We are a committed group of writers that meet on Thrusday for 4-5 hours. We meet at a local coffee shop, share our work and do gut wrenching critiques. Primarily the group will be focused on creative writing (fiction). The main quality we seek - honest (no kiss ass) in depth critiques. Bring up to five pages (12 pt double spaced) and enough copies for everyone attending. New members can't submit the first time, but have to give critiques. Yes, it's a test. New members can only come to the Thrusd …

Having trouble finishing your manuscript? Starting a term paper? Writing a long overdue love letter? Then this is the group for you! The Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write! Meetup is exactly what it sounds like: a venue for writers to start, continue, or finish written works. The Format: The "Sit Down" part: The first thirty minutes is reserved for introductions, chit-chat, purchasing food and drink, skimming writing books, exchanging ideas, yoga postures, Gregorian chants, or whatever gets you psyche …

Monday Night Writers: Houston is a spin-off of a group I used to organize in Los Angeles. Since I moved to Houston, I'm moving the group, too! Imagine your favorite college writing workshop: this is what I'm trying to accomplish on a grown-up level. We will share a piece of writing in advance, get together, and critique a few writers at each meeting. Whether you write professionally, are trying to get published, or would just like to hone your writing skills... this is the writing group for you …

Overview Most of the time, WriteByNight is hard at work providing customized writers' services to novices and professionals alike. But on select days and times, we draw the shades, turn off our ringers and open our doors to writers on the prowl for a quiet, comfy haven where they can write, read, collaborate or just kick back and dream. We’ve got a library, writing prompts, coffee and free Wi-Fi. What more could a writer ask for? Objective Write Here allows you to carve out much-needed writing …

PLEASE BE ADVISED: Our membership is currently at capacity. We started Write Inside the Loop because we wanted to connect with other Greater Houston Area fiction* writers. The purpose of Write Inside the Loop is to provide a centralized environment right inside the 610 Loop where serious writers of short stories, novels or memoir can gather monthly to exchange feedback and encouragement. If you are a serious writer of short stories, novels or memoir who is able to commit to meeting every other w …

Hi there.  Welcome to Weird Austin Writers.  If you’re a writer but your goal is to be an author...this is your place.  Whatever a writer writes is art from the mind.  We're a talented group who like getting and giving feedback for manuscripts. This group is all about helping writers write better and get published. This Group will be doing: 2 Read, Workshop, and Chat meetups per month 1 Brainstorming session to get feedback on pre-manuscript ideas 1 Book Review session, where you talk about b …

If you are a woman who wants to write, who does write, who did write and wants to again, who has only wished you could write, you now have a group of like-minded ladies. You will be ready to give and get feedback with the feminine viewpoint from women who understand the issues important to women, who can give encouragement and support and who empathize with the practice of writing by and for women. Whatever your reasons for writing--for publication, for memoir writing, for self discovery, to lea …

Professional commitments have prevented the founding organizers of this group from continuing as the leaders, so we're in the process of re-booting and expect to resume meeting in March. Current members:  We'll stick pretty close to the group's original set up, and we hope you'll continue to participate.  New / Potential members:  Here's what we're about... This group is for writers who are seeking inspiration, grappling with writer's block, need a nudge (or shove) to get started, or are inter …

The purpose of this group is to assist each other to become successful, published authors - preferably megastars with enormous incomes. We will develop our writing, promotion, and performance skills, acquire technical skills in ebook and audible publication, critique each other and share access to a publishing sponsor, and assist each other to publish and enjoy the rewards of authorship. Some of us will collect, share, and publish stories ranging from fiction to fact to personal histories and/or …

If you write website copy, articles for newspapers or magazines, nonfiction ebooks, or any other form of creative nonfiction, the Austin Roundtable is your group for networking and critique. We’ve all felt the stress of wanting to impress a new client, wanting to kick off a new column with a bang, or wanting to launch an eyeball-grabbing website. You’re welcome to bring along printed copies of your nonfiction work to share for instant critique or spend the networking with other writers so you ca …

A writing group for the early birds or wannabe early birds who aspire to get some writing done in the early hours before the day everything. This is not an evaluation or critique meetup (necessarily), but just a shared commitment to starting the day with coffee, camaraderie and keystrokes. May it serve as a building block for your morning writing practice no matter what kind of writing you're doing. At this time there is one weekly meeting, Sunday morning. Saturdays and weekdays have been discus …

Real Writers is called Academic because it is designed to be like a workshop you would take at a big university, where the instructor would take seriously the fundamentals of literary techniques and straightforward criticism about member writing in order to understand those techniques. Real Writers is a literary workshop in which substantial literary ideas are developed in order to facilitate 'real' writing both in the form of literature and in related media. Any writer or artist could potential …

Looking for a community for others on the adventurous road of self-publishing fiction? This group will be whatever you need it to be, looking for beta readers? Please be willing to be one if asked. Need critique (personally this makes me cringe and I won't be asking) then bring your work and get feedback. Having problems with the technical side and need input hopefully all of that can be addressed. Want to have sessions of sit down, shut up and write? Done. I am also hoping to have an active mes …

