Due to Covid 19
Be sure to wear your mask everywhere until we can meet again. Write while you can, tell your stories you own way. Stay safe.
Reading – Nov 3rd
Come join us for some great stories. Bring your friends. Admission is Free.
Next Meeting – Oct 15th!
The next session of Longwood Writers Guild is Mon., Oct. 15, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Please bring something you are working on to share for critique, or write a piece from the prompt: I (he, she) wiped my hands on the cloth then put it into the trash container, making sure…
October Guild Meeting
The next session of Longwood Writers Guild is Mon., Oct. 8, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Please bring something you are working on to share for critique, or write a piece from the prompt: I (he, she) wiped my hands on the cloth then put it into the trash container, making…
September Meeting
The next meeting of the Longwood Writers Guild critique group is Mon., Sept. 10, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, 60643 Bring something you are working on or write something from the prompt to read aloud for positive, productive input. Prompt: “Pour me another.” Looking forward to seeing everyone!
variant magazine
A DIGITAL MAGAZINE OF LITERARY & VISUAL ARTS Mission. The mission of variant magazine for literary and visual arts is to offer a high quality, competitive and classic online space for diverse voices, messages and images. SUBMISSION GUIDELINES variant is published online twice a year and invites submissions of poetry, flash fiction, short stories, hybrid literature, creative…
35 Things to ask your characters – and yourself
If you ever watched the Actor’s Studio with James Lipton, you saw a version of the Proust Questionnaire. Here is the original list. Using it for your characters in long pieces really helps. 35 Questions Made Famous by Marcel Proust What is your idea of perfect happiness? What is your greatest fear? What is the…
Congratulations Grand Prize Winner – Grazina Smith!
In the writing process come a time when you begin to send things to different magazines, anthologies and contests. We are pleased to announce that one of our own has won the GRAND PRIZE in the Prose category of HOME, the 21st edition of the Black and White series of annual anthologies from Outrider Press in…
Genres defined – from Wikipedia
Of the dozen categories of fiction writing, the below descriptions are the most up-to-date definitions. Sometimes knowing what others call what you are doing, helps. Good writing. Drama – stories composed in verse or prose, usually for theatrical performance, where conflicts and emotion are expressed through dialogue and action Classic – fiction that has become…
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