On January 7th, The Shreveport Writer’s Club met at the Shreve Memorial Broadmoor Branch Library. We started our meeting with awarding three members who submitted their work. Each month we give a “Making the Mark” pen to each member who has submitted their work towards a publication, contest, journal and any public forum. This encourages members to share their writing and expand where their creative work reaches.
Our Flash Writing Exercise encourages members to think creatively in a limited set time. We take ten minutes to create a written piece based on the topics that are given. This month the topics were, “What a show!”, “That one time when I…”, “The creepy guy”, “I didn’t see that coming…” and of course “Topic of choice”. At the end of the exercise each member is given a chance to read what they have come up with. Seven members were brave enough to share their work and we applaud each of them.
The Shreveport Writer’s Club Anthology is still in its editing phase. This month is the last month that members in good standing can send bios and pictures that they would like to have with the work they submitted. Please send this information to shreveportwritersclub@gmail.com. Also, send any anthology related questions to that e-mail.
The President of the club has issued a challenge: “Over this year, what are you going to do to improve your craft and writing skill?” Let’s take up this challenge and learn how to grow as writers.
Our next meeting will be held on February 4th at the Shreve Memorial Broadmoor Branch Library in Shreveport, Louisiana. It will be held from 10am-12pm. We will have writer, Pamela Hamilton, as our guest speaker. She has just finished writing a book and will discuss with us how she came up with the idea to write the book, what made her think she could do it, the outline used, her surprise ending and practicing pitch for book to agents.
The Critique Meeting will be held February 18th at the Broadmoor Library from 10am-12pm. Critique groups are held for members to share their work. Here you can have other members listen to excerpts of your writing and critique any way you wish.
On March 18th we will hold the Writer’s Medley at the Broadmoor Branch Library. This will be from 10am-12pm. We will be asking for volunteers at the February meeting.
At the end of each meeting we have a Round Robin Reading. This allows members to share an except of their work to be heard. This month we heard an except from a story, two poems, and a story written in a Japanese folk story style. Thank you to all the members who shared.
Remember that members of the group can share helpful writing events and links to the Facebook group. This helps keep your fellow writer’s in the loop of any beneficial information that will help their craft.
If you have any questions or comments please send them to shreveporwritersclub@gmail.com.
We look forward to seeing you in February and remember to “Write on!”
Shreveport Writers Club 