I'm on my last set of revisions before querying the first installment of a YA fantasy series, but I tend to distract myself with flash fiction and creative nonfiction.  I'm in search of a writing group that is open and honest with critiques.  I've attended in-person writing groups and online classes in which everyone shies away from constructive criticism, but I'd really appreciate some!

I am an amateur poet and have recently started exploring meter and rhythm rather than rhyme. I've been writing poetry for at least ten years off and on. I also recently started writing short stories based on dreams and other experiences. 

Without particularly planning it, I find myself writing a collection of historical fiction which ranges in subject from the Wordsworths & Coleridge to one about Shackleton's dog. I'm self-taught and write catch-as-catch-can, and read mostly older fiction, steering warily around the modern-day tone of fiction which seems suddenly so prevalent. That said, there are many current writers I admire: Colum McCann; Cormac McCarthy; Annie Proulx etc. 

I'm always looking for readers and editors, and of course I greatly look forward to repaying the favor. 

Hi, my name is Celeste and I am a poet. My experience writing poetry goes back to elementary school when I was scribbling very bad attempts at rhyme and lyricism (usually about things like smiles or ice cream), but it has grown and developed significantly since then. Currently, three of my poems have been published in the online literary journal Applause, and I am always on the lookout for more interesting/popular publications that will consider my work. I am very passionate about my poetry, and about poetry in general, and I'd love to find a group of like-minded individuals who feel similarly. I write a lot about dreams, nature, spirituality, sexuality, mythology, religion, and love.

Hi, I'd like to work on my poetry.  I have not participated in any workshops before, though I'm familiar with the basic structure.  I taught college writing as a grad student.  Now I want to focus on my own creative writing.  My current project, inspired by Jackie Wang's The Sunflower Cast a Spell to Save Us From the Void and Richard Hugo's 31 Letters & 13 Dreams, is to find a way to translate dreams into poems.