Fellowship of Christian Writers began with a handful of writers in the Tulsa, Oklahoma, area in 1979. We are men and women, sharing a love for Jesus and talents for verbal expression, joining together for encouragement, education, and fellowship. Our goal is to equip and encourage writers to follow their God-given dreams of putting words to paper. Whether writing for the religious or secular market, writing articles or novels, or writing news, features, devotionals, poetry, scripts, and essays, writers have a special calling to deliver well-crafted words to their readers. Our purpose is to provide mentoring and instruction; share skills; offer kindly criticism; supply information on markets, contests, and conferences; share prayer needs, and be inspired and encouraged by fellow writers. Our desire is that our written words always reflect Christ and glorify God.
“The Lord announced the word, and great was the company of those who proclaimed it.”
Psalm 68:11
Coming up:
August Meeting
Rene Gutteridge | Creating a Character that Drives a Story Forward
Come join us at our August meeting when multi-award winning author Rene Gutteridge, with over two decades of writing experience, will engage us with a wonderful teaching session on Creating a Character that Drives a Story Forward. Rene says, “Many writers develop their plot and characters separately, but creating a character that drives the plot weaves a tighter story as well as presents more choices from which a writer can choose…a bigger playground, so to speak. Learn how to create characters which demand the plot follow them, rather than the character following around the plot. This, in turn, creates the page turner all writers strive for!” Tips for weaving a page turning, tight story will benefit us all as we shift our focus to the characters.
Rene Gutteridge has been writing professionally for over twenty years, with expertise in fiction, non-fiction, comedy sketches, novelizations and screenwriting. She is the multi-genre author of 24 novels plus several non-fiction titles. Her indie film SKID won deadCenter’s Best Oklahoma Feature, and her novel My Life as a Doormat was adapted into the Hallmark movie Love’s Complicated. She is co-writer on the feature film Family Camp, a Movieguide award winner and
a Dove Award nominee for 2023. She is also a Screencraft finalist in true crime. Rene is co-director of WriterCon in Oklahoma City, senior contributor at Writing Momentum and is the head writer at Skit Guys Studios. Find out more at ReneGutteridge.com.
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August 2025
6:30 PM – 8:00 PM | Kirk of the Hills | 4102 E 61st St, Tulsa, OK 74136
Meetings also available via Zoom. Contact us for the Zoom link.
Questions? Contact FCW president Cheryl Barker at cheryl (at) cherylbarker (dot) net.
We look forward to hearing from you!