The Whidbey Writers Group’s “Whidbey Writes Again,” is now available in Whidbey bookstores and several local businesses.

A delightful gift from Whidbey Island, Whidbey Writes Again includes true love, false love, lost love, humor, pathos, surprise, suspense, travel, growing up, and the power of imagination, all packed into the poems, essays and short stories.

A launch party will be held Sunday, Dec. 5, at the Coupeville Library from 1 to 4 p.m.

Contributing authors are Ann Adams, Murray Anderson, Barb Bland, Kaye Erickson, Ann Gerike, Jackie Griesinger, Susan Jensen, Gail Madden, Herb McDonald, Susan (Nasus) Nunn, Sandra Ortgies, Dorothy Read, Larry Shafer, Bill Wilson and Rowena Williamson.

The Whidbey Writers Group has been together for 20 years. Contact Barb Bland for more information at 1-360-675-9676 or barble@comcast.net.