Category: Meeting
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March 2025: Roma Holley
At the March, 2025, meeting of the Cisco Writers Club, author and poet Roma Holley gave a presentation on her healing experience after the death of her son Zachary. She described how she wrote throughout the years-long journey. Holley read several poems, some from her book, Surviving the Storm Through the Wind of the Spirit,…
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February 2025: Jennifer Neville Maddle
At the February meeting of Cisco Writers Club, author Jennifer Neville Maddle gave a presentation on conveying truth through humor. We started with an icebreaker in which we each wrote something love/Valentine related with the prompts that Maddle provided. (Some great poems came from this exercise!) Maddle then read the first chapter of her hilarious…
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January 2025: Planning Meeting
At the January meeting of the Cisco Writers Club, members brainstormed and came up with a schedule for the rest of 2025 on the first Thursday of each month: February: Jennifer Maddle – “Using Humor to Convey Truths,” at Connect Spot inside the Myrtle Wilks Community Center March: Roma Holley, Author and Poet, at Connect…
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December 2024: First Page Critiques
Cisco Writers Club members and friends gathered at the Connect Spot in the Myrtle Wilks Community Center for first page critiques. Everybody brought something to read aloud or to pass out. There was poetry, non-fiction, theology, and fiction. Writers gave one another helpful advice and encouragement. We need to schedule another critique session for 2025!…
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October 2024: Helen Cozart
November is National Novel Writing Month, or NaNoWriMo. That means October is prep month, or Preptober. At the October meeting of the Cisco Writers Club, author and CWC member Helen Cozart led a workshop guiding us through four writing pillars: idea, character, world-building, and plot development. We are all better prepared to write our next…
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August 2024: Helen Cozart
Talented author, librarian, and CWC member Helen Cozart spoke at the August meeting of the Cisco Writers Club. She offered tips to help us avoid writer’s procrastination and ways to write even when life is busy. Themes included getting started, routines, planning, goal setting, tools, distractions, editing, accountability, and self-care. It was an encouraging presentation.…
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June 2024: J.V. Lewis
At the June, 2024, Cisco Writers Club meeting, author and CWC member J.V. Lewis spoke about his efforts and the costs involved with promoting his book, Knowing Our Savior. Using his laptop and the large screen TV generously provided by the Conrad Hilton Center, Lewis demonstrated in real time what his new website looks like…
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May 2024: S. Westley King
Cisco Writers Club welcomed pastor and author S. Westley King to our May, 2024, meeting. King’s presentation, “Tell the Truth,” explored the various motives we juggle when writing. It was a thought-provoking and engaging presentation. Thank you, Westley! King is the author of the Redemption Gray young adult series. His novel Under the Sun is…
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April 2024: Karen Kite
At the April, 2024, meeting of the Cisco Writers Club, members and friends were treated to a presentation by children’s book author and songwriter Karen Kite. She is also the owner of Graph Publishing and explained the behind-the-scenes publishing process. It was an informative and engaging talk. Thank you, Karen! Karen is an accomplished songwriter,…
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March 2024: Priscilla Bettis
It was a dark and stormy night, but Cisco Writers Club members gathered at the warm and cozy lobby of the historic Conrad Hilton Center for a speech by author Priscilla Bettis. Priscilla detailed her journey from secular horror author to Christian fiction writer and how she managed her readers’ expectations, her publisher’s reaction, and…
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