Category: Community
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The Gift of Christian Writers
Amazement filled me when I found a certain book while browsing the shelves at my church’s bookstore. The book addresses a very distinct challenge that has affected my family in the last year. When I flipped through the pages, I found the encouragement and hope for which I had been praying. I recognized the name…
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Establishing a Christian Writers’ Group
Establishing a Christian writers’ group is a noble undertaking. The community formed can advance, inspire, and support writers in their unique calling. Those who join the group can go forth equipped to impact even more people through their written words. Setting up a Christian writers’ group in my hometown has been one of the most…
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Taking Part in Writing Critique Groups
Writing critique groups can provide an invaluable community for Christian writers. Members of these groups often connect with other writers on a deeper level. They work together to assist and encourage one another on the writing journey. In writing critique groups, members read and assess one another’s written works. These works are usually shorter…
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Why Attend Conferences and Workshops for Christian Writers
I remember my investment as well as the return on the first Christian writers’ conference I attended. The cost of my accommodations, airfare, and registration for the 2007 Glorieta Christian Writers Conference exceeded $1,000. I took time off from work and attempted traveling shortly after receiving an autoimmune disease diagnosis. What I gained at my…
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Joining a Christian Writers’ Group
Are you feeling alone as a Christian writer? I felt the same way when I accepted the call to write for God’s glory. At first, I didn’t know a lot of other writers. The few I had met at my job didn’t share my desire to make the gospel known through the written word. However,…
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Connecting Through Words
When I sensed the prompting to glorify God through my writing, I wanted to tell someone—but not just anyone. I needed to talk to people who understood and shared this sacred calling. And I found an entire group of them when a friend told me about Inspirational Writers Alive! (IWA!) I met Martha Rogers, the…
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