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.
October Meeting of the Guild
The next session of the Longwood Writers Guild creative writing critique group will be Mon., Oct. 14, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Drive, Chicago, IL 60643. Come join us! Please bring something you are working on to read aloud for critique, or write from the following prompt: I wouldn’t drink out of…
March Comes in like a writer . . .
Longwood Writers Guild will meet Mon., Mar. 11, 7 p.m. BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr., Chicago, 60643 Bring a piece you are working on to share with the group, or write from the prompt: I can’t control the weather, but I can control . . . FYI Outrider Press is accepting submissions for the…
Happy Holidays Writers! The next session of Longwood Writers Guild is Mon., Jan 14, 7 p.m., BAPA Community Room, 11109 S. Longwood Dr. Bring something you are working on to share, or write from the prompt: We’re not even half way through January and . . . . . Take it from there. Have fun…
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!
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…
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