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SCWA continues its successful virtual workshops and writing programs that focus on writing craft and publishing. 

SCWA members have free access to the most of these programs on the Recorded Events page.

    • 28 Mar 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Holly Goddard Jones, Caucasian woman

    Join acclaimed author Holly Goddard Jones for a one-hour talk on how to write memorable short stories and novels.

    Jones, who teaches creative writing at the University of North Carolina, Greensboro, is the author of four books. Including two short story collections, Antipodes and Girl Trouble, and two novels, The Next Time You See Me and The Salt Line, a literary sci-fi/fantasy novel. Publishers Weekly called Salt Line "seamless" and "thrilling."

    Her stories--she received The Fellowship of Southern Writers’ Hillsdale Prize for Excellence in Fiction--have appeared in The Best American Mystery Stories, New Stories from the South, and Tin House magazine. After graduating from the University of Kentucky, Jones received a Master of Fine Arts from Ohio State University.

    Her work has won praise from other award-winning Southern authors:

    “Holly Goddard Jones is one of our greatest storytellers—period,” says Florida author David James Poissant. 

    “Holly Goddard Jones writes like a force of nature,” adds Kentucky author Silas House. “Her prose is strong, solid, and full of power. ... “

    • 10 Apr 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Originally from Pennsylvania, Art Turfa has lived with his family in the Midlands of South Carolina since 2005. His roots, along with places where he has lived or traveled, are never far from his mind or poetry. The concept of place occupies an important place in his poetry and literary fiction. Currently retired, he is a Lutheran pastor and a retired Army reservist with veteran status. In addition, he taught English, German, history and religion on the secondary and post-secondary levels. Since 2005 he has been an adjunct instructor for English at Midlands Technical College. Turfa also has been published in U.S. and international print and electronic journals and was in the Top Ten of Pangolin Literary Review 2019 Poetry Prize. His books are: Places and Times (2015, eLectio Publishing), Accents (2017, Amazon KDP), Gemini (2018, Broad River Books), Saluda Reflections (2018, Finishing Line Press), A Village Remembered with artist Carol Worthington-Levy (2019, Amazon KDP) and All in the Family with artist Carol Worthington-Levy (2019/2020).

    • 18 Apr 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Robert Maynor, Caucasian man with hat and beard/moustache

    Join award-winning South Carolina writer Robert Maynor for a one-hour talk on first novels and the South.

    Maynor lives and writes in a patched-up fish camp on the bank of the Edisto River, the longest free-flowing blackwater river in North America. His fiction explores the complexities and contradictions in the contemporary American South.

    Critics call his first novel, The Big Game Is Every Night (Hub City Press, 2023), “a heartfelt story of ambition, family, and frustration.”

    His short stories have appeared in Blood Orange Review, BULL, the Carolina Quarterly, and CRAFT, among other outlets.

    His work has been nominated for a Pushcart Prize, and he is the past recipient of the Larry Brown Short Story Award and the Coker Fellowship in Fiction from the South Carolina Academy of Authors.

    • 16 May 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    TPR Managing Editor Andrew Geyer will discuss the 2024 edition of The Petigru Review.

    Geyer is the author, co-author and editor of 11 books, including the novels Dixie Fish and Meeting the Dead and the short story collection Lesser Mountains, winner of the 2020 Independent Publishers Book Award Silver Medal for Regional/Southern Fiction. His short stories have won numerous accolades, including two Spur Awards for Best Short Story from the Western Writers of America.  A member of the Texas Institute of Letters and the South Carolina Academy of Authors Literary Hall of Fame, Geyer chairs the English Department at USC-Aiken and is the fiction editor at the Concho River Review.

    • 27 Jun 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    • 18 Jul 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    Stephen Hundley, Caucasian man with beard and mustache

    Join acclaimed writer Stephen Hundley for a one-hour talk on writing short stories and novels—and adding fantasy and science fiction to traditional Southern stories.

    Hundley is the author of The Aliens Will Come to Georgia First (University of North Georgia Press, 2023) and Bomb Island (Hub City Press, 2024), “a funny and fast-paced” novel that is part coming-of-age romance and part thriller, says Hundley’s publisher.

    He is a fiction editor at Driftwood Press and a book review editor at the Southeast Review.

    His stories and poems have appeared in Prairie Schooner, Cream City Review, The Greensboro Review, and elsewhere. He holds an MA from Clemson and an MFA from the University of Mississippi. He is currently completing a PhD in English at Florida State University.

