Join us for an evening of storytelling at Kenosha’s very-cool performance space, Fusion, 5014 7th Avenue. If you have not yet had the opportunity to step inside this place, here’s your opportunity. We have nine storytellers who’ll share their tales of mystery and imagination on Thursday, October 8th. (Click the photo above to go to the event page on facebook.)
Tony Bowers, author of “On the Nine,” joins host Chris DeGuire for the August recording of Speaking of Our Words. The show also includes writers Richard Bell, Dave Gourdoux, Mary McDonald, Troy McDonald, Irene Pyskir-Bilak, and Jeff Sturycz.
Submit your work to the KWG In-Depth Critique Meeting, Thursday, Sept 10th. Work may be fiction, creative non-fiction, essay, play, or poetry. Fiction may be a short story or novel excerpt. If it is a novel excerpt please provide a brief synopsis of what the readers need to know.
All submissions should be emailed to Dave Gourdoux djgourdoux@gmail.com by midnight Sunday, September 6th.
Submissions MUST follow these guidelines-
– It must be in a Word document and sent as an attachment. They should be in Courier 12 point font, double spaced, 3700 words maximum, and the pages must be numbered. Include your name and title at the top of the manuscript.
– If the piece is longer than 3700 words, it should be excerpted, with any information the reader needs to know added to the manuscript. This information will not count towards the overall word count, but keep it brief.
– Please include what form the piece is – short story, novel excerpt, personal essay, etc.
– If you have a short story or novel excerpt that exceeds the word count, you MUST excerpt it.
– Work not meeting these guidelines may be returned and you may be asked to re-format it accordingly.
– Multiple submissions are acceptable, as long as they don’t exceed 3700 words total.
All readers will have the pieces read before the meeting. At the meeting each writer will read about a page and then everyone will have a chance to comment on the piece. Readers will comment first, then the writer.
You may attend the meeting as a writer, reader, or just an observer. If you are submitting a piece, you are automatically a reader. Please RSVP to Dave at – djgourdoux@gmail.com by midnight Sunday, September 8th, even if you just want to read, you must e-mail Dave so you can get the manuscripts. Reading guidelines will follow with the manuscripts on Sept, July 7th
This Thursday (08/20) is the third Thursday of the month.
That means it’s our Open Meeting.
Come on by and share some of your writing with us. Just bring one copy for yourself to read from. No more than 10-minutes worth. We’ll tell you what’s working in the piece, and what questions we have. And you get to give us feedback on our pieces too.
See you at 6:30 pm on the lower level of the Carthage College Hedberg Library.
Join us this Thursday at 6:30 pm in Room 172 of the Hedberg Library at Carthage College in Kenosha.
KWG member Dave Gourdoux, author of the self-published novel Ojibway Valley, will lead a panel discussion on self-publishing.
The panel will also include…
– TJ Morris, author of Blood is Thicker than Color
– M.P. McDonald, author of of a number of thrillers
The panel will discuss…
– Amazon.com’s createspace – It’s pros and cons
– Other tools for self-publishing
– Why to self-publish
– Why to not self-publish
– How print-on-demand has rewritten the rules
– Why and why not form an LLC to self-publish under
– Open discussion
This event is FREE and OPEN TO THE PUBLIC!
KWG members Irene Pyskir-Bilak and Jim Janus performed at this past June’s “Stories for a Summer’s Night” event at Kenosha Fusion, sponsored by the Olio Storytellers Collective.
Click on either photo to watch the videos of each story.
Click here, or on the photo above, to listen now to the June recording of Speaking of Our Words.
This edition is in memory of local writer Marguerite McClelland.
At 57:30 there’s a clip from a show that Marguerite contributed to.
Hedberg Library
Lower Level Room 172
Carthage College
2001 Alford Park Drive
Kenosha, Wisconsin
Join us at 6:30 p.m. on Thursday, June 18 for an open meeting.
You’re invited to bring a short piece of writing to share.
This is a monthly opportunity for writers–of any experience level–to get informal feedback from other writers, and to provide feedback on the works of other writers. The focus is on what’s working in each piece, and what questions each piece leaves the reader with.
Free and open to the public.
Kenosha Writers Guild 