2025 Meeting Schedule
Every Thursday’s Meetings start at 6 pm Mountain Time
Important: Meetings are in-person or on Zoom or both. Our in-person meetings are held in the classroom at A1 Vacuum and Sewing Center, 140 West Center Street, Kalispell, MT. We ask you to please park in the rear and use the back door.
Schedule subject to change due to inclement weather. We will update this page.
February 20 – Moderator Dixon Rice – critique and open readings
Your own prose aloud, someone else would gladly read for you. You are invited to our Open Readings at 6 pm at A-1 Vacuum in downtown Kalispell – please park in the rear & use the back door.
Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd; otherwise, 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins.
If you have a few pages, you’d like input on, make about 8-10 copies to pass out, and bring them along. Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd, otherwise 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins. If you’re shy about reading aloud your own prose, someone else would be glad to read for you.
If you don’t have anything to present, please come and share your enthusiasm & experience with the readers. We were all newbies at one time…
March 6 – Writing Instructor Kathy Dunnehoff
In-person and Zoom Meeting
Topic: Part One: Agents, Pitches & Queries… oh my!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4221050569?pwd=TC4bKbgWqQBlp423yDR3lZC8wuDPaf.1&omn=84863352309
Meeting ID: 422 105 0569
Passcode: author
March 13 – Speaker Series – Host Susan Purvis and Guest
Zoom meeting only 6pm to 8pm Mountain Time
Fire in Writing: Writing with searing authenticity.
Ken Wylie, Author, Speaker, Mountain Guide
Ken has been certified with the International Federation of Mountain Guide Associations (IFMGA) (R) and holds a BPE in Adventure Education. He is the author of Buried 2020 which metabolizes and makes meaning of his adventures to intentionally navigate through the difficulties and realities of a terrible mountain tragedy he participated in as an apprentice guide. He has held faculty positions at Thompson Rivers University and Mount Royal University in their respective outdoor programs.
Ken has used his mountain experience to become a human hazard management innovator. His organization Archetypal’s focus, is to help individuals gain awareness of how they are showing up to make critical decisions. His tools help in the recognition and encourage a shift from limiting human efforts that arise from shadow, to expansive actions made from a higher set of values that foster better outcomes.
Talk Themes
- Fire and friction
- The adventure in writing (Write about something you are terrified to share)
- Author Archetypes (Victim/Hero, Narcissist/ Caregiver)
- Consequences of safe writing? Question to the group
- Managing fear (fear as a reminder to be careful)
- Fiction and non-fiction
- Writing and Reading books: Arms-length versus Vulnerable Engagement. Can we see and own our failures by viewing the failures of the protagonist? Write for the person who can do this.
Book Link
https://www.archetypal.ca/store/p/buried-2020-gbsze
Archetypal link
Meeting ID: 435 515 4938
Passcode: authors
March 20 – Moderator Dixon Rice – critique and open readings
Your own prose aloud, someone else would gladly read for you. You are invited to our Open Readings at 6 pm at A-1 Vacuum in downtown Kalispell – please park in the rear & use the back door.
Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd; otherwise, 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins.
If you have a few pages, you’d like input on, make about 8-10 copies to pass out, and bring them along. Plan to read up to 6 pages if there is a light crowd, otherwise 2-3 pages, double-spaced with 1″ margins. If you’re shy about reading aloud your own prose, someone else would be glad to read for you.
If you don’t have anything to present, please come and share your enthusiasm & experience with the readers. We were all newbies at one time…
April 3 – Writing Instructor Kathy Dunnehoff
In-person and Zoom Meeting
Topic: Part Two: Agents, Pitches & Queries… oh my!
Join Zoom Meeting
https://us02web.zoom.us/j/4221050569?pwd=TC4bKbgWqQBlp423yDR3lZC8wuDPaf.1&omn=84095650955
April 10 – Speaker Series – Host Susan Purvis and Guest
Zoom meeting only 6pm to 8pm Mountain Time
“AS WRITERS, WE ALL SUFFER FROM SCREEN FATIGUE.”
Meet Roudy, the founder of Vivarays.
We are dedicated to providing you with holistic eco-friendly solutions to transform your sleep and energy.
Our goal is to raise awareness about light and health while emphasizing the harmful effects of artificial light on an emotional, mental and physical level.
We, as a modern society live in perpetual light with not enough rejuvenating darkness to rest fully.
With VivaRays, you are not only providing your body with enough high-quality sleep every night, but are also facilitating how your body adapts to the highly lit modern way of living, while ensuring optimized health and balanced energy throughout the day.
Here is Roudy’s story.
For most of my life I spent my nights staying up late and waking up feeling low on energy and unmotivated. I graduated as a civil engineer and got a job, masking my depression with the success that I was achieving as an engineer.
About 5 years ago, the anguish was unbearable and I needed to change something. I left my job and traveled around the world. During this time, I learned invaluable lessons about myself and nature and discovered a great passion for health which led me to an interest in quantum physics and biology.
Since then, I started to change my quantum environment, my thoughts and light diet. This has led me to completely transform my mornings, my energy levels and eventually my life.
Today, I am fully dedicated to researching and developing innovations to help humanity achieve greater well being on the planet. I happily fill my role in VivaRays as the research and development manager, capturing the great intelligence of nature and manifesting it into our lives.
https://vivarays.com/pages/about-us
Meeting ID: 435 515 4938
Passcode: authors