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  • Civil Rights Era to the Present

    The Cotton Club 837 SE 7th Avenue, Gainesville, FL

    The fourth program in The Other Book series, Civil Rights Era to the Present, will be held on April 12, 2025, from 10:00 a.m. to noon. Each program in this series has been held at a different location, and this one will be at The Cotton Club, 837 SE 7th … Read More

  • Bard & Broadside Festival & Poetry Workshop

    Alachua County Library Headquarters Downtown 401 E. University Ave., 4th Floor, Gainesville, FL, United States

    April is poetry month, and WAG has teamed up with ARTSPEAKSgnv for our April program. On Sunday, April 13, 2025, WAG members and guests are invited to the Bard & Broadside Poetry Festival and Workshop at the Alachua County Library Headquarters. It will begin at 1:00 p.m. There will be … Read More

  • GFAA-WAG Collaborative Exhibit

    Gainesville Fine Arts Association Gallery 1314 S. Main St., Gainesville, FL, United States

    For several years, the Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) and the Gainesville Fine Arts Association (GFAA) have collaborated to produce an exhibition featuring both visual art and literary art.This year's theme is "Hidden Histories." Thirty GFAA artists created works of art, and for each work, a WAG member wrote a … Read More

  • Dan Sharp: How to Write Fight Scenes

    Millhopper Branch, Alachua County Libraries 3145 NW 43rd St., Gainesville, FL, United States

    Dan Sharp received the Outstanding Professor award at the University of Florida and has been to numerous countries around the world as an invited speaker. He is a member of WAG's speakers bureau, and on May 4, he will present the program, "How to Write Fight Scenes." He will point … Read More

  • 8 Book-Writing Tips from an Award-Winning Novelist

    Millhopper Branch, Alachua County Libraries 3145 NW 43rd St., Gainesville, FL, United States

    Richard Gartee is the author of 32 published books—eight of them fiction. On Sunday, June 8, from 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. at the Millhopper Library, he will offer key tips for keeping readers entertained and engaged by sharing examples of these elements: Show, Don’t Tell: Rather than telling readers how … Read More

  • U.S. History that All Writers Should Know – by Dr. Rik Stevenson

    Millhopper Library, Meeting Room A 3145 NW 43rd St,, Gainesville, FL, United States

    WAG's Sunday, July 13, program with Dr. Rik Stevenson is the perfect follow-up to our historical Fannie Lou Hamer presentation by Pamela D. Marshall and the WAG/GFAA "Hidden Histories" exhibit at the Gainesville Fine Art Association's gallery. Stevenson's presentation will discuss the concept of the "Other Book" and underrepresented historical … Read More