The Gulf Coast Federation of Writers is a nonprofit 501(c)(3) organization incorporated in the state of Texas. Our mission is to support the craft of creative writing by offering the opportunities for novice through professional authors to achieve literary excellence, network, and gain encouragement. Our critique circles, held in convenient public locations in and around Houston, provide intensive peer review. Membership entitles you to: • Participation in GCFW critique circles with substantive …

Everyone has a book, short story, screen play or something they have thought about writing. This group is about helping you write it. It is basically a think tank to help each other with ideas and sticking points and even give you a push in the right direction. We meet twice a month on Sunday afternoon for about 90 minutes or until everyone decides to leave. If you are kinda lazy about your writing and need a little push and can take a little helpful criticism, and laugh at yourself without gett …

Are you an aspiring writer, poet, novelist or other creative wordsmith seeking to find a group of like minded people to come together and encourage and help you feed and keep your muse? Have you been a writer for a long time now, and felt as though you've lost touch with that creative spark? Are you all too familiar with that dreaded literary monster known as "Writer's Block?" Or do you simply feel that you need more true friends, and people who are living the writer's life just as yourself and …

A circle where womyn writers of all ages, levels, and genres may practice, explore, and discuss the written & spoken-word arts and where womyn are empowered to give sound to our story and volume to our voice!

Bring a poem you wrote or bring one you love, and we'll read it together, analyze it, and talk about its meanings. If you don't write poetry but simply appreciate it, you are more than welcome! (I do not write poetry myself, I just love it.) If you do write poetry and want to share it with intelligent poetry lovers, you are welcome! We'll meet in my home in NW Austin and we aren't snooty about any of it, we just love poetry. Join us on facebook!

We all have many stories about the events in our lives that made us who we are. Journaling can help us with self exploration, self empowerment, self direction and reflection. They may also write to share a history of their life for family, friends and sometimes for publication. If you want to be inspired, if you want to share your experiences--the funny, the sad, the eventful, if you want to make friends, then come join us as we journal our stories. Whether for personal understanding, for our fr …

We critique each others work to make it better and motivate each other to be regular in their writing efforts. Easygoing social environment  where we share ideas and experiences with each other. Writing Critiques for all genres of writing and poetry. Quiet and conducive environment for exchange of ideas.

Want to start writing YA or love writing YA? North Austin YA Writers is a place for you! Our members get together to write and discuss our love of YA. We accept any type of YA writing ( non-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, supernatural, romance, mystery...etc...) We have meetings the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month for our YA Focus Theme. Here we critique, discuss, and write YA! On the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month we have a Pure Write meetings for our members where they can have a set time to writ …

The ECWG is a group dedicated to experimental methods of collective writing, with more productivity as our great goal. This is not a group for writing critiques, nor is it a discussion group. We will be dedicating our energies to writing production. Some writers may collaborate together on their own project, many others will write individually yet within the group. Are you in the midst of a writer's block, seeking methods to break free? Are you a writer who is also a social individual? Methods m …

We welcome non-writers, as well! We are a group of people who express our mess of words in short, perfunctory pulses. There is no room for cliché (and hardly any for adjective) in our work. We want to be moved by others, and we hope to do the moving from time to time. We encourage writing with truth, clarity, and passion, and love it when reciting borders on Slam. Come to watch, read, share, recite, laugh, and drink (beer or coffee, depending on the time of day). Don't come to feed us rainbows. …

This is a group for writers. Bringing them together to write, critique, workshop, conference, and ultimately publish. We have a website dedicated to all things words. www.AllThingsWords.com but we want to incorporate those within Houston and driving distance to get involved in the writing process!

Serving Others Using Language, or SOUL SLAM...is a group of Austin Writers and Poets and Spoken Word performers who desire to come together and not only write and better their work as a group, but who also hope to better the world around them with their words. The group is open to people of all different backgrounds, beliefs, and levels of experience in the field of writing. Whether you love reading poetry, and merely appreciate it as an art form, or whether you are working on being published or …

We are a group of writers of crime fiction, both short story and book length. We are all seriously writing for publication and most of us have been writing for many years. Our goals as a group are to polish our manuscripts before sending them to our agents or editors; keep the pages flowing; improve our craft, especially by learning from each others' strengths; and above all, support each others' goals as writers. We are keen and attentive readers, but we are also congenial and considerate. No m …

Hi Everyone, First of all, I'll tell you that I used to facilitate and Artist's Way Group thru Meetup here in Austin. I am creating a group based on the correspondence classes of Chicago's Jerry Cleaver's Immediate Writing course of study. Jerry has many accolades and many published writer's singing his praises. My goal is to begin and complete his one year of correspondence classes by utilizing his book "Immediate Fiction", which contains all the lessons needed. I'm looking for other would be w …

This is a group for people trying to finish a novel. We're going to meet Thursdays 8:30 - 10:30 at the Lakeline HEB (unless a better venue presents itself) and discuss two writers' work per week. Our goal is to cover large pieces each week (~25 pages) in order to get a better sense of the story and encourage people to move more quickly toward completing their work. We're looking for people who are determined to finish a novel and to help others reach that same goal.  If we have extra time, hopef …