The South Arkansas Writers met at 2 PM on Sunday, 20 October 2024 at Main Street Pizza in El Dorado. Present were Jack and Janet Ryan, Marilyn Joyner, Rick Vosper, Desireé Stipp-Bethune, and Simeon Stipp-Bethune.

Our next meeting will be at 2 PM on 17 November at Main Street Pizza. This will be the 3rd Sunday of November.

News:
Marilyn won 10 prizes at the Annual Poets Roundtable of Arkansas Contest: 4-1st Prizes, 3-2nd Prizes, 1-3rd Prize, and 2 Honorable Mentions. Congratulations!
Desireé has received the Final Draft of her Kansas for the Skeptical Adventurer.

Writing from Prompts: Desireé read her story, “Brother’s Haunted Bedroom”, Marilyn read two poems – “Kitchen Help” and “A Long Love,” and Janet read an ekphrastic poem by Dana - “Places I Know I Should Not Go.”

Prompts for our next meeting include: 1) “some unexpected mail (US or chain)/male,” 2) “Find an interesting picture and write an ekphrastic poem or story,” 3) A story in which the end is presented first,” and 4) (as always)... "Anything You Want."

We had nothing to critique this month, but we had a lot of interesting discussions.

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

See you in November. Stay Safe.

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