Nottingham Senior Living Community Writers' Group

06/26/2025

The writing group is continuing to meet throughout the summer. Our next group meetings will be on July 9 and August 13, 2:30-3:30 p.m. in the TV room. We also have great news. Nottingham resident and writing group member Kay Keller has released her second book of stories composed in the writing group. You can find it here: https://www.amazon.com/More-Stories-Memories-Kay-Keller/dp/B0FD75RHQZ/ref=sr_1_2?crid=3JWYLTSW8BZ4F&dib=eyJ2IjoiMSJ9.R7KhYTv26W27xhoLzErWyiPUGr5k-pU2tPpkub9n2a2lodb08TA6fUd5VK1q8gpCD9fglDmycdCICnvMcAgVtj4Z66gLymWSiYpjecPY-US2MafiZ5PmqZAmzDNGlxzzXbdovL6734LjTkgvyKzhwJfJkF-9RBaydrNFiJLZ7GQfhi6YI-NggIGI6u-XfotjNCtlAOfIj9VCSrx7uviF7gDiQr8HpqToFRRhlOiJruo.8KEqXF2OIi5uVWV7oEoX_MhtBdcoZ73I4BtehPWoYM4&dib_tag=se&keywords=Kay+Keller&qid=1750951429&sprefix=kay+keller%2Caps%2C111&sr=8-2

Martin Rothenberg has also placed a copy of his memoir The Boy from Brooklyn in The Nottingham library, so take a look!

A follow up to her previous book, , Kay Keller writes about the 1939 World's Fair, a cat named Cinnamon, and more.

05/19/2025

Our Syracuse University writing intern Sarah Wells has been a wonderful workshop leader this semester. She also published the Spring 2025 edition of the newsletter.

10/19/2024

Nottingham writing group member Nancy Wilson launches her memoir Learning Still. Her editor Sarah Griffin was in attendance. It was a packed house and a wonderful evening of celebrating Nancy’s work!

04/23/2023

Kay Keller author event on Monday night, April 24th from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the TV room here at the Nottingham. Nottingham resident Kay Keller will be reading from her new book Stories for a Wednesday Afternoon, a memoir she compiled as a member of the Nottingham Writing Group. She completed the book with the assistance of Sam Bova, a Syracuse University college student and Writing and Rhetoric major who was an intern with the writing group. Kay will also have copies of the book for sale at the event.

This book is a collection of stories written for a Writing Group at The Nottingham, a senior independent living residence.

04/23/2023

Kay Keller author event on Monday night, April 24th from 7:30-8:30 p.m. in the TV room here at the Nottingham. Nottingham resident Kay Keller will be reading from her new book Stories for a Wednesday Afternoon, a memoir she compiled as a member of the Nottingham Writing Group. She completed the book with the assistance of Sam Bova, a Syracuse University college student and Writing and Rhetoric major who was an intern with the writing group. Kay will also have copies of the book for sale at the event.
https://www.amazon.com/Stories-Wednesday-Afternoon-Kay-Keller/dp/B0BV49WYYX/ref=sr_1_1?qid=1682257039&refinements=p_27%3AKay+Keller&s=books&sr=1-1

11/30/2022

Our Nottingham intern Sam Bova, an SU student, is working with group members to publish their work in a newsletter. He stayed after the larger group meeting to work with residents on planning their edits. We are grateful for Sam’s work this semester. The Nottingham is also looking very festive for the holidays.

06/12/2021

We are back to meeting face-to-face (with masks on) at the Nottingham. Next meeting will be June 16, 2021 at 2:30 p.m., likely in the TV room, although we have meeting sometimes in the new atrium area.

11/07/2020

Get a jumpstart on your memoir during November Is Memoir-Writing Month. With our warm up writing, you can do a rough first draft of your memoir in a month.

03/25/2020

Hi, everyone, I am thinking about you even though we can’t be together this afternoon as we usually are for our Wednesday writing workshop. I’m sending Kara these writing prompts so she can run them off and get them to you as I know you are staying in your apartments and can’t meet face-to-face. Even though we can’t be together to write and share our work, we can still keep writing and express our feelings to others through our writing.

After you touch base with the world as you usually do, turn off the news, put down the newspaper, and get out your notebooks and pens or go to your computer and work on your stories. We will be together again in the future, and we will want to share our work. Your job right now is stay healthy and take care, stay in touch with your loved ones, and also to do some writing.

I am wishing you the best and much love from my home on Shirley Road where I am teaching my university classes online. Take care everyone, Love, Eileen (Professor Schell)

--Write about a memory that was joyful. Share with your family or friends over the phone, through a letter, or email when you finish writing this. Everyone needs a boost right now, including you! Ask your family members or friends to do the same and call or email or write you with a joyful memory.

--Write a doctor or nurse or medical provider you know a note of encouragement and thanks and send it via email or through the mail. Send a favorite poem or write one yourself.

--The old saying is that March comes in like a lion and goes out like a lamb. In Central New York, it’s often that March weather is up and down like a see-saw. But there is hope! Spring is on the way. What are the signs of spring that you are noticing out your window? Are the birds singing? Signs of green grass? Maybe even seeing plant shoots pushing up from the ground through this week’s snow? Temperature changes?

--Write about a time when you and your family, co-workers, or friends overcame adversity in your lives? What does that memory mean to you now?

--Keep a daily journal about all you are feeling and seeing around you. Write it all down, even if it's just a sentence or a paragraph every day. When our group meets again, we can share these journals and talk about them.

12/24/2019

More fall meeting photos.

12/24/2019

Having fun with candy ci******es at one of our writing group meetings this fall . Do you remember the candy of your childhood? What was your favorite?