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The
Fearrington Writers’ Group
(www.fhafearrington.org)
is a loosely organized association open to any Fearrington
resident interested in writing. The aims of the organization is to
discuss the art and business of writing, to aid one another in composition
and publishing, and to share useful information. We also aim to give
members a platform for their work whether complete or in progress.
Many members of the group have
shown interests in family history, personal memoirs, essays,
creative non-fiction and fiction. There is no limit to subject
matter or genre. The group meets on the third Monday of September,
November, January, March and May. The format of most meetings is
influenced by input from members. At the discretion of the group,
more formal presentations with discussion and feedback are included.
In
general, we attempt to:
•provide useful information for writers and anyone who is thinking
about writing. Members are asked to bring “outside” information
to our meetings and to share experiences from writers’ conferences
and workshops;
•serve as matchmaker for like-minded members. To this end there are
now two sub-groups, one for folks interested in writing poetry and
another for those interested in prose writing (see below);
•provide a forum for sharing your writing;
•encourage writing – in any form, for any purpose. We urge everyone
to write something!
We consider ourselves a “work in progress” in the sense that we
are eager to fine-tune our mission statement and change our meeting
format to meet the needs of the group. We encourage any and all
comments and suggestions.
Contact
Laura Jensen at: prosebylaura@gmail.com
The
directory of members is on the left. At the request of some of our
members, their detailed writing resumes are also included.
Fearrington Writers Store
Workshop
facilitators:
Prose
-- Dick Merwarth -- crmerwar@intrex.net
Poetry -- Bill Sommers -- bsommers@earthlink.net
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