A Milestone Year for BWG
In May 2006, what would become Bethlehem Writers Group, LLC (BWG) met for the first time in Bethlehem, PA, with four people in attendance. In the twenty years since, the group has grown from a fledgling critique group to a robust community of writers and publishers, offering not just a quarterly online literary journal, Bethlehem Writers Roundtable and Bethlehem Writers Roundtable Short Story Award our annual writing contest, but also several award-winning anthologies, among our many publications.
To celebrate our twentieth anniversary, we have assembled highlights from each of our eight Sweet, Funny, and Strange® anthologies of short stories from our varied, award-winning authors into a new publication, Celebrating. Starting with holiday stories from our debut anthology, A Christmas Sampler (2009), we are happy to present touching, hilarious, and thought-provoking tales. From the second anthology, Once Around the Sun (2013) are tales for all seasons, followed by food-related stories from A Readable Feast (2015). You will find children’s stories from Once Upon a Time (2017), then tales of the paranormal from Untethered (2018), animal tales from Fur, Feathers, and Scales (2020), mysteries from An Element of Mystery (2022), and more holiday stories from Season’s Readings (2024).
So, come celebrate with us as you peruse these pages. They are sure to bring you a smile, perhaps a tear or two, and a whole lot of fun, with best wishes to you from the authors of the Bethlehem Writers Group.
Celebrating: 20 Years of Sweet, Funny, and Strange Tales
