The South Arkansas Writers met at 2 PM on Sunday, 18 May 2025 at Main Street Pizza in El Dorado. Present were Jack and Janet Ryan, Marilyn Joyner, Desireé Stipp-Bethune, Simeon Stipp-Bethune, and Rick Vosper.

Our next meeting will be at 2PM on 22 June 2025 at Main Street Pizza. Note that this will be the fourth Sunday of the month -- we’ll skip the usual third Sunday because that is Father’s Day.

News:
1) Rick will soon be moving into a new house. He also has a new hearing aid -- complete with Bluetooth.
2) Simeon is out for SouthArk’s Summer Break. He got all A’s for the Spring Semester.

Writing from Prompts:
1) Desireé read her story, “The Serious Speech.”
2) Janet read “Art on Stamps” and talked about how the engraving of artwork was done for printing.

Prompts for our June meeting include: 1) “Something interesting/odd happens at the zoo,” 2) “Paternity,” and 3)(as always)... “Anything You Want.”

We critiqued Jack’s Chapter 4, “Teasing the Geese,” from his novel “The Centaurian Bud Vase.” We had some interesting discussions and a lot of good suggestions.

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

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