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The following Writing Groups are Open to New Members.
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- SEQUENTIALLY SPEAKING Art Critique/Workshop
VISUAL NARRATIVE WORKSHOP - WRITERS’ INK
- WRITESHOP
- FOOLE’S GOLD PROSE & POETRY WORKSHOP
- PSALM 45.1
- ALL GENRES WRITERS GROUP
- CREATIVE NONFICTION WRITERS GROUP
- WRITING AND MEDITATION PRACTICE GROUP in Yellow Springs
- WRITERS READ, a 60+ group
- THE WRITERS CLUB at Upper Arlington Main Library
- The Ohio Writers’ Guild
- CAPA/City WRITER’S STUDIO
- THE WESTERVILLE POETRY GROUP
- PEN & QUILL WRITER’S GROUP
- ALEX WRITES
- WRITERS’ BLOC
- 55+ WRITERS CIRCLE
- INKWELL FORUM
- FRANKLINTON WRITERS WORKSHOP
- SONGWRITERS & POETS CRITIQUE
- POET’S & WRITERS GUILD
- SALON Sponsored by Pudding House Publications led by ROSE M. SMITH
- CONSTRUCTION ZONE - Poetry Workshop
- CENTRAL OHIO FICTION WRITERS
- COMPANY of WRITERS - WRITING GROUP
- COLUMBUS CHRISTIAN WRITERS GROUP
- LYRICS and VERSE POETRY DISCUSSION GROUP
- PICKERINGTON WRITERS/CRITIQUE GROUP
Third Sundays from 2 PM to 4 PM
Upper Arlington Library (Main Branch)
2800 Tremont Road
Free event
Space is limited, please email or call ahead to confirm vacancy.
There is no question about it - Columbus and the surrounding Central Ohio area is a melting pot of comic book creators. Here’s your chance to meet, talk with and share your talents with experience and novice writers and artists alike in a relaxed, informal atmosphere. Bring copies of your latest comic strips or graphic novel in progress to get valuable feedback! Open to all genres and abilities.
Contact: Max Ink at 614-275-4764 or
max.ink@gmail.com
or visit: Sequentially Speaking at Yahoo Groups
Third Sundays at 5 PM
404 Thurber Drive West # 6, Columbus
near Short North and the Arena District.
Writers’ Ink has a monthly newsletter and periodically has speakers. They welcome new members.
For more information, contact Nora Holt at 614-493-3298
or inkcreativity@hotmail.com
or see their website at: writersinkcreativity.com
Third Sundays
Meets in Columbus
Writeshop is a writers’ workshop group which meets to discuss and critique members’ work. While we are involved in all types of writing, our members’ specialties are fiction, particularly science fiction and horror.
See http://www.sff.net/people/lucy-snyder/writeshop/ for membership and location details.
Mondays from 8PM to 11 PM
Kafe Kerouac
2250 N. High Street
This is an ongoing group of limited membership. Call Kafe Kerouac at 299-2672 to confirm date and time.
Third Mondays - 7:30-9:30
Vineyard Columbus
“A place for writers to fellowship together, develop their gifting, and consider how writing may be used to glorify God through serving the church and engaging the community.”
Typical group format is to write for the first 15 minutes (one member provides a prompt) and then either share for the next 45 minutes and then have a teaching/discussion OR spend the entire evening sharing what we’ve written and providing feedback and encouragement. Group includes a wide variety of abilities and genres represented, and the pieces written are not exclusively Christian in nature, although it is a faith based group and members do talk from time to time about what it means to be “a Christian who happens to write.”
For more information, contact Lorie Rees at lorie.rees@vineyardcolumbus.org.
Tuesdays at 9AM
Panera Bread & Bakery
Taylor Square Shopping Center
2374 Taylor Road - Reynoldsberg
No fee.
Writers of all genres and all levels of experience are welcome to join. The environment is positive, supportive, and helpful. Reading is optional, but encouraged and offered in the spirit of support and improvement.
For more information contact jerry@purposefulgrowth.com
or brenda@healmyspirit.com
Second Tuesdays from 6:30 PM to 8:30 PM
Panera (Community Room)
4519 N. High Street - Clintonville
This unique writers group specializes in creative nonfiction, but is open to all who are interested in improving their craft. Each month two people read 5 - 6 pages of their work aloud to the group. If you are reading, bring 5 - 8 copies for members to read.
Contact Donna Owens at dowens@insight.rr.com for more information.
Wednesday mornings from 7AM to 9 AM
Rockford Chapel on President St., south of E. Whiteman, Yellow Springs, Ohio
No fee.
Drop-ins welcome.
This blend of meditation and writing (and this group) was developed by Natalie Goldberg (Writing Down the Bones, Wild Mind) as a method of unleashing the creative muse. Periods of meditation are mixed with intervals of writing and reading. No previous experience at either meditation or writing is necessary.
Contact Barbara at lotuspetal@pobox.com or 937-322-2341
Second Wednesdays from 1 PM to 2:30 PM
Panera Bread - Community Room
4915 N. High Street - Clintonville
No fee.
RSVP by the Monday before.
Writers are voracious readers. Participants read aloud a passage from a favored writer’s work that has influenced their writing. A “How and Why” discussion follows.
Perhaps we will eventually compile a list of these books or a book exchange for participants. Please join with us for a wise, sometimes wiseacre, meeting with other writers 60+ (or not). The meeting is FREE.
For further information and to RSVP, contact pbrown5623@aol.com.
Second and Fourth Wednesdays at 1PM
Upper Arlington Main Library
2800 Tremont Road
A different author attends each month to help writers with various aspects of the art and craft of writing.
Check the UA Library Website for the monthly topics or Call 614-486-9621 for details.
