Wichita has a diverse array of authors in our midst! Many of them will be in attendance at the library’s Local Author Day with copies of their books available for sale, including children’s titles. The event is FREE and open to the public. Get connected with and support your friendly local authors from August 24,…
Future Program Suggestions
It is time again for the membership to discuss future meeting programs. The board discusses them, but ideas really need to be considered by everyone. The following are some suggestions that I came up with. Hopefully many of you will look at the ideas, mull them over, and then talk about them at an upcoming…
July 20th Meeting
Jim Potter will present the July 20th program involving postcards. He will provide a PowerPoint presentation on “Postcards as Props and Prompts: How I Use Postcards in My Writing.” You won’t want to miss this program.
July 20th Writing Prompts
Please write a one to two-page story using one of the writing prompts, or use one of your own. Writing Prompts: Be a building or house you know well. Talk about your life and memories. What, if anything, would you be willing to fight or even die for? Explain your answer. Write about a time…
June 15th Writing Prompts
It’s time again for writing challenges. Even if you don’t bring yours to share with the group, try one of them just for yourself. If you want to try using one or all of the words in a sentence, paragraph, short piece, these are the words for June: cheese – slippers – club – stool…
May 18th Writing Prompts
It’s time again for writing challenges. Even if you don’t bring yours to share with the group, try one of them just for yourself. If you want to try using one or all of the words in a sentence, paragraph, short piece, these are the words for May: tree – necklace – gossip – rope…
More April 20th Writing Prompts
Writing prompts were already provided for the April 20th KWA meeting, but we have more now. You have so many choices to challenge your writing skills. Your character has a parrot that can repeat words that it hears. Lately, it has picked up some disturbing language — it sounds as if it’s threatening your character!…
April 20th Writing Prompts
You can choose to use any or all of the five unrelated words and make them into a sentence, a paragraph, a poem, a memoir, or a piece of short fiction. The words do not have to be used in these forms. WORDS: holiday – pencil – hammock – attic – fortune PROMPT: Imagine that…
March 16th Writing Prompts
We will again have multiple writing challenges for you to choose from. Please give them a try, even if you decide not to read yours to the other members at the meeting. You can choose to use any or all of the five unrelated words and make them into a sentence, a paragraph, a poem,…
February 16th KWA Meeting
The program for the February 16th KWA meeting was arranged by Wes Brummer. He invited a film crew from WSU Shocker Studios to come talk about their programs, and making trailers. WSU Shocker Studios website https://www.wichita.edu/about/wsunews/archive/index.php?si=3853 This should be a great learning experience. Come with questions for our guests.