Summer Series

Wednesdays

Zoom

11 a.m. - 2 p.m.

Class from noon - 1 p.m.

SCWA Members Free

All others $10 a session

Turn it up!

It is time for the Summer Series.

Every Wednesday from June 10 to August 19 at 11 a.m. we are holding a midweek lunch class via Zoom. We will hear about writing techniques, business components, volunteer opportunities and more. As a bonus, you will have time for you to mingle.

We will open the Zoom at 11, the speaker will start at noon but you don’t have to go until 2. Come join us for some fun and learning.  You do not have to stay from 11-2. Please join us from noon to 1.

2026 Schedule

June 10 - Sensory Prompts with Amber Wheeler Bacon

June 17 - Writing the Quest for Money with Charles Hall

June 24 - The Poetry Reviewer's Perspective with Art Turfa and Melanie McGhee

July 1 - Writing the Other: Making Characters that You Are Not Become What You Wish Them to Be with Michael McIntyre

July 8 - Become a World Building Master with Dakota McElhinny

July 15 - Bedazzling your Newsletters with Becky Muth

July 22 - Killing off your Character with Barbara Evers

July 29 - Digging in: Generative activities in creative nonfiction with Sara Sobota

August 5 - How to Choose Between Traditional and Self-Publishing with Andrew Geyer and Kris Bird

August 12 - Writing the Antebellum South with Mary Beth Gibson

August 19 - Reading Partners SC with Danielle Daniels

ZOOM LINK PROVIDED UPON REGISTRATION

Join us for this new Author's Toolbox series that weaves its way through the tapestry of South Carolina. This state has a rich main character energy. Learn more about it to help you improve your characters, settings and plots. From the Mountains to The Sea weaves South Carolina through your writing. Members: $20 per class, $60 for all six classes, with first class free; nonmembers: $25 per class, $100 for all six classes.

All sessions are via Zoom and start at 7 p.m.; link provided upon registration

May 28 - Gullah Geechee Diasporas with Dr Elizabeth West and Dr Mohammad Fraser-Rahim
July 9 -  The Music of the Carolina Coast with Dr. Rick Simmons
July 30 - Back Country Resistance with Carl Borlick
August 13 - Charleston: Gateway to the Sea with Dr. Sal Mercoligano
RESCHEDULED DATE: September 3 - Eastern Cherokee, Southern Iroquois and United Tribes with Chief Lamar Nelson

RESCHEDULED DATE: September 10 -Batter up with Charles Hall

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August 13 - Charleston: Gateway to the Sea

Join us to learn about the importance of Charleston in the United States maritime history. From precolonial to today Charleston is a gateway to the world. Charleston has such a connection to the sea that there is no better city in the state with the possibility of setting a historical fiction.

Rescheduled Date:

September 3 - Learn about the Native American Cultures that formed South Carolina

Join us as the rich heritage South Carolina’s first inhabitants, dating back 25,000 years, and the tools and ingenuity that allowed them to survive come alive. With vivid detail, learn how these early peoples hunted mastodons and later developed farming, pottery and permanent villages. Learn about the challenges the tribes face today, from the loss of ancestral lands to the erasure of native cultures. 

September 10 - Batter Up!

Learn how the sport of baseball helped form the sense of community in the state. From the early mill leagues to today's professional leagues the fingers of South Carolina are spread across America's Game. Learn how the game brings the community together. The game is more than just play ball in South Carolina.

Cat Writer Mollie Hunt is the award-winning author of two cozy mystery series and asci-fantasy tetralogy. She has also published a COVID memoir and a cat health chronicle, both of which won recognition from the Cat Writers’ Association.

Mollie is a member of Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA), Oregon Writers’ Colony, Sisters in Crime, the Cat Writers’ Association, and Willamette Writers. She lives in Portland, Oregon with her husband and a varying number of cats. Like the cat lady character in one of her cozies, she is a grateful shelter volunteer.

You can find Mollie Hunt, Cat Writer on her blogsite: https://www.molliehuntcatwriter.com/

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