All Blog Posts Tagged 'Fight' (8)

First Annual WUFC Charity Writing Contests

First Annual WUFC Writing Contest: Courage to Thrive opens Today April 16th, 2012.



Writers Unite to Fight Cancer has partnered with the Virginia G. Piper Creative Writing Center at Arizona State University to hold the first annual WUFC writing contest starting April 16th 2012 through midnight on August 15th 2012. Then fee of $30.00 per entry will be donated to the Virginia G. Piper Cancer Center Community Outreach and Research Programs. Winners and Finalist will be published in the… Continue

Added by Margaret on April 16, 2012 at 9:00am — No Comments

38 authors celebrate Arizona's Centennial and raise money for Cancer Research!

Live music, 38 authors, two doctors, a dozen vendors and Arizona State Senator Jerry Lewis celebrate Arizona’s 100th birthday at the WUFC Arizona Centennial Cancer Research Fundraiser. Date: February 2nd, 2012. Time: 6:30 pm – 9:30 pm. Place: The Arizona Biltmore Resort on 2400 E. Missouri in Phoenix, 85016. Refreshments, Silent Auction, Speeches, author signings are all part of the celebration. Beneficiaries for this Fundraiser, an official Arizona Centennial Event are:

1.) Southwest… Continue

Added by Margaret on January 21, 2012 at 10:30am — No Comments

Wielding the Pen in Battle against Cancer

There are thirty award winning Writers Unite to Fight Cancer (WUFC) Arizona resident, and or cancer book authors participating in the WUFC Arizona Centennial Cancer Research Fundraiser. This charitable event will be held at the Arizona Biltmore in Phoenix Arizona on February 2nd, 2012 from 6:30pm until 9:30 pm. These authors wield their pens producing a variety of genres, fiction, non-fiction, children’s books, young adult, memoirs and more.



Two books that will be represented at this… Continue

Added by Margaret on January 7, 2012 at 1:33pm — No Comments

The Season of Giving!

Each guest that purchases a ticket to the Writers Unite to Fight Cancer (WUFC) Arizona Centennial Cancer Research Fundraiser  on February 2nd, 2012 will receive a gift bag. The first 160 guests to purchase a ticket will receive the book …

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Added by Margaret on December 23, 2011 at 10:30am — No Comments

Mother and Son Authors Share Their Experience with Cancer

Michael J. Moorehead is the author of The Student from Zombie Island. He wrote this story when he was 9 years old. Michael lives in Tempe, Arizona, with his mother, Lynda Exley a freelance writer and editor for the SanTan Sun News and Arizona Parentingmagazine, and his father, an insurance property adjustor, who moonlights as a movie critic for the Wrangler News.



Lynda Exley is the co-author with Conrad Storad of Arizona Way Out West and Wacky. This excellent educational children’s… Continue

Added by Margaret on December 15, 2011 at 7:30am — No Comments

Three Authors Raise Money for Cancer Research

New Book: AZ Way Out West & Wacky featured at A+ Book Fairs 12/3/11…

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Added by Margaret on November 25, 2011 at 8:00am — No Comments

Author Angela Morrison forms Great Strides Walk Team to help find cure for Cystic Fibrosis

Great Strides: Taking Steps to Cure Cystic Fibrosis is the Cystic Fibrosis Foundation’s largest national fundraising event. Tens of thousands of co-workers, friends and family come together each year as one community for one cause…to help find a cure for CF.



Angela Morrison is the author of SING ME TO SLEEP. Her readers have formed a Great Strides Walker team. You can help by joining the team or donating money to the team to help find a cure for Cystic Fibrosis. Your generous… Continue

Added by Margaret on May 18, 2011 at 10:00pm — No Comments

DETERMINED MOM FIGHTS BACK AGAINST DIABETES

Every year, for the month of May, New York Times and USA Today Best-selling Author Brenda Novak runs an online auction for diabetes research. The auction takes a full year to

plan and pull off, but it’s a labor of love—an effort to help all the people who, like her youngest son, suffer from diabetes. Her very first auction ran in 2005. It started small but

has grown every year by leaps and bounds.



Yearly totals to date:

2005 - $34,98

2006 - $62,705

2007 -… Continue

Added by Margaret on May 3, 2011 at 3:55pm — No Comments

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