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                                  EVENT:  Critique Group Meetings      
                                  DATE:
  3rd Sunday of Every Month
                                  TIME:  2:00 PM – 5:00 PM
                                  PLACE:  Irondale Library Meeting Room
 
                                                    New Guidelines 
                                          Please E-mail for Application

                                       CHECK OUT OUR NEW CONTEST!
                                                        
                                                Novel Pitch & First 5 Pages Contest


Smoke City Narrators, founded in 1998 and based in the Birmingham, Alabama area, provides constructive critiques, contests, seminars and workshops for professional writers. All members have accumulated regional publishing credits and/or writing awards. Whenever possible, we give beginners suggestions to help them find resources geared toward their needs.

SCN formerly accepted only literary and mainstream writers. Membership now open to all genres. We presently critique short stories, novels and narrative non-fiction but will consider other areas when sufficient applications received. 

SCN currently charges no dues but has one-day seminars and workshops with modest fees in the planning stages. Topics offered will interest advanced writers: marketing, publicity, writing query letters and synopses. 


CURRENT MEMBERS
:

Janice Wiley-Dorn
               http://www.janicewiley-dorn.com

Founder and President


Lamar May
Joined November 21, 2006 

David Surrett                       http://www.davidsurrett.com 
Joined July 20, 2008 

Gladys Sherrer 
Joined August 17, 2008 


PAST MEMBERS:

We deeply appreciate the contributions made by the talented writers who shared their work and critique skills with us in the past.

Warren E. Henderson          http://warrenworld.org       
Member: July 1998  ...           In Memorial:  Dec. 20, 1955—Dec. 19, 2002

Francesca Gross
Member: 2003 - 2009

Jimmy Carl Harris                http://jimmycarlharris.com
            

Member: 2003 -2008

With crisp narrative and spot-on dialogue, Harris reveals the struggles of strong women, weak preachers and brave Marines in his award-winning fiction. His short story collections, Walking Wounded (2006) and Wounds That Bind (2007), both published by Iris Press, are available online and in brick and mortar stores everywhere.

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