Events at this location

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts). Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts). Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts). Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.

The Southern MN Poets Society (SMPS) is a group of poetry-loving and poetry-generating people.

We enjoy hearing poetry read and experiencing it as performance and some of our members write and perform in the Mankato area. We range from non-poets who just enjoy learning to accomplished and nationally-recognized poets. Everyone is welcome!

We meet at the Emy Frentz Guild (523 S. 2nd Street, Mankato, MN).

The Second Saturday of each month is our brown bag lunch meeting at the Emy Frentz Guild  (Twin Rivers Council for the Arts). Everyone is welcome!

• 12:30 pm lunch
• 1:00 pm program

For more information about SMPS, contact Susan Stevens Chambers, SMPS President, (507) 278-2400 or info@southernmnpoets.org.

About SMPS

Writer’s Quarry is about mining for ideas. It’s about the pursuit of trying on new forms or new text or new characters and seeing what happens next.

Writer’s Quarry meets twice a month. Our main objective is to workshop manuscripts. Carey McLaughlin and Beth Olmanson are local writers who take turns leading the workshop.

The group reads manuscripts–essays, blog posts, chapters of fiction, text for picture books, poetry–before we meet. We come prepared with constructive, yet positive feedback. We may also spend part of any given workshop writing together. Time will be devoted to responding to a prompt or a theme for the evening.

Open to the public.