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Next Week's Writing Workshops Canceled Due to Weather

Published 9 months ago • 1 min read

Hi Reader,

We've decided to go ahead and cancel next week's Tuesday writing groups, which includes the morning group at The Mercantile and the afternoon group at the Matthews library.

This may be completely overkill and there may not end up being any power outages, icy roads, or weather hazards. But better safe than sorry.

Stay safe!

And in the meantime:

We'd love to publish work that you wrote or started writing in one of the Speak Up writing groups. To submit for publication on Speak Up, just reply to this email with your piece attached.

Also, the primary Speak Up website has recently been refreshed. Check it out for a number of different resources:

See you soon,

Matt Shaw

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