Poets & Writers Groups
Welcome to Poets & Writers Groups! Ready to connect, communicate, and collaborate with a new community of writers? Browse the list or use the filters below to find a writers group that is the perfect fit for you and your work. If you see one you’d like to join, click on “Create a Profile” in the menu bar above or log in if you’ve already created a profile. Once logged in, you’ll be able to click on the vertical ellipses menu that will appear to the right of the group name to request membership. To see groups to which you already belong, click on the “My Groups” button in the menu bar above. Or, if you’d like to create your own group, click on the “Create a Group” button.
Experienced Writers of Literary Fiction, working on publication
I'm trying to create a writer's group for advanced literary fiction writers, working on publication. I'm hoping group members can submit work for review on at least a twice a month basis and provide critiques within 30 days of group submissions. I am in EST so I'm looking for an evening or Saturday or Sunday evening group time - TBD. Please contact me if you're interested. You'll be asked to submit a short story or 10 pages of your work in progress.
The Creative Common Room
The Creative Common Room is a weekly ritual, a loving community, and a sacred space for inspiration and soft accountability.
We meet online every Saturday from 9 to 10:30 AM Central Time to ritualize our creative practice. Sessions begin with guided grounding in breath and body. We then transition to setting personal aims for the session. If you're looking to experiment, there will be prompts and exercises provided. After our solo making time, we'll link back up to share inspiration, resources, and insights.
What we invest in, we show up for. The drop-in cost is $10. $25 for monthly subscription access to all Creative Common Rooms, plus bonus offerings like open mics and critique circles. Making the Common Room cost-based is an extra step to encourage accountability in creative practice.
To learn more or sign up, visit this hyperlink: https://www.annaadami.com/creative-common
Surviving and Writing in Your 20's
Recently I've discovered being in your 20's is hard and isolating, many of us craving some sort of community. I believe this is something that creative people can feel as well and wanted to make a group where young people who like to write and feel a lot of these same feelings could meet, talk about what we are writing, and hold each other accountable. I would love to be in a community of young writers and make some friends! I won't limit it entirely by age but would prefer if younger people joined so we could find a collective space.
If interested email me at alexaswrites23@gmail.com
Writing Group
Northeast Ohio
The Diogenes Writing Club
The Diogenes Writing Club
(The writing club for writers who hate writing clubs.)
https://sites.google.com/view/thediogene...
Meeting silently Tuesdays at 8pm pacific.
Pomodoro sprints.
Microphones off always.
Cameras optional.
No chat.
Sacramento Writers
Are you a writer living in or near Sacramento, California? I would like to form an in-person group that meets somewhere in the Sacramento area (I am located some distance east of downtown). I envision a group of serious, published writers who want to read about and discuss the craft of writing, share knowledge and experience about submitting work for publication, and most of all, to exchange works-in-progress and give each other constructive feedback—in other words, a true writing workshop. I have extensive workshop experience, and I appreciate a workshop context that is both structured and flexible. I am interested in working with writers of literary fiction and narrative nonfiction. This does not rule out any and all genre writing - I am open to crime fiction, for example - but I do want to rule out speculative fiction, fantasy, sci fi, etc.—I simply have no interest or aptitude in these genres, and therefore I have nothing to offer such writers. As for publication experience, I would prefer not to work with self-published authors—no shade on those who choose to self-publish, but I am on a different pathway and am looking to learn from writers who are similarly pursuing traditional publication (I am, however, very interested in small independent book publishing and innovative literary magazines). I would also prefer to work with writers who were born in the previous century.
Periplum, Group for the Long Poem
This is a group for anyone writing poetry way too long to ever be published by a journal or magazine. Our definition of long will be simply: however long is too long. But, I would like the focus to be on purposefully long works: book-length, epics, cycles, or whatever rdiculous project that has gotten out of control.
Writers working in any style, any form of experiment, any skill level are all welcome.
I'd like this group to help connect likeminded writers working in this particular type of (expansive) poetry. Inspire one another, share resources, discuss. Perhaps some of our work can be published together at https://meletelit.wordpress.com/
I am not a very good leader, so I'd rather the group shape itself based on the members.
We Write In NW Phoenix
This group is for persons with some publishing success, be it short stories in literary magazines, short story collections, or novels. And who are currently at work on a project. The idea of the group is to critique, support, and encourage. To do this members need to be able to participate on a regular basis (twice a month).
No poets, memoirists, or beginning writers.
Yorkville Poets NYC
I want to start an informal in person poetry group on NYCS's upper east side. The goal is to read and discuss great poetry, and our own work as well. I studied poetry at City College and completed an MA degree in Creative Writing, but haven't been in a group in a while, although I still write.
Encouragement, motivation, learning and maybe doing readings or publishing are the goal. Meet 2 x a month, preferably weekedays during the day, at a location tbd- local coffee shop, bookstore or library. OPEN to any and all ideas! Email me if you are interested!
If I can get two or more interested people I will arrange a first meeting.
Literary Craft Society defunct-Otherwordy Authors Circle
Hi everyone! I'm now a full-time Lead Mentor for Literary Craft Society, a writers community founded by best-selling and multi-awarded author, Juliet Diaz. Right now, there are more than 80 authors in the community, with ready-to-access lectures, twice weekly silent writing sessions, and monthly Book Craft virtual sessions and guest mentors. I'm encouraging previous members of the Authors Circle to learn more about it and to join me there: https://literarycraftsociety.com.