Photo by Giulia Bertelli on Unsplash Hello Writers! With June being Pride Month, and Mother’s Day just past and Father’s Day coming up, I found myself thinking about the little sayings my parents used to try to impart their wisdom, specifically “Pride goes before a fall.”  My parents were born in the mid 1920’s and grew up in the 1930’s ...

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  Join us for a peaceful day of writing among friends at the Valaterra Retreat Center in La Grange, Kentucky. There will be time and space for writing, conversation, walking the trails, and peer critique. Bring a work-in-progress or write something new! We’ll provide a prompt for inspiration. Space is limited. If you need to cancel, please do so no ...

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Photo by Vitolda Klein on Unsplash. May 2024   Hello Writers! We hope April’s showers are bringing May flowers to your writing life. We anticipate full blooms at our May member meeting when we will be joined by author and professor, Angela Jackson-Brown for a special fiction workshop. In anticipation of a magical evening, we bring you this inspiring Q&A ...

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by Melissa Uhl Draut Photo by Bank Phrom for Unsplash   My favorite scent of the past is one I don’t easily access these days, but fondly recall. In 1983, I started working at The Courier-Journal newspaper in Louisville in the marketing department. I finally got my foot in the door of the place I wanted to work, and it ...

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Join us for our monthly meeting—beginning 6:30 PM and ending at 8:00 PM. We meet in-person at a Louisville Free Public Library. More information is sent in the monthly newsletter. We enjoy lively conversation about the writing life, including peer critiques of short manuscripts—poetry or prose. The strength-based peer critiques affirm each woman’s unique writing style while providing helpful revision suggestions.  On May 14, we’re back at the St. Matthews library branch with a special fiction workshop: ...

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Photo by Umberto on Unsplash   March 2024   Hello Writers!   I don’t know about you, but I’m welcoming March with open arms! I can at least pretend that spring is here. It’s a psychological boost, even if it isn’t reality. You might expect that the March newsletter would focus on spring, tulips and Easter lilies popping up, and ...

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Photo by Glen Carrie on Unsplash February 2024 Hello Writers!   February is full of phenomena, starting with Groundhog Day (no shadow, early Spring!), middling with (love it or hate it) Valentine’s Day, and ending (this year) with an extra day because it’s Leap Year. It’s also home to Super Bowl Sunday (Go Niners! Or… Go Taylor, I mean Taylor’s ...

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Photo by Cristian Escobar on Unsplash   “I wake expectant, hoping to see a new thing.” ~Annie Dillard~ January 2024 Happy New Year, Women Who Write! Should auld acquaintance be forgot/and never brought to mind/Should auld acquaintance be forgot.” A poet made this Scottish drinking song famous. In 1788, Robert “Robbie” Burns wrote the words to Auld Lang Syne. Poetry ...

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“December has the clarity, the simplicity, and the silence you need. for the best fresh start of your life.” ~Vivian White~ December 2023   Happy Holidays to our Women Who Write~   Winter has arrived. The branches are now emptied of leaves. Darkness arrives way too early. The winds bluster. Leaving the house is no longer a simple affair. We ...

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By Melissa Uhl Draut Photograph by Melissa Uhl Draut   On my bathroom shelf sits a two-and-a-half-inch cream colored Limoges pitcher with a sepia image of the Café de Cluny in Paris — a gift from my French teacher Miss Ridge when I was an elementary school student. Only Miss Ridge could pick out something so lovely and practical. It’s ...

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