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Congratulations to Alamance County Student Writers!

On April 23, 2023 the Burlington Writers Club held the annual Student Contest Awards Ceremony at Alamance Community College. We had a packed auditorium celebrating our young writers. See the list of winners here.

2022-23 Schedule

We meet the 2nd Saturday of each month, September through June, 10:00 a.m.-noon. Visitors are welcome. Membership in the club is not required to attend.

September 10: Karen Southall Watts, Defining Your Ideal Reader
October 8: Cassandra Kircher, Maintaining Narrative Tension
November 12: Chris Abbate, Topic relevant to poetry (TBD)
December 10: Holiday Readings
January 14: Becky Scarlett, Using Dialogue Effectively
February 11: Valerie Nieman, Plotting the Novel
March 11: Janet Warmsn, Topic relevant to poetry TBD
April 8: Carrie Knowles, Character Development
May 13: Prompt Writing and Member Reading
June 10: Executive Officers meeting

Meetings are held in the Alamance Arts Council building, 213 S. Main St., Graham, NC 27253 except for November and January. Locations for those months will will be announced in the monthly press release. Read the president’s message.