Savannah Writers Group

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 viol...

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.

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.

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 ...

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...

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 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.

Happy New Year one and all! This year the Savannah Writers Group is meeting regularly at a familiar location. We have officially returned to Uncle Maddio's Pizza, the home of good food and a good-sized private area ideal for our meetings. Meetings are held every second and fourth Tuesday of the month like clockwork at 7 PM. Not sure what to expect from a meeting? Generally, there's little need to be shy! Attending a meeting is like having dinner with new friends. We are very friendly folks from all manner of backgrounds. We vary in age and in experience with the writing craft. Some of us are published authors, while some just love reading and writing and wish to learn more about it. We discuss writerly topics, share readings of our work (which encompasses everything from poetry and memoir, to historical fiction, to speculative fiction, and scholarly essays), receive feedback and constructive criticism, listen to talks from invited speakers, and occasionally publish ou...

  I t is right back to Uncle Maddio's Pizza Joint for the next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group!  Although we have been meeting every 2nd and 4th Tuesday night at the Asian River restaurant, that meeting location is no longer an option. Please join us on Tuesday, 24 OCT at 7 PM @ Uncle Maddios, near World Market and Chili's in Chatham Plaza, across from the Oglethorpe Mall. Meeting business will include voting on a new regular meeting location. Meetings of the Savannah Writers Group are always free and open to the public. Please join our family and don't be shy! We welcome all types of writers, from those with a casual interest to those with multiple publications on their resumes. I'm proud to mention the success of our recent publication: TRIBUTARIES: An Anthology of the Savannah Writers Group. The book is chock full of over 50 works of poetry and prose (everything from science fiction to mystery to memoir style work) written by twen...

    Dear Savannah Writers: You are cordially invited to attend the book launch of  Tributaries: An Anthology of the Savannah Writers Group.  The event is free and open to the public: please invite your friends and family to come out and support your fellow writers!  The book launch and signing will take place  October 10 , from  5:30 - 7:00 PM , at The Learning Center of Senior Citizens, Inc. at  3025 Bull Street, 31405  (the intersection of Washington Avenue and Bull Street just south of Victory Drive). TLC is generously providing the venue and advertising in their fall catalogue of classes and programs at no charge to SWG. This partnership between TLC and SWG is dedicated to the mutually beneficial goal of increasing membership for both groups. While the event is free and open to the public, an RSVP with the names of those attending is required so that a seat and plentiful refreshment...

Buy TRIBUTARIES: An Anthology of the Savannah Writers Group! Tributaries is available for purchase on Amazon in two formats. It is $9.99 in Paperback...... https://www. amazon.com/dp/1533628106/ It is $4.99 for your Kindle in e-book format...... https://www. amazon.com/dp/B072FJG62L/ Tributaries 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. Readers can peruse Big Mama Tater's online dating profile, follow a high school wrestler as he challenges "Mack the Knife," take a spooky Savannah field trip, visit a dangerous criminal in the hours before his parole hearing, put diapers on frogs, and much, much more. +++ Help us at the regularly scheduled Savannah Writers Group meeting on Tuesday, June 13th at Asian River to discuss how to handle book sale profits, purchasing di...

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group is scheduled for Tuesday 24 January 2017 to be held in a reserved, private room at Asian River in the Eisenhower Shopping Center. Let's keep our fingers crossed that we have found a new home!

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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...