Speak Up + CharMeck Zoom Meeting on 12/15

From Matt Shaw:

Thank you for the warm welcome to today’s Zoom meeting!

Here are a few resources related to the writing groups partnership with Speak Up:

• Details about the Matthews Writing Community. Here’s the library event listing.

• More about Speak Up Workshops.

• For reference: Speak Up’s current facilitator training guide. This is a living document.

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Here are the writing prompts that all groups are using in December.

December 2025 Prompts V2

545KB ∙ PDF file

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Prompts are submitted beforehand by workshop writers. Printed as a booklet. 2026 GOAL is to release this in quarterly cycles, so each booklet covers three months of prompts.

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For reference: Draft of the flyer being used to promote the Matthews writing group within the library:

Matthews Flyer V3

99.7KB ∙ PDF file

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Possible Next Steps

Feel free to reach out directly to Matt Shaw at mattshaw@speakupmag.org.

Visit the Matthews writing group, Tuesdays at 1:30 PM.

Stay tuned in 2026 for updates on this partnership from Chantez Neymoss.