(By Joan Carter) The Writers Alliance participated in the 2015 Gainesville Downtown Festival and Art Show. For two beautiful fall days, WAG members manned WAG's booth on a prime corner in front of the Hippodrome to sell each others' books. The festival was huge, covering blocks and blocks of displays selling … Read More
Fiona Lama, an adjunct English teacher at Santa Fe College and a library specialist with the Alachua County Library District, discussed the elements that make travel narratives different from other non-fiction essays. Following her presentation, the audience had the opportunity to draft the beginning of their own travel narrative and … Read More
The Hippodrome Theater invited the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) to host a panel discussion on January 24, immediately following the matinee performance of Collected Stories, a play, by Pulitzer Prize winner Donald Margulies, “This is probably Margulies’ best play to date…” -- NY Post “Fluid and lively, the play … Read More
(By Art Crummer) Dr. Kevin McCarthy, who taught Linguistics, Modern English Structure, and History of the English Language at the University of Florida before his retirement in 2005, spoke at WAG’s February meeting on “Finding Your Niche.” McCarty took “Floridiana” as his niche, and has published 30 books having to … Read More