Marsha works with other writers as a mentor, creative consultant, editor, workshop presenter, contest judge, coach, and teacher. In 1986 she founded American Night Writers Association (ANWA), a network for women writers of the LDS faith, and was the facilitator of the group for many years. She served as the first General President, and is now the Membership Secretary.
Marsha taught creative writing at Irving School and newspaper writing at Carmel Charter School. She has read her work at Yavapai College and the Sharlot Hall Museum in Prescott, Arizona. Her current projects include publishing the third Owen Family novel, Trail of Storms, and finishing another novel set in Arizona in the 1890s.
Marsha is a member of Western Writers of America Inc., Women Writing the West, and American Night Writers Association (ANWA). She is based in Central Arizona. Marsha is happy to give talks to writers', civic, and book groups, and can be reached at marshaw AT marshaward DOT com.
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She has received several prizes and "Special Honorable Mentions" in national contests. Marsha won Second Place in the Fall Contest sponsored by Superstition Mountain Scribes in September, 2001, and is one of 12 finalists in the 2001 ByLine Magazine Short Fiction Awards with her story, "War Party". In March 2002, Marsha won SMS's Annual Poetry Contest with "My Mother's Bureau Drawer". In November 2002, she won the Arizona Association of American Mothers Inc. Poetry Competition with the same poem. She entered the poem in the national American Mothers Inc. Alice Abel Literature Competition in Poetry, and won First Prize in March 2003!
