Join Karen Ray, Elva Oesterreich, and others at the Artists’ Workshop Week organized by Ten O’clock Artists, March 15th through the 23rd.
Las Cruces Writers at Artists’ Workshop Week
Category: Meetings
August 2024 Meeting
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
We are trying a new time slot. This meeting will be taking place on Saturday NOT Thursday!
2:30-4:30 pm August 10th, 2024
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Bylaws business (amendments votes and ratification)
- Reading by Jim Humphrey’s and critique (30 min)
- Lecture on prologues by Efrem Carrasco
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
Critique Reading Material
Please follow the link below to read the material authored by Jim Humphrey’s prior to the meeting. We provide this in advance so the membership can come to the meeting with some thoughts and to optimize the short time we have together. The password will be sent out to the membership via mailing list. If you did not receive it for whatever reason, please contact the executive committee of the LCW.
…July Meeting!
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm July 11th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Discussion: Future Book Signings/Payment
- Discussion: Time and Date of Meeting, reminder
- Discussion: Officer introduction for 2024/2025 and Annual Dues
- Discussion: Book Promotions: TikTok, Book Bloggers, etc
- Adjournment
Talking About Memoirs and Memories: Karen Ray at Thomas Branigan Library
Please join Karen Ray in the Roadrunner Room at Thomas Branigan Memorial Library (I used to go to the one on the downtown mall as a child…maybe I’ll write about that) at 1:30 on Tuesday, July 16th to learn more about memoir writing. Here’s the official flyer:
Swoon in June at the Meeting
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm June 13th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Discussion: Future Book Signings/Payment
- Discussion: Time and Date of Meeting
- Discussion: Nominations of Officers for 2024/2025 and Annual Dues
- Discussion: Book Promotions: TikTok, Book Bloggers, etc
- Readings: Linda
- Adjournment
Let’s Meet in the Sovereignty of May
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm May 9th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members and discuss accomplishments
Membership and Financial
General Discussion: How I publish my books and other helpful hints.
Ode, Composed on a May Morning
While from the purpling east departs
The star that led the dawn,
Blithe Flora from her couch upstarts,
For May is on the lawn.
A quickening hope, a freshening glee,
Foreran the expected Power,
Whose first-drawn breath, from bush and tree,
Shakes off that pearly shower.
All Nature welcomes Her whose sway
Tempers the year’s extremes;
Who scattereth lustres o’er noon-day,
Like morning’s dewy gleams;
While mellow warble, sprightly trill,
The tremulous heart excite;
And hums the balmy air to still
The balance of delight.
Time was, blest Power! when youth and maids
At peep of dawn would rise,
And wander forth, in forest glades
Thy birth to solemnize.
Though mute the song—to grace the rite
Untouched the hawthorn bough,
Thy Spirit triumphs o’er the slight;
Man changes, but not Thou!
Thy feathered Lieges bill and wings
In love’s disport employ;
Warmed by thy influence, creeping things
Awake to silent joy:
Queen art thou still for each gay plant
Where the slim wild deer roves;
And served …
Meet in April, in April!
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm April 11th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members and discuss accomplishments
George will have a few minutes at the beginning of the meeting.
Then, Dr Jim, Fenton, Linda and Gretchen will read for us.
And, to see if you are paying attention, and because Dorothy Parker always invokes a devious little smirk:
A Well-Worn Story
In April, in April,
My one love came along,
And I ran the slope of my high hill
To follow a thread of song.
His eyes were hard as porphyry
With looking on cruel lands;
His voice went slipping over me
Like terrible silver hands.
Together we trod the secret lane
And walked the muttering town.
I wore my heart like a wet, red stain
On the breast of a velvet gown.
In April, in April,
My love went whistling by,
And I stumbled here to my high hill
Along the way of a lie.
Now what should I do in this place
But sit and count the chimes,
And splash cold water on my face
And spoil a page with rhymes?
Dorothy Parker…
Beware the Ides and Meet in March!
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm March 14th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members and discuss accomplishments
Membership and Financial
General Discussion
Main Program: Memoir Writing by Karen Ray…
February Meeting
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm February 8th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members and note accomplishments
Membership and Financial
General Discussion
Main Program: Readings by members.…
First Meeting of 2024!
Where
Good Samaritan Village in the Creative Arts Room, 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Enter through the main administrative building entrance (parking is to the east of the building) and turn left in the first hallway to reach the room.
When
1:30-3:30 pm January 11th, 2024
Executive staff will meet 30 minutes early.
Agenda
Call to order, welcome new members/ accomplishments
Membership and Financial/Report
Discuss the December Book Signing
Determine the format for future meetings.
Main Program: Writing exercise by Rosemary…