    Award-winning Southern author Ron Rash calls Hundley’s Bomb Island “a remarkable novel by an immensely talented young writer.”

    • 22 Aug 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    • 18 Oct 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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    • 21 Nov 2024
    • 7:00 PM - 8:00 PM
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Past events

29 Feb 2024 Author's Toolbox: Agent and Mystery Author Paula Munier
12 Dec 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
14 Nov 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
03 Nov 2023 2023 Fall Conference
31 Oct 2023 National Novel Writing Month Kickoff Madness
12 Sep 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
26 Aug 2023 Indie Author One-Day Camp
17 Aug 2023 TPR: The Flash Issue Launch Party
16 Aug 2023 New Member Orientation
08 Aug 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
15 Jul 2023 Board of Directors Meeting (Note date change; in-person)
10 Jun 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
06 Jun 2023 Fireflies at Night: A Flash Fiction Series
23 May 2023 Summer Series 2023
09 May 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
04 May 2023 Author's Toolbox: Poets Kelli Russell Agodon and Jenna Le
20 Apr 2023 Author's Toolbox: Stacy Willingham
13 Apr 2023 Author's Toolbox: Poets Candice Kelsey and Natalie Marino
11 Apr 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
23 Mar 2023 Author's Toolbox: Scott Gould
11 Mar 2023 Board of Directors Meeting
09 Mar 2023 Author's Toolbox: Ashleigh Bell Pedersen
23 Feb 2023 Author's Toolbox: Andrew Geyer
16 Feb 2023 Author's Toolbox: Ashleigh Bryant Phillips
10 Jan 2023 SCWA Board Meeting / New Board Orientation
08 Dec 2022 Open Mic Night with SCWA and PCLC, featuring Juan Eugenio Ramirez
10 Nov 2022 Open Mic Night with SCWA and PCLC, featuring Monica Lee Weatherly
21 Oct 2022 2022 Fall Conference
13 Oct 2022 Open Mic Night with SCWA and PCLC, featuring Angelo Geter
07 Oct 2022 SCWA Virtual Conference Faculty Reading
07 Oct 2022 VIRTUAL Fall Conference
08 Sep 2022 Open Mic Night with SCWA and PCLC, featuring Susan Cushman
11 Aug 2022 Open Mic Night with SCWA and PCLC, featuring John W. MacIlroy
09 Aug 2022 SHORT STORY WORKSHOP, Digging Trenches: A Generative Fiction Workshop
28 Jul 2022 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Making Messes, How Character & Plot Thrive on Mistakes
14 Jul 2022 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: From Felon to Author, Trauma to Memoir
25 Jun 2022 SCWA Inside-Out
19 May 2022 WRITERS' STUDIO: Shared Writing Time
03 May 2022 YOUR PATHS TO PUBLISH: From Indie to Big Five
28 Apr 2022 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Eco-Writing
21 Apr 2022 WRITERS' STUDIO: Shared Writing Time
14 Apr 2022 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Publishing Paths
07 Apr 2022 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Recollection & Memoir
24 Mar 2022 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Get Into Your Write Space
17 Mar 2022 WRITERS' STUDIO: Shared Writing Time
17 Feb 2022 WRITERS' STUDIO: Shared Writing Time
16 Feb 2022 NOTE DATE CHANGE: Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
01 Feb 2022 NOVEL WORKSHOP: Caves & Cathedrals
27 Jan 2022 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Writing Sound & Silence
20 Jan 2022 WRITERS' STUDIO: Shared Writing Time
15 Jan 2022 Board of Directors Quarterly Meeting
13 Jan 2022 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Manuscript to Marketplace
06 Jan 2022 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Generative Prompts for the New Year
21 Dec 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
23 Nov 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
16 Nov 2021 Diverse Publishing Landscapes: a Q&A with Felice Laverne, Agent, Editor, Writer
23 Oct 2021 Board of Directors Quarterly Meeting
12 Oct 2021 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Get an Agent: Tools and Pathways
05 Oct 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Memoir
28 Sep 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
28 Sep 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Submissions Best Practices
21 Sep 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Freelancing and the Art of the Pitch
16 Sep 2021 Authors' Corner: Steve Gordy & Cat Fitzgerald
15 Sep 2021 NEW DATE: BECOME AN AUTHOR: YA Fantasy Fiction
26 Aug 2021 Writing Diverse Characters: Kevin Don Porter
