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Welcome to the East Texas
Writers Guild!
We are glad you are here, and
encourage you to look around. We have a lot to offer writers of all genres, including monthly meetings, workshops and
good old fashioned camaraderie.
ETWG
Board of Directors meet Monday, April 5th, 6:00 pm at McAllisters
in Tyler.
All members are encouraged to attend. McAllisters
is located at 4325 Old Bullard Road in Tyler, just off the Loop.
March 8 Speaker -- David Stroud on Research and Writing
David Stroud is not old enough to have served in the Civil War, but you wouldn't know that listening
to his American History lectures at Kilgore College. David's vast knowledge and expertise regarding the civil War
is amazing, and his stories about the Civil War seem to come from first-hand experience.
Tht first-hand experience
probably comes from his tour of duty in 1964 as a marine in Vietnam and as a Drill Instructor for two years at Paris Island,
South Carolina, 1966-1968. And the fact that he's such an excellent teacher probably is because he's been doing
this his entire adult life. David has a B.S. and M.A. in History from SFA, taught History at West Rusk I.S.D. from 1972-1976
and has taught United States and Texas History at Kilgore College since 1977.
David has written and published five
books and fifty articles and book reviews. His most recent book, Ector's Texas Brigade, took him ten years
to research and write and won the 2004 Summerfield Award for Best Book on Texas in the Civil War. His reference book,
Insribed Union Swords: 1861-1865, was selected as the number three reference book in the United States by Haas
Publications in 1983, and his book of poems, Grazing Fire, was used as a reading resource in a War and Literature
English class at SFA in 1998.
David will talk to us about the importance of research to your writing. and
he might also have a few wars tories to tell along the way.
ETWG meets Monday, March 8, 2010 in downtown Tyler at the Chamber of Commerce at 6:30 pm.
For more information and to RSVP, please contact us at etwg@hotmail.com.
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