Fire season is the time to check your emergency supplies. As well as having a plan for your family (medicine, food and water, and power cords just in case you find some place with electricity), make sure you have an emergency plan for your writing. Do you have backups of your work-in-progress? Are your notes and research materials consolidated in one place, ready to slip in the … [Read more...] about Get Ready To Run by Lani Longshore
Winterfest: Open Mic, January 18, 2020
Celebrate the new year with others whose passion for writing is as strong as your own. Join us for a meeting filled with open-mic readings by our members during our Winterfest celebration. Sign up early to snag one of the nine five-minute reading slots. This is your time to share your poems, flash fiction, short-short stories, or excerpts from longer form manuscripts with your … [Read more...] about Winterfest: Open Mic, January 18, 2020
Member Successes
Elaine Drew read from Courting Trouble (a romantic comedy set in England in 800 AD) at the Lafayette Library Sunday, September 15, at 4 pm, as part of the Art Embraces Words program. Dr. Jac Fitz-enz is featured in the September 2019 issue of CFO magazine. Jac is quoted by David McCann in “Human Capital's Big Reveal” in the sidebar titled … [Read more...] about Member Successes
Book Published
Like everyone around him, Everett Aboud was stuck in his own personal dead-end. Until Friday, April 18, when Philip Machen changed life for everyone. Ed Miracle's debut novel, Maker Messiah, was published September 14. Eve Sprunt's book Dearest Audrey, An Unlikely Love Story, based on her aunt's letters while on a Fullbright in Pakistan in 1956, was made … [Read more...] about Book Published
Workshop Á La Carte, December 21, 2019
Have you poured your heart and soul into a draft of your novel or spent the month of November writing 50,000 + words for NaNoWriMo, and now don’t know what to do with all your effort? Are you stuck with your research? Or not sure if you’ve done enough to properly world build? Perhaps you have questions about self-publishing. Maybe you want to try your hand at poetry. Then join … [Read more...] about Workshop Á La Carte, December 21, 2019






