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.
Utah County Writers
I want to build an intimate community writing group, with all types and genres of writers welcome (the genres listed are preferable, but they're not a deal-breaker). I'm looking for writers who are interested in providing feedback, being an accountability partner, sharing their work with the group, and giving feedback and requested critiques. Ideally, our group will have about 10-15 members—enough to have a good group, but small enough to manage. I'm looking forward to the camaraderie built by meeting and working with fellow writers and authors. I'm currently shooting for biweekly to monthly, but we can schedule to the groups' availability and needs. I'm also open to meeting weekly or alternating in-person and online.
No Bowl of Cherries
I'm a lapsed writer living in Brooklyn, NY. I've written primarily short fiction and one self-published novel. The short fiction has been published in a number of lit mags.
In a Writer's Digest interview, I was asked how I would describe my writing style. It’s hard to say because I enjoy experimenting with different genres that require different voices. My narrators run the gamut from wisecracking to love-stricken. I’ve written horror and fairy tale fantasy as well as realistic narratives. I’ve moved through micro and flash fiction to short shorts, full-length stories, and the novella. In general, however, I tend toward short fiction that tends to be dark and to deal with family relationships.
Although I'm living with post-polio syndrome, walk with a limp and find stairs difficult to negotiate, in general I do NOT write about my disability and would prefer not to be categorized as a disabled writer.
My ideal workshop group consists of three to five participants that meet monthly. My aim is to find a group or start a group that will get me writing again.
Hoping for sucess,
Marie Bacigalupo
The Drink & Draft Poetry Roadshow
The Drink and Draft Poetry Roadshow is a traveling poetry writing workshop that meets online and in various bars, coffee shops, and other locations around the Chicago suburbs. We write together and discuss poetic practice.
Portland Writers' Nook
I would like to see an in-person group get started in Portland or the greater Portland area that focuses on craft, support and feedback, a group that is inclusive to all genres, communities and levels of experience.
Serenity Cafe Writers
"What does it mean to be a conscious, active, engaged human being in our world today? How do we live that out through our personal, community, and global interactions with others? How do we live that out within ourselves and our writing?"
As a writer and an editor, and as an evolving being, these are the areas I'd like to address in a writer's group. I'd love to share insight, encouragement, and delve into exploration with others who are asking these types of questions.
I'm the editor and publisher of a quarterly arts/culture/consciousness magazine that features global writers and perspectives, as well as a regional segment focused on the South Carolina coastal area. I am a photographer and graphic designer, published poet since the early 1990's. I welcome anyone who would like to be a part of the discussion and exploration of these topics. I look forward to contributing to the discussion, helping others, and learning from those who participate.
Poets of Interbeing
Please note: Our group is currently not accepting new members at this time.
"If you are a poet, you will see clearly that there is a cloud floating in this sheet of paper. Without a cloud, there will be no rain; without rain, the trees cannot grow: and without trees, we cannot make paper." —Thich Nhat Hanh
Poets of Interbeing is intended to be a small, supportive group of poets who share similar themes in our work as encapsulated by the Thich Nhat Hanh quote above. These themes include poetry as a way of paying attention to the world around us, the interdependence of all things, relationships between nature and humans, and places and those who live in those places.
We meet twice a month on Sundays at 8pm US Eastern Time to share, appreciate, and workshop poems. Since the group is just getting started, the frequency and format may change depending on the interests of its members. If you are a poet and your writing touches on the above themes, we'd love to meet you! Please join our Google Group mailing list (https://groups.google.com/g/poetsofinter...) and include a brief statement of interest.
Group photo by Felix Mittermeier on Unsplash
Short stories writers - Spanish
Este es un grupo para escritores de cuentos que crean sus obras en español.
Los objetivos del grupo son:
- Leer los cuentos de los participantes y ofrecer feedback, hacer análisis colectivos.
- Compartir recursos y contenidos de interés que nos ayuden a mejorar como escritores y escritoras de cuentos.
- Divertirnos.
Esta será una comunidad de apoyo y colaboración para ayudarnos a crecer y disfrutar de nuestra pasión por la escritura.
Mapping the Maze Workshop
For participants of Poets & Writers Mapping the Maze workshop to meet online, create community, share/access resources provided during the workshop.
Jersey writers
I would like to expand a present group of mid New Jersey poets and prose writers who meet on zoom to include more local writers and to meet occasionally in person for workshops. Leader, Barbara de la Cuesta, has a Masters in Creative non fiction, and has published two prize winning novels as well as one collection of poetry. She led a coffee house for poets and a small publishing enterprise for twenty years at the Ocean County Artists Guild in Island Heights, NJ and is a member of the Asbury Book Coop paad
Green Mountain Writers Group
In January, 2021, we launched this writers’ community with the intention of providing a safe web space where members can share their work in a secure folder, discuss the work privately on Zoom and in person at our camp, and share comments with each other before and after the sessions in a members-only Discussion Board. We wanted some walls to protect the shared work and to restrict access to the discussion board to participating workshop members only. On the other side of the wall, we wanted to launch a public, online, literary review where members could publish their work.
You can find us online at GreenMountainWriters.com, and find all of our scheduled workshops on Meetup at: Meetup.com/green-mountain-writers. We now have over 500 active members and schedule Poetry & Performance Workshops meeting on Zoom on the 1st and 3rd Tuesdays of each month at 7 PM ET.