Yesterday, the Enid Writers Club had their annual writing workshop. For the last few years, we have been able to use the facilities at St. Matthews Episcopal Church and they are fantastic. The room where we had the workshop is comfortable, and things are convenient. Lunch came in a box from McAlister’s and Chloe Fuxa, of Putnam Six Bookstore handled the purchase of books. The workshop was also available on Zoom, and we had two publishers to pitch our works to.

It was comfortable as an old pair of jeans and as new and vibrant as the sparkly top you just bought to go with them. Many thanks go out to the church for their support, Enid Arts Council, Serendipity Lane for registration, and OWFI for advertisement, and of course the members of the Enid Writers Club for all their hard work.

Amy Prokopis was our first speaker and she told us how she writes her novels and her procedures for publishing.

Faith Phillips spoke next and we learned about true crime writing and teaching yourself screenwriting. It is a procedure that she has found important in her career.

We broke for lunch and then had opportunities to pitch our work to Roadrunner Press and Anatolian Press. There were lots of excited faces as they reemerged from the pitch room. There’s nothing like the feeling of getting your work recognized and the possibility of showing it to the world.

A large raffle basket, full of published works from our club and handmade wine, was won by a participant and we cleaned up after a great day. I can’t wait to do it again next year.

What are you reading/writing/this week?