Let's Meetup to Discuss Writerly Things and to Share Work!

Hey BWC-

This week we have guest speaker and BWC member Anthony Parr discussing how to write an engaging newsletter and more. If you haven’t seen his newsletter, I highly recommend you check it out. You can find it here: https://abparr.substack.com/p/newsletter-february-2026

Here’s more about Anthony:

I’m Anthony Barret Parr, a novelist and poet whose stories explore interconnected characters and events within what I call the Adaverse, a shared fictional world that appears across many of my books. My novels include Blood Ties, Dead Cold, and Showdown, with Blood Ties introducing the character Ada Picou, who anchors much of the larger narrative universe.
My writing has appeared in Kentucky Review, The Times-Picayune, The New Orleans Advocate, The Farmer, 2600 Magazine, and Quilted Visions: A Poetry Collection.
I studied history at Southeastern Louisiana University, earned a degree in special education from the University of New Orleans, and completed graduate coursework in psychology through Kaplan University. Along the way I’ve worked as an IT programmer, bookstore manager, café manager, history teacher, and special education teacher, experiences that continue to influence the people and stories I write about.
Music plays an important role in my creative process; when I write, sound and story weave together into what I think of as a narrative tapestry.

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It’s going to be a great meeting and I know you don’t want to miss it!

In addition to the presentation, we'll have time for Reading like a Writer if anyone would like to bring something in to share.

READING LIKE A WRITER: We have time for 2-3 volunteers, five minutes each, to share something they have read by an author that represents a great writing technique. It can be an author who writes excellent dialogue, has a unique writing voice, uses thought-provoking imagery, is gifted with world-building, etc. This segment is much loved by our group and is based on the techniques/information learned through the book Reading Like a Writer by Francine Prose. Please message Dennis Lavoie or me if you have any questions about this.

READING YOUR WORK: As usual, we will wrap up our meeting by sharing some of our work. If you haven't shared anything in a while or are new to the group, please consider bringing something in to read. Many of us are working on projects or have been busy. However, as writers, we must continue to write something new, even if it's to exercise our writing muscle. As always, these short pieces of work (1,000 words or less- give or take a few) can be from a writing prompt, a couple of pages from your current project, poetry, journal, etc...if you write it, we want to hear it! PLEASE PRACTICE YOUR READING BEFORE THE MEETING TO MAKE SURE YOU CAN GET IT DONE IN THREE OR FOUR MINUTES!!!

Save the date for our next meeting on April 2nd and check out our upcoming workshop on Save The Cat! Writes A Novel posted on meetup for Saturday March 28th!

I am looking forward to seeing everyone this Thursday!

Until then, Happy Writing.

-L