TABLE OF CONTENTS» Aroostook County...1» Cumberland County...1» Hancock County...2» Kennebec County...2» Knox County...3» Oxford County...3» Penobscot County...3» Waldo County...3» York County...4 ACKNOWLEDGMENTS We are sincerely grateful to Hannah Morgan Perry for the all the hard work she put in to launch this project. We also want to thank Molly Antonio, Micheal Frier, Brianna Gigelow, and Shiobhan Smith for their assistance in compiling the directory.
Aroostook County HOULTON Marc A. Arnts 207.532.2131 ex. 248 marnts@yahoo.com The Shiretown Scribes The Shiretown Scribes is an open forum writers group that gathers at Visions, a local art gallery in Houlton, on the second and fourth Wednesday of every month, September through June. Writing styles include poetry, short stories, memoirs and selections from an autobiography, currently being put together by one of our members. Selections tend to be nonfiction, but works of fiction appear from time to time and are also welcome. We encourage members of the public to come and listen to the works we share. Cumberland County BRUNSWICK Maureen Ann Connolly bawg@maine.rr.com Brunswick Area Writers Group (BAWG) Organized in 2005, BAWG is a women-only group that meets 11:00 a.m. to 1:00 p.m. on the first and third Mondays of the month from September to June at the Curtis Memorial Library in Brunswick. Members are writing fiction, nonfiction, memoir, poetry, and plays. The group includes members who have earned or who are working toward MFAs. Members have won Maine Literary Awards in poetry, fiction, and nonfiction. Membership is limited. CASCO Elaine Griffin 207.693.4978 ebtgriffin@roadrunner.com Lakes Region Writers Guild The Lakes Region Writer s Guild meets at the Casco Public Library. The Guild s founder is Elaine Griffin. Two other founding writers from the first meeting, Deb Smith and Alan Lapidus, are still with the group. Membership is held to one dozen but queries are welcome. The Lakes Region Writers Guild meets every other Saturday at 10:00 a.m. excluding holiday weekends and August. SEBAGO Rick Roberts 207.893.8251 rerobert@tiac.net Sebago Lakes Writing Group This is a well-established group of writers hailing mostly from the professional communications industry. All genres welcome except poetry and memoir. Straightforward feedback on manuscripts and stories-in-progress provided in friendly, collegial environment. No beginners please. Group meets year-round in North Windham every other Monday evening from 7:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. A writing sample must be submitted for consideration. 1
PORTLAND Bryan Wiggins bryanwig@maine.rr.com The Pine Cone Writers Den Meets monthly. Capped at eight members, but members cycle in and out. Genres include fiction, memoir, and essays. www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=108275749216173 Hancock County DEER ISLE Brenda Gilchrist 207.348.2487 brenda.gilchrist@gmail.com Deer Isle Writers Group Members of the Deer Isle Writers Groups have gathered regularly for more than twenty years to encourage and support one another in improving their writing skills. Meetings are held in the homes of members on Tuesday mornings from 9:00 a.m. to 12:00 p.m., and on alternate Tuesday evenings from 6:45 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. These meetings are open to prospective new members and guests. The first part of the meeting of the morning group is spent writing either work-in-progress or newly inspired prose or poetry. Members may then choose to read their work and receive critiques from their fellow writers. Our evening group is a critique group and members bring copies of their writing to share with each member present (usually 8 10 copies). Writing may be a poems or 3 4 pages of prose. Special arrangements are sometimes made to present longer works in progress. The groups have self-edited and published two anthologies: Eggemoggin Reach Review: Volume I and Volume II. In addition, individual members have had their works chosen for publication both in print and online or selfpublished. GOULDSBORO Cynthia Thayer darthiafarm@gmail.com Peninsula Writers Group Meets every Wednesday from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m. All professional, published writers working in all genres are welcome. Kennebec County READFIELD Ted Bookey trubook@gmail.com Ted Bookey This is a group of Maine poets that meets monthly. The group has been meeting for more than five years and usually has about ten members. Meets on a Saturday. Group is by invitation only. 2
Knox County CAMDEN/ROCKLAND/THOMASTON Jeff Foltz jfoltz2@myfairpoint.net Jeff Foltz Meets once a month on various days of the week at different members homes. The group is primarily focused on fiction but open to guests. Oxford County RUMFORD Brenda Espinoza 207.364.2419 Rumford Writers Group Meets the first Monday of each month from 7:00 p.m. to 10:00 p.m. All genres. Penobscot County BANGOR Ms. Rusty Gagnon rgagnon71239@roadrunner.com Ms. Rusty Gagnon Members write all genres of novels, short stories, and memoirs. Being a published writer is not required, however, membership is limited to experienced writers. The group meets on Tuesday mornings from 10 a.m. to 12:00 p.m. New members will be considered. Waldo County BELFAST Karie Friedman 207.342.5649 karie@fairpoint.net Poets Table The Poets Table is a Belfast-based writing group that meets on the first and third Wednesday evenings of each month to share work and discuss how to strengthen it with an eye towards publication. The meeting place is most often the basement of the Belfast Historical Museum, though occasionally we meet at a member s home. New members will be considered. We are looking for fellow poets who read widely enough to be conversant with the contemporary poetry scene, write regularly with the aim of publication, consider revision to be part of the writing process, are able to contribute to a respectful, constructive discussion of someone else s work, identifying its strengths first. Our current membership of five includes one with an MFA and two who are enrolled in low-residency MFA programs. All have had poems published in literary magazines, one has a chapbook, and another just won a chapbook competition. None of us has as yet published a book. We also participate in local poetry events, of which there are many in Belfast. 3
York County KENNEBUNK David Morse 207.251.4847 davmor7@maine.rr.com The Kennebunk Writers This group meets monthly at the Kennebunk Free Library. We are a small group and currently there are no openings. Genre is limited to prose, fiction, and nonfiction. 4
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