Category: writing
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November 2025: Dr. Sandra Hazelip
Cisco Writers Club members and guests gathered at Assembly of Yahweh in Rising Star for our annual Thanksgiving celebration. We enjoyed a covered dish supper, and author Dr. Sandra Hazelip was the guest speaker. She talked about her children’s book, a Christian story about monsters and friends. She also spoke about her travels around the…
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October 2025: Megan Cline
Megan Cline conducted a writing seminar for Cisco Writers Club members and guests. Cline is an instructor at Tarleton State University and the co-founder of the literary magazine The Bosque River Review. During the seminar, Cline explained how what we consume (reading, listening, watching, and even eating) affects our creativity. We ended with a writing assignment…
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July 2025: Priscilla Bettis
At the July meeting of the Cisco Writers Club, author, poet, and CWC member Priscilla Bettis led a poetry workshop focusing on the contrapuntal poem form. Everyone left with two poems: an individual poem and an interleaved poem written with a partner. The result included both humorous and thought-provoking verse. Thank you, Priscilla!
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June 2025: 50th Anniversary Celebration!
At our June meeting, a larger-than-expected turnout gathered to celebrate 50 years of Cisco Writers Club “helping writers where they are.” Family of charter members came to read works written by their particular charter member. We laughed, we teared up (we mostly laughed–the charter members wrote a lot of humorous pieces), and we all had…
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May 2025: Loretta Brister
At the May 1, 2025, meeting of the Cisco Writers Club, author and retired Assistant Professor from Tarleton State University gave a presentation on writing conferences, organizations, workshops, retreats, and groups. She entertained us with tales from her own experiences and explained how these organizations and events could help us become better writers. It was…
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April 2025: J.V. Lewis
Author J.V. Lewis gave a presentation on The Wonders, a series of books published by Plain Truth Ministries that showcases beautiful photography and inspirational text. He focused on the fifth book, The Wonders of Joy. We got to watch a slideshow of the pictures while J.V. read beautiful passages from the book. Thank you, J.V.! After J.V.’s…
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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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May 2018: Brian Foster at the Cisco Writers Club Picnic
Picture of people at a picnic by Rosalind Chang on unsplash A special treat at our May 3, 2018, picnic was Brian Foster of Early, Texas. As a former police officer, he writes under the Black Dog Swamp imprint, and shows a keen understanding of the criminal mind. His riveting but humorous life stories have…
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