24 Aug 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
11 Aug 2021 Authors' Corner: Linda Lovely and A.M. Ialacci
03 Aug 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Historical Fiction
27 Jul 2021 Board of Directors Meeting (NOTE DATE/TIME CHANGE)
27 Jul 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Flash Fiction
20 Jul 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: The Evolution of a Work
13 Jul 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Slushfest & Sharefest
07 Jul 2021 Authors' Corner: Bettie Williams and Lis Anna-Langston
06 Jul 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Memoir Jump Start
29 Jun 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Story Structure
26 Jun 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting (NOTE DATE/TIME CHANGE)
22 Jun 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Senior Creativity
15 Jun 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Writing Goals Check-In
08 Jun 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: First Drafts & Revision
01 Jun 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Voice
25 May 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
25 May 2021 BECOME AN AUTHOR REDUX: The Burning Man vs. the Tortoises: Turning Memories into Stories
25 May 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Bad Guys
18 May 2021 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Facing Failure
18 May 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Images
24 Apr 2021 Board of Directors Quarterly Meeting
16 Apr 2021 SCWA Annual Writers Conference, South Carolina: the Storytelling State
30 Mar 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Publishing, Agenting and Authoring from Experience
23 Mar 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
23 Mar 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Literary Agent Q&A
16 Mar 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: Writing from the Core Wound for Depth and Insight
09 Mar 2021 BECOME AN AUTHOR: Trickster's Velocity: A Generative Poetry Workshop
02 Mar 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS: The Perfect Pitch
23 Feb 2021 Board of Directors Monthly Meeting
23 Feb 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS Collaborations
16 Feb 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS Writing About Love
09 Feb 2021 BECOME AN AUTHOR "Burning Man vs. the Tortoises: Turning Memories into Stories"
02 Feb 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS Writing as Play
26 Jan 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS Children's and YA Publishing
23 Jan 2021 Board of Directors Quarterly Meeting
19 Jan 2021 WRITING CONVERSATIONS Setting Writer Goals
12 Jan 2021 Become an Author
10 Dec 2020 Self Editing: What Editors See that You Don't See
05 Dec 2020 The Subtle Art of Suspense
29 Oct 2020 Grow Your Email List for a Successful Book Launch
19 Sep 2020 Member Pro:Characters Who Grow for the Soil—or Life—They’re Planted In
10 Aug 2020 Member Pro: Partnering with Independent Booksellers
16 Jul 2020 Member Pro: Using Book Clubs for Marketing
27 Jun 2020 Member Pro Workshop: He Said, She Said, Who Said?
24 Apr 2020 2020 Spring Conference
31 Oct 2019 2019 Beaufort Retreat
22 Jun 2019 SCWA Greenville Craft Workshop
27 Apr 2019 Columbia II Writing Workshop
26 Oct 2018 Pawleys Island Writers' Conference
27 Oct 2017 2017 "Big Dream" Conference
29 Oct 2016 2016 SCWA Writing Workshop Craft Builds Community
06 Jul 2016 Florence every Wednesday
26 May 2016 Beaufort 4th Thursday
25 May 2016 Bluffton 4th Wednesday
24 May 2016 Rock Hill 4th Tuesday
24 May 2016 Columbia III 4th Tuesday
23 May 2016 Greenville 4th Monday
21 May 2016 Surfside 3rd Saturday
19 May 2016 Camden 3rd Thursday
18 May 2016 Columbia I 3rd Wednesday
16 May 2016 Chapin/Irmo 3rd Monday
16 May 2016 Columbia II 3rd Monday
16 May 2016 Sumter 3rd Monday
11 May 2016 Bluffton 2nd Wednesday
10 May 2016 Aiken 2nd Tuesday
10 May 2016 Rock Hill 2nd Tuesday
10 May 2016 Columbia III 2nd Tuesday
09 May 2016 Greenville 2nd Monday
07 May 2016 Surfside 1st Saturday
04 May 2016 Columbia I 1st Wednesday
03 May 2016 Daniel Island 1st Tuesday
03 May 2016 Lexington every other Tuesday
02 May 2016 Camden 1st Monday
02 May 2016 Chapin/Irmo 1st Monday
02 May 2016 Columbia II 1st Monday
02 May 2016 Sumter 1st Monday
01 Mar 2016 Webinar #7 Plotting Essentials: Five things you have to know to plot your novel or short story” by Susan Breen
01 Mar 2016 Carrie McCray Writing Contest

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