The Sand Papers: Selected Writings from the Slow Sand Writers Society
Starting
a writers' group is a bit of a crapshoot. Can you scrounge up six or
eight decent local writers who'll read abysmal first drafts and critique
them thoroughly? Will everyone get along? And if so, can you keep the
group going?
Yes, resolved
this now-celebrated ensemble. The Slow Sand Writers Society is a group
in Fort Collins, Colorado, that has been meeting every other Tuesday
night for a decade. The Sanders gather to report progress, share successes,
commiserate failures and, fondly yet honestly, critique each other's
work.
This tenth-anniversary
collection is a sampler of the hundreds of essays, short stories and
novels the Sanders have helped one another hone. The voices herein—poignant,
wry, subtle, edgy—are as unique as their authors, yet all have
been tuned in the process of coming together week after week, year after
year.
Ten writers.
Ten years. Ten stories. Enjoy.
Ordering
information:
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check made to Slow Sand Writers for 12.00 USD plus 1.50 USD
(13.50 USD total) per book to:
Slow Sand
Writers
c/o Laura Pritchett
3000 N. County Road 25E
Bellvue, CO 80512
Contents
Introduction
Looking for
Mr. Clean: An All-Purpose Memoir (nonfiction by Tracy Ekstrand)
Love is in
the Little Lies (fiction by Jean Hanson)
Sixty-Two
Thousand Reasons Why a River is Good for Your Soul (nonfiction by Paul
Miller)
Cherry Blossoms
at Mishima Taisha (fiction by Todd Shimoda)
A Stone to
Build On (nonfiction by Zach Zorich)
Last Bid
(fiction by Laura Pritchett)
Wallpaper
Woman (fiction by Luana Heikes)
Butterfly
Dreams (children's fiction by Karla Oceanak)
Jump (nonfiction
by Kathy Hayes)
Liberated
Hair (nonfiction by Teresa R. Funke)
About the
authors
Writers'
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