The Guilded Pen: Traversing Life: Twelfth Edition
Life is an ever-changing adventure that presents us with countless opportunities to learn, grow, and discover new things. Embracing this journey with an open mind and a willingness to embrace change is the key to unlocking your full potential and living a truly fulfilling life. Traversing Life, the 2023 Guilden Pen anthology from the San Diego Editors and Writers Guild highlights forty-five works by thirty-nine talented writers. Each essay, short story, poem, or memoir will delight the reader as the writers explore, explain, and have fun with those ever-evolving trips we all take as we traverse life.
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Become an affiliateThe San Diego Writers and Editors Guild is a group of writers and editors dedicated to improving our skills and helping others do the same. Our mission is to promote, support, and encourage the writing art for adults and youth at every level of experience.
Our annual anthology, The Guilded Pen, is a volume of the best writing submitted by our membership. Many writers have published here for the first time alongside some of San Diego's most acclaimed authors.
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