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October Meeting Minutes 2019

Hello Everyone, Today we held our October 20, 2019 meeting.

PRESENT: Sharon, Ryan, Mike, Niomi.

TALKING STICK: Our workshop and book party are behind us now. Tentatively we are looking at Sept. 19, 2020 for our event next year. We love Smokey Hills but it is very expensive.

We need to at least check around and see what some less costly options would be. Maybe Blueberry will be rebuilt by then.

We don’t want to keep moving around. It seems like we lose people that way. We have had great attendance for our workshops but we’d like to see more attendees for the book party.

PRLAAC: Niomi attended the October meeting and brought us some news. Art Leap was a great success this year. They want to keep on doing the Great American Story. They have mentioned making some changes and we think that might bring them more submissions.

WRITERS EVENTS: Niomi attended Hostfest in Minot ND several weeks ago. This is the 40^th year for this event which includes books and crafts, especially with Scandinavian ties. This event has a huge following.

League of MN Poets Oct 25-27, 2019 Fall Poetry Conference. www.Mnpoets.com.

Rosemount Writers Festival and Book Fair, Saturday March 21, 2020. Contact Sue Stein at stei0010@gmail.com.

Writers Alliance Conference and Book Fair October 26, 2018. https://brainerdwriters.com/writing-contest-and-book-fair.

Fall 2019 Nonfiction Writers Conference on Nov. 7-8, 2019. Conducted online. Cheryl@authoritypublishing.com.

Check out Aesthetica Magazine at www.aestheticamagazine.com as a place to submit.

Check out Frontier Poetry at contact@frontierpoetry.com as a place to submit.

Sharon is taking another online poetry class. She enjoyed a class with Caryn Mirriam-Goldberg at the Loft. She found a class with her on the Transformative Language Arts Network. It is called Truth to Power: Poetry for Our Times with Poets Laureate. Should be a great class.

Ryan will be attending BOUCHER-CON in Dallas TX in a few days. This is a murder/mystery/thriller/suspense writers’ event.

We took turns reading what we are working on and the rest of us critiqued. We had a great discussion regarding the first few pages of your novel—how to start out. Hope to see you all next time!