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Reading Material for Isolated Times - Support Local Authors

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Tributaries: An Anthology of the Savannah Writers Group is a collection of fifty works of prose and poetry by over twenty authors who belong to the Savannah Writers Group, based in Savannah, Georgia. Memoir, mystery, comedy, romance, and science fiction can all be found within these pages. On the cover is the original artwork by Savannah Writers Group member, Rick Adams. His art includes a depiction of the actual Tributaries of the Savannah River. Support local writers by buying your copy from Amazon today. $ 4.99 Kindle eBook/ $ 9.99 Soft Cover In Tributaries: An Anthology of the Savannah Writers Group , published in 2017, SWG member, Garr Parks wrote THE DECOY MAKER . "I had met such characters as Glover, the inmate locked up in Isolation cell F-9, during my twenty-year career as a Correction Officer at Somers State Prison in Somers, CT. The isolation cells were units in the segregation block, which housed the most troublesome or violent

Meetings Cancelled Until Further Notice

In light of current events, meetings of the Savannah Writers Group will no longer be meeting. Keep an eye on your in-box for future newsletters, stay healthy, and stay safe.

New Meeting Place - Jalapeños

Tomorrow, Tuesday, February 25th at 7 PM the Savannah Writers Group will meet at Jalapeños Restaurant, located at 8840 Abercorn Street #5 in Savannah, in the private dining room, which is to the right as you enter.

Newsletter News

Hello! As you may know, one of our members, Sophia Alexander, is generously starting a newsletter which will be sent out semi-regularly announcing meetings, programs, and the like. If you did not receive or respond yet to an earlier email and would like to be on the SWG Newsletter mailing list, please reply to sophia.alexander@hotmail.com with a subject of "Yes". No message is necessary. If your email is not set up automatically to save all addresses to whom you send, I suggest that you add Sophia's address to your contacts list so that her messages won't be sent to your Junk/Spam folder. (Alternatively, you can use our fancy new widget on the right hand column of the blog, which should be available on the web version, though it may not be showing up if you are on a cell phone.) If you have any questions about the newsletter, please contact Sophia at the address in the link. Many thanks to members who have taken on some of the managerial tasks since I retired

Tips for First Person Narrative

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Hello fellow writers!! Are you curious about the Savannah Writers Group? Fantastic! My advice is that you come to a meeting, and soon! We can't wait to meet you. Our meetings take place every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month, like clockwork! We meet in the super swanky back room of Uncle Maddio's Pizza, which is located at Chatham Plaza. Group members range from those new to the craft, seasoned professionals, hobbyists, folks who are published, folks who are not, non-fiction dabblers, speculative fiction wizards, poets, essayists, and everything in-between! Sometimes we even present wondrous guest speakers. In case you missed it, earlier this month we heard from author Lance Levens. Since your faithful blogger (that's me) hasn't posted anything of interest lately, I thought it was about time that I rectify that with today's writerly advice. Today's topic is writing in first person. In my younger and more vulnerable years my father gave me some advice that I&

Come to a Meeting

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The Savannah Writers Group is pleased to invite you to join us at a meeting! They are free and open to the public. We are a group comprised of published professionals and beginning hobbyists and everything in-between. Meetings are held every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month like clockwork at 7 PM at Uncle Maddio's Pizza in Savannah at the Chatham Plaza. For more information check out our official Facebook page or simply show up! We would love to meet you.

Tonight: Meet J.C. Sassar - Author of Gradle Bird

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Tonight is the second Tuesday of the month and attendees of the January 23rd meeting of the Savannah Writers Group to be held at 7 PM at Uncle Maddio's Pizza will share in the distinct pleasure of meeting J. C. Sassar, author of Gradle Bird . Biography I was born in Savannah, Georgia and grew up in a small town called Metter, sixty miles northwest. I first discovered writing through sound. As an infant, I crawled around the ankles of two of the best storytellers I’ve ever heard, my maternal grandmother and true Southern queen, Rubye Trapnell Becker, and my father, Hugh Esten Cromartie Jr., a legendary whitetail deer hunter and T-4 paraplegic with no legs. When I was old enough to make requests, I’d ask them to tell my favorite stories over and over again, sometimes four or five times in a row. The plots were not what I found most interesting. It was the way they told these stories that never got old.