Welcome to WORD

We’re a group of Christian fiction writers who love God, each other, and the art of writing—but not always the editing process. ;-)

Writers need interaction with other writers and what better place to fit in than with a writers group. We celebrate our joys, commiserate our pitfalls, and handle everything in between. We discuss all aspects of writing from craft to industry insights as well as enjoy teaching from popular authors. While we write in all different genres, we do have one thing in common: to glorify God with our work. 

Monthly meeting topics have included marketing, critique groups, writing organization, and character faith journeys. We’ve also enjoyed teaching from Cindy Woodsmall, and Debbie Guisti, Julie Garmon, Bryan Davis, Creston Mapes, and Amy Wallace.

If you’re interested in writing, we invite you to come visit. We’d love to meet you! The WORD group meets in Sugar Hill, Georgia on the fourth Tuesday of every month at seven p.m. Please join us for our next meeting. We would love to have you visit us and see what we’re all about!

For times, dates, and directions: Directions & Monthly Schedule

March Meeting-Jenny Cote

March 20th, 2012

We are thrilled to have Jenny Cote as our speaker for our March meeting. You don’t want to miss this! Jenny is the author of the amazing Epic Order of the Seven Series. We will meet March 27th at 7:00 pm in room 160 at Sugar Hill United Methodist Church.

Hope to see you there!

2012 Is Here- January Meeting With Bev Varnado

January 23rd, 2012

It’s that time again. Time for our monthly ACFW WORD meeting. We welcome author and speaker Bev Varnado. Bev is going to talk to us about screenwriting. Make sure you join us!
Date: Tuesday January 24
Time: 7:00
Place: Sugar Hill United Methodist Church-Room 160

See you then!

Holiday Meeting Time!

December 1st, 2011

It’s that time of year again! It’s our annual Holiday meeting. We combine our November Thanksgiving month with our December Christmas month for one meeting of food, fun and sharing. Our meeting is December 6th at 7 o’clock. We meet at Sugar Hill United Methodist Church in room 160. Please join us for our fun celebration. Bring a snack to share if you’d like!

October Meeting

September 20th, 2011

We normally meet on the 4th Tuesday of the month, but because of the incredible opportunity we had at the beginning of September to host Tiffany Colter, we moved our September meeting date up to the 7th. We will be back on meeting track in October when we will meet on October 25th at 7:00 pm at Sugar Hill  United Methodist Church.

We are so happy to have Amy Wallace speaking at our October meeting. Amy has a heart for teaching. It’s always special to have Amy share with us. So please make sure you mark October 25th on your calendar.

September Meeting!!

September 6th, 2011

Hi all–We’re deviating from our normal schedule in September. The reason? We have a special guest coming to speak to our group.

We have the pleasure of welcoming Tiffany Colter.

Meeting date?  September 7th–a Wednesday.

Time? Normal time–7:00 pm

Place? Normal place–Sugar Hill United Methodist Church room 160.

Please join us as we welcome Tiffany!!

And remember, our next meeting won’t be until October 25th. Our own Amy Wallace will be speaking that night. Another night you don’t want to miss.

Hope to see you September 7th!

August Meeting

August 11th, 2011

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Okay–the summer has flown by. August is here–we had a great brainstorming session in July! It’s always fun to gather and talk writing-stories-and it’s fun to add plot lines and twists to existing stories.

Our August meeting we welcome NYT Best selling author Karen White. Her current release, The Beach Trees, is amazing. Karen has penned a lot of novels and we are looking forward to hearing anything she has to say.

Come and join us! August 23rd, 7:00 at Sugar Hill United Methodist Church.

See you there!

May Meeting

May 10th, 2011

We had a great April meeting. Susan Norris blessed and touched us with her words.

May brings us Author Meg Moseley. She’ll be talking about revising–you don’t want to miss this meeting! See you there.author-photo-meg-moseley.jpg

April Meeting

March 31st, 2011

April showers bring May flowers? In Georgia we’ve had plenty of March showers-so maybe we’ll see some April flowers.  That would be nice.We had a great March meeting with Missy Tippens.

Now we’re gearing up for our April meeting. April 26th at 7:00 pm. We welcome author and speaker Susan Norris.

Susan is a Bible teacher, motivational speaker, and author. She is a graduate of CLASSeminars. Her passion is to lead others into an intimate relationship with Jesus through prayer and the study of God’s Word and help them apply those principles to relationships in their sphere of influence. Susan lives in Marietta, Georgia with her husband and two children.

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March Meeting-Missy Tippens

February 25th, 2011

Come and join us for our March Meeting.  Missy Tippens will be presenting The Moral Premise,  by Stanley D Williams.

Missy Tippens is a pastor’s wife and mom of three who lives near Atlanta. After ten years of pursuing her dream, she made her first sale of a full-length novel to Love Inspired in 2007. She still pinches herself to see if it really happened! Her novels have been finalists in the American Christian Fiction Writers Book of the Year Contest, the Gayle Wilson Award of Excellence and the Bookseller’s Best Award. Missy has been a member of ACFW since 2005 and is currently serving her third year as Secretary of the W.O.R.D. chapter.

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2011 Is Almost Here

December 27th, 2010

2011—Here it comes! And we are ready!!  We have such an exciting line-up of speakers and programs for next year. I can’t wait to get started.

Coming in January is author Lynette Eason! Lynette will be talking about the publishing journey and other topics. Our January meeting is Tuesday, January 25th, at 7 o’clock at Sugar Hill United Methodist Church. Hope to see you there.