Welcome to FAW 2026!!!
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Want to join Fremont Area Writers? Click here or the “Join Us” link on the menu bar above.
New Events
See the Contests and Submissions page for non-FAW events. Just posted is information about a Flash Fiction contest with interesting prompts. Dead line is December 1. The November Write-in will use these prompts, so attend (November 8, see below) for some practice.
New, New, New!!!
The February 2026 Ink Spots Newsletter is now available on the Newsletter Page.
The Contests and Submission Page is available at https://cwc-fremontareawriters.org/contests-and-submissions/
Or click the sublink under the Writer Resources Menu Item at the top of the page.
Send Scott email if you want to be informed of new entries to this page, otherwise I won’t clog up your inbox. However, there is a CWC poetry contest. I think all members should have received an email about it, but I posted it anyhow on February 1.
You can submit your Shout Out to Ink Spots on the Newsletter page also, using a handy form. Have a story you’d like to submit to Ink Spots? You can submit it using the Shout Out form too! Don’t worry about formatting, Ink Spots will take care of it.
All FAW members will receive Zoom information the Tuesday or Wednesday before the next meeting. The next meeting is Saturday, February 28, featuring Rich Amooi on how to write Killer Openings. Information is below. Not a member? You can join FAW today on our Join Us page. But anyone can attend by requesting Zoom information from Scott Davidson.
Want to join FAW? You can also do it on-line, at our Join Us page. Fill out the form and then pay using PayPal or your credit card.
President’s Message – February 2026
Welcome to February. There are two major holidays this month. The first is President’s Day. When I was growing up we had two president’s days, one for Washington, and one for Lincoln. (Did you know that Abraham Lincoln was born on the same day and year as the great scientist Charles Darwin?) Now they’ve combined the two holidays into one, made it generic, and put it on
some random Monday. It is hardly worth thinking about anymore unless you want to celebrate the accomplishments of Millard Fillmore.
More important for many of us is Valentine’s Day. I hope that, as
writers, we don’t just sign cards to people we care about, but write about why we care about them. If you’ve been married a long time, it may seem hard to come up with something new, but you’ve had all year to think about it.
Writing and romance can be strongly connected, and not just if you write romance novels or put romance in your fiction. There is also writing to the one you love. Tish and I never lived closer than 600 miles from each other until we got married, so we communicated through letters and sometimes expensive phone calls in the pre-internet age of the 1970s. I have a box filled with letters from her. They tell a story of the anticipation of seeing each other again, the joy after we did, and the suspense of how our lives seemed to keep us apart, and, after we got engaged, the build-up to our marriage. I’ve kept them for 50 years, and I’m glad I have them.
Today we would have been texting, emailing, or Zooming with each other. Better in some ways, but writing a letter forces you to focus your thoughts. So, even if you see the one you love every day, think about writing a letter to them. It’s something they can keep.
Happy Valentine’s Day!
Keep thinking and writing
Scott
See books by FAW Members on the Bookshelf page. Updated 3 April with books by Cherilyn Chin and Amber DeAnn
What is the Writers Salon?
From Tony Pino
Every fourth Monday evening, the Fremont Area Writers Group holds a Writer’s Salon. Yet the word “salon” is not used in the daily vernacular of ordinary Americans like you and me—with one exception: the neighborhood beauty salon.
So, what does salon mean in our monthly context?
In response to this question, I am reminded of the film, Midnight in Paris, in which prominent artists of the Post-World-War I era—Gertrude Stein, Ernest Hemingway, Pablo Picasso, Salvador Dali et al—met at midnight to share and exchange artful ideas and commentary. The protagonist of this film, Gil Pender, is a Hollywood writer who becomes a time-traveler when he is invited into this bygone era by no other than T. S.Eliot. The imagined venue of this film—the sumptuous apartment of Gertrude Stein—can be a metaphor for our writers’ group meetings, where we meet online, share ideas, and support each other in our efforts to achieve “clarity and grace”* whether it’s story-telling, essay-, technical- or report-writing, poetry, or any other communication we might consider. We don’t purport to be Hemingways, Steins or F. Scott Fitzgeralds—we’re just friends trying to get to the next paragraph.
Please consider joining us on the fourth Monday of the month at 7:00-PM and listening or commenting on our colleagues’ work. BTW: If you haven’t already done so, see Woody Allen’s film, Midnight in Paris. It’s worth the time.
The next Salon is Monday, February 23. All FAW members will get notified.
See more pictures at the Past Events page.
New!: The FAW Bookshelf is now available. See the books FAW writers have published. If you are a member and your book is not there, send a jpeg of your cover, a link to where the book can be bought and a one sentence summary to Scott Davidson.
Come to the Zoom Write-in, second Saturday of Each Month.
Our next write-in will be Saturday, February 14, 2 PM. The flyer is below. All FAW members will get Zoom information. Not a member? Get Zoom information from Scott Davidson
See all the Shelter in Place (SIP) notes here. Click on the one you want, or scroll down to see them in reverse order.
We made it up to SIP Note 55!!! Since we’re not sheltering any more, we’re done! (Hooray!)
Send questions and comments about the FAW Website to Scott Davidson
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