Calendar

Regular meetings are held at 1:00 pm on the first Wednesday of each month at the Peach State Bank, 325 Washington Street, Gainesville, GA, 3rd Floor. Programs are presented by guest speakers and members.

This year there will be two conferences replacing the regular monthly meetings in February and September. The conferences will also be held at the Peach State Bank, 3rd floor. The conferences will run 90 minutes with a 15 minute break. Cost: Members - $12.50 for the September conference due with your annual dues payment, Non-members - $25 for each conference. Pre-registration is required. Send a check payable to: Northeast Georgia Writers, c/o Marianne Scott, 719 Robin Hood Trail, Gainesville, GA 30501. Your check should be postmarked a week prior to the conference (No registration at the door).

The annual Awards Luncheon (May), Summer Picnic (June), and Christmas Party (December) will be held elsewhere.

Members with limited mobility and guests may park at the Peach State Bank. All other members please park at St Paul United Methodist Church across the street from the bank, as we have permission to use their spaces for overflow parking. (Please do not park in front of the glass doors of the church as those spaces are for their staff).

 

Date Speaker Subject or Representing
January 4 Tom Nichols w/Surprise Guest Speaker
February 1 Multiple GEORGIA POETRY SOCIETY ROAD SHOW
Published poets will read their poems and teach us “how to”.
Conference Session, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
www.georgiapoetrysociety.org
FREE for members; $25 for Non-members
March 7 Buzz Bernard Author of the new thriller, EYEWALL, will speak and sign copies of his fictional book, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
www.buzzbernard.com
April 4 Dr. Carol Holzhalb Author of historical children's books, The Whistle and a book on the Civilian Conservation Corps, 1:00 – 2:15 p.m.
May 2 Juliana Finch and our Georgia singer-songwriter
  Annual Awards Banquet Gainesville Elks Lodge, $15 per meal, reservations required
June 6 Picnic

Gardens on Green St.
July    NO MEETING 
August 1  

Young Authors (including 2012 scholarship recipient)
September 5  Anne B Jones, PH.D. Author of TIDES OF FEAR (new, fictional thriller),
NASCAR autobiography GOLD THUNDER, racing memoirs ALL AROUND THE TRACK and more . . .
Conference Session, 1:00 – 3:00 p.m.
www.annebjones.com
Members, $12.50; Non-members, $25
October 3

Horton Prather

The Snowflake Method of Plotting
November 7 Gordon Sawyer Gainsville historian and author, Subject: Marketing your book the old-fashioned way and the e-way
December 5   Christmas Party - Location TBA