About Roundtables

Field’s End Roundtables are held on the third Tuesday of each month from 7:00 to 8:30 pm in the Bainbridge Public Library Meeting Room. Roundtables are free and open to writers at all levels of experience. People who are interested in the writing process and want to get involved with the writing community on Bainbridge Island and Kitsap County are encouraged to attend. At each Roundtable, a noted author talks about some aspect of the craft of writing or professional development. After our guest speaker has spoken, everyone is invited to join in the Q&A period. We try to finish the evening by 8:15 pm so we can network with other writers before we finish at 8:30.

One of the benefits of Roundtables is the ability to ask questions of published writers in many genres as well as the opportunity to learn from the collective knowledge of the group. If you aren’t already a regular Roundtable attendee, we hope you will join us.

Our Roundtable History

On January 22, 2003, two months after the formation of Field’s End, volunteers launched its monthly Writers’ Roundtable. Our first guest speaker was nationally known garden writer and Bainbridge Island neighbor Ann Lovejoy, who talked about “How Does a Writer Develop a Voice That Works?” On December 20, 2011, Field’s End will celebrate nine years of Writers’ Roundtables! That’s 106 speakers and approximately 2,650 attendees who have spent an evening together to share their writing knowledge and inspiration. In all that time we’ve only had to cancel two Writers’ Roundtables – once in January 2007 because of snow, and once in March 2010 because of a power outage.

Take a look at our Writers’ Roundtable archive. We think you will be amazed at the breadth of topics we’ve covered—all the way from thoughts on setting as an additional character in historical fiction, to what constitutes a good poem, to ways to make your writing group really work, to writing snappy dialogue, to how to go from Field’s End student to published author.

Please join us. There is always something new to learn!

If you have an idea for a Writers’ Roundtable topic or guest author, or if you would like to present a Roundtable, please send an e-mail to info@fieldsend.org (please include Writers’ Roundtable in the subject line), or write to Field’s End, Bainbridge Public Library, 1270 Madison Ave. North, Bainbridge Island, WA 98110.

This project has been supported, in part, by the City of Bainbridge Island and the Arts & Humanities Council.