News
for October 2024:
We'll meet IN PERSON this time on Tuesday, October 22, at the usual 7:30 PM CEST at Valerie and Tony's place in central Heidelberg. Starting at 6:30 PM, homemade soup will be served! Directions and contact info were supplied in email. Write me if you need them again. Anyone interested can drop in. The link is accessible by email from the group list.
If you're on the mailing list, you should get a link and further details. See bottom-right, below, for how to join either of our two very-low-traffic mailing lists. Contact me directly if desired here, including for meeting information.
The group has a new private area to talk and interact online. It's at the equally new Discourse for Expat Writers community launched in April 2022. Anyone may join the public side of the ongoing discussion site for free. Take your writing to the next level!
Charter member Russ Hodge has written up a sweet memory of his first encounter with our group's founder, Raymond Hansen, in the early 1990s. Click to read that bit of personal history!
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| We are also pleased to announce how proud we of our former member, Joachim Frank, on whom has just been conferred the Nobel Prize in Chemistry! (If only it had been literature...) Here he is in a snapshot taken ten years ago when Joachim visited us and participated in our VHS summer reading.) |
Snapshots are available here from
the 2007 VHS summer reading. Other photo collections from past meetings
are also available here.
Announced workshop meetings are usually held
on Tuesdays at 7:30 p.m. at the Deutsch-Amerikanisches
Institut (DAI; a.k.a.
"Amerika-Haus"), Sofienstraße 12, near Bismarckplatz/Adenauerplatz,
69115 Heidelberg. Further directions are to be found on the DAI site. Look
for us customarily upstairs – take the elevator to "2.
Obergeschoss." Enduring appreciation goes to DAI Director Jakob Köllhofer for providing the meeting space and moral support.
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Published! 
3/2022: Anita Namyslo has published her first poetry collection, Time Wheeled On, to great excitement by all who know her work.
Summer 2021: Charter member Bill Furley has published a wonderful, high-quality book of his poetry. It's a true delight, and one we've all waited for. Click to preview it on Amazon for a look inside and to order. Highly recommended; Bill is a fine, fine poet.
Update, 2/2022: Bill's poetry book has been accepted into the collection of the UK's National Poetry Library, a tremendous affirmation of the quality of the work. Click here to see the acceptance notice. Congratulations, Bill!
The Heidelberg
Writers Group, now in its 31st year (founded in 1994), comprises interested English-language writers
and poets (published or not-yet-published) in or near Heidelberg
or with ties to the region. The group meets irregularly online during the COVID-19 pandemic. There are no dues. Members share current
works with the goal of fostering growth and advancing their craft. Guests
are welcome by arrangement. Periodically the group presents
members' work at public readings and events. A print review
was published in the past; if thee is member interest, we will consider a web journal.
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FAQ on
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Joining is simple: click just below to attend
meetings and events.
- Click here to
join the official HWG mailing list if you have an interest in
original English-language prose, poetry, or lyric.
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join the "friends" list: what we're up to, for those who want to listen in.
- Historical
early photos of the group! Timeline: 1994.
- Other photos and archives are now found here.
- A write-up of the group's history is here.
- To send us a message, click here.
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