Welcome to FAW 2026!!!
FAW Member Renewal Now Open!
Renew your FAW membership at the Member Renewal Page.
Renew by midnight, June 30, and be entered in a drawing for a free membership.
The renewal period ends August 31. After that you have to pay $20 more to renew, so renew today!
Join FAW
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.
New, New, New!!!
The June 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.FAW Our last meeting, on May 23, featured Lisa Montanaro on “Writing Family Secrets.” Information is below. Our next speaker, on June 27, is Ellen Byron Author, Comedian, Sitcom Writer, who will talk about “Writing Comedy or Writing Comedy into Fiction.”
Members will receive Zoom information. Not a member? You can join FAW today on our Join Us page. But anyone can attend, free, 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 – June 2026
It is June, and a not-so-young President’s thoughts turn to FAW membership renewals. The CWC, and thus FAW, membership year is from July 1 to June 30, but we will open renewals on June 1. You can renew on the Join Us page (https://cwc-fremontareawriters.org/join-us/); be sure to go to the renewal page for your $20 renewal discount. The direct link to the renewal page (for members only is https://cwc-fremontareawriters.org/faw-member-registration/.
CWC voted to keep dues constant for this year. Our dues have not gone up for as long as FAW has existed. You will hardly find a better bargain in this time of rising prices.
As a further incentive, all those who renew before July 1will be entered into a raffle for a free membership. The winner will be announced at the FAW picnic, scheduled for July 11. Keep the date open. You’ll be getting more details as we get closer.
The CWC board also voted to reduce the period during which you can renew at reduced rates to just July and August, dropping September.. (If you renew in June you’ll be officially renewed July 1.) So, after August 31 you will have to pay an extra $20. Renew early! You can do it by credit card online or by sending a check.
Also in June are elections for board members. If you are interested in running, let me know. Offices up for grabs are President, Vice President, Treasurer and Secretary. At the April Build Better Branches Meeting we heard that the two biggest problems for CWC clubs are money and finding people to fill all the roles needed to keep a club going. We’re good on money (assuming you all renew) but would love to have more helpers. The next chance to help is with the picnic. If you would like to help set up, get the food, or organize events, let me or Pat Doyne know.
Thanks as always for supporting FAW, and we’ll see you at our June events.
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, June 13, 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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