The July WhipCity Wordsmiths meeting will be on Saturday, the 16th from 2PM to 4PM in the basement Committee Meeting Room at the Westfield Athenaeum on the corner of Elm and Court Streets in downtown Westfield (across from the green. Attendance is not mandatory. Summer is here so if you're on the boat, on vacation, or simply on some much need rest and relaxation time that's perfectly acceptable and wonderful! If you'd like to gather with fellow authors/writers/poets for some social time and to perhaps share something you've written feel free to drop by.
Our last two meetings have been very nice with several of our many poets sharing their work, and Jeff Vanouvenhove sharing a short piece from a new book he's currently working on. Robert Thompson read from his first novel written for an adult audience. Its theme is reincarnation. Very interesting! The simple joy of sitting and chatting with other writers cannot be beat. No one understands a writer better than another writer.
If you can make it to the meeting please come. The Athenaeum is a wonderful and very welcoming place. To reach the Committee Room enter via the front entrance and veer left down the staircase, go forward and then left into the committee room. From the rear entrance walk straight through the main floor toward the front entrance. Go down a few steps into the foyer area, then turn right and descend the staircase, go forward and then left into the Committee Room.
We celebrated our fifth anniversary as a writer's social and support group this past June! We have over a hundred members although many of them are quiet members. Over 70 of us are on the groups members only facebook page where we share writing insights and news about our work, and sometimes funny jokes about writers and so forth! There is also a public WhipCity Wordsmiths facebook page.
Have a safe and happy summer! Susan
