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Since June 2025, The Write Club, a group for established and aspiring writers, teens through adult, has met monthly for a mix of discussion, sharing writing samples, camaraderie and a lecture on a particular writing topic.
Made possible through funding from the Artist Innovation Grant awarded by the Arts & Culture Alliance, the group is led and organized by journalist/author Sara Jordan-Heintz. Free and open to the public, it will meet next from 1:15 p.m. to 2:45 p.m. on Sept. 12 at the Marshalltown Public Library, in the Brucklacher Conference Room.
The topic for this month’s meeting is common writing mistakes, highlighting grammar and punctuation, plus commonly misused words.
Previous sessions have focused on: motivation/overcoming writer’s block, how to get published, dealing with rejection, using life experiences to inform a person's writing, editing, how to make a living as a writer and more.
Future dates are as follows: Oct. 17 and Nov. 14, all in the Brucklacher Conference Room. The group will then move to monthly Zoom meetings during the winter months.
Following the meeting, join Jordan-Heintz in Meeting Room AB from 3 p.m. to 4 p.m. for an author talk and reading of her latest book “In the Blink Of An Eye: Short Stories to Keep You Up At Night.” Copies will be available to purchase. The talk is appropriate for ages 16 and up.