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Open to both
beginning and seasoned writers
Meets 2nd Tuesday each month
Meetings are open to all writers who want to improve
writing skills,
meet
other writers and get published.
There is no charge to attend.
Meetings are every 2nd Tuesday of the month at the
Cedar Hill Library
(Zula Bryant Wylie Library)
225 Cedar Street,
Cedar Hill, Texas
7:00pm to 8:30pm
(Click
Here for Directions)
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| Tue, January 8, 2008 - Maya Reynolds the former Vice President for Operations for a Dallas corporation with more than 1,200 employees. She approached her writing career in the same way she did her former business career. She learned everything there was to learn about the publishing industry. Her debut novel BAD GIRL was released in trade paperback in September 2007 by NAL, a division of Penguin. She is currently under contract for a sequel titled BAD BOY. |
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| Tue, Feb 12 -- CRITIQUE NIGHT - DAWG members will have an opportunity to read a selection from their work and have it critiqued by a published writer. Panelist were Beverly Shea, Win Shields, Ginnie Bivona and James Gaskin. |
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 Tue, March 11
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CRITIQUE NIGHT Part 2 - DAWG members will have an opportunity to
read a selection from their work and have it critiqued by a published
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| April 8 - Garold Andersen– Studied theater arts at the University of Houston as well as many private arts schools. Since 1980 he has worked on many film, stage, and television productions as director, actor, and writer. In 1989, together with Creative Arts Europe, Garold established the Summer Arts Session, a 3-week intensive training course for the development of multiple artistic mediums. In 1996 Garold and Lori Andersen began The Art Factory - a school for the training of theater arts and the mentoring of artists. In 2002, they established Watershed Arts Corporation, an organization committed to the creation and promotion of art from a biblical world-view that is of a high standard and to the mentoring of artists toward excellence in craft, message, and lifestyle. Through Watershed Arts, Garold continues teaching, directing, and mentoring artists on an ongoing basis. Garold is also the creator of Café Sophia - a weekly devotional from a non-religious, biblical worldview; distributed via the internet in English and German. He has recently written a book called Brand New Bag, on BEING God’s message to the world. Garold believes that art is a language and a tool that can be used to influence society, but that it is our lives that truly impact the lives of others. |
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May 13 -
Jan
Jones is a fifth generation Texan and lifelong
resident of Fort Worth. She grew up on the city's east side, where she
graduated from Eastern Hills High School in 1965. She received her BS in
theater and English from Abilene Christian University in 1970, and
earned an MS from the University of North Texas in 1981. In addition to
teaching English in several Tarrant County high schools over thirty-one
years, she served as theater director at Lake Worth High School for
twenty years. Her love of theater also led to her first book, an account
of the Texas Centennial and Fort Worth's Frontier Centennial, Billy Rose
Presents Casa Mañana, published by TCU Press in 1999.
She retired from teaching in 2001 and almost immediately began research for a second, more comprehensive volume recounting Fort Worth's dramatic endeavors. Renegades, Showmen, and Angels, which arrived in book stores in the fall of 2006, chronicled for the first time over 130 years of the city's colorful theatrical history, from the saloons of Hell's Half Acre to the Bass Hall. Shortly after the completion of Renegades, she and thirteen other local writers set to work on a new book, Grace and Gumption, Stories of Fort Worth Women, released by TCU Press in November 2007. Jan's chapter, "There's Nothing So Useless As a Showgirl" highlighted the achievements of such women as Maud Peters Ducker, Lotta Carter Gardner, Ginger Rogers, Mary Dowell Copeland, Eloise MacDonald Snyder, Betty Berry Spain, and Jeanne Axtell Walker, whose talents provided momentum to Fort Worth's long-range cultural development. She has also contributed a chapter to Literary Fort Worth (TCU Press, 2002) and an article on Fort Worth's early theatrical history to the Texas State Historical Association's Southwest Historical Quarterly (spring, 2004). |
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| June 10 - Best-selling author Kara Lennox (a.k.a. Kara Leabo) has written and published more than 50 contemporary romance novels. Her books have been translated into 19 languages and published in twenty-plus countries around the world. Currently she writes quirky but emotional stories for Harlequin American Romance. Kara has also written hundreds of magazine articles as well as brochures, press releases, business plans, advertising copy, and ten as-yet-unproduced feature screenplays. She lives in Dallas with her husband, also a writer; a neurotic cat; and a geriatric, obsessive-compulsive cockatiel. |
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| July 8 - Critique Night - DAWG members will have an opportunity to read a selection from their work and have it critiqued by a published writer. |
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| August 12 - Frank Ball is a full-time freelance writer who directs six Christian writer’s groups totaling more than a hundred members in the Dallas–Fort Worth area. He has ghostwritten and collaborated on books, has worked as a copy editor for a magazine, has written hundreds of devotionals, and has been a columnist for The Spirit-Led Writer e-zine. He was Pastor of Biblical Research and Writing for three years at Anchor Church in Keller, Texas. He directs the annual North Texas Christian Writers Conference. His three latest works are Eyewitness: The Life of Christ Told in One Story, a compilation of all biblical information into one chronological story, Eyewitness Stories: Four Reports on the Life of Christ, his easy-to-read translation of the Gospels, and Eyewitness Inspiration: Contemporary Vignettes for Life, a collection of 90 devotionals. (www.ntchristianwriters.com, www.eyewitnesstools.com). |
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| September 9 - DeAnn Daley Holcomb is a Texas-based award-winning journalist, published author and full-time writer. A journalism graduate of Texas Tech University, Holcomb began her career in television as a news reporter, producer and anchor. As her family transferred to Dallas, TX, Holcomb was a staff reporter for the Plano Star Courier. Holcomb later became the associate editor for Dallas’ Health and Fitness Sports magazine. Family Secrets is her first work of fiction romance published locally by P3 Press. Holcomb lives in Texas with her husband, Greg and her son, Spencer. When Holcomb is not busy writing on her laptop computer you can find her on the sidelines of Spencer’s football or baseball games, cheering the teams on to victory. |
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| October 14 - Critique Night - DAWG members will have an opportunity to read a selection from their work and have it critiqued by a published writer. |
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