The Scribblers
We are an eclectic group with worlds of experience to share. A partial list of our members’ publication credits appears below the list of members.
The leaders:
Amy Harke-Moore: Lives, writes, and contemplates the meaning of life on a farm in rural Missouri. A great place to collect stories, she says. Visit her website
Candace Carrabus Rice: We live on a farm, too, close to the earth and inspiration. When I’m not feeding the horses or the dogs or the cats or the wild birds or walking the land or working, I’m writing. I sleep sometimes, too. Not surprisingly, my stories are often infused with the magic and mystery of horses. My non-fiction has appeared in three Cup of Comfort Anthologies: Courage, Mothers to Be, and Dog Lovers. Also, Horse Crazy and Sacred Fire. My agent is shopping around New York two manuscripts–a grown-up fantasy with romantic elements, and a romantic murder mystery. Visit website.
The members:
Jerry Swingle: retired art teacher - 1 ea. - High mileage, slightly worn. Happily married forty plus years. Began writing to take up the creative slack. Enjoys writing short stories, flash fiction, fantasy, humor, parody, satire, poetry when feeling great - essays and opinion pieces when grumpy. Work has appeared in Good Old Days, The Storyteller, America’s Funniest Humor, Sweetgum Notes, Echoes of the Ozarks, Well- Versed, Missouri Teachers Write, Cuivre River Anthology. Enjoys entering contests, placing in several. Little remuneration, but great satisfaction. Continues to work at learning the craft while enjoying life in general. (Or is that phrase oxymoronic?)
Joy Wooderson was born and reared in the port city of Durban, South Africa. She has visited twenty-seven countries and plans to add to this list in the future. Joy contributed to Knowing the Future by Paul L. Walker, Ph.D., pastor emeritus. She co-authored Establishing Values with Joan Almand (Cleveland, Tenn.: Pathway Press, 1976). Joy writes creative nonfiction and her essays have been published in A Cup of Comfort for Christians, Friends: Stories of Friendship, the 2006 Mid Rivers Review, and the Cuivre River Anthology, Volumes II and III. Her articles include: “Why I Write,” Saturday Writers Newsletter, Winter 2004-05, “A Truly Southern Christmas,” The Storyteller Magazine, December 2005, and “My Favorite Injury,” Travelers’ Tales Solas Awards Elder Travel category winner, 2007.
She is seeking publication for Finding Joy: A Journey of Discovery, a personal story with a self-help twist. This manuscript, under its original title, won first place in the nonfiction book category of the 2005 Oklahoma Writers’ Federation, Inc. contest. Joy resides in O’Fallon, Missouri, works part-time as a proofreader, enjoys reading, writing, fast cars, and involvement with her writer friends. Visit website
Doyle Suit writes short fiction and nonfiction prose. His completed novel, “The Ouachita Rambler,” is currently looking for a publisher. He has received more than a dozen contest awards, and his work has appeared in The St. Louis Suburban Journals, Storyteller Magazine, Good Old Days Magazine, Spring Hill Review, Sweetgum Notes, The Cuivre River Anthology, and other publications. He lives in St. Charles and, in addition to writing, plays and sings bluegrass music. He and his lovely wife of a half-century dance, travel, and try to keep up with active grandkids.
Dana Kouba is the pseudonym of S. Dana Stiebel, a former attorney, real estate executive, and rough carpenter engaged in a thirty-year love affair with old buildings, historic urban neighborhoods and the unlikely mix of characters they attract. She is currently re-writing her supernatural mystery novel, The Water Stride, letting her comic action novel, Where’s Weazel, incubate for a revision, and hatching her comic semi-fantasy novel, Simple Man Goes to France, while knocking out the occasional short story, selling commercial real estate, and trolling for yet another residential renovation project. Favorite quote: “You can sleep when you’re dead.”
Tricia Sanders, former instructional designer and corporate trainer, has been writing since she received her first chubby pencil and Big Chief tablet. Her first short story Christmas in July was published when she was in fourth grade. Her essays and short stories have won numerous awards and have appeared in ByLine, Sasee, The Cuivre River Anthology II and III, Magnolia Quarterly, Great American Outhouse Stories; The Whole Truth and Nothing Butt and the 2007 Seven Hills Review. She is currently working on a novel-length murder mystery. She blogs about the road to publication in her new blog triciasanders.blogspot.com. Her website www.triciasanders.com is under construction.
The Scribes’ Tribe list of publications
A Cup of Comfort for Christians
A Cup of Comfort for Courage
A Cup of Comfort for Dog Lovers
A Cup of Comfort for Mothers to Be
Applecart
America’s Funniest Humor, 2006
Archetype
Bellowing Ark
Chicago Quarterly Review
Cuivre River Anthology, vols. I, II, and III
Dear Old Golden School Days, 2007
Echoes of the Ozarks, vols. I and II
eClips
Friends: Stories of Friendship
Good Old Days
Good Old Days Special
Great American Outhouse Stories; The Whole Truth and Nothing Butt
Grit
Horse Crazy
The MacGuffin
Magnolia Quarterly
Mid Rivers Review
Missouri Teachers Write, 2006
Moon Reader
Murder on Sunset Boulevard anthology
Pathway Press
Permafrost
The Rockford Review
Travelers Tales - Solas Awards
Sacred Fire
Sasee
Saturday Writers Newsletter
Seven Hills Review, 2007
Spring Hill Review
The Storyteller
Suburban Journals of Greater St. Louis
Sweetgum Notes
University of Missouri-St. Louis LitMag
Well-Versed, 2006
The Woman’s Corner
The Writer
Writers’ Journal
Writers Weekly’s
