DuPage Writers

OUR NEXT MEETING:

Due to certain requirements our Zoom Meetings are being held on the second Tuesdays of each month at 6:30 pm.  Rose Calkins will send our members emails containing the Zoom link and information on how to use it.  We are now growing our 18th volume of our Possibilities Journal.  

Normally we will be held, by Zoom, on the second Tuesday of the month, February 14, 2023 and March 14, 2023 and so on

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Due to Health Concerns the DuPage Writers Group will not be holding any in person  meetings until further notice.

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 If they begin in person hosting again our meetings will be as follows.  I will update this website when I get the news.

Bartlett Public Library
800 South Bartlett Road
Bartlett, Illinois

Future Meetings:

none as of this time.

We also used to hold meetings at The Carol Stream Public Library at 616 Hiawatha Drive, Carol Stream, Illinois 60188.  When the Carol Stream Library was currently undergoing renovations, we temporarily switched to using the Bartlett Public Library.  We are also currently not holding in person meetings at the Carol Stream Public Library due to health concerns.

When our meetings resume, we encourage you to participate by bringing in ten typewritten copies of a one to three page excerpt of your current work. You will then be asked read aloud your writing to our group. The rest of us will write critiques that include encouragements, comments, and suggestions on those copies. We then share our thoughts about what you had written. I myself find it helpful to hear and later refer to what other people have thought about something I am working on. I find it a way I can grow with my writing.

During our meetings we also like to take five to ten minutes to act on a Writing Prompt. That writing prompt might be one, two, or three statements, emotions, or spoken objects that you will react to on the spur of the moment and pen a short piece using or inspired by the spoken prompt. We then go around the room and read what we had written.

 

Everyone is welcome to attend the workshop.  Annual Memberships are available ($30) for those that wish to attend on a regular basis.

 

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DuPage Writers Group is a vibrant non-profit writing group that meets monthly to nurture the potential of writers at all levels. We are dedicated to encouraging each writers creative voice in a welcome and constructive atmosphere.

DuPage Writers Group also produces the journal POSSIBILITIES on an annual basis.  Submissions are accepted with a paid membership and is an established outlet for new and established writers to publish their latest work. A free copy of the journal is included with an annual membership ($40).

The volume 18’s theme is “Positivities.” The maximum length of a submission is 2,500 words.  You can submit up to two pieces.  The Due Date for your submission is March 1st.

 

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Submissions will be open to DuPage Writers Group members who have paid their annual membership fee.  Please wait to submit your works for our journal until we announce this year’s Journal theme.  Then, please submit your Journal work to cjneumann@cnjnmail.com  For submitting to the journal and for paying your membership fees please contact Rose Calkins.

The DuPage Writers Group publishes the Possibilities Journal each year. Our members are proud of the work they have put in on these pieces of prose, poetry, reality and their accompanying art work. The most recent volume (for 2022) is available to the public for $12.00. Previous volumes (that are on hand) are available for $5.00. Please contact Rose Calkins at:

rosecalkins1@gmail.com

if you want to purchase a copy

The DuPage Writers Group is proud to announce the second volume of our Veterans Journal: “Honoring Our Veterans-Sharing Their Stories”. This journal contains the stories of military veterans from recent wars. The stories were written by various veterans themselves, their families, and their friends.  These accounts are based on interviews and remembrance.  Photos, poems, and drawings have been accepted to show that we honor these veterans’ lives, their contributions, and their healing and recovery process.  Please visit our link at Veterans’ Journal 2019

 

Schedule of Events: 

2023 DuPage Writers Group Workshop/Meeting Calendar:

We will be announcing when and where in person events will be held .

 

 

Writers Workshop – Meeting Guidelines:

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