Write on the Edge is a group of writers in Yuma, Arizona who banded together to share ideas, gain publishing and marketing knowledge, offer critique and support one another.
Started in 2007 by Jeanne Hounshell and Christine Howard when both found themsleves in need of a writing group. Somehow the two met and after each realized how serious the other was about writing and felt the need for support they launched their group.
Yuma is a town that's population nearly doubles every fall as people escaping winter come to spend a few months. In the fall Jeanne and Chris began to seek others needing a writing group and distributed fliers to RV parks and at the local library. A few people came but it was an article in the local paper that brought in a good sized group. They now needed to move their meeting place which had been at a members home. So they explored possible sites and began meeting at Copper Hills House. At this time a new branch library was being built in the Foothills and in the fall of 2008 they made it their permanent home.
The library has provided the group not only with a place to meet but new writers have found them as the library has included them on their calender and in the paper on events at the county libraries.
Although the number of members decreased in the summer a small group still met every week and did critique on one another work. As of the summer of 2009 we will have six members as year around residents and the group will meet every Tuesday.
The group also keeps in touch through the use of a group e-mail. Thus no matter where we are or what we are doing we can still share with one another.
Two members have self-published work Jeanne Hounshell and M. Kay Howell and Bill Russell has one love story published Not Without Fear and another China Clipper coming out later this year.