Welcome to FAW 2026!!!
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New Events
Napa Valley Writers are looking for submissions to their anthology.
Details can be found at the Contests and Submissions page.
See the Contests and Submissions page for non-FAW events. New CWC contest posted, deadline is May 1 and word limit is 300.
New, New, New!!!
The May 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 members will get Zoom information for the next meeting on April 18 – 3rd Saturday of the month this month to make room for LitHop. Our next meeting, on May 23, will feature Lisa Montanaro on “Writing Family Secrets.” Information is below. All you memoir writers should be interested. 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 – May 2026
Renewal of FAW memberships start next month. We need your continued support to keep having great speakers.
I will let you know when membership renewal is open – probably June 1. There are incentives for renewing early. Everyone who renews in June gets put into a raffle for a free membership, just as in previous years. The winner will be announced at our picnic in July.
This is a good time to talk about what members get from FAW. First, we have speakers from all around the country and the world who will help you be a better writer. Having our meetings on Zoom allows us to get more and better speakers than if we were limited to those in easy driving distance. We select speakers on recommendations and on what you told us you wanted in the survey. Many FAW members write memoirs, so this month we are having a speaker on writing family secrets. Many of you wanted to hear about the use of humor in your writing (me too) so in June we have Brian Copland, who Tish and I have seen many times. Ink Spots has the list for the rest of the year. We’re trying to bring in MFA-quality speakers and, thanks to Zoom, we can do it without charging you to attend.
Members get invited to the picnic and the holiday party. Members get informed of our FAW lunches and dinners, which allow us to talk to each other in real life. We also have the write-in and the literary salon each month. And we have Ink Spots which tells you what is going on, gives you contest and writing opportunities, and is a place where members can submit their work. Members also get access to recordings of our general meetings when the speaker lets us record, which most do.
It all costs money. We have to pay the speakers, pay for our website and Zoom, and provide food and a venue for the parties. And we give a part of your membership fee to the statewide CWC.
So, I have two requests. First, please renew early enough to get into the raffle. I’ll send reminders to those who don’t, you can avoid my mail by renewing before I need to remind you. Try to find time to go to our meetings and lunches and dinners. Let us know what else we can do to make your membership more rewarding. And, if you are not a member, please join us to help support our work. Just go to the Join Us tab (https://cwc-fremontareawriters.org/join-us/) on our website.
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, May 9, 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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