Welcome to FAW 2026!!!

Three Latest Page Updates

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Evelyn LaTorre Elected CWC Secretary!

Evelyn LaTorre, our long-time CWC representative, was just elected as Secretary of the California Writers Club Board. Congratulations Evelyn!

FAW Member Renewal Now Open!

Renew your FAW membership at the Member Renewal Page.

The renewal period ends August 31. After that you have to pay $20 more to renew, so renew today!

The winner of the free membership lottery was Pat Doyne. Congratulations, Pat!

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Want to join Fremont Area Writers? Click here or the “Join Us” link on the menu bar above.

New Events

FAW member Carol Hall‘s film project is progressing. In March, the 2-minute sizzle reel for The Jeweled Bird was shown at The Chinatown Film Festival in Los Angeles and won for Best Trailer and Audience Choice Award. Information on the project can be found here. This include information on a crowd funding campaign for a proof of concept. She has obtained a fiscal sponsor, From the Heart Productions, which makes contributions to the project tax-deductible.

The 10-minute proof-of-concept film is a portion of the movie that shows what the entire movie is basically about. It will also showcase the quality and the tone of the full-length film. This POC can be entered into major film festivals like Sundance, Tribeca, and South by Southwest as a short to gain credibility and attract name talent and investors. It can also be submitted to studios and other producers to partner with on the feature film. In addition, since the short stands by itself, it will be offered to schools, libraries, anti-human trafficking organizations, faith-based organizations, and Asian American groups.

New, New, New!!!

The August 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/

A new pair of contests from Gotham Writers is listed there.

Or click the sublink under the Writer Resources Menu Item at the top of the page.

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.

Speakers

All FAW members will receive Zoom information the Tuesday or Wednesday before the next meeting.FAW Our next speaker, on August 22, is Robert Anthony Siegel, who will talk about “Writing Flash Fiction.” If you are interested in submitting to the Flash Fiction Contest in October, this is a must attend meeting. Information is below.

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 – September 2026

September always seemed like the beginning of the year to me. School began with new classes, new lassmates, and a new schedule. Things started buzzing as people came back from August vacations. In New York, where I grew up, school started after Labor Day, not in August like it does in California.
After we finish school, September can be just another month. But we can still do things to meet new people, just like we did at the beginning of the school year. Fremont Area Writers can help.
The Write-in, on the second Saturday of each month, is a good way of meeting people. You get put into a Zoom room with two or three other people. You write for ten minutes, but the fun part comes when you read your piece and get people’s reactions. Maybe someone lived where you used to. Maybe someone had some of the same experiences. It is a good way of getting to know your fellow writers better.
Another way is to read our members’ biographies, which are available on the FAW website here. If your
biography is not there, send me a picture and what you want to post, and I’ll put it up. Book covers, links to your writing and links to where someone can buy your books are welcome.
Another place to meet people is our monthly lunches and dinners. Lunch is at Andersen Bakery in the Union Landing shopping center. Dinner is usually Monday evening at Le Moose café in Fremont. The next one will be September 14. We move these events around on the calendar to give everyone a chance to attend. Watch for details.
Writing can be a lonely activity, just you and a blank screen. But FAW gives you the chance to meet people just like you, who don’t think that writing is a weird thing to do.

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, September 12. Details are below All FAW members will get Zoom information. Information is below. Not a member? Get Zoom information from Scott Davidson