Meeting Schedule 

This is a Zoom only meeting

Join us for an exciting and informative interview with author and investigative journalist Cathy Scott considered "a tour de force in true crime."

Cathy Scott is as a Los Angeles Times and New York TImes bestselling author and an award-winning investigative journalist. She attracted international acclaim for her classic true-crime biographies, THE KILLING OF TUPAC SHAKUR and THE MURDER OF BIGGIE SMALLS, both bestsellers. Ann Rule has described Scott as "a star writer in the crowded field of true crime.”

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Want to promote your book locally? Check out the opportunity at the Northwest Montana Book Festival to be held November 17th. But act before October 25th. https://nwmthistory.us6.list-manage.com/track/click?u=2a2e05234c27c4626010dfb1c&id=213c35ab73&e=594f803dae

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.

In person only at Whitefish Community Center

Glenn and Barbara Schiffman lead free "drop-in" workshops on Spoken Word Storycrafting to help local writers and storytellers create 6-to-8 minute personal experience stories for 2025 Flathead Story Concerts. More stories are needed so FSCs can get scheduled next year in Whitefish &/or Kalispell (sponsors include Authors of the Flathead).

When: Mondays 10/28, 11/11, 11/25 - attend one or more
3:30-5:30pm - Free drop-in sessions - no reservations needed
Where: Whitefish Community Center, 121 East 2nd St, Whitefish

Learn the "Anatomy of a Tellable Story" plus 3 Easy Presentation Tips. Hear examples of spoken word stories from The Moth or Stories From the Stage (PBS). If you have a true personal story-in-progress (900-1200 words), bring it to share aloud for feedback from the group and coaching from Barb/Glenn.

Info & FSC Submission guidelines: https://FlatheadStoryConcerts.wootick.com
Email story23fvcc@gmail.com or phone Barb at 747-238-0038 with questions

In-person and Zoom

Topic: TBA

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...