Boulder Writers Alliance Meetup

Hello, writers.

We are a standing writing event. Join us every third Tuesday of the month, from six to eight p.m., at Longmont's Luna Café for a quiet, relaxed, and comfortable writing session. Writers, poets, screenwriters, and related, from seasoned professionals to those just beginning, all are welcome.

Note: Luna Cafe closes daily at 13:00, but this event is open just to us writers. So, if you show up early, then hold your dragons; someone will open the shop at 18:00.

Writers of the world, unite! You have nothing to lose but your chains! Ha.

Cheers,

BWA

Hello writing lovers!

Though writing tends to be a solitary activity, sometimes having a partner or three nearby with their heads down, writing away, can help our own concentration and process. It's also nice to know that we're not alone in this love of storytelling or trying to turn our thoughts into coherent sentences.

With that in mind, what if we all got into the same space to write?

We'll gather, chat when it makes sense, but mostly focus on the work we brought to do. For those who can, we'll start at noon, but there are no real time requirements. Drop in or take off as fits your schedule. The coffee shop closes at 4:00.

Simple, quiet, and hopefully productive.

Sign up here to let me know if you'll be there and we'll try to save you a seat at the big central table.

All the best,
Rick

From Manuscript to Market: Demystifying Traditional Publishing

Perhaps you’ve been around the writing world long enough to know the basics—if you plan to publish traditionally you need to write a manuscript, find an agent, sell it to a publishing house, and then people can buy your book, right? But perhaps all the in-betweens and maybe some before-and-after steps are still unclear? This workshop will breakdown a “typical” traditional publishing trajectory, from editing through selling, realistic expectations for timelines, advance amounts, and selling rights, and how to prep now to build your career later.

Born and raised in British Columbia, Mira Landry now resides in Colorado with her husband. She studied Creative Writing at Simon Fraser University and spent three years working as a literary agent at a boutique agency. She presents workshops on publishing and craft across the continent and co-hosts a literary-forensics podcast called Writers Who Read. When not writing or teaching, she can be found frolicking on the high peaks of the Rockies or knitting sweaters that likely won’t fit anyone properly.

May's hybrid meeting—IN PERSON at the Boulder Library Main Branch second floor Flatirons Meeting Room & ONLINE (see link when you register)—is Atmosphere by Taylor Jenkins Reid (USA, 2025) on Sunday starting at 2:30 pm (for 2 hours).

Reid writes novels about the “type of woman who I want to talk about, a woman who has naked ambition.” Atmosphere is about Joan, an aspiring astronaut in the early 1980s, desperate to get into space, desperate to be one of the guys, who hides a secret she knows will get her kicked out of NASA's budding space shuttle program. We first meet Joan well into her career as the steadying voice at mission control, attempting to guide the surviving crew of a harrowing spaceflight safely home.

We ask that all attendees read the entire book in advance of the meeting. More information about other Writers Who Read meetings and our WwR Podcast can be found at: https://WritersWhoRead.com