Savannah Writers Group

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The votes are in! Here's what you need to know: 1. There will be no further meetings of the Savannah Writers Group in the month of December. 2. The next exciting meeting of the Savannah Writers Group, which is free and open to the public is scheduled for TUES 10 JAN 2017 @ 7 PM. 3. Members who attended our annual holiday dinner voted to make The Foundery Coffee Pub our new official meeting location. The coffee shoppe is located downtown at 1313 Habersham St . Savannah, Georgia and has no formal parking lot.

Dear Savannah Writers Group members, It's time for our holiday dinner! At our last meeting, the attendees decided that since Olive Garden ( 11333 Abercorn Street, 31419 ) worked so well last year, we should reconvene there this year. Dinner will be on our regular meeting night, December 13, at 7:00 PM. As is our usual practice, we will share an evening full of only food, fun, and friendship with no sharing of writing. However, we will vote on trying The Foundery [as a meeting location instead of continuing on with Cancun], I invite you to drop by to get an impression of it before the vote. It's at 1313 Habersham St, Savannah, GA 31401 . Please let Sally know by Friday, December 9th, that you are attending [the holiday dinner at Olive Garden] and how many will be in your party so that she can make a reservation. Since we have almost 100 members, please DO NOT RESPOND UNLESS YOU PLAN TO ATTEND. Sally's new address is sallyrountreekle

UPDATE (12/16/2016) !!! The December meetings of the Savannah Writers Group will occur as follows: TUES 13 December (RSVP only) Olive Garden 7 PM TUES 27 December (free/open to the public) To Be Announced following the Olive Garden SWG Meeting Location VOTE THERE WILL BE NO MORE MEETINGS IN DECEMBER! The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be held on 10 JAN 2017 at the Foundery Coffee Pub located downtown at 1313 Habersham St, Savannah, GA 31401 @ 7 PM.

Tonight's meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be held at 7 PM at Cancun's which is located at the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. In other news, don't forget to vote! 

Hello friends of writing! As you know, the Savannah Writers Group meets every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. Our meetings are free and open to the public. Our members range from published academics, book authors and short story writers, to casual fans of the written word. Our next meeting is scheduled for Tuesday 25 October @ 7 pm. It will be held at Cancun Mexican Restuarant in the Twelve Oaks shopping plaza. The address is 5500 Abercorn Street, St # 31. Its right around the corner from our old haunt, Atlanta Bread Company. We are on the move these days. Though we enjoyed moving from Atlanta bread to Uncle Maddio's Pizza, the pizza joint is closed for business and Atlanta bread is closed for renovations. Stay tuned for future developments.

Tuesday, 11 October is the next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group. (We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month.) Sadly, Uncle Maddio's Pizza is CLOSING! We will no longer hold our meetings at Uncle Maddio's Pizza. On Tuesday, 11 October, the Savannah Writers Group will meet at our old digs inside the Atlanta Bread Company in the 12 Oaks Shopping Plaza. Here's the address:  Twelve Oaks, 5500 Abercorn St #37, Savannah, GA 31405 See you there at 7 PM!

Although written submissions to the upcoming Savannah Writers Group print/e anthology are now closed, we are very happy to report that the publication now has a title. Tributaries: An Anthology of the Savannah Writers Group should debut soon. We have our fingers crossed! If you had prose or poetry accepted for the anthology, please monitor your email closely. I will be sending out writers contracts to ensure each writer has granted me full permission to publish each piece. When I email you I will attach the final draft of your work. If you decide to sign the contract that is also attached, you are agreeing that your piece will appear in the anthology "as is". No further edits will be made. When you receive the contract, first save the word document to your desktop. That way you can open it without it being "read only". Once you have reopened it, make you your name (byline) appears the correct way and that your bio looks okay. Then, simply d

The next meeting of the savannah writers group will be held tomorrow 13 September at 7 PM at Uncle Maddio's Pizza!

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The Savannah Writers Group will meet at Uncle Maddio's Pizza at 7 PM on Tuesday, 10 May! Be there or be square! Friends, please get in the habit of marking your calendars for EVERY 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. We meet like clockwork! If the meeting PLACE ever changes, you will find it posted here at the blog!

Escape the distractions of your busy life. Advance your craft and energize your writing on beautiful St. Simons Island. Spend 3 glorious days building your own itinerary. Relax on the beach, or enjoy the beautiful outside space provided. Stroll into the downtown area for lunch, or lounge in the seaside park under old oak trees. What could be better than working within a supportive environment with other writers? The cost is $165 per person, if we have 8 writers or $135 per person if we have 10 writers, to be paid in full when you book your reservation by June 1, 2016. There will be no refunds, however your reservation can be transferred to another member. Deposit to the owner, Darlene, is due by June 6, 2016. Contact member, Eileen Snyder to book your reservation, it will be finalized once payment is made by check. The house is 3800 square feet, towels and linens are provided. Click on link to view . Transportation and meals will not be provided. Eileen.snyder@yahoo.com or 912-2

Here is the updated survey for tomorrow night's meeting! See you at Uncle Maddio's Pizza! Savannah Writers Group Group member survey Opportunities for amendments to current meeting format April 26, 2016 Scope of Writers Group 1. Should we dedicate our group to creative fiction, nonfiction, memoirs, and poetry i.e. should we exclude technical / academic writing)? □ YES □ NO IF YES, please comment on how to communicate this exclusion (ie, at meetings, via blog, etc.) __________________________________________________________________ Continuity and Responsibility for Group 2. Should our group have official leaders or officers? □ YES □ NO 2a. IF YES, what positions / structure should we have? (We currently have a blogspot manager and an email/communications manager.) Please mark all that you feel apply. □ Leader/ President □ Secretary □ Treasurer □ Blog/ web manager /editor □ Email/ communications manager □ Several officers of equal rank who share certain duties □ Group leaders