Wednesdays 1-3 PM
Cultural Arts Center
139 West Main Street
Novice and seasoned writers can bring work to read, discuss, or critique in a relaxed setting. These meetings are free and open to the public.
Contact for CAC (614) 645-7047 or jljohnson@columbus.gov
Wednesdays from 4:30 PM to 6 PM
1002 E. Livingston Ave.
Call 614-372-1822 for details.
First Wednesdays at 7 PM
Westerville Library
126 S. State Street (Westerville)
Do you like to discuss poetry? Do you want to know how to market your work to magazines and book publishers? Would you like to help edit a literary magazine? If all of these things sound interesting and fun to you, then come join us!
Groups meetings are open to the public and there is no membership fee.
For more information see http://www.wpl.lib.oh.us
or Call the Westerville library at 614-882-7277 ext. 159.
Third Wednesdays - 7PM
Heritage Hall
Main Street - Crooksville
Pen & Quill currently has members from Newark, New Lexington, Buckeye Lake, Roseville and Crooksville. It is open to any writer seeking inspiration, editing assistance, or the company of other writers.
For more information, contact director Kathy Campbell at katonhottin2001@yahoo.com
First Thursdays - 7PM
Alexandria Public Library
10 Maple Drive - Alexandria
Open to all aspiring or published authors. Write, critique, learn, support, encourage.
Contact Betsy Young 740-924-0305 byoung@columbus.rr.com for information.
Third Thursdays - Gathering at 6:30Pm; Program at 7PM
Thurber Center (next door to Thurber House)
91 Jefferson Avenue
Writer’s Bloc is a congenial group of writers, editors, poets and other wordsmiths - published and unpublished - who gather six times a year for professional development, to share resources, to socialize, and network. All are welcome.
Annual dues are $15 and include admission to all programs. Admission to individual events for guests and non-members is $5 with the exception of the November Holiday Potluck and Open Mic which are free.
For more information, call Wayne Rapp at 614-861-3394
Fourth Thursdays from 2 PM to 4 PM
MCL Cafeteria on East Main
Whitehall
No Fee
RSVP please
Open to women and men writers, 55+ who wish to enjoy a lively, supportive, interesting, and informational exchange on writing and the writer’s life. Group encourages writers to bring any writing for listening and gentle critique (optional).
Lunch before the group is also optional.
For further information and to RSVP, please contact
Visit our website at: http://www.freewebs.com/55writerscircle/
every other Thursday
North Columbus
No fee.
This group discusses and critiques members’ works of short fiction or nonfiction prose. Meets in a member’s home in the Bethel Road area. For more information, contact Rich at rwarren212@aol.com.
formerly the Writers Workshop of McDowell Senior Center
every other friday - 10AM to Noon
Franklinton Library
1061 W. Town
Writers group mentored by David Bell. Some members are published writers, some are trying to get published, some write just for fun. All are trying to improve their writing skills. Usually, we have a writing assignment for each meeting. Sometimes we have in-class assignments.
For more information check their website at http://www.srwriters.com, call 614-2275 or webmaster@srwriters.com
Second and Fourth Fridays at 7:30 PM
Jackson Township Building
3756 Hoover Road (Grove City)
Call 614-777-0326 for more information or check the website at http://www.timothysklugh.com/spc/events.asp
Fourth Fridays from 7:30PM
Aeropagitica Books
3510 N. High St. (Clintonville)
Call Dottie Turner at 614-263-9346 or Elizabeth Ann James at 614-267-3085 for more information
First Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 4:00 PM
MCL Cafeteria, East Main Street, Columbus/Whitehall area
Cost: $65/year
Currently considering new enrollments. To apply, send 6 poems, letter of interest, $10 application fee that applies to registration if accepted. Or email Rose Smith at conversant2@aol.com to arrange 10 minute preliminary free phone interview.
Salon, sponsored by Pudding Magazine, led by Rose M. Smith, associate editor at Pudding House is a writing, reading, and critiquing group especially for intermediate through advanced poets and writers with a mix of writing experience and interests.
Second Saturdays at 6:30 PM
310 E. Innis Ave.
Call 614-372-0453 for more information.
Monthly meetings held monthly on the “teen” Saturday
- see website for schedule
University Hotel
3110 Olentangy River Road
See http://www.cofw.org for additional information
or call 614-539-9131 for details.
First and Third Saturdays from 9:00 to 11 AM
Call 262-0069 for more information.
Saturdays from 9:30 AM to 11:30 AM
New Albany Library
200 Market Street
Saturdays from 1 - 2PM
Location - near OSU campus - still under discussion
Lyrics and Verse is a very inclusive group for people of all ages, lifestyles and genres. The only prerequisite is that you have an insatiable need to write, revise, edit and discuss poetry. Or at least give up an hour of your Saturday afternoon. You don’t really have to edit or revise, either, you just have to sit and listen politely while people tell you how they think your words could be better.
Topics will include specific poets, forms, devices, writing prompts, and any aspects of developing, revising, editing, or teaching poetry and may include field trips. If you are interested in a specific topic, feel free to volunteer to lead or ask someone else to lead that discussion. Every other week will be a looser format where a session leader might or might not be there. Typical meetings will approximate the following format: Intro/Catch up, Topic Introduction, Free Write, Discussion/Peer Review. Please bring notebooks or something to write on and with!
Please contact Sara at cline.228@osu.edu or call 502-551-0579 for the current schedule, the location and more information.
evenings - no day or place specified
Pickerington Writers/Critique Group is a small group of fiction writers who would welcome new members. Meetings are generally held once a week in the evening at a convenient Pickerington location. If you are interested in joining, contact bberan@insight.rr.com or romona.inskeep@gmail.com.
