2025 Meeting Schedule
Every Thursday’s Meetings start at 6 pm Mountain Time
Important: Meetings are in-person or on Zoom or both. Our in-person meetings are held at Glacier Unitarian Universalist Fellowship, 1515 Trumble Creek Rd, Kalispell, MT 59901
Schedule subject to change due to inclement weather. We will update this page.
June 12 – Speaker Series – Host Susan Purvis and Guest
Zoom meeting only 6pm to 8pm Mountain Time
Strategy – Graphic – Design – Marketing.
Get Your Book the Attention It Deserves: A Publicity Workshop for Authors with Jess Wilder
In this hands-on, story-driven workshop, Jess will guide you through the essential elements of book publicity: why it matters, how to avoid the most common mistakes (like waiting until after your book is out to promote it), and how to start building your own publicity plan today.
We’ll cover the basics—from pitching the media to finding your book’s unique angle—and she’ll share the real talk she usually reserves for her 1:1 clients as a book publicist. Expect practical tools, creative prompts, and a few moments of “ohhh, I never thought of it that way.”
Whether you’re weeks from launch or just beginning your draft, this workshop is designed to meet you where you are and help you move forward with clarity, confidence, and a little bit of fire.
Publicity isn’t luck—it’s strategy. Let’s start yours today!
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Passcode: 696498
June 19 – Moderator Dixon Rice – critique and open readings
Your own prose aloud, someone else would gladly read for you. You are invited to our Open Readings at 6 pm at Glacier Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd; otherwise, 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins.
If you have a few pages, you’d like input on, make about 8-10 copies to pass out, and bring them along. Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd, otherwise 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins. If you’re shy about reading aloud your own prose, someone else would be glad to read for you.
If you don’t have anything to present, please come and share your enthusiasm & experience with the readers. We were all newbies at one time…
He writes: We’re starting small with one singer/songwriter workshop and two writing workshops. Each section will be limited to eight to ten participants. Keith Liggett will lead one writing workshop, the second will be led by Margo Talbot, who wrote “All that Glitters,” a riveting memoir concerning the use of climbing to banish addiction and depression in her life.
The Singer/Songwriter workshop leader is still to be determined.
The workshops will run from 9AM to 1PM daily, Monday through Friday, July 7 to 11, 2025, with the rest of the day open for the participants to work on their craft. We plan a free singer/songwriter group concert on Thursday. The other afternoons will have panel discussions on literary issues, again free to the public.
The working sessions will be an intensive, MFA-style, round-table critique workshop. Everyone will be expected to bring copies for the others to mark-up during the critique and hand back as a reference for further editing
www.bigflatfolkfest.ca
July 10 – Writing Instructor Kathy Dunnehoff
In-person and Zoom Meeting
Topic: Setting – Show Your Readers More than Scenery
Join Zoom Meeting
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Meeting ID: 422 105 0569
Passcode: author
July 24 – Moderator Dixon Rice – critique and open readings
Your own prose aloud, someone else would gladly read for you. You are invited to our Open Readings at 6 pm at Glacier Unitarian Universalist Fellowship.
Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd; otherwise, 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins.
If you have a few pages, you’d like input on, make about 8-10 copies to pass out, and bring them along. Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd, otherwise 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins. If you’re shy about reading aloud your own prose, someone else would be glad to read for you.
If you don’t have anything to present, please come and share your enthusiasm & experience with the readers. We were all newbies at one time…