Tucson Festival of Books

Creating a Writing Group as a Brave Space


Nuts and bolts guidelines for developing a writing group to bolster a writing career--to offer deadlines and feedback, provide peer pressure, develop craft, and share information about the business of writing. Three authors share guidelines to help your writing group become a brave space so you can soar.


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Juanita Havill

Curiosity and love of words have motivated Juanita Havill to write picturebooks, novels for young readers, and poetry. Her “Jamaica” picture book series has remained popular and "Grow: A Novel in Verse" won several awards....

Marge Pellegrino

Marge Pellegrino is a teaching artist who has worked with diverse audiences for more than thirty-five years in rural and urban communities, through projects such as Word Journeys and the Owl & Panther Project....

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Jennifer J. Stewart

Jennifer J. Stewart likes to play with words. She is the author of the picturebook and board book “The Twelve Days of Christmas in Arizona” as well as three novels for children, “Close Encounters of a Third-World Kind,” “If That Breathes Fire, We’re Toast!” and “The Girl Who Has Everything....

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