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.
Poetry Fanatics
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Welcome!
This is a workshopping group for people who love poetry and are serious about improving their craft. Ideally, those who are writing work with the intention of publishing. Let's improve together, explore new ideas, and keep each other on track.
Caesura: A Contemplative Writing Circle for Mothers of Color
Far too often mothers of color are the ones bearing the greatest burden of invisible, inequitable labor — in the home and beyond. What time/energy/resources are left to attend to our spiritual and creative needs when every day feels like survival? How do we give ourselves permission to pause?
If the stillness and space needed for a substantial spiritual/writing practice feel inaccessible right now, consider this an invitation — to closer attunement with Source and self, and community. Let’s co-create the sacred space we, and by extension our families, so desperately need.
In this writing circle, we will apply Eye of the Heart’s model of “using contemplative dialogue to listen for emergent life in both writer and writing,” attending the whole person, not just the text. This is NOT a traditional writing workshop; we will not be offering critique or feedback on each other’s writing. Rather, we will practice writing as deep listening. As a community, we will expand the possibilities of the page.
Caesura is for those who:
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identify as a mother/caretaker of color
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are committed to their writing, whatever that looks like right now
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are open to deepening their spiritual/contemplative practice
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are willing to build a sustained community to support this practice
All levels/genres of writers from all backgrounds of faith and all stages/ages of parenthood are welcome.
Learn more and register here: https://www.eyeoftheheartcenter.org/caesura
About the Facilitator
Born and raised on the east side of Oʻahu, Charity E. Yoro now resides on the traditional territory of the Atfalati, Clatskanie, and Kalapuya (Hillsboro, OR) with her partner, two children, and their feisty furry guides, Rumi and Muki. Her writing has received Pushcart Prize and Orison Anthology nominations and appears in The Rumpus, Tupelo Press Quarterly, poets.org, West Trestle Review, PRISM international, Ruminate, Fourteen Hills, and elsewhere. Her debut poetry collection, ten-cent-flower & other territories, is forthcoming from First Matter Press in September 2023.
Advanced Prose Workshop Group
I would like to find serious writers working on short pieces or a book length work of prose (CNF, memoir, fiction) for exchanging work and workshopping.
Deus ex Machina Advanced Writers Collective
Deus ex Machina Advance Writers Collective is a vetted network of professional, advanced, and serious writers working in the literary arts and scripted film & television in the following mediums and genres: fiction/ novels, creative non-fiction/ personal essay, memoir, poetry, auto-fiction, hybrid/experimental, screenwriting, drama, dramedy, rom-com, musicals, sci-fi, fantasy, speculative fiction, historical fiction, kidlit, middle-grade, YA, LGBTQ, Queer, BIPOC, Asian, Latinx and more.
For more info, visit: https://machinawriters.wordpress.com/
*This is a horror-free space (including all sub-genres of horror: comedy, speculative, thriller, true crime, etc.). No excessive gore, shock factor, or gratuitous violence.
New Worlds Writing Club
Sign up at https://bit.ly/NWWCHome or send me an email at newworldswritingclub@gmail.com.
Hello! My name is Steph and I host New Worlds Writing Club.
NWWC has been active since December 2021. We are a free writing club that focuses on critiques, support, and community. We meet every other week on Thursdays at 9 p.m. EST. We accept writers from all genres and backgrounds! The group definitely leans more towards fiction and fantasy writing, but we have many other types of writers stop by.
The meeting is always the highlight of my week. The group is supportive, relaxed, and conversational. We focus on constructive criticism and love welcoming new writers and new stories. We have writers of all experience levels join the meetings.
We also have an active Discord channel where writers can connect between the meetings. We have channels for writing critiques, personal chat, writing chat, writing memes, recipes, book recommendations, and more. Always lots of fun laughs and conversations found on the NWWC Discord.
I may be biased, but not only is this writing group a fantastic place to grow and craft your skill, but a community where you will meet incredible new people and make lasting friendships.
Website: http://NewWorldsWritingClub.com
Sign up at https://bit.ly/NWWCHome
Embodied Writing: A Generative Practice
This 90-minute generative writing class incorporates movement, breath, and meditation to help writers move beyond resistance and open to creative receptivity. After a short accessible movement and breath practice, participants will have the opportunity to write together in community for approximately 60 minutes. The session will close with a brief check-in and integration practice. Whether participants are working on an existing project and want accountability or are just beginning to explore a writing practice, all are welcome. Writing prompts will be offered at each session, but writers are encouraged to follow their own creative instincts. Offered on Zoom Thursdays from 9-10:30, starting Jan 19. Registration information here: app.acuityscheduling.com/schedule.php?owner=21312833&appointmentType=40246384
Elizabeth Fletcher, MFA, C-IAYT, RYT-500, helps people cultivate creativity and wholeness through the practice of yoga. Her fiction and nonfiction has appeared in Lost Balloon, Gone Lawn, The Leaping Clear, Tiferet and elsewhere. She is currently revising a spiritual memoir about finding home by leaving it.
Write Here Now: An Embodied Writing Workshop
This writing group is an ongoing group for the past three years. Each week we have an embodiment practice and a guided meditation which lead us into a writing practice. We read our writing to another person in breakout rooms afterward. Writing is witnessed and apprecitated, but not critiqued, unless requested.
The workshop is called Write Here Now. More details at http://soloshowdown.com (click on Write Here Now). There is a monthly subscrption fee to join. Details on the website.
Central Texas Writer's Society
We currently meet at the Wool and Vine in Lampasas for open mic but it would be great to use this site for our workshopping. We are always eager to meet new people as everyone can learn something from other writers no matter what skill level they are at. People are great muses!
DPL Writers Group
We are a writers group affiliated with the Danville Public Library in Danville, Illinois, though we now have members in New Jersey and Georgia via Zoom.
We are not workshop-oriented, and prefer defining ourselves as "Writers Talking About Writing." Current members reflect the numerous genres listed above, including widely published authors and young/beginning writers, as well.
We are currently experimenting with the Groups platform - for ongoing group issues, please send an email to writersgroup@danvillepubliclibrary.org.
Scribes and Vibes
Welcome to Scribes & Vibes! Join us for a beautiful blend of poetry, music, art, books, and open mic.