Coffee and Critique Member Marcia Gaye's Work on Display in St. Peters

Marcia Gaye's Display at
St. Peters Cultural Arts Center

Award-winning writer Marcia Gaye, shown at left, is a prolific member of Coffee and Critique.

Her poetry, short stories, articles, and essays have appeared in a wide variety of literary and commercial publications.

Marcia recently had the opportunity to display more than a dozen books containing her work at the City of St. Peters Community and Cultural Arts Center.

You can check out Marcia's eye-catching display at the City of St. Peters Community and Cultural Arts Center. 1 St. Peters Centre Blvd.(at City Hall), St. Peters, MO 63376. Phone: 636-397-6903.Her work will be on display until the end of 2015.

The hours of operation are: 

Monday-Thursday, 9 a.m.-9 p.m.
Friday, 9 a.m.-5 p.m.
Saturday, 9 a.m.-4 p.m.
Sunday, Closed

Congratulations, Marcia. Way to represent!

Kudos To Author David Lee Kirkland

Saturday Writers member David Lee Kirkland has rave a review of his new book, The Yesteryear Tales in the St. Louis Post-Dispatch.

An excerpt:

"However you want to pigeonhole this book, be sure to put it somewhere on your shelf. It's a countrified delight — a collection of folk wisdom and folk folly. The stories center on farming — and hunting, and ranching, and Sunday sermons and Saturday-night sexual shenanigans. You'll learn how to saddle a balky mount and how to rein in a randy neighbor. And you'll read all about it in the backwoods prose that Kirkland employs to tell his terse tales."

A Big Whoo hoo Goes Out to Coffee and Critiquer Donna

Donna's story "Welcome Home" will be appearing in A Cup of Comfort for Military Families this October. Way to go, Donna!

Pictures From the Missouri Writers Guild Conference 2008

Loved the conference. Tomorrow I'll post on some of the highlights. But these are some pictures.

Upper left: Barbara Robinette Moss speaks at her workshop to an attentive audience.

Middle: Fellow Coffee and Critiquer and President of Saturday Writers, Tricia Sanders, gets one of her many writing awards for the evening.

Lower left: Donna Volkenannt, webmaster extraordinnaire of Saturday Writers and Coffee and Critiquer, gets one of several writing awards.

I hang out with great writers so it will rub off on me.

Alice is in Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors

A big Woohoo! goes out to Coffee and Critiquer Alice who will have her essay "Hidden Treasures" published in A Cup of Comfort for Breastcancer Survivors coming in September 2008.

Congrats to Alice on Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors

Coffee and Critiquer Alice has not one, but two stories under contract with Cup of Comfort for Breast Cancer Survivors. Her two essays were also submitted to Redbook's essay contest in conjunction with the Breast Cancer Cup of Comfort collection.

Good luck, Alice. We love your essays!

Let's Hear it for Tricia S.'s NaNoWriMo Win

Coffee and Critique maven Tricia S. finished NaNoWriMo and won! She has 50,003 words of a novel she didn't have a month ago. Always hang with other writers like this. Inspiration is contagious. Jealousy too. :)

Congratulations, Claudia

Congratulations to Claudia Shelton on her third place win for her adult short fiction story, "Westward With Hope" in the Abilene Writers Guild Contest 2007.