Most programs are held at the Millhopper Branch of the Alachua County Library, 3145 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville, FL 32606, on the second Sunday of each month, 2:30 to 4:00 p.m. Exceptions are noted below in blue.
Speakers and program topics are also subject to change, so, always check Upcoming Events on the Home page for the most up-to-date information.
These programs are open to the public and free.
2026
January 11, 2026 – Dr. Michelle Dunlap: “Trauma-Informed Writing and Character Development”
February 8, 2026 – Scott Ellis: “Ins & Outs of Getting Your Book in Audio”
March 8, 2026 – Pamela Marshall-Koons: “Freedom in the Voices: Black Women Writers’ Amplified”
April 12, 2026 – Aliesa Zoecklein: Poetry Play: “The Journey of Finding Surprise”
May 3, 2026 – First Sunday – Ben Coward: “How to Write Environmental Scenes”
June 14, 2026 – Kathy Dobronyi: “Trauma as a Character in Writing”
July 12, 2026 – Jaiime Engle: “The Writer in the Machine: Collaborating with AI”
August 23, 2026 – Fourth Sunday, Coleen DeGroff: “My Process of Writing and Publishing About African American Enslavement in Alachua County”
September 13, 2026, Julia Sander: “Create a Compelling Elevator Pitch”
October 11, 2026 – Pat Caren: “Improving Your Prose”
November 8, 2026 – Debut of the 2026 Bacopa Literary Review
December 13, 2026 – Holiday Social, Readings
2027
January 10, 2027 – Panelists Sarah Bewley, Wayne Cheshire, & Pat Payne: “Stop Sitting on the Autobiography and Write that Book!”
February 14, 2027 – Pamela Marshall-Koons: A program for Black history month
March 14, 2027 – Jenifer Dearinger & Panel: “You’re Never too Old to Write: Women Writers Over 65”
April 11, 2027 – Ginny Brinkley: A workshop, “Are Limericks Poems?”
May 2, 2027 – First Sunday – Debbie Miller: “Writers’ Roadblocks that Nobody Talks About”
June 13, 2027 – Penny Van Meir: “Where Songs Come From”
July 11, 2027 – Shamrock McShain, Tom Miller, and Wendy Thornton: A screenwriting workshop
August 8, 2027 – Stephanie Seguin & Michelle Dunlap: “Characters’ ‘interiority of mind’ and ’emotionality'”
September 12, 2027 – Elizabeth Huntoon Coursen: A workshop, “The ‘singular they'” and other modern editing topics
October 10 – Michelle Dunlap: “How to Spot and Rethink Stereotypes in Writing”
November 14, 20267 – Debut of the 2027 Bacopa Literary Review
December 12, 2027 – Holiday Social, Readings
