Hi Everyone,

The South Arkansas Writers met at 2 PM on Sunday, 18 October 2026 at Main Street Pizza in El Dorado. Present were Jack and Janet Ryan, Marilyn Joyner, Desireé Stipp-Bethune, and Rick Vosper.

Our next meeting will be at 2 PM on 15 November 2026. (That may seem early, but November starts on its first Sunday.)

News:
At the Poets Roundtable of Arkansas Poets Day contests, Janet won 5 Honorable Mentions and Marilyn won 4 Honorable Mentions, 2 Third Places, and 2 Second Places.
Janet’s “Sam Norton” story is ready for publication in The Connecticut Nutmegger journal.

Writing from Prompts:
1) Desireé read her story, “Emma and Me.”
2) Janet read “The Island of Nolsoy,” her Faroe Islands stamp page.

Prompts for our November meeting include: 1) An unexpected knock on the door or window (or someplace else?) 2) Standing in the rain, snow, or high wind, 3) Hallowgivingmas (what I call the big advertising push from October through December,) and 4) as always)... Anything You Want.

We critiqued Jack’s Chapter 28, “Supper at Juan’s,” and Chapter 29, “One Potato, Two Potato,” from his “The Centaurian Bud Vase” novel. We had some interesting discussions and some good suggestions.

We are delaying critiquing Janet’s “The Art or Mystery of the Tanning of Leather” until our November meeting. If you didn’t get a copy, or if yours disappears, email me and I’ll send you another.

If anyone has something to be critiqued, a news item, another prompt for our next meeting, or would like to present a short “program” on something that you think would be of interest to us all, you can email me at jackwryan@gmail.com

Page updated: 20 October 2026
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