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Welcome to East Texas Writers Guild

ETWG Mission

The mission of the East Texas Writers Guild is to offer support, education and opportunity for growth to all our members, who are involved in all aspects of writing, publishing, and book marketing, as well as to contribute to the writing community at large locally, nationally and internationally. Click here to learn more about the history of The East Texas Writers Guild.

After closely monitoring the continued surge of COVID in East Texas, the conference committee agrees that cancelling the 2021 conference on September 11 is in the best interest of our writing friends. Those of you who have registered should receive your refund in the next few days. We look forward to hopefully gathering for a fantastic conference in 2022. Meanwhile, we invite you to be a part of East Texas Writers Guild in person meetings or on Zoom.

Business Meeting

When: first Monday of every month @ 6:30 PM

Where: ETWG online meeting room
Click on the link above to enter our room.
*If prompted for a passcode, it is 2020*

Agenda: This is where we take care of guild business. All members in good standing are invited to attend.

General Meeting

When: second Monday of each month @ 6:30 PM

Where: We are doing a hybrid meeting now! In person, go to the Genecov Room of the Tyler Chamber of Commerce Building at 315 N Broadway Ave, in Tyler.

For the virtual version of our meeting, continue to the ETWG online meeting room
Click on the link above to enter our room.
*If prompted for a passcode, it is 2020*

Agenda: Join us for a different guest speaker each month to help you increase your knowledge and improve your writing skills.

Nutz and Boltz

When: third Monday of every month @ 6:30 PM

Where: ETWG online meeting room
Click on the link above to enter our room.
*If prompted for a passcode, it is 2020*

Agenda: This is your opportunity to ask questions about anything writing related and network with fellow writers.

Click here to read our August 2021 Newsletter “The Next Chapter”

Let’s stay in touch

Author: Delia Latham

Writing Heaven’s touch into earthly tales, Delia Latham puts her characters through the fire of earthly trials to bring them out victorious by the hand of God, His heavenly messengers, and good, old-fashioned love. You’ll always find a touch of the divine in her tales...

Author: Dion McInnis

Dion McInnis states that he has been a photographer since six, a writer since 12 and a poet since birth. A native Texan who has spent the vast majority of his life in the Houston area, he has followed several career paths as a fundraiser, university administrator,...

Photo of Caleb Pirtle, leaning against a red brick wall, dressed in a grey suit jacket with a maroon button up shirt beneath, looking off slightly to his right.

Author: Caleb Pirtle III

He knew he wanted to be a writer the day he read his first book. Writing for him was never as much of a vocation as an obsession. Over the years, Pirtle has served as a newspaper reporter for the Fort Worth Star-Telegram, travel editor for Southern Living Magazine,...

Author: Linda Pirtle

It is only natural that I would one day wind up in the literary field. I taught the art of writing and understanding literature for years as an English teacher at St. John High School, Lancaster High School, and Ennis High School as well as Business Communications at...

Author: Aaron M. Zook, Jr.

An award-winning author and speaker—entertains with a purpose in his books and presentations. He’s thrilled thousands of readers through his YA Christian mystery/adventure Thunder and Lightning series about two inquisitive boys and their dogs who solve one crisis...

Author: Brinda Carey

Brinda is happily married to the man who rescued her from a life of emotional, physical and sexual abuse. Together, they broke several dysfunctional cycles and raised four beautiful children who love the Lord. Playing with her twelve grandchildren brings joy to her...

Author: Catherine Sellers

Always, her first romance novel, was published in 1989 by Meteor Publishing's line of Kismet Romances. Always was followed in 1991 by Rainbows & Love Songs and Fair Warning in 1993.As the daughter of an oil patch roughneck, Catherine Sellers has lived all over the...

Author: Deborah DR Kralich

Deborah Kralich is a writer, artist, and businesswoman. She is part owner of Ruskra’s Corner. A native Texan, she holds a BA in economics from the University of Houston and a MA in counseling from the University of St. Thomas. A writer since childhood, Deborah's...

Author: Janice Ernest

Janice Ernest is from East Texas and has been writing since the late 1980's in small publications as a freelancer; in 2009 she started, edited, and published a magazine in East Texas titled, WhileUWait magazine. This publication was exhibited in the Arlington Museum...

Author: Patricia LaVigne

Patricia La Vigne is a newly-published author, although she has been writing since her childhood--journals of trips made through the years, diary entries, short stories whenever the spirit moved her. Her first published story was for an anthology, compiled by her...

Author: April Nunn Coker

April cannot remember when she did not want to be a writer. She began writing stories for her friends at age ten and continued through high school writing what would now be known as fan fiction using the members of the Kennedy family and Star Trek characters. She...

Author: Kimberly Fish

Kimberly Fish has been a professional writer in marketing and media for almost 30 years. In the course of research for the Longview Chamber of Commerce 100-year compilation, she stumbled across a 1940s-federal works project that was too good, too war-winning, to not...

Author: Marvin S. Mayer

Marvin is a kid occupying the body of a senior citizen. He loves to be around children, so that’s one reason he became an active volunteer at, among other places, the Tyler Library’s Book Buddy program. Each week, Book Buddies visit children’s day care centers or...

Author: Mike Clifton

A public educator for over 38 years as a teacher, coach, and administrator, currently lives in Mount Pleasant, Texas with his wife, Melanie and family cat, Sadie. He is the author of The Treasure Hunt Club and The Janus Witch, a member of The Northeast Texas Writers...

Author: Patricia Taylor Wells

Patricia Taylor Wells published her first book in 2016: “Camp Tyler, A First of its Kind” for the benefit of Camp Tyler, the oldest outdoor education school in the country, which she attended as a child. Most of Ms. Wells’ writing has been directed at serving...

Author: Charles Hayes

Author, artist, and editorial cartoonist Charles H. Hayes is a retired physicist with degrees from Rice University and the University of Texas. He is a life member of the Sons of Confederate Veterans and the Military Order of the Stars and Bars and a board member of...

Author: Patty Wiseman

Patty Wiseman is a native of the Seattle, Washington area, but makes her home in East Texas with husband Ron and crème lab, Cutter. She has 2 children, 12 grandchildren, 2 great-grandchildren. Her heart leans toward stories of intrigue with a touch of romance...

Author: Bobbie Shafer

Is a freelance author of more than three hundred and fifty short stories and articles. Her first published novel, Loves Golden Dream is her first full-length novel and was debuted in October 2011. The second book in the series, The Secrets of Eagle Creek, Legend of...

Author: Anne McCrady

Anne McCrady's poetry and creative non-fiction have appeared internationally in literary journals, anthologies and magazines, as well as online and in liturgy. Her two poetry collections have both been prize winners, as have dozens of her single poems. Besides her...

Author: Nancy Larson

a.k.a. Nancy E Brown Having been in the business world for over forty years, N. E. Brown retired and began pursuing a new career in writing. Wanting to bring the ideas of a younger generation, Ms. Brown collaborated with her daughter, S. L. Jenkins, to bring about a...