A virtual event that happens at 7:00 pm CST on the second Wednesday each month.
We feature established authors, who read from their work and answer audience questions.
This is a great opportunity to learn about the writing process from page to print, and connect with members of your writing community!
To take part in these evenings, please email to receive the Zoom invitation.
Program News
June 25, 2025
Suspense and Intrigue – A Book Chat with M. M. DeLuca
by Steve Oetting Do you yearn for a story of suspense and intrigue that grabs you within the first few paragraphs and never lets go? If so, Marjorie DeLuca, under the pen name M. M. DeLuca, offers a myriad of novels that might be the answer to appease your unsated thirst. Here is an excerpt from the second page of her most recent novel, The Divorce Party. In just a few short paragraphs, Ms. DeLuca …
by Steve Oetting The intriguing story depicted in Madison Kehler’s historical fiction novel, Journey of Hope, transports us back to 1915 to the Pale of Settlement, an exclusive zone in the western Russian Empire where Jews were allowed to live at that time. The expression “beyond the pale” was derived from folks emigrating out of that area, mostly to eastern Europe, which is exactly what Madison’s main character intends to do. Her reading of Chapter …
October 15, 2024
Book Chat: Sally Ito
By barb janes Japan, Japan / If I say it enough \ Will it come true? Only a secure writer opens her reading with words from another writer as Sally Ito did with the above poem by David Fujino. In 11 short words, Fujino’s poem evokes the deep longing for culture and identity that spurred Sally Ito to write The Emperor’s Orphans, a cultural memoir about her family. Facilitated by MWG’s Susan Rocan, this Zoom …
