COWC Kick-Off Party, A Success!

JD and I would like to thank everyone who came out to the Kick-Off party last night to meet, mingle, and learn more about this little collective of ours. We were very pleased with the turn out considering our non-existent advertising budget. Of course, had only one person attended the event, it would still have been a success in our eyes. Fortunately, we were happy to meet with several local writers, even a musician or two, interested in the COWC. Now we are officially off and running and the real fun can begin!

Although Barley's was quite a bit more crowded on a Sunday evening than I had expected it to be (perhaps due to the simultaneous closing of the North Market Food & Ohio Wine Fest., which I was somehow unaware of until last night), we were eventually able to commandeer an eight-top in a sizeable nook near the bar so that we had the option of more than four people sitting together at once. By 10:00pm, however, our gathering had dwindled to only myself and JD, so he and I decided to call it a night. We risked the assumption that since 10pm is relatively late for a Sunday evening that everyone who had intended to show up for the Kick-Off had already come and gone. Our sincere apologies to anyone who came between the hours of 10-11pm and were dissappointed to find no evidence of the COWC Kick-Off party. We truly are interested in your participation and involvement so please, stay tuned for details about future live gatherings, events, and activities.

The COWC is definitely off to a promising start and I look forward to meeting even more prospective members very soon as we begin scheduling more group events and activities. I also look forward to reading any works you wish to post to the blog for public review, which you all may feel free to do at any time, whether you attended the Kick-Off party or not. Simply take a look at our 'REGULAR & RECURRING..." section for instructions on how to submit your work to the blog.

JD and I will contact those of you who we met at the Kick-Off party and left your names and email addresses on our contact sheet by the end of this week to start talking about a convenient date, time and location for our first Read-Around session, which everyone seemed keen on. During a Read-Around we will all take turns sharing our own original work with the group which will then provide direct feedback and constructive criticism.

Below, is a list of planned group events and activities the COWC intends to organize on a regular basis. Please, feel free to add a comment to this post with thoughts and/or suggestions about group events and activities you may be interested in.

Thanks!


List of live, in-person COWC event/activities:

Read-Arounds & Staged Readings
Open Mic Poetry
Group Attendance of Local Lit. and Writing-Related Events (Workshops, Readings etc)
Book Clubs