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Writers

Learn more about this chapter’s activities, events, and how you can get involved with fellow members who share your interests.

About Our Writers Chapter

The Writers’ Chapter meets monthly at the Community House on Monday from 9:30-11:30am. When we cannot meet the Community House, we will meet at a member’s home, and all chapter members will receive email notifications of any changes to our scheduled meetings.

The dates for the 2026-2027 season are September 7, October 12, November 9, December 21, January 18, February 8, March 8, April 12 and May 10.

Please see the website Calendar and monthly Newsletter for any schedule changes.

Chair: Louise Naples & Joan Malewitz (Co-Chair)

 

9/11 Tribute Center

Our own First Vice President, Louise Naples and Past President, Helen Griffen at the 9/11 Tribute Center.

100th Anniversary Celebration

In honor of the one hundredth anniversary of the Women’s Club of Forest Hills, all members of the Writers’ Chapter went to the Algonquin Hotel on 44th Street in NYC to celebrate at a venue sacred to writers of the 20th century. We enjoyed a talk on the history of the room and its illustrious habitués.

Learn more about the Algonquin Round Table restaurant

2015 End-of-Year Outing

Writers’ Chapter members after a sumptuous lunch at Bella Napoli Restaurant on Madison Avenue. Then onto a private tour of the Pierpoint Morgan Library and Museum. A lovely end-of-year outing. (May 2015)

Featured Stories from Our Members

November 2013

CAT

by Louise Naples

December 2013

A Puppy for Christmas

by Clara Verdone

January 2014

Sunday Morning Dreaming

by Mary Grasso

February 2014

Four Months

by Shelly Papernik

March 2014

The Intruder

by Anne Walters

April 2014

A Case for the Afterlife

by Peg Offenberger

May 2014

Plates

by Joan Barnes

June 2014

I have Often Walked

by Louise Naples

July 2014

No Purchase Necessary

by Mary Grasso

August 2014

What My Grandkids Say

by Peg Offenberger

September 2014

Taps

by Joan Kaufman

October 2014

A Wink and a Nod

by Ella McMahon

November 2014

About Anna… A Novel

by Sophia Michelle Delanner

December 2014

Zeigfeld Girl

by Joan M Barnes

January 2015

Memories of Summer and Aunt May

by A. Patricia Gainor

February 2015

God’s Acrobat

by Mary Grasso

February 2015

About Anna…

by Sophia Michelle DeLanner

March 2015

Old Time Movie Theaters

by Louise Naples

April 2015

Winter Memory

by Mary Grasso

May 2015

Winter 2015

by Peggy Offenberger

June 2015

Tea Time

by Ann Walters

July 2015

The Boys of Summer

by Louise Naples

August 2015

Mantou

by Ella McMahon

September 2015

The Snowdrops

by Shelly Papernik

October 2015

Tag Sale

by Mary Grasso

November 2015

He Shoots, He Scores

by Joan Barnes

December 2015

Two Christmas Trees

by Louise Naples

January 2016

A Child’s Memory of Winters in Canada

by Joan Barnes

February 2016

A Carefree Childhood

by Patricia Gainor

March 2016

My Dog Daisy

by Shelly Papernik

April 2016

Music is more than a Sound

by Ella McMahon

May 2016

My Room with a View

by Louise Naples

June 2016

Mrs. Grahams’s Gift

by Mary M. Grasso

July 2016

Feeding The Homeless

by Joan M. Barnes

August 2016

Choices

by Patricia Gainor

September 2016

Commuters

by Peggy Offenberger

October 2016

The Hot Biscuit Dinner

by Louise Naples

November 2016

Subway Takes

by A. Particia Gainor

December 2016

My Irish Christmas

by Anne Walters

January 2017

The Old Cemetery

by Louise Naples

February 2017

Deep Water Lunch

by Joan Barnes

March 2017

CHASING COLORS

by Louise Naples

April 2017

No Good Deed Goes Unpunished

by Patricia Gainor

May 2017

The Flowers That Bloom in the Spring Tra-La

by Shelly Papernik

June 2017

The Autograph

by Joan Barnes

August 2017

TSUNAMI

by PEGGY OFFENBERGER

August 2017

BALTO, TOGO, AND ME

by Mary Grasso

September 2017

MY SUMMER OF 1945

by Joan Barnes

October 2017

The Lesson

by Patricia Gainor

November 2017

OPERA

by Louise Naples

December 2017

TSUNAMI

by Peggy Offenberger

January 2018

LEAF BLOWERS

by Shelly Papernik

February 2018

YOUR NUMBER PLEASE!

by Helen Griffin

March 2018

Mouths of Babes

by Joan Malewitz

April 2018

The Zip Gun

by Louise Naples

May 2018

JIGSAW PUZZLE

by Joan Barnes

June 2018

CROSSING BROOKLYN BRIDGE

by Louise Naples

October 2018

ROCKS

by Patricia Gainor

October 2019

REAL DIVERSITY

by Joan Malewitz