Lancaster Literary Guild

Our First Lancaster County Children's Laureate is hosting this event-- You don't want to miss it! Great job promoting Children's literature --thank you Sandy Asher!

Please join us this Friday Nov 6 From 5-9pm for a drop-in at 113 North Line Street Featuring our Literary exhibit: The Life and Work of... Arthur Miller See more

FIRST FRIDAY OCT 2 FROM 6-9pm AND NOV 6 FROM 5-9pm COME JOIN US

May 1st -- 5-9p.m. -- literary exhibit on the Life and work of American poet T.S.Eliot 113 North Lime Street A 4-star event!

A THOUGHT FOR TODAY: Spend the afternoon. You can't take it with you. -Annie Dillard, author (b. 30 Apr 1945)

Flash Fiction 2014 workshop participant Julie Vitto has published a flash story she developed in the course. Go check it out! http://wuweifashion.com/issue-five/julie-vitto-the-move

Thanks to your support, Lancaster, we have two sections of the Spring Creative Nonfiction up and running!

The upcoming nonfiction workshop is now on our website. A few seats remain open. http://www.litguild.org/events/creative-nonfiction/

Announcing a new creative nonfiction spring workshop at the Lancaster Literary Guild: Days/dates: 6 Wednesdays, 3/18, 3/25, 4/1, 4/22, 4/29, 5/6 Time: 6:30-8:30 p.m. Location: Lancaster Literary Guild House, 113 N Lime St. ... Cost: $150 ($135 for seniors/students/veterans/LLG members) For: writers of all levels; enrollment limited to 12 Instructor: Jeremy Hauck (see bio below) Enroll @ [email protected] or call/text 937.728.3320 Do you have a good story to tell? (Now is the time to tell it!) Creative nonfiction, or CNF for short, has been called by Lee Gutkind the fastest growing genre in the industry. In this new workshop you will learn how to write the truth vividly, in a supportive, collaborative atmosphere. We will explore the genre through readings on the craft of creative nonfiction, in-class writing exercises, and critical discussion of classic essays by the likes of F. Scott Fitzgerald, Wendell Berry, and Joan Didion. Each student will produce two original essaysa flash piece (under 750 words) and a longer piece (under 3,000 words). The first three weeks will be devoted to learning about the genre and creating a polished work of flash nonfiction. In the second half of the course, after a two-week break for writing, we will be workshopping our longer pieces. In the final class we’ll walk through the process of submitting work to literary journals, with special guest Donna Talarico, founder and publisher of Hippocampus Magazine. Meeting sessions will move briskly and feedback will be lively and constructive. You will be writing with the intent to create publishable, standalone pieces that engage the reader. Participants are also welcome to use this course to develop longer work they intend to use in memoirs or collections. Jeremy Hauck’s fiction, reviews, and nonfiction appear or are forthcoming in 100 Word Story, The Molotov Cocktail, Penduline Press, TINGE Magazine, Heavy Feather Review, The Review Review, the Ploughshares blog and others. He teaches writing at Temple University and Harrisburg Area Community College. In 2014 he led the area’s first flash fiction course at the Lancaster Literary Guild.

Donald Davis will be here on Tuesday! After you vote, come out to the Ware Center and experience the "father of family tales."

Members of Spring 2014's Flash Fiction writing course held at the Literary Guild will be reading their work to the public! Details: https://www.facebook.com/events/649870578436884/