Today’s meeting has been rescheduled to next Saturday, August 15th, in the downstairs meeting room. More to come!…
No Meeting Today! Plan for Next Saturday.
Category: Meetings
July Meeting! (Note meeting room change)
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 GO DOWNSTAIRS to reach the meeting room.
When
2:30-4:30 pm, Saturday July 11th, 2026
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Vote on next years LCW Board Members
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Location location location. How location affects story.
- Writing prompts
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
June Meeting!
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 June 13th, 2026
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Vote on next years LCW Board Members
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Discussion: Supporting characters. How do good supporting characters propel a story forward? What makes a good supporting character?
- Writing prompts
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
Meet in May
May you rise in sunlight
And quicken in the day.
May you write of springtime
When we meet again in May
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 May 9th, 2026
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- POV discussion (first, second, third, limited, omniscient, strengths and weaknesses of each)
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Writing prompt (I have two good ones, and we can hit both if we have time)
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
April Meeting!
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 April 11th, 2026
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Mira! Las Cruces!
- Carol Potenza – Going Wide – Other than Amazon Book Sellers
- Booknanza discussion
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- POV Discussion (read up on the different POV types and their strengths!)
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
March Meeting Madness!
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 March 14th, 2026
Agenda
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Rosemary poem and questions
- Genre discussion
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Writing prompt (something outside your genre)
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
February Meeting!
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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Enjoy Valentine’s Day!
The Las Cruces Writers meeting has been moved to February 21st. More details and agenda are forthcoming.…
A Poetic First Meeting of 2026!
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!
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Poems reading
- Poems writing
- Favorite poems
- More poems reading
- More poems writing
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment
December Meeting (NOTE New Meeting Room)
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
- Call to Order
- Welcome New Members
- Membership and Financials
- Member Accomplishments
- Holiday themed writing prompts!
- Readings by members?? (THIS COULD BE YOU!)
- Current advertising techniques (we didn’t get to this last time and I’d really like to discuss)
- Goals for the new year as a writer
- Time & Date of next meeting reminders
- Adjournment