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The Jackpine Writers’ Bloc is native to Minnesota. We are a writing group as well as a publishing company. Things have changed. We meet every month.

Our literary journal, The Talking Stick, has become a state-wide publishing ground for amateur and professional writers alike. Our literary journal, The Talking Stick, has become a state-wide publishing ground for amateur and experienced writers alike. Our goal in publishing writers is simple – we publish to encourage solid writing that shows promise, creativity and brilliance. We started where most writers up here seem to start – hiding behind jack pines with few outlets and few who could enjoy our craft with us. The writers in our group, and those from many other writing groups that have sprung up in nearby cities, offer experience, criticism and encouragement in abundance. We are a community, too – If you’re looking for people who write to become better writers and better people, we are people who believe that being published is a fortunate thing to be cherished. We want to help. That’s why we’re here. We meet on the third Sunday of each month from 12:30 – 3:00 at Bella Caffe in Park Rapids, Minnesota and we hope you will join us there.

10/19/2026

September Meeting Minutes 2026

Today we held our October 2026 meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Jan B., Dawn, Erin, Sue. TALKING STICK BOOKS: We are now mailing out the Talking Stick 35 books to all the published submitters who were not able to attend the book release party. Usually, we order extra and purchase envelopes and mail them by hand. This year, we ordered fewer and we are having Amazon/KDP mail them out....

Today we held our October 2026 meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Jan B., Dawn, Erin, Sue. TALKING STICK BOOKS: We are now mailing out the Talking Stick 35 books to all the published submitters who wer…

08/19/2026

August Meeting Minutes 2026

Hello Everyone, Today we held our August meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Mike, LuAnne, Paula, Jan B, Marlys, Erin, Sue, Jan P, John. TALKING STICK: We have our TS35 books already. We ordered less this year and we hope to be able to use Amazon to mail out a lot of the books after the book release party. Sept. 19 is our workshop with Laura Hansen and our book release party for TS35....

Hello Everyone, Today we held our August meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Mike, LuAnne, Paula, Jan B, Marlys, Erin, Sue, Jan P, John. TALKING STICK: We have our TS35 books already. We ordered less th…

07/24/2026

July Meeting Minutes 2026

Hello Everyone, today we held our July meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Mike, Erin, Marlys, Jan P., John P., Niomi. TALKING STICK: Talking Stick 35 is finished and books have been ordered. We ordered less this year. As usual, we will give out one free book to each submitter who was published in this volume. Instead of us mailing out to the others who were published, we are going to have Amazon mail them for us....

Hello Everyone, today we held our July meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Mike, Erin, Marlys, Jan P., John P., Niomi. TALKING STICK: Talking Stick 35 is finished and books have been ordered. We ordered…

07/24/2026

February Meeting Minutes 2026

Hello Everyone, today we held our February 2026 meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Mike, Ryan, Erin, Sue, Jan, Austin. TALKING STICK 35: We are slowly collecting submissions. Be sure to get yours in! The deadline for submissions is coming up fast—March 1. PRLAAC MEETING: They got a grant for Art Leap in September. They also discussed Northern Lights Opera, Community Ed trips, noon hour concerts, PR Community Band, Headwaters Center for Lifelong Learning, Nemeth Art Center; NLOC will be putting on ...

Hello Everyone, today we held our February 2026 meeting. PRESENT: Sharon, Mike, Ryan, Erin, Sue, Jan, Austin. TALKING STICK 35: We are slowly collecting submissions. Be sure to get yours in! The de…

07/22/2026

LIVE MUSIC-LAKESIDE CONCERT ONE NIGHT One Night Stand The Band
FRIDAY, JULY 24TH, HACKENSACK, MN

07/21/2026

Over the course of this three-hour workshop, we will see how poetry can be found within, and even used to enhance, long-form writing. More importantly, writers will have the opportunity to find their own poetry sweet spot, whether it be adding some poetic language to their prose writing, trying their hand at a prose poem or sculpting a new poem from an old journal entry. Plenty of examples and writing time.
https://www.jackpinewriters.com/2026-jackpine-writers-workshop-and-talking-stick-35-book-release/

07/06/2026

Can't wait to see you all!

06/24/2026

June Meeting Minutes 2026

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06/05/2026

A Miwwife's Journey by Niomi Rohn Phillips!

It is 1894 and diphtheria has ravaged the Russian colony of Molotschna (present day Ukraine). Margaretha Rahn has just buried three of her four children when her husband Abraham decides they must emigrate to the United States. Abraham has been a successful farmer, and, unlike most emigrants, the...

05/20/2026

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