Savannah Writers Group

Here is a quick look at our meeting calendar for the remainder of 2013! Tuesday, November 26th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. DECEMBER Tuesday, December 10th:  The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Crystal Beer Parlor, for a Holiday Gathering! Check out their website to preview the menu. They are located at 301 West Jones Street Savannah, GA 31401 (and have an actual parking lot!). As the fourth Tuesday in December is Christmas Eve, I daresay we will not meet that evening. Be thinking of program ideas for 2014!

Tuesday, October 8th: GUEST SPEAKER, ROWAN WOLFE We're proud to welcome guest speaker, Rowan Wolfe, Author of Incident at Tybee Island & The Trial of Evan Gage : Action-packed, fast-paced crime/military thrillers . Please check out Rowan's website . The Savannah Writers Group will meet at 7PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. This meeting is free and open to the public! More about Incident at Tybee Island : A nuclear device is missing.  Al Qaeda is the prime suspect. So where and when are the terrorists going to detonate the bomb? Fact:  On February 5, 1957, a B-47 carrying a nuclear weapon was involved in a mid-air collision off the coast of Georgia. Fiction: (or is it?)  After the events of 9/11, the renewed Air Force search for the bomb takes on new meaning, but it soon becomes apparent that someone has beaten them to it. Flying passenger aircraft into the World Trade Center and the Pentagon is one thing.  A nuclear bomb in the wrong hands is...

YES, we will be meeting Tuesday, August 13th at 7 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company! The Savannah Writers Group meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. I know sometimes there is confusion, but we do not meet "every other Tuesday", we meet the 2nd and 4th Tuesdays each month. Also, we had previously decided to cancel the August 13th meeting and have a Saturday social gathering instead, but that idea has been scrapped for now. In fact, let's discuss ideas for the summer social when we meet on Tuesday, August 13th! I'll see you there! Happy writing!

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group is scheduled for Tuesday, July 9th at 7 PM. It will be held at the Atlanta Bread Company. Bring your ideas for future programs and any writing you would like to share. For the second meeting of July, scheduled for Tuesday, July 23rd our very own Edward Smith will be our speaker. Have a safe and happy 4th!

UPDATE: This just in! Author Doug Burnett will be our guest speaker on Tuesday, June 25th! Check out his book: A Light in the Dark . Ready for a challenge? The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Groups happens tomorrow, Tuesday, June 25th at 7 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company. If you are up to the challenge, write your "Six-Word Story" to share with the group and bring any other writing you might like to share. If you desire feedback, please bring enough copies to share with everyone, as well as copies of the critique sheet. We look forward to seeing you! What is a "Six-Word Story"? Check it out here . Note: This is an exercise for fun. We are not a paying market, but Narrative Magazine is!

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group happens Tuesday, June 11th at the Atlanta Bread Company. We look forward to seeing you there!

We're proud to welcome guest speaker, Mike D'Ambrosio, a published science fiction novelist and screenwriter to the first meeting in May, which happens Tuesday, May 14th. The Savannah writers group meets every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month at 7 PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. D'Ambrosio is author of the Fractured Time Trilogy and Space Frontiers Series.He comes to us all the way from Philadelphia. Please check out his website. On a less serious note, here's something to make you smile:  

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group is Tuesday, April 23 at 7:00 PM at The Atlanta Bread Company. This will be an meeting devoted to sharing your writing – any format at all, so bring your writing in all its many facets. Remember to bring ten copies if you want written critiques. Hope to see you there!

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be at 7:00 PM, Tuesday, April 9 th , at the Atlanta Bread Company in the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. Time to get busy! Our next meeting is a poetry slam! Bring your best iambic pentameter, haiku, free verse, anything your heart desires! From the serious to the silly, all are welcome! You may also bring a SHORT poem by another poet to share and discuss why you like it. Also, note that we will be having a speaker May 14 th . Mike D’Ambrosio is an accomplished writer of science fiction from Philadelphia. In addition, please bring at least ten copies of any  writing you wish to share. If you would like written feedback, please bring at least ten copies of the attached critique sheet. We look forward to seeing you there!

Chapter 1: Plot Problems Over at her wonderful blog, "Pub Rants", literary agent Kristin Nelson illuminated a method for detecting manuscript problems, which anyone can try with the help of a friend. Here is what she said: Just recently I did a workshop where I had the participants partner with another person in the class and exchange the first 30 pages of their manuscripts. The assignment I gave them was to read the 30 pages all the way through once. After that was completed, to go back and start rereading. On the second read, I asked them to go page by page and outline the plot points in a neat list list by chapter.  I stressed that they were not summarizing the chapter. Simply listing the action found in it.  Then I had them email me the outlines before I started reading. Those were the instructions and everyone in the class tackled the exercise just fine so I’m confident all of you can do the same. I’d take a quick glance at the by-chapter outl...

Please join us for the March 2013 meetings  of the Savannah Writers Group.  We plan to meet Tuesday, March 12 and Tuesday, March 26 at 7 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company.

