Mobile Writers Guild

Bookish Crawl! 📚✍🏻

PAGES & PLACES CRAWL ANNOUNCED
A new literary-themed event is planned for downtown and midtown Mobile this fall, bringing together bookstores, coffee shops, breweries and other local businesses for a citywide “bookish crawl.”

“Pages & Places: A Mobile Bookish Crawl” is scheduled for Sept. 19 and is being organized as a daylong event encouraging participants to visit a variety of local businesses around Mobile with a literary focus.

According to organizers, the crawl will feature participating bookstores, coffee shops, bakeries, breweries and other locally owned businesses offering themed experiences, specials and activities tied to reading and book culture.

Several businesses have already signed on to participate, including Reney's Honey Butter, The Haunted Book Shop, Oyster City Mobile, Mobile Bookseller and Love and Adventure Studios LLC.

Organizers said additional participating locations, giveaways, exclusive specials and event details will be announced in the coming weeks.

Businesses interested in joining the crawl are still being sought. Organizers said coffee shops, bakeries, bookstores and other “bookish businesses” are encouraged to participate.

More information is available by contacting [email protected].

We ended our formal ‘25-‘26 year with a bang: cupcakes, an election, and what dialog tags NOT to use. Y’all know which one I’m referring to.

A big congratulations are in order for the release of cj petterson Author’s third thriller, A TIME TO D*E. The Guild was happy to celebrate the launch with delicious cupcakes.

Freelance editor Joyce Scarbrough shared editing tips from self-editing before you submit, to what it’s like to work with an editor and what kind your manuscript needs, whether it’s developmental to line editing.

And we’re excited to announce our new officers for the ‘26-‘27 year:
President Joyce Sterling Scarbrough
Co-Vice President Michelle Nimtz
Treasurer Candice Marley Conner Author
Secretary Cassandra Dunnavant

UPDATE: 2nd Co-VP is Mike Herndon

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Our April meeting was all about research on and off the page thanks to authors and MWG officers Carrie Dalby - Author Page and Joyce Scarbrough Books.

Be sure to put our May 7th meeting on your calendar when we’ll vote for next year’s officers and discuss working with an editor ✍🏻

What writing rule do you struggle with? ✍🏻

What is your preferred point of view?

Here are some great tips for first person pov ✍🏻

Pitch Wars is happening now! The Mobile Literary Festival along with the Writing Away Refuge, Lee Ann Ward's Books & Joyce Scarbrough Books, are excited to have literary agent Laurie Dennison of Creative Media Agency in the house! ✍🏻

Writers in Nature poetry group entertains the Mobile Literary Festival lunchtime audience at the Ben May Main Library ✍🏻

Elevate your expectations at the Mobile Literary Festival with the “Using Poetry in Prose” panel: Dr Sue Walker, Janet Nodar, Mike Turner, and moderated by Linda Busby Parker. Happening now at the Ben May Main Library ✍🏻

Happening now at the Mobile Literary Festival: Indie Author Expectations with Angela Quarles - Author, Carrie Dalby - Author Page, Jodie Cain Smith, moderated by Rachael Ritchey ✍🏻

Our November meeting was all about Author Branding and we were thrilled to have author and founder Lee Ann Ward, mystery author Author Carolyn Haines, author of the Sarah Booth Delaney series, and Southern Fiction author Carrie Dalby - Author Page of her Washington Square Secrets quartet share their do’s, don’t’s and advice on their unique, authentic brands.

Our next meeting will be on Thursday, Dec 4th and will be a holiday party with networking and members’ readings. We hope to see then!