Savannah Writers Group

A t the last meeting, we enjoyed a terrific presentation from guest speaker (and SWG Member) Jim Waller , on his latest book Tybee Sunrise and on the genre of Southern Fiction. June is fast approaching. We will meet on Tuesday, June 10th, and then again on Tuesday, June 24th, when we will welcome guest speaker Ann Beardsley . ~ E diting your own work is like trying to pick out the darker grains of sand from all the others on the beach. First, you have to see the different grains--and that takes a magnifying glass. Then you've got to decide what to keep--this one's dark; no wait, this one's darker. Or is it? What about this one? Editing works much the same way--one change can cascade into a whole mess of complicated chain reactions, all of which you might then have to undo. But as writers, we don't want to do that. We just want to make our writing better, tighter, clearer (although in some cases, we might want our characters to speak less better, ...

The Savannah Writers Group is proud to welcome member Jim Waller as the guest speaker on Tuesday, 27 May. He will present on the topic of Southern Fiction and bring copies of his latest novel, Tybee Sunrise . *** New York City attorney Matt Ryan’s divorce is finally settled. To escape the pain of discovering his wife with another man and the bitter break-up that followed, he migrates south and settles on a little spit of sand and marsh called Tybee Island, the last in a series of small barrier islands connected like a string of pearls by a single highway, stretching eighteen miles from the mainland at Savannah. The lure of the area is the laid-back ambiance of the island and its people, and an ambivalent desire to reconnect with Carolyn, his college sweetheart, who married a Savannah banker when Matt dumped her ten years ago to marry Yvette, a wealthy young lawyer in her father’s firm. He has forgotten Carolyn’s married name and spends some time searching for her. Whil...

We are pleased to announce that we have one of our own presenting at the upcoming meeting of the Savannah Writers Group. We hope you will come listen to accomplished author and Children's Book illustrator Lynne Bendoly share about her whimsical, creative work.