Category: Meetings

February Meeting!

Posted on by Mark Davis

Where

Las Cruces Village (formerly Good Samaritan) 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

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday February 21st, 2026

Agenda

1.  Call to Order
2.  Welcome to New Members
3.  Membership and Financial Information
4.  Member Accomplishments.  (Let’s boast!)
5.  Does anyone have a current poem to read?  We will critique it, if you wish.
6.  I will bring a lecture and worksheet about place.  Like real estate—location, location, location.  How important place is!  Then we will write a short, creative version of the place you are contemplating. (Bring paper and pen.)
7.  Does anyone have a short story to read?   We’ll critique it. 😍😍
8.  Q and A.  Do you have a specific question or problem with your writing?  We’ll help, if we can.
9.  Our next meeting will be in three weeks.  March 14, 2:30 – 4:30 in the Creative Art Room.  
10.  Adjourn. Let’s each be creative.  

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A Poetic First Meeting of 2026!

Posted on by Mark Davis
black and red typewriter

In a long night in anxious times,
Stanzas clash in metrical rhymes.
Enjambments crouch in happenstance
Lurking as if spilled by chance.
With pens we frame visionary cheer
And meet in the light of a frothy new year.

Where

Las Cruces Village (formerly Good Samaritan) 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

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday January 10th, 2026

Agenda

Special Agenda: January is the Poetry meeting month! What does that mean? Bring your poems! Write some poems! Read some poems!

If you haven’t tried writing poetry yet, give it a try. You still have a week. If you have written some things, bring them along to read. If you haven’t and don’t want to, bring a poem from one of your favorite poets and read it.

We’ll also be writing some poems in the meeting with some prompts. Poems poems poems!

  1. Call to Order
  2. Welcome New Members
  3. Membership and Financials
  4. Member Accomplishments
  5. Poems reading
  6. Poems writing
  7. Favorite poems
  8. More poems reading
  9. More poems writing
  10. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
  11. Adjournment
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December Meeting (NOTE New Meeting Room)

Posted on by Mark Davis

Where

Las Cruces Village (formerly Good Samaritan), 3011 Buena Vida Circle. Our meeting will NOT be taking place in the same room, however. Go down the stairs that are right outside the room we usually meet and there will be a large meeting room almost right at the bottom. We’ve met there several times before.

When

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday December 13th, 2025

Agenda

  1. Call to Order
  2. Welcome New Members
  3. Membership and Financials
  4. Member Accomplishments
  5. Holiday themed writing prompts!
  6. Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
  7. Current advertising techniques (we didn’t get to this last time and I’d really like to discuss)
  8. Goals for the new year as a writer
  9. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
  10. Adjournment
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November 2025 Meeting

Posted on by Mark Davis

Where

Las Cruces Village (formerly Good Samaritan) 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

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday November 8th, 2025

Agenda

  1. Call to Order
  2. Welcome New Members
  3. Membership and Financials
  4. Member Accomplishments
  5. Visual writing prompt led by Rosemary
  6. Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
  7. Discussion on the “soul of a story” (I have some interesting things I’d like to discuss here)
  8. Current advertising techniques
  9. Writing prompts based on the above conversation
  10. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
  11. Adjournment
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October Meetup!

Posted on by Mark Davis

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

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday October 18th, 2025 (Changed date due to SNMBF!)

Agenda

  1. Call to Order
  2. Welcome New Members
  3. Membership and Financials
  4. Member Accomplishments
  5. AI discussion continued (several people had more things to say that we didn’t quite get to last meeting. This won’t take up too much more time).
  6. Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
  7. How to write tension and drama effectively in a scene
  8. Writing prompts based on the above conversation
  9. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
  10. Adjournment

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An August August Meeting Cometh

Posted on by Mark Davis

I love the ambiguity of the word “august,” in pronunciation and meaning, yet ultimately both tied back to the Roman emperor Augustus, with deeper etymology tied to “augur” and “auspiciousness.” For Las Cruces Writers it is auspicious in that elections are held and the next Augustus and his (or her) cabinet are chosen by the people. It seems this year, however, the august reign of Diego will continue!

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

2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday August 9th, 2025

Agenda

  1. Call to Order
  2. Welcome New Members
  3. Membership and Financials
  4. Member Accomplishments
  5. Efrem class
  6. Author success (what does success mean to you?) discussion
  7. Readings by members
  8. Writing prompt (if there’s time)
  9. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
  10. Adjournment
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August 2024 Meeting

Posted on by Diego Salazar

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

  1. Call to Order
  2. Welcome New Members
  3. Membership and Financials
  4. Member Accomplishments
  5. Bylaws business (amendments votes and ratification)
  6. Reading by Jim Humphrey’s and critique (30 min)
  7. Lecture on prologues by Efrem Carrasco
  8. Time & Date of next meeting reminders
  9. 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.

Critique Material Page
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