Shreveport Writers Club

Shreveport Writers Club will hold a virtual Critique Meeting on September 19th from 10:00 AM until 12:00 PM via Zoom.

Participants are asked to bring one or two pages of their writing to read aloud and recieve feedback from other group members. If you don’t have writing to read, you can still take part. Shreveport Writers Club Critiques are for helpful, informative, contstructive and supportive responses to other members’ writing efforts.

For more information and to request the Zoom link, send an email to http://www.shreveportwritersclub@gmail.com

The June 2020 Shreveport Writers Club meeting will be a virutal meeting using Zoom* on Saturday, June 6th, 2020.

In order to protect the integrity of the meeting and inusre a positive experience for our attendees, anyone interested in attending the meeting must send an email to shreveportwritersclub@gmail.com requesting the meeting link and password no later than noon Friday, June 5th.

Members of the Shreveport Writers Club Facebook group, who are on the group email list may post a Zoom meeting request on the Facebook page. The meeting link and password will be emailed to you. The meeting link and password will not be posted in the Facebook group.

If you are not in the Facebook group, you may ask to join the Shreveport Writers Club Facebook group and post your meeting request there.  If you are not already on the Shreveport Writers Club  email list, you will be asked to provide an email address. The meeting link and password will be emailed to you.

The Critique Group will also meet virually via Zoom on June 20th at 10 am. The procedure for requesting an email with the meeting link and password for the Critique Group is the same as for the general meeting.  The request to attend Critique Group needs to be submitted by noon Friday, June 19th, either through the Facebook group or by email.

The group has tentative plans to return to in-person meetings in July. Please watch this blog or log into the Facebook group for any updates.

We look forward to seeing everyone!ng

Write on!

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The Shreveport Writers Club met on Saturday, January 4th, 2020 at the Broadmoor Library.  Group members welcomed several guests.

The first order of business was the Making the Mark Awards, where recognition is given to any writer who submitted anything to a publication or had anything published within the preceding month. There were several exciting announcements from several group members including the release of THIS!

This anthology was a labor of love and is now available for Kindle download or in paperback from Amazon.com  Click the link for more information or to order  Through the Years: A Collection of Written Works from the Shreveport Writers Club 2015-2019 

The writers spent some time discussing the activities and meetings they most enjoyed in 2019 and what they hoped to see the club doing in the new year.

Next the group participated in the month flash writing exercise and many to chose to share from the ten-minute write.

The group then welcomed the guest speaker Jrayis Deyond. Deyond is a self-published writer whose two books feature a writer named Jason who writes an advice column for a local newspaper. The books focus on the struggles of the complex lives of a group of LFBTQ+ characters navigating the world and their personal lives.

Deyond spoke about reaching out ot other writers to help him with the first manuscript that took ten years to develop.  Working while battle homelessnes, Deyond said working on the first book offered an escape and even kept him motivated and inspired. Today, Deyond is no longer homeless, has published a second book, continued to write and has a book of poetry forthcoming.

Deyond also offered tips on networking and book promotion. Thank you to Jrayis Deyond for sharing his insights with the group.

The next Critique Group meeting will be January 25th at 10 am at the Broadmoor Library.

The next regular meeting for Shreveport Writer’s Club will be February 1st at 10 am at the Broadmoor Library. Guest speaker will be Lauren Pennywell of Pennywell Creatives.

Write on!