Workshop Celebrates 20 Years in Euless, 32 Years of Existence & 292 Books

City of Euless Mayor, Mary Lib Saleh, pre­sents DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop Pre­si­dent, Rus­sell Con­nor, with a cer­ti­fi­cate to com­me­mo­rate the Workshop’s 20th anni­ver­sary of mee­ting at the Ruth Milli­can Cen­ter. During those 20-years, Workshop mem­bers can only recall one Wed­nes­day night mee­ting that was can­ce­led, and it was due to an ice storm.

There was no red car­pet at the Octo­ber 14 mee­ting of the DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop, but there should have been one. Dig­ni­ta­ries such as the Mayor, City Mana­ger, Deputy City Mana­ger, Parks Direc­tor and City Coun­cil mem­bers joi­ned the Workshop to com­me­mo­rate the twen­tieth anni­ver­sary of DFWWW mee­ting in the City of Euless.

Pre­si­dent Rus­sell Con­nor com­men­ted that the Workshop has exis­ted for 32 years, 20 of which have been spent in Euless. During that time, DFWWW mem­bers have pro­du­ced 292 tra­di­tio­nally published books. The Ruth Milli­can Cen­ter, home to the Workshop for all 20-years, was pac­ked as ever­yone enjo­yed a good meal to cele­brate Euless’ sup­port of the arts.  

Since DFWWW mem­bers are always a busy bunch, there was also plenty of news. Yvonne Isaacs announ­ced the publi­ca­tion of her book Seven Tiny Mirac­les. R. Dou­glas Weber, who will be fea­tu­red in the Dis­co­very Chan­nel pro­gram “Hun­ting for the Lost Sym­bol”, men­tio­ned that the show has been moved to Sun­day, Octo­ber 25. The Bur­le­son Star inter­vie­wed Glenn Nor­ton about his work-in-progress, A Knight in Tar­nished Armor. A. Lee Mar­ti­nez com­men­ted that he is now a regu­lar con­tri­bu­tor at his publisher’s web­site, Orbit​Books​.net.

Rose­mary Clement-Moore has an essay in the book A New Dawn relea­sed this month. Can­dace Havens brag­ged about the cover of her newest work from Har­le­quin, Take Me If You Dare, due in February 2010. Both Rose­mary and Can­dace will teach a class at the Mans­field Public Library on Novem­ber 6 at 7 p.m.

A full house! The DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop mem­bership has grown to 100+ authors from across North Texas. Some of our authors drive over an hour to attend our famous read and cri­ti­que sessions.

Of course, even with all the fes­ti­vi­ties the read and cri­ti­que ses­sions still hap­pe­ned as plan­ned. The dedi­ca­ted authors of the DFW Wri­ters’ Workshop never take a break from honing their craft.

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