Monthly Writing Group is back for a special mid-month session, facilitated by bestselling author Aimie Runyan! See below for more about Aimie.

Calling all writers, aspiring writers, and anyone interested in writing! Join us at the Library on the first Monday evening of every month to share your writing, enjoy others' work, and receive/provide feedback. All genres (fiction, poetry, nonfiction) and forms are welcome. After introductions, we'll do a brief creative exercise if time allows, then go around the room to share completed work or work in progress. Each participant will have the opportunity to share. Then other group members will reflect, ask questions, and provide constructive feedback. (We'll cap sharing at around five minutes to be mindful of time and agree to ground rules that will help keep the discussion respectful and productive.) Our goal is to give participants a welcoming space to share, receive feedback on their work, and create community through writing.

Participants are strongly encouraged to register (see below) for each session they plan to attend. Sessions with one or fewer registrants will be canceled. For each session, please email the work you plan to share (no more than about five minutes of reading, please) to Adult Services Librarian Eric White at ewhite@estesvalleylibrary.org, who will print a copy for each registrant to use for reading and commenting. Please do your best to fit your work on a single double-sided sheet. All copies will be returned to the submitter.

Please see the attached document for more about the group (format, ground rules, suggestions for a productive session). We hope you'll join us!

About Aimie

Internationally bestselling author Aimie K. Runyan writes to celebrate unsung heroines. She has written numerous successful historical novels and is loving her foray into the exciting world of contemporary fiction. She is a many-time finalist for the Colorado Book Award, a nominee for the Rocky Mountain Fiction Writers' 'Writer of the Year,' and a Historical Novel Society's Editors' Choice selection, and most recently has been long listed for the Reading the West awards for her two novels, The Memory of Lavender and Sage and Mademoiselle Eiffel. Aimie is an adjunct professor for the Drexel University MFA in Creative Writing Program and strives to be an active speaker and educator in the writing community. She lives in the beautiful Rocky Mountains with her wonderful husband, two (usually) adorable children, two (always) adorable cats, and a dragon.