Thank you Becky!
Swanton Writers Group Newsletter for November 2023
The next meeting of the Swanton Writers Group will take place on Thursday, November 16, at 6 PM at the Swanton Public Library.
The Writing Prompt for this month is the changing of the seasons and what that means to you. Share a tradition or discuss how you feel as we enter “stick season” (otherwise known as naked trees). Try a poem, an essay, a short story and come prepared to share – or bring a selection from your current work. All writers welcome!
IN THE NEWS:
November 1 marks the first day of NANOWRIMO, National Writing Month. The challenge here is to write a 50,000-word novel in 30 days (or 29, if you skip Thanksgiving). For more information go HERE.
The latest issue of League Lines, the League of Vermont Writers Newsletter, is now available online. Check it out (Read, print or Download) HERE
Check out these upcoming events from the Vermont Humanities Council HERE (Becky is talking talking at the Platt Memorial Library on November 8 on the history of food.)
Many free workshops for writers are available through the Burlington Writers Workshop
Contests:
Looking for a contest? From Poets & Writers, see the Writing Contest, Grants & Awards list at Poets and Writers Grants
From The Write Life see this list of free (“reputable, well-reviewed”) contests for poets, fiction writers, essayists, and more.
Recommendations:
BEST BOOKS FOR WRITERS according to the Center for Fiction here’s the essential list:
On Writing by Stephen King (Scribner, reissue 2020) I highly recommend. (M)
Still Writing by Dani Shapiro (Grove Press, 2023)
On Moral Fiction by John Gardner (Basic Books, 1979)
First You Write by Joni Rodgers [out of print]
The Forest for the Trees by Betsy Lerner (Riverhead Books, 2919)
The Writing Life by Annie Dillard (Harper Perennial, 2013)
Writing Past Dark by Bonnie Friedman (Harper Perennial, 2020)
The Elements of Style by William Strunk and E.B. White (Pearson, 1999)
Story by Robert McKee (Regan Books, 1997)
Making Shapely Fiction by Jerome Stern (W.W. Norton, 1991)
Steering the Craft by Ursula K. LeGuin (Harper Perennial, 2015)
Got a recommendation? Bring it to the meeting!
QUOTE OF THE MONTH:
The road to hell is paved with adverbs.
Stephen King
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