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 the vertical ellipses menu 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.
Inspiration
Encourage each other, that's all
All Writers
I invented Caryn's Creative Communities as a supportive space for writers and writing. Any type of writing is welcome: Novels, fan fiction, journals, memoirs, biographies, journalism, how-tos, scripts, poetry, social media posts, and more!
We have live video write-ins several times per week. We also have spontaneous pop-up write-ins!
We meet on DISCORD. You must join Discord and Caryn's Creative Communities to participate. Here is the invitation link to join: https://discord.gg/QwZ5YjHDzu
Message and video rooms for our members:
Text Channels:
#community-chat
#writing-help
#writing-resources
#editing-services
#sprinto (for writing sprints)
#all-writers
#revel-writers (for women)
#works-in-progress
#sister-servers
Voice/Video Channels:
Co-Work (for business or academic work. Open 24/7.)
24/7 Write-In (Always open)
All Writers (open during scheduled and pop-up write-ins)
Revel Writers (open during scheduled write-ins
Can’t wait to meet you!
~ Caryn
Aspiring Authors
Writing can be a lonely act. Whether it's in a coffee shop, at a library desk, on a three-hour flight, inside a notebook, in a google doc, or in your head before falling asleep, writers tend to create stories alone. However, even if we start by being alone, words are meant to be shared. This group aims to be a close-knit community for those looking to make a career out of writing. Through interaction with others, I hope you learn to appreicate your own voice and find the motivation to press on further.
I am currently working on a novel with aspirations of becoming published. I've been procrastinating for a while, so I hope this group can be a place of encouragement and accountability. Along the way, this group may also have workshops and critiquing sessions.
I plan on shaping the specifics of this group together with the participants. How often we meet, what a meeting will look like, what's expected of us--those are all things that I believe should be decided together.
So if this sounds like what you're searching for, I look forward to meeting you and sharing stories together.
Poetry submitting and writing club
Greeting!
This is a warm invitation for blooming poets to join this club, share their poetry and receive criticism that will enable them to reach their goal and improve their skill. There is also a websit (link shared below) and we would absolutely love it if you joined us and contributed to take it to the next level!
Poetry Fanatics
This is just to say...
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.
Technophobic Beta
My approach to these kinds of things is curmudgeonly, but writers need readers, and, in the end, we always learn more from con-critting others. Personally, I write literary historical fiction, but it leans hard on science and the natural world, and I respect folk reaching around the modern MFA voice and digging for something truly substantial, whatever your genre.
As finished pieces float to the surface, it would be easiest for me to just comment in a google doc or group email—let's keep this down to some level of no-pressure, Luddite symbiosis. The rules are there ain't no rules, (although, naturally the first two rules of Fight Club apply.) Advanced, ambitious, obtuse is fine, science writers especially welcome.
New Worlds Writing Club
Sign up at NewWorldsWritingClub.com 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 writers 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 writers 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.