About the Tribe
The Scribes’ Tribe is a writers’ critique group based in O’Fallon, Missouri. We meet every Thursday night from 7 until 9.
Everyone’s writing benefits from thoughtful critique given by experienced writers. Our members write and have been published or won awards in short and long fiction, creative non-fiction, essays, articles, and poetry. We attend conferences and classes and are always working to improve our craft. Our writing gets better and better thanks to the input of the group.
How much better? Here’s a partial list of places our members’ work has been published:
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
We keep busy. And we have fun, too!
Even so, critique isn’t for everyone. You have to separate yourself from your precious baby–your writing. And as our guidelines state, “check your ego at the door.” Comments are always about the writing, not the writer. Yet, sometimes in the writer’s head, comments get translated into something else.
The two necessary elements of good critique? Courage and trust.
Every once in a while, if we cancel our meeting because of bad weather, we have a cyber-meeting, but otherwise, we are not an online critique group.
If you are interested in joining our group, contact Amy or Candace for more information.
