Award-winning author and writing coach Lana McAra will speak at the Millhopper Library at 2:30 p.m. on Sunday, October 13, 2024. The topic? "Your Deepest Darkest Secrets Are the Key to Your Next Bestseller." McAra won the Christy Award, the Book Excellence Award, and the Literary Titan Silver Book Award … Read More
Connect by Zoom (link below) at 10:00 a.m. on October 21 for the Marketing Coalition meeting. Jolene MacFadden will discuss the pros and cons of the publishing platforms KDP, Draft2Digital, and Ingram Sparks, including the marketing tools each provides to help authors promote their books. The Marketing Coalition was established … Read More
On Sunday, November 10, at 2:30 p.m., join us at the Milhopper Library for readings from the Bacopa Literary Review 2024. If you cannot attend the program in person, you may watch the readings via Zoom. The link is at the end of this article. Local authors whose works are … Read More
As part of this celebration at Bo Diddley Plaza, selected winners of the Peace Poetry Contest will present their poems at 1:30 p.m. The contest, which launched in October, was sponsored by the Writers Alliance of Gainesville, the Climate Collaboratory, and the River Phoenix Center for Peacebuilding. Winning poems may … Read More
Connect by Zoom (link below) on Monday, November 18, for the Marketing Coalition meeting. Jolene MacFadden will lead a discussion on converting your stories to Audiobooks and the options available today. The Marketing Coalition was established to help WAG authors market their works. We meet on the third Monday of … Read More
Note the time and venue: Third Sunday at two o'clock The Matheson History Museum Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) members and their guests are invited to the Matheson on Sunday, December 15, at 2:00 p.m. for readings and refreshments! Before the readings, WAG members will vote on a new slate … Read More