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be Tuesday, February 26, 2013 at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company in the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center in Savannah. We will be planning the next program, so please bring your ideas. If you would like to share your writing for feedback, please print enough copies of your piece and the critique sheet to go around (ten each is suggested). We look forward to seeing you there!

The next meeting of the Savannah Writer's Group will be held at the Atlanta Bread Company on Tuesday, January 22nd at 7 pm. Our own Sally Klein will conduct a mini-workshop about writing from your childhood, “Pulling Memories from the Distant Past” that promises to be fun, poignant, and self-revealing. 

The next meeting of the Savannah Writer’s Group will be held October 23 at 7:00 PM, at the Atlanta Bread Company. Our very own published member and keeper of the SWG blogspot/website, Sasha McBrayer, will be our guest speaker. By popular request, Sasha will be speaking on writing effective dialogue. Sasha asks that you bring at least six copies of one page of dialogue that you have written, perhaps from a current work in progress. After her brief talk, volunteer readers will have the opportunity to share and receive critiques from Sasha and the group. Our friends at the Bread Company are kind enough to allow us to meet in their space gratis. Please patronize them appropriately. As per our guidelines, we will have a brief business meeting and regular sharing if time permits after the speaker. This means you can share other things you've written, as usual. It doesn't have to include any dialogue. If you do want to share for written feedback after t...

The Savannah Writers Group is pleased to host guest speaker Mark Murphy at the October 9 meeting. The fun begins tonight at 7:00 pm at The Atlanta Bread Company.

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be Tuesday, Sept. 25th, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company, in the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center on Abercorn Street in Savannah, GA. That's tonight, folks!  Please bring your work to share/review. If you would like feedback, please bring at least six copies of the group critique sheet. Don't have a copy? You can email Sally Klein at customer (at) coastalnow (dot) net to request a copy. Watch the blog for upcoming events. We meet every 2nd and 4th Tuesday of the month. At the Oct. 9 meeting, we're thrilled to host guest speaker Mark Murphy, author of The Shadow Man , a mystery set in Savannah. We have tentatively scheduled a dialogue critique for the Oct. 23rd meeting.

The Savannah Writers Group is pleased to host guest speaker Mark Murphy at the October 9 meeting. Dr. Mark Murphy, local gastroenterologist and writer, will speak to the Savannah Writers Group at their regular meeting October 9, 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company in the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center, Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA. Dr. Murphy is receiving increasing recognition for his writing and is scheduled to appear at the 2013 Savannah Book festival with his new book, The Shadow Man , a mystery set in Savannah. You can access Murphy's blog here . His book is available for purchase at Amazon . Be sure to look for the kindle version as well. Amazon describes the thriller this way: Savannah surgeon Malcolm King had a perfect life--a loving wife, devoted daughter, and a thriving medical practice. But when a random airport parking lot hit-and-run links him to a dead body in a Florida hotel and an acquaintance is found dismembered and stuffed into a garbage bag...

The next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be Tuesday, September 11, 2012 at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company, in the Twelve Oaks Shopping Center on Abercorn Street in Savannah, GA.  That's tonight, folks! Please bring your work to share/review. If you would like feedback, please bring at least six copies of the group critique sheet. Don't have a copy? You can email Sally Klein at customer (at) coastalnow (dot) net to request a copy.

We'd like to extend a hearty congratulations to Savannah Writers Group Member Lynne Bendoly whose fabulous illustrations will be published in the new book Dragon Kids . Lynne had the opportunity to show the proof of the book at our last meeting. The title will be published by Publish America. That's not all the good news! E-Treasures has also agreed to publish Lynne's book, Princess and Unicorn . Lynne now has 5 publications to her name! In other news, the next meeting of the Savannah Writers Group will be held Tuesday, August 28 th at 7:00 PM at the Atlanta Bread Company, Twelve Oaks Shopping Center. That's tonight, folks! Don't forget to check this blog for information regarding the Crossroads Writers Conference in Macon, a unique paid proofreading opportunity and a Christian Writing Workshop in Savannah/ Bluffton.

Attention all Savannah Writers Group members, and those of you planning to attend a meeting for the first time: We have a new meeting location! That's right! Our next meeting, which is scheduled for Tuesday, August 14th Will be held at the Atlanta Bread Company located at the 12 Oaks Shopping Center off of Abercorn. This is the address: 5500 Abercorn Street, Savannah, GA Our meeting time is still 7:00 PM. We will join The Poetry Society of Georgia there! Please follow the link to visit their website. That's not all the news that's fit to print. We also have a wonderful speaker scheduled for this meeting. Mr. Jonah Cummings , voice actor and audio book professional, will be explaining a new venture in the arena of education. Click on his name to visit his website. As usual, the Savannah Writers Group meeting is free and open to the public! I look forward to seeing you all as we test drive this new location. Note: Today, 8/13/12, I have updated the...