Active NLAPW members in good standing are invited to submit entries to the 2024-25 Vinnie Ream competition, beginning September 30. Entries will be accepted in the art, letters, and music categories through March 30, 2025.

For the past year, the Central Ohio Branch has been extraordinarily busy. In addition to planning and hosting the NLAPW 51st Biennial with the art exhibit in the Main Gallery of the Priscilla R. Tyson Cultural Arts Center, the branch hosted a concurrent exhibition in The Loft Gallery on the third floor. To top it off, the branch had the largest percentage of growth across the League for the 2023-24.

The NLAPW recently selected three outstanding women to receive the biannual Shirley Holden Helberg Grants for the Mature Women. Congratulations to the recipients!

NLAPW will have a new, cross-genre competition designed to encourage collaboration among Pen Women. Competition teams may be made up of Pen Women within one branch, multiple branches, or members-at-large.

A group of Pen Women writers got together recently at the Pen Arts Building in Washington, D.C., for a writing retreat. Led by fellow Pen Woman Nancy Dafoe, a talented writer and former NLAPW letters chair, the women worked on their projects, received coaching, and shared their work.

A creative collaboration between two letters members of the Greenwich Branch has resulted in some astoundingly beautiful and meaningful work, including a collaboration among letters, art, and music members.