March 2026
Join us on Saturday, March 21st, 2026, from 10:00 am to 12:00 pm. As usual, we will meet at the Devonshire Senior Center, 2802 E. Devonshire Avenue, Phoenix, Arizona 85016, to connect and catch up on club activities.
This month, we will begin our celebration of the PWC’s Centennial Anniversary by sharing the winners of our Centennial Year Founders Contest: Pioneering Spirit.
Celebrate our contest winners this month and learn more about our vast history.
The PWC Dear Founders Contest celebrates Women’s History Month with a nod to the feisty
founders of the Phoenix Writers Club. 100 years ago, after being denied entry to the Phoenix
Press Club because of their gender, the Phoenix Writers Club was formed. This year’s contest
theme of pioneering spirit was embraced by the entrants so wholeheartedly that it made for
tough decisions in choosing an essay winner and honorable mention, as well as a poetry winner
and honorable mention. We are excited to reveal the winners at the Saturday, March 21 st, PWC
meeting held at the Devonshire Senior Center in Phoenix at 10 am.
The Phoenix Writers Club & writing contests go way back. The club retains copies of letters that
establish Phoenix’s first postmaster general and newspaperman, and one of the original
Roosevelt’s Roughriders, Colonel James Harvey McClintock, as a judge in an early PWC contest
from 1930. You may recognize the name from McClintock Road or the many schools that bear
his name. Col. McClintock was an instrumental part of Arizona history in the 1920s and 30s.
Getting a renowned writer like Col. McClintock to judge a contest should convey how seriously
the Phoenix Writers Club founders took their writing.
Today, we are a club for all writers, regardless of gender, but recognize that during Women’s
History Month, the PWC Dear Founders Contest honors the pioneering spirit of those witty
Western women whose legacy lives on a century later. Winners will receive prizes and
certificates at the ceremony, where they will be given the opportunity to read their winning piece.
Updates on our more formal winter Centennial celebration, as well as historical information, will
also be discussed at our March meeting. Please join us for the festivities!
Several PWC members will also share more of our club’s history, as we all dig into the archives and learn more about those who came before us.
Hello, I think I’m gonna come tomorrow and I’ll bring my $40 to join. This is my first time and I just spotted it today and saw that you have an event tomorrow so I’m going to show up and hopefully somebody can take my money and make me
Maria,
Thank you for reaching out. We look forward to meeting you tomorrow. Several board members will be there and then can help you. Just let them know when you get to the desk at the entrence.
Thanks!
Eric