A reminder that we are having our holiday potluck! Come and bring a dish or snack to share. Also, bring some holiday writing to share with us.
Visitors and guests are welcome!
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Holiday Potluck
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Critique Group Meeting
Reminder: The Shreveport Writer’s Club Critique Group meeting will be Saturday, November 17th at Retro 521 Cafe, 521 Barksdale Blvd in Bossier City. Bring something to share or just come to offer advice and encouragement to those who bring their work. Guests and visitors are encouraged to attend. Come see what a supportive, serious group of writers can add to writing life.
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Shreveport Writers Club Nanowrimo Write-in
A reminder that this Wednesday is the second Shreveport Writers Club Nanowrimo Write-in. Join our Vice-President at Retro 521 Coffee, Cafe & Venue for some writing encourgement and delicious coffee.
Open for all club members and visitors are welcomed!
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Nanowrimo at Retro 521
The vice-president of the Shreveport Writers Club is hosting a Nanowrimo write-in at Retro 521 Coffee, Cafe & Venue starting today. This will occur every Wednesday from 5-7pm. Come out to be inspired and encourage each other.
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November Meeting
The Shreveport Writers Club held their regular monthly meeting at 10 am on Saturday, November 3rd. This month the writers met at Retro 521 Cafe in Bossier City.
Club President, Tiffany Pennywell, welcomed visitors and members. The first order of business was presenting the “Making a Mark” awards. Members who submitted any piece of writing to any publication are given a commemorative writing pen as encouragement. Writers this month “making a mark” were M. L. Dumars and Loretta Casteen.
The group then moved on to the Flash Writing Exercise. The writers were asked to write on any of these topics:
- I didn’t know my daughter knew the queen…
- A baker, a ballerina, and the ultimate ninja…
- He looked me straight in the eye and said…
- The turkey was almost done, but…
- Open topic
After members shared their writing, the group moved on to other business.
December Meeting News : 
The December Holiday meeting location was discussed, but not decided upon. Those interested are encouraged to check back on this site or on the Facebook group once the meeting place for December is finalized.
The December Holiday meeting will include the yearly potluck meal, games, readings and fun. Special guest for the December meeting will be novelist, Maple Sudds, who will discuss self-publishing her memoir No Blood in the Turnip.
Next, club Vice-President Deondre Holmes announced the winner of the October short story contest.
For her short story, “Windows” Stephanie Bullard won a $25 gift card and spooky Halloween shot glasses.
Congratulations Stephanie!
The theme and deadline for the next contest will be announced at the December meeting.
The writers then participated in another writing activity. Each person was asked to write for ten minutes about their “perfect writing situation.” Afterwards, writers shared their work, if they wished to.
The Shreveport Writers Club Critique Group will be held at Retro 521 on Saturday, November 17th, from 10 am to 12 pm.
Vice-President, Deondre Holmes also invited anyone interested in evening meet-ups back to Retro 521 every Wednesday evening in November from 5 to 7 pm for critiques, sharing work and encouragement during NaNoWriMo.
The final activity was the Round Robin reading. Anyone who brought writing to share was encouraged to do so.
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Reminder
A reminder that the Shreveport Writers Club location is at Retro 521 today in Bossier City.
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October Meeting
The Shreveport Writers Club held their regular monthly meeting on October 6th, 2018 at the Shreve Memorial Library Broadmoor Branch. President, Tiffany Pennywell welcomed visitors and members.
First on the agenda was the presentation of the Making the Mark Awards, given each month to members who have “taken the plunge” and submitted work for publication.
Next, the writers concentrated on the Flash Writing Exercise. Participants were asked to write for ten minutes about these writing prompts:
- Lancelot, plaid, outer space
- The Tragedy of the Ever-Smiling Clown
- An unusual house
- “Please shut the…”
- Open topic
After sharing their writing on the topics, the group heard from Vice-President Deondre Holmes. Deondre gave an update on the much-anticipated Shreveport Writers Club Anthology which will soon be available to order or to download from Amazon.com.
Deondre also announced the October Writing Contest.
Shreveport Writers Club members in good standing are encouraged to submit prose, poetry or creative non-fiction on one or more of the following themes:
- I’ve Never Been So Scared
- The Spirit of Halloween
- Ghouls, Goblins and Ghosts! Oh, my!
There is no fee to enter. There is no word limit on entries. Entries should be the original work of the author. All publishing rights remain with the author.
Entries will be judged blind. Each entry should have a cover page stating the author’s name, contact information, the title of the work and which theme their work references. The cover page will be removed from each entry before judging. No other identifying information should be included on the rest of the submission.
You may enter as many times as you like and may submit work on any or each topic, but each submission should be emailed separately.
Deadline for submissions is October 20th, 2018. Each submission and cover letter should be attached as a word document or an rtf file. If the work is short (under 1,000 words) you may also paste the submission in the body of the email, below your “cover sheet” information.
Entries should be emailed to shreveportwritersclub@gmail.com
If you are interested in becoming a member of Shreveport Writers Club, a PayPal option to pay your yearly membership fee is available. Click the PayPal button to the right to get started.
The writers then went on to play the game “Guilty Pleasures” where each person was asked to write down their favorite author or genre on a piece of paper. Players placed their paper slips together and Tiffany pulled them one by one. Members then tried to guess which person had written which “guilty pleasure” slip. Once the player was identified, each person talked about why that particular genre or writer was his or her favorite.
The Round Robin portion of the meeting followed. With writers sharing some of their most recent work and works-in progress.
Reminder: Critique Group will be held at the Shreve Memorial Library-Broadmoor Branch on Saturday, October 20, 2018.
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