Welcome to FAW 2026!!!

Three Latest Page Updates

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November President’s Message

November Write-in

November Inkspots now available

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New, New, New!!!

The November 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 October 24, will be Katherine Sherbrooke on The Art of Revision & Self-Editing.” 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 – November 2026

It is November, the last President’s Message and Ink Spots for the year. November is the month to give thanks, and there are quite a lot of thanks to give.

First, thanks to all the members who renewed, all the Tri-Valley members who chose to join us and who are very active, and of course to our new members.

Thanks to the FAW Board. A big problem across CWC and elsewhere is getting volunteers, but we have a deep supply of people who make this club go. Tish Davidson, who gets our speakers and runs the Write-ins and the lunches and the dinners. Cherilyn Chin who is our Treasurer, manages our money. Thanks to Pat Doyne, our Secretary, who gets the minutes out lickety-split. I record our board meetings on Zoom, but she gets the minutes out before the recording even gets translated. Thanks to Stephen Yuen our Membership chair, who has to deal with MRMS and the new system coming. Thanks to Tony Pino who runs the Salon every month. Thanks to Evelyn LaTorre our CWC rep who fills us in on what is going on statewide. And last but certainly not least a gigantic thanks to Nancy Guarnera, our Newsletter editor who gets Ink Spots out ten times a year.

A special thanks to everyone who attends our events. We’re all about writers helping writers, and that’s how it works. Our speakers, many of whom teach writing in college, have commented on how involved the audience is. I suspect some of them wish their classes participated as well as we do. If you haven’t been to an event in a while, give it a try. I know I learn a lot from our speakers. I’ve revised my book based on what I’ve learned in general meetings.

I hope to see you all at our Holiday Party, December 5, and I hope you all have happy holidays.

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, November 14. Details are below All FAW members will get Zoom information. Information is below. Not a member? Get Zoom information from Scott Davidson