Green Mountain Writers Group

 
 
 

THIS SESSION:
"The Fort, the Store, the Tree," a poem and a short story by Charlie Messing, and "Burying a Friend" a creative non-fiction essat by Stephen Kastner (to be posted in the discussion boiard)

You are invited to join with a cadre of fellow writers to share, read, and discuss all manner of creative writing. This is a sounding board, a test bed, a safe place to obtain reader response to your work. Everyone is encouraged to voice their honest reactions to the works presented in our weekly revue sessions in a constructive manner.

Join Zoom Meeting:
Link will only become visible to people who RSVP. Look in the right sidebar under the date and time.

Important steps to prepare in advance:
Reading material for upcoming sessions is provided for your review in advance. There may be work that “triggers” a negative response. You may choose to attend and contest the work by presenting your reaction to it as part of the process, or you may choose to skip that discussion. We do not impose any content restrictions upon participating authors.

If this is your first session, you will; be sent the files in advance via email. After you have attended your first meeting, you will be provided with a member's account. Then, you can login and access the Discussion Board at: https://greenmountainwriters.com/discussion-boards/open-genre-discussions/

How Friday live sessions work:
The submitting author is typically placed in a virtual “isolation booth” while we discuss the work as if they are not in the Zoom. We try to focus on specific elements of craft and give honest responses in open discussion. All are welcome to join, from readers to writers at any level of accomplishment (including all types of wannabees). Preserving respect for each other is the intention. Providing constructive criticism is the goal.

Submitting your own work:
We typically accept submissions from 2-3 participants each week, depending upon length. Participants are expected to read and markup the works in advance, posting review comments online for the authors in preparation for the Friday live discussion of the submissions.

After you have attended one session, you are eligible to submit your own writing. Prose submissions should be approximately 5-20 pages (Times New Roman font, 12 pt., double-spaced, PDF, with page numbers please). Poets typically submit 1- 3 poems and they read them aloud before we discuss each one. Sometimes, we split an hour between two prose authors who each wish to submit short “sketches” consisting of approximately 5-10 pages or flash fiction (1000 words).

I am glad to help answer any questions.
Stephen.Kastner @ gmail

 
 
 

THIS SESSION:
Jeremy Void is a poet and a short story writer. He follows in the tradition of Kerouac and Ginsberg, in his beatnik, stream-of-conscious style. He lived a bohemian lifestyle and he continues to strike the reader with awe as they flip through the pages of his many books, which include his two most recent, Solitary Confinement and The Years Were Unkind.

Transgressive poet Jeremy Void says, " I am not like ordinary men. I think in a way that makes the mass populous shudder. My thoughts and dreams are banned from most libraries, my ideas and schemes forbidden from any textbook. I’m just a human being trying to navigate my way through a world crammed tight with let-downs and setbacks. I write because I need to, not because I want to, but there’s a magic beneath the pen as it scrawls word for word, as I scribble my internal drama between the lines. It’s almost like giving birth, painful to let it out, but boy does it feel good that it will fester inside you no longer, and now you can raise and nourish it. That’s a magical thing, isn’t it?"

The Poetry & Performance workshop, led by Darlene L. Witte, works to bridge the gap between poetic words on a page and poetry read aloud. On the first and third Tuesdays of each month, we focus on the work of a feature poet presented live in a Zoom session. The group is invited to respond to the poetry and discuss the work. Sessions then progress to an Open Mic where anyone can share a poem of their own or one they have just taken a liking to.

Darlene Witte
Moving to Vermont in 1993 to become a professor of Education at Northern Vermont University brought her to a landscape far more physically, emotionally, and socially embracing than she knew. Vermont has become her new spiritual home. She blends this new, gentle, land-and-people-scape into her life-long internal vision, and she hopes you enjoy her poetry and workshop.

 
 
 

You are invited to join with a cadre of fellow writers to share, read, and discuss all manner of creative writing. This is a sounding board, a test bed, a safe place to obtain reader response to your work. Everyone is encouraged to voice their honest reactions to the works presented in our weekly revue sessions in a constructive manner.

THIS SESSION:

...to be announced

Join Zoom Meeting:
Link will only become visible to people who RSVP. Look in the right sidebar under the date and time.

Important steps to prepare in advance:
Reading material for upcoming sessions is provided for your review in advance. There may be work that “triggers” a negative response. You may choose to attend and contest the work by presenting your reaction to it as part of the process, or you may choose to skip that discussion. We do not impose any content restrictions upon participating authors.

If this is your first session, you will; be sent the files in advance via email. After you have attended your first meeting, you will be provided with a member's account. Then, you can login and access the Discussion Board at: https://greenmountainwriters.com/discussion-boards/open-genre-discussions/

How Friday live sessions work:
The submitting author is typically placed in a virtual “isolation booth” while we discuss the work as if they are not in the Zoom. We try to focus on specific elements of craft and give honest responses in open discussion. All are welcome to join, from readers to writers at any level of accomplishment (including all types of wannabees). Preserving respect for each other is the intention. Providing constructive criticism is the goal.

Submitting your own work:
We typically accept submissions from 2-3 participants each week, depending upon length. Participants are expected to read and markup the works in advance, posting review comments online for the authors in preparation for the Friday live discussion of the submissions.

After you have attended one session, you are eligible to submit your own writing. Prose submissions should be approximately 5-20 pages (Times New Roman font, 12 pt., double-spaced, PDF, with page numbers please). Poets typically submit 1- 3 poems and they read them aloud before we discuss each one. Sometimes, we split an hour between two prose authors who each wish to submit short “sketches” consisting of approximately 5-10 pages or flash fiction (1000 words).

I am glad to help answer any questions.
Stephen.Kastner @ gmail

 
 
 

You are invited to join with a cadre of fellow writers to share, read, and discuss all manner of creative writing. This is a sounding board, a test bed, a safe place to obtain reader response to your work. Everyone is encouraged to voice their honest reactions to the works presented in our weekly revue sessions in a constructive manner.

THIS SESSION:

...to be announced

Join Zoom Meeting:
Link will only become visible to people who RSVP. Look in the right sidebar under the date and time.

Important steps to prepare in advance:
Reading material for upcoming sessions is provided for your review in advance. There may be work that “triggers” a negative response. You may choose to attend and contest the work by presenting your reaction to it as part of the process, or you may choose to skip that discussion. We do not impose any content restrictions upon participating authors.

If this is your first session, you will; be sent the files in advance via email. After you have attended your first meeting, you will be provided with a member's account. Then, you can login and access the Discussion Board at: https://greenmountainwriters.com/discussion-boards/open-genre-discussions/

How Friday live sessions work:
The submitting author is typically placed in a virtual “isolation booth” while we discuss the work as if they are not in the Zoom. We try to focus on specific elements of craft and give honest responses in open discussion. All are welcome to join, from readers to writers at any level of accomplishment (including all types of wannabees). Preserving respect for each other is the intention. Providing constructive criticism is the goal.

Submitting your own work:
We typically accept submissions from 2-3 participants each week, depending upon length. Participants are expected to read and markup the works in advance, posting review comments online for the authors in preparation for the Friday live discussion of the submissions.

After you have attended one session, you are eligible to submit your own writing. Prose submissions should be approximately 5-20 pages (Times New Roman font, 12 pt., double-spaced, PDF, with page numbers please). Poets typically submit 1- 3 poems and they read them aloud before we discuss each one. Sometimes, we split an hour between two prose authors who each wish to submit short “sketches” consisting of approximately 5-10 pages or flash fiction (1000 words).

I am glad to help answer any questions.
Stephen.Kastner @ gmail