When we reintroduced our newsletter a little over a week ago, we unfortunately hadn't gotten subscriptions up and running yet for nonmembers. We're excited to announce that absolutely anyone can now subscribe to the SWG newsletter. You can subscribe to the newsletter here or use the subscription box at the bottom of the sidebar on our website.

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The SWG moderator team has decided that we will no longer be updating the silwritersguild LiveJournal with official group announcements. This community does not receive a high level of engagement, and the values of LiveJournal's owners continue to be at odds with the values the SWG embraces.

This does not mean that we are closing this community. We invite people ( Read more... )

We are currently looking to fill two volunteer positions on our site. If you'd like to get more involved with the SWG, read on!

Art Editor

The art editor will work with contributors to our newsletter and Reference Library to find artwork for their articles and essays.

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As many of you know, we are actively rebuilding our website/archive. The software we currently use for the archive (eFiction) stopped being updated years ago, and we have been casually batting around alternatives to eFiction for the past few years. Then, last year, our webhost made some upgrades that broke parts of the site, and it became clear ( Read more... )

Volunteer Help NeededWe are looking for volunteers to assist with the Around the World and Web section of our newsletter. Your responsibilities would include reviewing links compiled by our moderators and writing brief summaries to inform our membership about the contents of the link ( Read more... )

The problem with notifications I reported the other day on the SWG archive has been fixed.

If you are not receiving a notification that you think you should be (comment, comment reply, update of a favorite story or by a favorite author), please let us know. You can comment here or email us at moderator@silmarillionwritersguild.org.

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At very long last, I have gotten all of the existing stamp collections up-to-date. I want to again thank you all for your patience as I slogged through real life chaos and Silmarillion40. I put the collections on the backburner (out of necessity!) and not one person complained. That made my life easier in these past few months--thank you again ( Read more... )

If you have content on this community, and if you are aware that we have imported the content of this community to Dreamwidth, please comment here.(If you commented on my last post, you don't need to comment again. I have your name recorded on my trusty sticky-note pad ( Read more... )

At the end of April, I requested member input on two questions related to our LiveJournal community: 1) Should we comply with the troubling new Terms of Service or refuse to do so, even at the possible risk of losing our LJ community? 2) What, if any, backup of this community should we make on Dreamwidth? ( Read the original LJ post here; read it in ( Read more... )

On Tuesday, I will be closing the survey about how to handle the silwritersguild LiveJournal community and using the results to discuss with my comods how we want to proceed. If you have not taken it yet and want to, please take the survey hereIn light of LJ's new and draconian Terms of Serve, we are seeking member input on whether we should comply with the ToS, ( Read more... )