**PLEASE NOTE THIS IS A VIRTUAL PROGRAM THAT WILL TAKE PLACE VIA ZOOM. Registrants will receive a link to access the Zoom Meeting via email.** 

Are you a writer -- or an aspiring writer -- looking for some support? The new Tewksbury Writing Group, which generally meets the third Monday evening of every month, is open to everyone who's interested in writing -- all genres, all skill levels. Each meeting -- which will take place via Zoom -- features a guest speaker (typically a published author or editor) offering some tips of the trade. Between meetings, members can share their work for reading and friendly critiquing via the group's list-serv.

The July 2022 guest speaker is Maureen Milliken. Milliken, author of The Bernie O'Dea mystery series, is a third-generation newspaper editor, whose books reflect not only her affection for journalism, but also her love of her home state, Maine. She grew up in Augusta, and is a graduate of the College of the Holy Cross in Worcester. She was first a reporter, then an editor, for newspapers in Maine, Massachusetts and New Hampshire before returning to Maine in 2011. Her grandfather and father were also both newspaper editors, and she was most recently the city editor of a daily newspaper in central Maine. The Bernie O'Dea mystery series, set at a weekly newspaper in Franklin County, Maine, includes debut Cold Hard News (2015), No News is Bad News (2016) and Bad News Travels Fast (2018), all published by S&H Publishing. She is also the author of two nonfiction books, Get it Right: A Cranky Editor's Guide to Usage, Grammar and Punctuation, and The Afterlife Survey. Learn more about Milliken HERE.

The group is facilitated by author Dale T. Phillips, who has published novels, story collections, non-fiction, and over 70 short stories. Stephen King was Dale's college writing teacher. Dale has found time to appear on stage, television, radio, in an independent feature film, and compete on Jeopardy (losing in a spectacular fashion). He's a member of the Mystery Writers of America and the Sisters in Crime.

Register directly on Zoom HERE. Sponsored by the Friends of the Library.