David Bareiss The Greatest Arizona Adventure Novel has not yet been written. But it could be the one that’s been floating around in your head for the last 50 years. Now that you’re retired in one of the greatest active adult communities in the world, it’s time to finally get that story out of your…
Robert Rietschel The Quail Creek Writers and Poets Club has chosen a topic for each of the past two years that allows our members to express their take on a subject. Our pets were the first to be our muse. That resulted in the book The Power of Pets, published by Kindle Direct Publishing, a…
Jerry Tinsley, a member of the Quail Creek Writers and Poets Club, will read selections from his recently published book, A Good Poem, while leading a discussion of creating “enjoyable poetry” at the next club meeting on Oct. 17. The QC Writers and Poets meet on the first and third Thursday of each month from…
For the second consecutive summer, Quail Creek Writers and Poets Club members put their indoor time to good use by writing, editing, compiling, and publishing a collection of short memoirs through Amazon’s Kindle Direct Publishing. Seventeen club members submitted 19 slice of life stories to project coordinator Bob Rietschel and book editor Linda Beal to…
Marian Stoddard In the last two years, the Quail Creek Writers and Poets Club has grown from a small roundtable discussion group that meets once monthly to a membership of 40. The diverse venues in which our members work include poetry, novels, 10-minute plays, and articles for local publications. This has created the need for…
Marian Stoddard For the second meeting on the bimonthly December schedule of the Quail Creek Writers and Poets Club, members were asked to submit an anonymous and humorous obituary containing clues to their identities. Members absent due to holiday plans with friends and families sent their work in advance. Submissions were mostly prose, but some…