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  • April Writer’s Enrichment
    Are you a lake or a river? On April 13, 2024, the Writer’s enrichment in celebration of National Poetry Month revolved around imagery. Vice President Sharon Krasny introduced us to the concept – Are you a lake or a river? With notepads in hand, we took the first step: seeking the words that defined each one. A lake.Peaceful, calm.Has a sense of location, a permanence.Reflects sun and moon.If it remains too still, can become stagnant, choked with algae.A storm can send waves high and choppy and dangerous, but it always returns to its shores.Dark, deep, from its warm welcoming surface… Read more: April Writer’s Enrichment
  • 2024 Writing Goals
    We’ve all been to workshops that teach us how to submit our work, even where to submit our work, but very few one- or even two-day workshops can help us decide WHAT to submit or help us hone and polish our writing so that, when we submit it, it is in the best shape it can be. This year, Write by the Rails will be dedicating its monthly Writers Enrichments and our new Spring Workshop to helping our members craft stories, poems, and pieces that we can, with confidence, submit to journals and anthologies. In January and February, we will… Read more: 2024 Writing Goals