About Our Guild......

Foothills Writers Guild is a group of people from the foothills region of South Carolina who promote the art of writing in three primary ways:

1) Monthly Meetings - 7:30pm at Anderson University on the third Tuesday, September through May.  The December meeting will be a Christmas party at a member's house.  The month of the annual Workshop will the meeting for that particular month.

2) Two Creative Writing, Juried Competitions among our members each year.  Categories include poetry, essaays, and short fiction, which are judged by published writers and creative writing professors from area colleges.  First place winning entries are published in our yearbook.

3) Outreach to the Literary Community through our annual workshop and through financial awards to college students.  Students are given a generous discount in workshop fees.  Two Anderson Univesity writing students will receive cash awards each year, based on recommendations of the English faculty.

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Upcoming Events.....

Oct 21, 2008 - Our monthly meeting will be held at Anderson Uiversity, 7:30 pm in room 128.  Our good friend, David Tillinghast will again be our featured speaker.  His topic will be on writing memoirs.

Nov 18, 2008 - Our monthly meeting will be held at Anderson Uiversity, 7:30 pm in room 128.  Program information will posted here when confirmed.  Fall Competition entries are due.  Please click on the "Competition" link above for guidelines and categories.

Dec, 2008 - Our monthly meeting will be held at President Juanita Garrison's home at a date and time to be announced soon.


Below is a scene from David Tillinghast's presentation at our November, 2007 monthly meeting.