THE WILLINGTON PUBLIC LIBRARY'S

Wednesday, November 4, 2026

Here are suggested questions for the agenda at our next meeting on Saturday, 14 November 2026:

If you left the group, please tell us why?
What did you want the writer's group to help you with?
1.Getting published?
2. Marketing your work?
3. Help you in your occupation?
4. Edit your fiction or nonfiction?
5. Creating interesting fictional characters?
6. Story, plotting, ideas, setting?
7. Some other reason?
Do you primarily write fiction or nonfiction?
Do you like the location at the library?
Would you prefer to meet at a restaurant or at Dunkin Donuts?
Would you like to meet more online or in-person?
Would you like to publish one of your works by the end of 2027?
We can do that by publishing a PDF online. This would make you a published author. You can publish anything you like be it fiction or nonfiction, or link to a book, short story, or other publication.
Would you like to see more people in the group? How many people would you like to see active at meetings?
Would you like to see more lectures on topics of interest to you?
Would you like to see us make more use of our blog?
Any suggestions of what you would like to see there?
Anything not addressed that you want included?

Eastern Connecticut Writers

Willington Public Library, 7 Ruby Road, Willington, CT 06279 860-429-3854, www.willingtonpubliclibrary.org
On the 2nd and 4th Saturdays of each month we host a writers group that meets from 12:30-2:30 p.m.
There are no dues and participants are invited to join by invitation only.
Seating at the table is limited to no more than 8 active members although the general public is invited to sit and observe.
To secure an invitation to participate please send an email request to: easternctwriters@gmail.com
In the email please provide your name, list your writing interests, a summary of what you have written to date, and a web link (if available) to your body of work.

Guidelines

The Eastern CT Writers group will be modeled after the Iowa Writers Workshop.

Authors should bring enough copies of their submission that they would like critiqued to the meeting for distribution to the other attendees. At the following meeting the submissions will be discussed and the authors will be provided hand-written copies of their critiqued work.

If an author cannot attend a meeting but intends to be present at the next meeting and would like to provide a submission to be critiqued at that next meeting, an arrangement will be made by the Wednesday prior to the next meeting to provide all expected attendees with an emailed copy of the submission. Members of the writing group should use discretion when utilizing this option.

Submissions can be novel chapters, short stories, memoirs, and poetry and are limited to no more than 3,000 words and no more than 10-12 double-spaced pages.

Critiquing must be respectful and the author of each piece should not interrupt the critique or comment on the critique unless asked. Verbal critiquing should consist of major issues such as point of view, plot and character development, or the story arc of the short story, poem, memoir, or novel.

Grammar, punctuation, and other items not dependent to the story should be written as part of the critique but not verbalized during the discussion.

Each submission will be allotted an even amount of time for critiquing based upon the number of submissions and available time.

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Wednesday, November 4, 2026

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