Thursday, July 05, 2007
News from the Maitland Writer's Group
Woohoo!! I finally got back on the blog. For reasons I don't completely know or understand, I have been virtualy locked out of access to this blog for months. But I'M BACK!!!
We have exciting news. First, we're very hopeful that we'll have a new meeting place starting in August. The Maitland Art Center has been generous and gracious to us, and we appreciate having had the use of a meeting room there for the last three or so years. However, twice this year we had more people than would fit into the room. So we've been looking for a new place to meet and we are hopeful that we've found it. We hope to get confirmation from the Maitland Civic Center that we can meet there beginning in August. It's just around the corner and we won't have to reconsider the name of the group. So, we're keeping our fingers crossed.
Second, we have appreciated and enjoyed the unselfish speakers that we've had in the past. As much as we enjoy them, we don't want to impose on them for repeat performances, so we've been trying to find speakers that we've not already heard. We were graced with Toni Gitles in June, who talked to us about public speaking. Our July 20 speaker is Russel Stacey, former Rollins English professor-turned-freelancer. He'll tell us about his mid-life career change, and his freelancing life.
We hope to have Marcia Rankin join us for the August 17 meeting. She, too, is a freelancer, but with much different experience. She also writes a lot of humor, and will include that in her discussion.
For September 21, Julie Compton is scheduled to speak to us. She had recently published her first novel, Best Intentions. She has also had an award-winning short story published.
Please join us.
The Maitland Writers Group meets the third Friday of each month at 6:30 pm at the Maitland Art Center. From Altamonte Springs/Casselberry, go south on 17-92 to Packwood (the next light after Horatio). Turn right on Packwood and go two blocks.
From Winter Park/Orlando, go north on 17-92. Turn left on Maitland Avenue (at Lake Lily). Turn left on Packwood.
The Maitland Art Center is a collection of buildings. Our meeting room in on the right. Look for signs.
We have exciting news. First, we're very hopeful that we'll have a new meeting place starting in August. The Maitland Art Center has been generous and gracious to us, and we appreciate having had the use of a meeting room there for the last three or so years. However, twice this year we had more people than would fit into the room. So we've been looking for a new place to meet and we are hopeful that we've found it. We hope to get confirmation from the Maitland Civic Center that we can meet there beginning in August. It's just around the corner and we won't have to reconsider the name of the group. So, we're keeping our fingers crossed.
Second, we have appreciated and enjoyed the unselfish speakers that we've had in the past. As much as we enjoy them, we don't want to impose on them for repeat performances, so we've been trying to find speakers that we've not already heard. We were graced with Toni Gitles in June, who talked to us about public speaking. Our July 20 speaker is Russel Stacey, former Rollins English professor-turned-freelancer. He'll tell us about his mid-life career change, and his freelancing life.
We hope to have Marcia Rankin join us for the August 17 meeting. She, too, is a freelancer, but with much different experience. She also writes a lot of humor, and will include that in her discussion.
For September 21, Julie Compton is scheduled to speak to us. She had recently published her first novel, Best Intentions. She has also had an award-winning short story published.
Please join us.
The Maitland Writers Group meets the third Friday of each month at 6:30 pm at the Maitland Art Center. From Altamonte Springs/Casselberry, go south on 17-92 to Packwood (the next light after Horatio). Turn right on Packwood and go two blocks.
From Winter Park/Orlando, go north on 17-92. Turn left on Maitland Avenue (at Lake Lily). Turn left on Packwood.
The Maitland Art Center is a collection of buildings. Our meeting room in on the right. Look for signs.
