Village Writers L’Audible Art at The Woodlands May 14

The Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club will present their 15th Annual L’Audible Art event on Monday, May 14, from 2-4 p.m., in the Ouachita Room at the Ponce de Leon Center (The Woodlands) of Hot Springs Village.

In a café setting offering complimentary wine, cheese, and soft drinks, twenty members of the Village Writers’ Club, [...]

Help with Microsoft Word Available to Authors

Arkansas writer Linda Rigsbee and the Elkins Writers’ Group are presenting “Word for Authors,” a series of mini-classes at their monthly meetings to help writers get the most out of Microsoft Word.

The May 12 session will focus on using Word to build an author bio and prepare it to be uploaded to the web.

Linda Rigsbee [...]

Travis Lee featured Whodunits speaker May 12

Detective Travis Lee

The Whodunits Club will meet Saturday, May 12, at noon at Restaurant On The Corner at 3582 N. Hwy. 112, Fayetteville.

The guest speaker will be Travis Lee, a Fayetteville Police Detective for ten years who has also served on the Swat Team, and has been influential in passing legislation regarding adoption practices [...]

Arkansas Literary Festival Offers Impressive Line-up of Authors

The 2012 Arkansas Literary Festival sponsored by the Central Arkansas Library System runs from Thursday, April 12 to Sunday, April 15 in Little Rock.

Festival authors include Roy Blount Jr., Diana Southwood Kennedy, George Dohrmann, Deborah Crombie, Trent Stewart, Mary Monroe, Justin Torres, Greil Marcus, and more. Festival authors include winners of such awards as the [...]

Another Chance to Attend Demonstration on Book Binding

The book binding demonstration that was offered the busy weekend of March 10 will be repeated at the April 14 meeting of the Elkins Writer’s Group.

The group meets at the Elkins Library the second Saturday of each month from 2-3 pm. 

For more information about the Elkins writers’ group, see their website at www.elkinswritersgroup.homestead.com
 

Book Binding Demonstration in Elkins on March 10

The March 10 meeting of the Elkins Writers’ Group will feature a demonstration on binding books at home.

The Group meets on the second Saturday of each month at the Elkins Public Library in Elkins, Arkansas from 2-3 p.m. It is open to writers of all ages. New writers bring the first two pages of their work [...]

Whodunits Meet March 10 at ROC

Nancy Stanberry, treatment supervisor of the Northwest Arkansas Community Center will be the featured speaker at the Saturday, March 10 noon meeting of the Whodunits at Restaurant on the Corner at 3582 N. Highway 112, Fayetteville.

Stanberry will speak about the Center’s minimum security facility for nonviolent female offenders. This innovative corrections program implements special rehabilitation [...]

Janis Kearney Featured at HSV Workshop March 17

Janis Kerney

Janis F. Kearney, publisher, author, educator and literacy advocate, will present “Preparing, Pitching, Publishing & Promoting: How to Take Your Manuscript from A to Z” at the Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club Workshop on Saturday, March 17 (9 a.m.-3 p.m.), at the Coronado Community Center in Hot Springs Village, Arkansas.

Kearney, born one of [...]

Presidential Researcher Speaks to HS Village Writers Jan. 23

Arkansas author Carla Killough McClafferty will share how she researched her book about George Washington with the Hot Springs Village Writers’ Club on Monday, January 23, at the Home Plate Café, 5110 North Highway 7, in Hot Springs Village.

The Many Faces of George Washington

McClafferty describes her book, The Many Faces of George Washington: Remaking a [...]

County Coroner Opens 2012 for WhoDunits

Washington County Coroner Roger Morris will be the featured speaker at the January 14 meeting of the WhoDunits reading group at noon at Restaurant On The Corner in Fayetteville, 3582 N. Hwy 112

Business to be addressed at this meeting will include the payment of dues and the election of officers.  Those nominated for 2012 are: [...]