our charter, and we need representation on the state board. If anyone knows of free meeting space for August, please let me know. Libraries are booked. They have book programs, summer reading programs or senior center programs in their rooms.

See you there.