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Holiday Spirit: Celebrating a Year of Writing and Reading

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville 4225 NW 34th Street, Gainesville, FL, United States

Although WAG's annual member shindig on Sunday, Dec. 14, 2014 was a holiday party, there was little doubt that the evening was more about a changing of the guard. Outgoing WAG president Art Crummer handed over the reins to Susie Baxter in the symbolic form of a 9-pound hammer and a … Read More

A Land Remembered

Unitarian Universalist Fellowship of Gainesville 4225 NW 34th Street, Gainesville, FL, United States

by Wendy Thornton A large crowd of writers and environmentally concerned attendees heard speaker Rick Smith talk about his father, Patrick Smith, and the many historical books he wrote about Florida. The most famous is A Land Remembered, but it was his fist Florida book, Forever Island, which garnered a … Read More

WAG’s Writers in the Woods

Forty writers attended WAG's first workshop/retreat, held at Skipper Hammond’s rural homestead on the Gainesville side of Williston. Workshop topics included publishing, e-books, poetry, marketing, blogging, freelance writing, and submitting to the 2016 Bacopa Literary Review. The cost to WAG members was $15. Attendees enjoyed morning coffee, donut holes, and … Read More