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September Annapolis Chapter Meeting
September 20, 2017
7:00 PM to 8:30 PM
Maryland Hall for the Creative Arts, Room 205
801 Chase Street
Annapolis, MD 21401
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An Evening with Rafael Alvarez, Baltimore's own Hometown Boy
Howard County Chapter: The Analysis of Effective Writing
September 21, 2017
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Owen Brown Community Center
6800 Cradle Rock Way
Columbia, MD 21045-4809
http://www.owenbrownvillage.org/contact-us.html
This month's program is entitled “The Analysis of Effective Writing”. Our presenter is Donald McLean.
Caroll County Chapter: Crafting Characters that Take on a Life of Their Own with award-winning novelist Donna Drew Sawyer
October 14, 2017
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Finksburg Branch Library
2265 Old Westminster Pike
Finksburg, MD 21048
Donna Drew Sawyer, author of Provenance, and winner of the 2017 MWA novel contest for historical fiction, will help us to construct 3-dimensional characters for our own writing.
Baltimore Chapter--Mining for Memories
October 26, 2017
7:00 PM to 9:00 PM
Cockeysville Recreation Center (across from the Cockeysville Library)
9836 Greenside Drive
Cockeysville, MD 21030
Bill Jones is the guest speaker for this workshop
Caroll County Chapter: Mauled Men, Drowned Dames and Crispy Critters: A Body Disposal Primer for Writers with author Jeanne Adams
November 11, 2017
1:00 PM to 3:00 PM
Finksburg Branch Library
2265 Old Westminster Pike
Finksburg, MD 21048
If you’ve got a body in your book, and you need to hide it, get rid of it, or investigate it, this is the class for you. In this interactive workshop, led by Jeanne Adams, a New York-published author who has been hailed by Romantic Times and Cosmopolitan
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