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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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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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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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November 2022: Carol Gordon
Cisco Writers Club met for an early Thanksgiving celebration Thursday, November 3, at 6:30 p.m., in the fellowship hall of the Assembly of Yahweh, 109 County Road 280, Rising Star TX. After the meal CWC member Carol Gordon of Eastland shared her game plan to “Write YOUR Life Story.” A big part of that was…
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November 2019: Thanksgiving Celebration
Every November the Cisco Writers Club hosts an early Thanksgiving meal. This year we arranged to meet at the Assembly of Yahweh Fellowship Hall, 109 County Road 280, Rising Star, TX. We’re grateful for the excellent contributions of delicious food and service by our members, and the many individuals from across the community who joined…
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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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July 2017: WordLaunch Workshop
The Cisco Writers Club WordLaunch Workshop Series proudly presented Fiction Addiction: Writing Short Stories, led by CWC President Bokerah Brumley. In this two-part class, Bokerah showed how to whittle down characters and narrative to create a short work that’s ready to query and submit. Bokerah shared resources and options for the short story writer, as…
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May 2017: Katy Huth Jones
May found Cisco Writers Club at the Assembly of Yahweh fellowship hall in Romney, Texas, south of Cisco. After a delicious dinner we were delighted to hear the extraordinary Katy Huth Jones. This humble but accomplished woman can be described thus: “Katy Huth Jones grew up in a family where creative juices overflowed and made…
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