Hi all,

My name is Brittani Ann and I play in a few different genres, mainly poetry and creative non-fiction. I have a minor in poetry and have been writing on my own since I was young but I am now looking to get a bit more serious with my work as well as engage and share with other writers. I am craving the community of those who are looking to critique, workshop, encourage, discuss and learn from one another.

Hi. I very much enjoy making up a good story. I very much more do not enjoy editing. I do not have the gift of scene setting but I wield dialog with enthusiasm. I'm looking for an accountability group to keep me moving forward on editing my ms. In return, I am not too shabby of a content editor and would be happy to read group memebers' work if it helps them. I can barely spell so no help with that, but I can identify a tell when there should be a show like a ninja. Any of that sound interesting? Let me know.

Hiya! I was a copywriter on/off with textbroker and have had my poetry published in an inaugural issue of a Christian literary journal, a local arts festival journal, and a now defunct experimental/general online literary magazine. I'm looking for a group of people who are able to critique each other with no qualms, read poetry to expand our understandings of the world, and discuss what poetry actually is.

Note, I view poetry as an act of religious ritual - a sacramental approach to the world, our lived experiences, and people all around. Not strictly Christian (highly platonic), but also not New Age-y. So, most of my poems have a hint of religiousity, if not outright proclamation. I honestly don't care if one is religious or not. Good poetry is good poetry.

Hello, fellow writers! I'm looking to "find my people" after many years isolating as a writer. Bad me for doing that!

I graduated from a Master's Program in English 10 years ago, in which I wrote a collection of fiction for my final project. Since then, I've written and edited an 86,000 word memoir about my experience as a wildland firefighter as a young woman. I also started a blog, Hidden Stories, in which I interview homeless people, overlooked people, or write about  unusual places. I've published a few pieces of writing (poetry, flash-fiction, memoir excerpt) online during this time. I've also been involved in performance art -- specifically community theatre and voiceover. I am a full-time Special Education teacher in the Boston area and a part-time college writing instructor.

In educating myself about what it takes to be published, I've learned that my approach to reading and writing needs to be different. I need to find peers whose work is similar to mine and I need to start joining the conversation.

Authors who have deeply inspired me over the past five years, (working backwards from what I'm currently reading) are Matthew Vollmer, Molly McCulley Brown, Jamie Wright, Rachel Held Evans, Lynn Nottage, Stephen Adly Gurguis, Kaleefa Sanneh, Laurie Anderson (performance artist but also a writer to me and I have to have her on this list), Rachel Kushner, Otessa Moshfegh, Lucas Hnath, Annie Baker, Sharon Olds and Christian Wiman. Many of these are playwrights, a nod to my love of theatre and dialogue.

If I could distill what I care deeply about, what I'm hungry to read more about, and what my yet-to-be-published memoir touches on, it is this: people who have grown up in privilege and know it, who are fighting to get out of numbness into a fuller lives, to escape the sheen of protection that covers them and enter into truly living, not afraid to be counted among the broken and hurting and disappointed. People who believe in God and in the richness of what humans have wrought -- music and art in all its madness, people who want to push the edge of what it means to be devout, but know in their hearts that this world is not all there is. People who often make others and others' opinions their god, who have made sexuality and desirability and youth their gods, and are trying to break free of that. People who want to relate to their bodies in a new way. People who want to be true children of God in this world and who know that doing so will take them to uncomforable places -- often this means to cities, to subcultures, to what seems mundane and is infused with magic.

Thank you for letting me share and I look forward to getting to know you!

I am new to this platform and new to joining a writers group. This is my first attempt at joining a writers group so I'd probably fit best with a group for beginners. Looking to learn and grow together.

I write scientific and religious poetry and I'm also working on a historical fiction/magical realism novel. I take writing very seriously because I am good at it. I love discussing people's work and I tend to go on a deeper level with them about it. Cheers :)