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  • Thornebrook Village Art Festival

    Thornebrook Village 2441 NW 43rd Street, Gainesville

    Book Sale! The Writers Alliance of Gainesville participated in the 2015 Thornebrook Village Art Festival held on Saturday and Sunday, October 10-11, 2015. The two-day event featured food, live music, and the works of 130 artists. A short rainstorm early Saturday morning made WAG authors wonder if the turnout would … Read More

  • Bacopa Literary Review Presentation

    Downtown Gainesville 111 East University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

    (By Joan H. Carter) The Writers Alliance of Gainesville (WAG) presented the sixth annual edition of their literary journal, the Bacopa Literary Review, and announced the winners of their 2015 contest. The forty-one works selected for Bacopa included authors from as far away as Australia, Brazil, and Canada as well … Read More

  • Community Outreach: Becoming a Writer

    (By Susie Baxter) WAG members Art Crummer and Karen Porter presented a program entitled “Becoming a Writer” to a small group of emerging writers at the High Springs Branch of the Alachua County Library on November 10. Crummer, past president of the Writers Alliance and an award-winning musician, said he … Read More

  • Gainesville Downtown Festival and Art Show

    Downtown Gainesville 111 East University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

    (By Joan Carter) The Writers Alliance participated in the 2015 Gainesville Downtown Festival and Art Show. For two beautiful fall days, WAG members manned WAG's booth on a prime corner in front of the Hippodrome to sell each others' books. The festival was huge, covering blocks and blocks of displays selling … Read More

  • How to Write a Travel Narrative

    Downtown Gainesville 111 East University Ave, Gainesville, FL, United States

    Fiona Lama, an adjunct English teacher at Santa Fe College and a library specialist with the Alachua County Library District, discussed the elements that make travel narratives different from other non-fiction essays. Following her presentation, the audience had the opportunity to draft the beginning of their own travel narrative and … Read More