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"It's
easier not to write than to write. Except if you are a writer. Then
you have no choice."
- Elie Wiesel (Nobel Prize-winner)
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 29 WGOT poets have contributed their vivid verse to Fire and Chocolate. http://fireandchocolate.wordpress.com/our-events/
Come one, come all!
Heed poetry’s call.
The Fire and Chocolate poets will enthrall
you with verse that singes, wails, and croons…
The WGOT Poetry Writers invite you to the Fire and Chocolate Book Launch on Sunday, January 22 at 2:30 pm, Greensboro Central Library: 219 North Church Street, Greensboro, NC 27401 |
INTEREST GROUP NEWS
If you write non-fiction of any type or have an interest, please plan to attend an organizational meeting on Thursday, Jan. 26. Those interested in continuing [or joining] a non-fiction genre group will gather at 7 pm at Sternberger.
Please come out and share your ideas. If you're interested, but can't attend, please contact Don [dagaston9@gmail.com] or JJ [jenanbenson@bellsouth.net].
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The Eclectic Fiction Writers Critique Group is coming off hiatus and is ready to jump back into writing! We will be taking a new approach for the first few months. Come ready to take apart a story, write from a prompt on the spot, share your frustrations, bond together, and have some fun! We will not be actively critiquing each other’s work right now. Interested? Contact facilitator Sheila Siler at sheilasiler@triad.rr.com. Meetings will be held on the first Wednesday morning of the month from 9:30 – 11:30am in the Reading Room of the Kathleen Clay Edwards Branch Library off New Garden Road. Join us February 1st! |
ANNUAL MEETING
Sunday, Oct. 23
2 pm
Sternberger Artists’ Center
[l to r] Marie Sechrest, Sandra Redding and Cynthia Schuab introduce the WGOT memoir anthology, YOU MUST REMEMBER THIS, at the annual meeting on Oct. 23, 2011.
WGOT poets share selections from their upcoming anthology, FIRE AND CHOCOLATE, at the annual meeting on Oct. 23, 2011.
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The
Writers' Group of the Triad is a not-for-profit organization
of writers for writers. Our mission is to provide a supportive and
creative atmosphere in which all levels of writers can write and
revise with the help and advice of others. Our facilitators are
professionals in every way and enjoy helping other writers with
sense of story, organization, grammar, punctuation, spelling, and
sentence structure problems. If we are successful as a group, then
we will turn wannabee writers into magazine article writers and
published authors. We are dedicated to helping our members improve
their writing skills through peer review and the sharing of experiences
at regular monthly meetings of subgroups.
Subgroups are divided by genre. By clicking on anything underlined
in the left column or at the bottom of this page you can get additional
information on that subject. Example: by clicking on "Subgroups/Genres"
button above, left, you will see a listing of our genres, when they
meet and how to contact the facilitators in order to join a group.
Some of our writers are members of three different subgroups, all
for the same annual dues. You may attend up to three sub-group meetings as a guest.
By clicking on the Booksignings/Events button above left,
you will see where and when authors will be appearing this month
to discuss and sign their new books.
By clicking on the Links/Resources button above left, you
can enter the writer's world without leaving your computer. If you
do nothing else as a new writer, spend some time exploring "Links/Resources."
By clicking on Our Authors/Writers at the bottom of this
page, you will get thumbnail bios about a small portion of our authors,
some of our fiction, poetry, creative non-fiction, playwrights,
mystery writers, songwriters and children's book writers. Just surf
around the articles and documents below. You will find more than
three dozen additional categories to explore, including Writing
Tips.
Where do we meet? Half of our groups meet at a central location,
our headquarters at historic Sternberger Artists Center, 712 Summit
Avenue, Greensboro, NC. There is free parking in the lot behind
the building. The WGOT Writers' Center is on the main floor, with
an entrance on the far left (south side) of the building as you
face the building from the rear free parking area.
Who can join? WGOT membership is open to anyone, locally,
nationally, or internationally who wants to improve English writing
skills. Members who live outside North Carolina or in a foreign
country can still be a member and receive the WGOT monthly newsletter
that provides much helpful information to the writer, such as forthcoming
contests and competitions for their own specific genre.
Many of our members have been widely published, but we welcome beginning
writers also, those who are not quite sure of the validity of their
words or the merit of the things they wish to say. As a member,
we can help the new writer find her/his "voice," and better understand
the mysterious adventure called publishing.
Our
mailing address is: 5039
Tamarack Drive Greensboro, NC 27407-8500
Phone number: 336-854-0034
Our
advice to aspiring authors is to write, write, write! Then share
with other writers your work in progress by joining one of our support
groups where sharing is the order of the day. Writing is a lonely
business, but writers need to connect.
Dues: Visitors are invited to attend a couple of subgroup
meetings at no charge. Annual dues are $30; Outstate/International
$20; Students $15. To join WGOT, click on Become a Member
button above left, or at the bottom of this page and follow the
directions. Once a member, you will receive our monthly newsletters
and can attend as many subgroup meetings as you have time for.
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