About the group
Writers@Work DuPage is now more than 20 years old. We first met in Laura Anshicks' Writers' Group class at College of DuPage in winter 1995. The class was normally structured with small groups critiquing work for part of the session and the entire class critiquing for another part. Since our class shrank a lot that term due to bad weather and illness, we ended up meeting around a long table and sharing work with the entire class at once. At the end of that trimester, we decided to keep meeting around one long table, and that's pretty much how the group has remained, although the venue has changed. Our very first meeting was at Seven Dwarfs (sic) Restaurant, but we started meeting at Augustino's Deli not long after. Then we met at Borders Books & Music in Wheaton part time. We ended up back at College of DuPage after that and moved to a few locations on campus, where we were often interrupted by the vacuum zambonis. This past year, we were offered a free space at...