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Welcome to our web site!
Ridgewriters is a community of writers that meets weekly for the purpose of critiquing our works in progress, networking,
and learning about marketing.
Founded by Betty Monson and named after the Orchard
Ridge campus of Oakland Community College, Ridgewriters began in 1976. The group contains professional and amateur
writers who represent a variety of genres including poetry, science fiction, historical fiction, devotional, romance, spiritual,
memoir, travel, humor, songwriting, interior design, and book reviews.
If you are a writer,
and have an interest in improving your craft, please consider joining us.
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Ridgewriters meets every Friday from 12 Noon to 2:00 pm at the Visitor Center in Heritage park, Farmington Hills.
Heritage Park is located on Farmington Road between 10 and 11 Mile Roads.
Map of Heritage Park
Ridgewriter Author of the Month:
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Wallace Caminsky was born in 1922, the first-born son of immigrant parents. After
struggling through the Depression and World War II, where he served in the South Pacific, he finished college in 1947, graduating
with a degree in English from Wayne State University, and was married the following year, soon to start a family of his own. Working for one of the Big Three automotive companies in Detroit, he wrote intermittenly
for the next twenty years, before embarking on a second career as a lawyer. He went to law school in the 1960's, and became
an administrative law judge in 1975, serving in that position until his retirement in 1987.
Always a voracious reader, his tastes in literature range from the short stories of James Joyce and P.G. Wodehouse to the
novels of Charles Dickens, and the epic classics of Tolstoy...as well as the comedy of Monty Python.
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All Fathers Are Giants and Other Stories, published by New Alexandria Press in 2007, is a tender and heartwarming collection of short stories by author Wallace Caminsky.
Heartwarming and sad, life is filled with laughter and tears. But for the children everywhere, the painful transition to adulthood
is a universal constant. The son of immigrants living in Hamtramck, Michigan, during the Great
Depression, Wallace Caminsky grew up knowing hardship and sorrow, as well as joy and love. Part of the "Greatest Generation"
during World War II, he saw life and death first-hand. And returning home to start his own family, he experienced
the challenges and frustrations of suppoprting a family in the new untamed wilderness of Suburbia--where crabgrass and children
can both grow, wild and untamed. In All Fathers Are Giants, Wallace Caminsky draws
upon the rich, cultural heritage of the immigrants from Eastern Europe in the early 20th Century. His collection of short
stories and poems brings to life a bygone age now largely lost to suburban sprawl and computer games.
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