Name: Writers Mingle
Start: 2025-12-14T15:00:00-06:00
End: 2025-12-14T17:00:00-06:00
Location: Dapper Owl

A mingle for creative writers will be held Sunday, 12/14 from 3 pm to 5 pm at the Dapper Owl coffee pub. Connect with other writers in a relaxed setting—and even sit down and write for a bit, if you’re so inspired. Come and go anytime. Help us plan by RSVPing on this Google form: https://forms.gle/gT2cGSTSksKpNXtUA
Sponsored by the literary interest group of the Rutherford Arts Alliance, Poetry in the Boro, and MTSU Write, this event is free and open to writers of all genres and experience levels (including “thinking about writing”). We encourage you to make a purchase from Dapper Owl in order to support this local business!
More about the mingle
The main goal of the mingle is for writers of all genres to connect and just hang out! We also hope to learn what the writing community might want for future mingles or events. For this mingle we plan:
~ an activity corner for quick writing prompt games
~ a Shut Up and Write space: get a coffee and chat a while, then sit down and write for an hour or so in Dapper Owl's private room!
~ at 3:45 PM, a 10-15 minute program will be presented by this month’s guest host, crave tohn.
About our December host
crave tohn is a multi-disciplinary artist of the “all the things” variety, although her heart belongs most truly to writing and the fine arts. Over the course of her life, crave’s writing has branched along many path, from teenage years spent writing short stories and Harry Potter fanfiction, through the academic writing of an earnest philosophy undergraduate and admittedly less-passionate business graduate, to the consultant’s world of proposal writing & professional education, and now in her thirties back to fiction as she explores poetry, performance, and – inevitably – epic fantasy. No matter how her craft evolves, however, crave’s writing has always sought to put to words those feelings we cannot name, such that she might reach out through her soul to touch yours and say, I see you, and I can feel it too.
About the venue and parking
The Dapper Owl coffee pub is located at 2412 East Main St. just past its intersection with Rutherford Blvd., on the east side of the MTSU campus. Overflow parking is on the Arnold Lane side of the building – pull in perpendicular to the building to allow more cars to fit (careful of the AC unit!) or park on the side of road down Arnold Lane (please don’t block any driveways).
Hope to see you there!