The group meets every
other week on Thursdays for 1.5 hours, 30 minutes of which are used for group administrative
discussion, doing writing exercises or sharing information on the road to
publication, with the rest of the time devoted to discussion of members’
work. Meeting schedules are set at the
beginning of January, June and September, and are posted online.
Currently monthly dues
are $5, due at the beginning of each month, which are used to cover the costs
of the meeting room and group administrative costs.
One of the primary
motivations for the group is to be a continual source of encouragement to its
members, and we have agreed to meet regularly every other week as a way to
foster continuity and to keep us all writing.
For that reason members are urged not to miss more than two
sessions. In the event that a member
cannot attend a meeting he or she most notify the
meeting facilitator of his/her absence.
Every week members are
expected to bring a detailed written critique of the works to be discussed for
that meeting. Members should plan to
have something written for each meeting.
If their writing sample is not being discussed, he or she is still
expected to attend the meeting with their critiques.
Since we do group
writing exercises please bring a writing implement and scratch paper to group
meetings. Some members have found it
advantageous to bring a notebook.
No! The majority of the group is has not been
published in fiction, though several people have been published
academically. The only criteria that we
ask of you is that you have a fiction piece – either a novel or short stories -
to which you are committed to workshopping with the intention of seeing it
through to publication. We work very
hard to make the group a supporting place where intelligent well thought out
discussion and critique is fostered.