Ladies and Gentlemen, It is official! UNCLE MADDIO'S PIZZA has been unanimously voted as our new permanent meeting place! While it may look like a small establishment from the outside, the pizzeria boasts a private back room, which the friendly staff has been gracious enough to book for our use. The food ain't bad either! The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be held at Uncle Maddio's on Tuesday, 26 April at 7PM. Never been to a meeting? Don't be shy! Anyone can attend. We range from the published to the unpublished, the beginner to the advanced. Can't make it? Worry not! We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. On the agenda for this meeting is the discussion of the future of the Savannah Writers Group. Member Carolyn Vance has been hard at work on a document which should mold our conversation. Take a look below and be prepared to share your opinions. Scope of Writer’s Group 1. Should we dedicate our group to creative fiction, non

The Savannah Writer's Group is in transition! We previously met every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at The Atlanta Bread Company. However, the last meeting was held at the new location of Jason's Deli. We thought it would be a permanent change, but we were wrong! We're no longer at Atlanta Bread! But we're not staying at Jason's either! The next meeting of the Savannah Writer's Group will be held on Tuesday, 12 April at 7:30 at Uncle Maddio's Pizza, which is located at Chatham Plaza, across from the Oglethorpe Mall. Chatham Plaza is the one which features World Market and Chili's. On the agenda for this meeting are the following: Susan Thompson’s presentation on Pat Conroy followed by YOUR reading of a favorite passage of his or personal story about him, Voting on an anthology title (you must be present to vote), and Voting on whether to make Uncle Maddio’s our new location.

http://www.jasonsdeli.com/menu 318 Mall Boulevard Savannah GA 31406 Change can be good! Meetings are still every 2nd and 4th Tuesday at 7 PM, but now they will be held at Jason's Deli! A Note from Sally: Special upcoming events will occur at the next two meetings, March 22 and April 12. March 22: I think that the location vote ignited our imaginations and creativity, which is great thing! Some folks have contacted me about discussing other changes. At the next meeting, let’s open the floor to discuss any changes we might want to make with the way we do business: do we want to have officers? A leader? A speaker’s committee? Do we want to continue our twin focus on sharing with the occasional speaker, or focus just on sharing? These are all great questions to ask. I am excited that we are examining our processes. Please contact me if you would like to volunteer to lead or co-lead the discussion. April 12: Our own Susan Thompson suggested a won

On the March 8 meeting of the Savannah Writers Group, we will hear from one of our own and hold a vote for the future meeting location. A HISTORY OF THE ENGLISH LANGUAGE Jim Waller is a Tybee Author of novels, short stories, and poems. He readily admits he is no expert on the subject of the English language, but his presentation will be based upon knowledge garnered from more decades than he wishes to disclose at this time as a student of language. He requests, therefore, that we approach the subject as a discussion rather than a presentation and asks members to bring whatever they can add to the conversation. Members will also be called upon to cast their vote on possible future meeting locations. From the locations suggested, the locations that meet our requirements have been narrowed to these three, which you may want to visit before the vote. Savannah Coffee Roasters  http://savannahcoffee.com/             Location: Liberty Street, Downtown          

A t the next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group we welcome our friend and fellow SWG Member, guest speaker Mr. Gregory P. Scott, as he introduces his new book:   A Rose Only A Mother Could Love    This is a collection of original short stories that take place in Everytown, USA. This book was published in the fall of 2015. The local author is  Gregory P. Scott .  Mr. Scott is a native of Brooklyn, New York.   He is a graduate of John Jay College of Criminal Justice and a United States Marine Corps Veteran. Presently, he resides in Savannah, Georgia. This is the first book published by this author. Books are his passion and he hopes that this will be the first of many. His goal is to write interesting books that can be read fast …like a rocket. This lead to the name of his books being published under the cover of Rocket Reading. To purchase a book or to contact the author, you can email him at  rocketreading@aol.com . 

Call for Submissions Exit 271: Your Georgia Writers Resource, Winter 2016 Exit 271: Your Georgia Writers Resource, the new digital magazine brought to you by the Georgia Writers Association. We are asking for feature articles (1000-2000 words),  writer’s path column, short fiction (under 4000 words), poetry, and artwork for the magazine cover. All writers and artists must currently live in Georgia. Feature articles are theme related and pay $50 per article. Creative writing pieces and cover art are on a rolling basis. Writers of feature articles must first send an email query to editor@georgiawriters.org . For this month’s theme, submission guidelines, or to submit, please click the button below. Feature Article submissions must be from Georgia writers. Features for the spring 2016 issue will focus on promotion . Feature article writers must query (pitch) first to editor@georgiawriters.org . We like articles that are humorous, quirky, or adventurous. We like w

Friends of Writing, Do remember that we meet every second and fourth Tuesday of the month. This month that means we will have meetings on the 9th and the 23rd. Until further notice, our meetings still happen at 7 PM at our regular spot, The Atlanta Bread Company at Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. This month we would like to seriously discuss other possible meeting locations. When suggesting a new location, it would be helpful if you go ahead and touch base with someone there, to ensure it is free to use and no one would mind hosting a group of writers at our usual time. We will compile a list of potential places and have a vote.

JANUARY 2016 Tuesday, January 12th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. Tuesday, January 26th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. FEBRUARY 2016 Tuesday, February 9th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. Tuesday, February 23rd:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company.