Bucks County Writers Workshop


Neshaminy: The Bucks County Historical and Literary Journal


“The secret of good writing is to say an old thing a new way
or to say a new thing in an old way.”

[Richard Harding Davis]

ABOUT THE BCWW

NEW MEMBERS WITH A SERIOUS WRITING INTEREST ARE WELCOME. Since 1998, the independent, non-profit BCWW in historic Bucks County, PA, has advanced the power of the written word in fiction, memoir, and creative non-fiction in a friendly, supportive atmosphere. It does not work with poetry. The BCWW's only aim is to critique members' writing with the goal of publication.
There are no dues or membership fees.

We meet twice monthly on Tuesday evenings via Zoom.

The workshop may not be right for every aspiring writer, but if interested in becoming a member contact Don Swaim sharing your background and experience.

WORKSHOP NEWS
HERE


BUCKS COUNTY'S FABULOUS
LITERARY HISTORY

HERE

SPECIAL HARDCOVER EDITION

cover painting by Alan Fetterman

This special, five-year retrospective of Neshaminy includes some of its best and most significant contributions in history, art, memoir, poetry, and fiction. Contributors include H.A. Callum, Lee Bigelow Davis, Melissa D. Sullivan, Don Swaim, Constance Wrzesniewski, Tom Sparrow, Bob Cohen, Hayden Saunier, J. Kurt Spence, William J. Donahue, William O’Toole, Pat Achilles, Carl Reader, Natalie Zellat Dyen, Daniel Dorian, Jennifer Lin, Matilda Bray, Stuart Abramson, Alan Fetterman, and James A. Michener (with a never-before published essay). Profile studies include Dorothy Parker, Henry C. Mercer, Jean Toomer, Pearl S. Buck, Chuck Wendig, John Updike, artist Ben Soloway, and Lassie. In history, the Delaware Canal Story, Where Washington Slept, America's First Steamboat, Dorothy Parker 's House, the Naval Air Station That Led to Man in Space, and more. Buy HERE


SOME OF OUR BEST WORK
More than twenty members of the Bucks County Writers Workshop, past and present, plied their craft into a showcase anthology, Stolen Verbs, Lawless Nouns. In print & digital. Buy HERE


COVID-19 -- THE PANDEMIC PROJECT
By Members of the BCWW

Because of the Covid-19 pandemic, BCWW members began m,eeting via Zoom. The result is a unique story collection filled with humor, fiction, essays, poetry, and scathing satire.
Buy HERE


BCWW IN THE NEWS
  • Neshaminy Contest Winners announced, August 1, 2019:
    Bucks County Herald


  • Bucks County Writers Workshop Marks 14th Year in 2013:
    Bucks County Herald


  • "The Good Earth" 2009 article about Bucks County writers:
    Bucks Living Magazine


  • OUR STYLEBOOK
    A Free Read


    HERE


    VARIOUS BCWW STUFF

  • Latest Workshop News
  • BCWW Stylebook
  • Member Submissions
       (members only)

  • Member Address List
        (members only)
  • BCWW Archives
        (Posted by date)
  • Photo Gallery
  • Instant Literary Quiz
  • Errata (back issues)
  • Stuart Cummings Ripley
  • Bucks Living Magazine
       (2009 article about the BCWW)


    BCWW SPECIAL
    WRITING PROJECTS
  • 2012: “Literary Haiku”
  • 2009: “Ghosts”
  • 2009: “Six Word Story”
  • 2006: “Stuart C. Ripley
  • 2005: “Raymond Carver
  • 2004: “O. Henry
  • 2003: “The Yellow Bus”


    BOOK BEAT: THE PODCAST
    Don Swaim's online audio interviews with the best-known writers of three decades,
    author updates, and more

    click here


    HOW TO READ A SCREENPLAY
    with an addendum by
    Daniel Dorian

    click here


    WRITING TIPS
  • BCWW Stylebook
  • How to Format
  • Eight-Point Checklist
  • Alan Shils on Writing
  • Tom Swifties
  • Elmore's Writing Tips
  • First Five Pages
  • Screenplay Elements


    SITES FOR WRITERS
  • Writers' Tool Box
  • EWAIATP: funny agent list
  • ABE Books: out of print books
  • Arts & Letters
  • Project Gutenberg



    DISCLAIMERS

    Opinions expressed on this site do not necessarily represent those of the editor, the BCWW, or its members.

    Not associated with the former Writers Room of Bucks County, its successors, or any other organization.

    The BCWW is not affiliated with church, school, library or any other entity. We are not religious. We are not educators. We are not political. We are writers!


    For info email
    Don Swaim



    The BCWW Facebook Group is open only to past and present members.


    SOME OF DON'S SITES

    WCBS Appreciation Site
      Book Beat: The Podcast
      Wired for Books
      Radio Days
      Aspinwall HS Class of 55
      Ambrose Bierce Site
      Bucks County Writers Workshop
      Errata
      Steinbeck in Bucks Co
      Pennsylvania Sunsets
      Growing Up in WW 2
      Don's Houses: Where I've Been
      Fighting the Hun in WW I   Official Stuart Cummings Ripley Site
      Swaim Name in History
      The Swaim in America

    PC Magazine's BEST OF THE INTERNET cites Don Swaim's Wired for Books. 11/20/07 issue











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