"Choosing the Writing Life" A workshop by Harry Jackson Jr.

What does a commitment to a writing life involve? How do you do it well? Our speaker should know. Award-winning journalist Harry Jackson Jr. talks about how to use photography to enrich your writing at a workshop sponsored by the St. Louis Writers Guild from 10 a.m. to noon, Saturday, Oct. 4, at the Kirkwood Community Center at 111 South Geyer, Kirkwood, Mo., 63122. Free to Guild members, $5 for non-members.

Harry Jackson Jr. is a journalist of more than 35 years, including 25 with the St. Louis Post-Dispatch. During this time, he has won more than a dozen journalism awards. He is an adjunct professor at Lindenwood University, where he teaches narrative feature writing and documentary history. His freelance work has been published widely and has appeared in dozens of publications across the United States.

St. Louis Writers Guild, founded in 1920 by a group of writers including screenwriter Sam Hellman and Eleanor Maxwell McCord, has grown to be one of the nation’s premier literary organizations. The Guild, averaging more than 200 members, today includes distinguished local published authors, journalists, freelancers and beginners interested in improving their skills and meeting fellow writers.

Tennessee Williams won the Guild’s Short Story Contest in 1935 with “Stella for Star.” The continuing competition, open for submission from Oct. 1-Dec. 1, draws entrants from across the nation and several foreign countries every year.

Learn more about the Guild at www.stlwritersguild.org