Contest Opens June 1, 2025
ACFW KIDLIT ONLINE CHAPTER
MEMBERSHIP APPLICATION
DIRECTIONS:
To receive a fillable PDF, please email the chapter at the button below.
Follow the instructions on the form.
EMAIL your form to the Chapter when finished.
You can also find the fillable PDF in the free group for ACFW Children's Fiction Group on FB
Go to the Files Tab at the FB group.
Note: This is not the paid KidLit group on FB.
Membership required with ACFW National before applying to the KidLit Chapter.
PRESIDENT
Bettie
Boswell
Bettie Boswell has always loved to read and write. That interest helped her create musicals for both church and school students. Eventually she decided to write and illustrate stories to share with the world. Her writing publications include works for children to adults and from fiction to non-fiction. She has written other works including leveled readers, magazine articles, and contributed to lesson plan collections, devotionals, and short story anthologies. She is a minister's wife, church musician, mother of two grown men, and a grandma. She loves the arts and shares her doodles, and photography from her daily walks, on social media.
VICE
PRESIDENT
Janice
Miller
Janice Miller couldn’t wait to learn to read so she could read all day. Those reading marathons haven’t happened, but a girl can dream!
Janice writes books with a Christian worldview that she wishes had been available when her children were small. Now her granddaughter is her inspiration. Janice writes board books and picture books, one of which was a finalist in the ACFW KidLit contest.
Janice is a former elementary teacher, Sunday school teacher, and church drama and curriculum writer who has published several articles and poems. She lives in Indiana and is an adjunct college instructor.
TREASURER
Suzi
Ronning
Suzi is published in short story anthologies. She is an executive administrative / financial assistant, writer, photographer, and scrapbooker.
Suzi was a member of ACRW (American Christian Romance Writers) before it became ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers). She is a charter member and treasurer of the ACFW KidLit Chapter.
She wrote her first short story in the fifth grade and was hooked on writing. She enjoys writing romance, suspense, and now children's picture books.
Suzi has lived abroad in France and Italy, but currently resides in her native Texas with her husband, one dog, two cats, and five rescued cats.
SECRETARY
Jean
Alfieri
When Jean’s eyes locked with those of a smooshy-faced little dog who sat inside a kennel at the Humane Society, it was love. He captured her heart and she captures their many adventures in short story poems starring Zuggy the Rescue Pug.
An author, speaker, and advocate for the adoption of senior dogs, Jean finds much of her writing inspiration from her “vintage puppies” and work at the Pikes Peak Humane Society. She and her husband currently live with their pack of fur kids in Colorado. They joke that although the humans pay the mortgage, it’s really the dogs’ house!
PRESIDENT
Bettie
Boswell
Bettie Bettie Boswell has always loved to read and write. That interest helped her create musicals for both church and school students. Eventually she decided to write and illustrate stories to share with the world. Her writing publications include works for children to adults and from fiction to non-fiction. She has written other works including leveled readers, magazine articles, and contributed to lesson plan collections, devotionals, and short story anthologies. She is a minister's wife, church musician, mother of two grown men, and a grandma. She loves the arts and shares her doodles, and photography from her daily walks, on social media.
VICE
PRESIDENT
Mary Ann
Hake
Mary Ann has loved learning, reading, and writing for as long as she can remember. She has published two award-winning picture books plus hundreds of pieces for both children and adults in periodicals and compilation books.
Her middle grade historical novel will be published by Elk Lake Publishers. She also works as a freelance editor. She loved working in a bookstore and as a librarian and enjoyed helping with research, reading to children, and conducting summer reading programs.
She has also taught writing to children and at writers’ conferences. She lives in the high desert of Central Oregon with her husband of fifty years.
TREASURER
Suzi
Ronning
Suzi is published in short story anthologies. She is an executive administrative / financial assistant, writer, photographer, and scrapbooker.
Suzi was a member of ACRW (American Christian Romance Writers) before it became ACFW (American Christian Fiction Writers). She is a charter member and treasurer of the ACFW KidLit Chapter.
She wrote her first short story in the fifth grade and was hooked on writing. She enjoys writing romance, suspense, and now children's picture books.
Suzi has lived abroad in France and Italy, but currently resides in her native Texas with her husband, one dog, two cats, and five rescued cats.
SECRETARY
Patricia Tiffany
Morris
Patricia's art & writing embraces inspirational messages and encourages others to find hope in a vibrant relationship with God.
An eclectic creative with a geeky-tech affinity and a poet with three names, she has earned awards in poetry, YA, children’s, short & literary fiction, and suspense.
In 2024, she won was named a double winner and a finalist with CBI, Children's Book International in children’s lit for her unpublished picture book, “Grief Like Rain.”
Publications: Guideposts, NFSPS, Lyrical Iowa, EnLiven Devotionals, Patricia’s own imprint, Tiffany Inks Studio LLC & more.
She adores Pinterest, Instagram, and hashtags, but finds Twitter quirky.