Creative Writing Group

The workshop centers on the task of writing a short story, essay or memoir. Many of the techniques mastered in the workshop can easily apply to other forms of writing. The program is designed to meet the needs of inexperienced and experienced writers. Specifically, the workshop strives to help writers overcome writer's block, develop ideas into completed articles and to create excitement and suspense

Program participants discuss and critique the work of fellow participants. The work is based on a series of prompts provided by the workshop. In addition, during the first six weeks participants submit an opening line drawn from a separate prompt. The participants vote on Best Story and Best Opening Line each week.

Successful participants will have access to the Internet and to a printer. All participants exchange information with one another throughout the program.

We have a Winner .......................................

We have a winner of the Creative Writers Workshop "Best Story" award. It is Rebecca Williams, a retired English teacher from Hopkinsville, Kentucky. Her memoir, entitled Smooth Operator, is an amusing account of her Aunt Hilda, “the Queen of the South Central Bell switchboard” and Hilda’s husband, Raymond. The two sparred over the design of a tombstone that will eventually grace their graves. The account allows a peek into how retirement sometimes forever alters perspective. (Tom Mahar reporting)

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Rebecca Williams