Writing groups

Reciprocal story queues, storyboarding tools and a long-standing community of patient readers.

Dublin's national resource for writers — courses, groups and a building full of desks.

The UK's professional home for romance, with a famous New Writers' Scheme.

A large online workshop where serious writers trade structured critiques, karma-for-karma.

The world's largest network of timed write-ins — no critique, just company and a ticking clock.

A San Francisco workspace and community of professional writers, with desks and a culture of craft.

An LGBTQ+ and neurodivergent-friendly circle in Twickenham for writers 18–55.

New York–based literary arts organization supporting Asian American writers through events, workshops, and publications.

Australia’s national peak body for authors and illustrators, with advocacy plus professional programs.

Historic statewide network of local California branches offering critique, speakers, and writer community.

National Canadian writers’ organization with regional branches, workshops, and member support.

A lively Oxfordshire group with workshops, write-ins, socials and a triannual anthology.

Story-structure classes and a community aimed at novelists who like a skeleton under the prose.

Statewide Florida community offering conferences, critique groups, and member education for writers.

Worldwide professional group for thriller authors, publishing professionals, and fans.

A global co-writing community best known for free live write-in sessions and a large international membership.

Premier U.S. organization for mystery, crime, and suspense writers, best known for the Edgar Awards.

UK national literature organization in Norwich offering programmes, groups, and writer development.

Online professional community focused on nonfiction writing, publishing, and book marketing.

Washington-based nonprofit helping writers improve craft and navigate publishing.

National-level Irish poetry organization offering workshops, readings, and resource programmes.

Colorado multi-genre fiction organization known for critique groups, education, and an annual conference.

A Singapore literary organisation running workshops, residencies and a working community of writers.

The community keeping the November novel-sprint spirit alive with global online cohorts.

UK trade union and professional body for writers in TV, film, radio, theatre, books, and digital media.

A vast forum for craft, publishing share-cropping, query letters and genre shop-talk.

A global professional association for self-publishing authors, with member community and watchdog work.

One of America's oldest writers' clubs — monthly meetings, critique groups and a conference.

The UK society for fantasy, horror and related dark matter, with community and the Fantasycon crowd.

Chicago's home for writers — events, resources and a community built on the four Cs.

The UK association behind the Daggers — chapters, events and a professional crime-fiction room.

An international society of historical novelists, with local chapters and a review magazine.

A UK-based association for historical novelists and historians who write for readers.

The international professional body for horror, with local chapters and the Stoker Awards.

Seattle's writing center — classes, readings and rooms where a group can take root.

A worldwide encouragement network for the days when the page feels impossible.

A long-running indie-author forum, blunt about what actually sells and what is snake oil.

A friendly fortress for fantasy worldbuilders, with critiques and deep craft threads.

The UK umbrella for local writers' circles, with a national directory and festival.

The North of England's literature development agency — programmes, prizes and peer networks.

Te Puni Kaituhi o Aotearoa — branches across the country for professional and emerging writers.

Brisbane's hub for writers, with programmes that reach across the state.

The web-serial home for fantasy and science fiction, with an active writer-reader loop.

A coastal writing center with classes, write-ins and a community that actually meets.

The professional association for SFF, with Nebula Conference community and member forums.

A dedicated science-fiction and fantasy community with critiques, challenges and shop-talk.

A large community built for women writers, with groups, essays and publishing talk.

A welcoming mystery network with local chapters, Guppies for newcomers, and a bias toward equity.

The UK trade union for writers, with a growing map of member-run local groups.

London's writer development agency — groups, programmes and a wide-open door.

A global network for screenwriters, with labs, notes and introductions to working crews.

The leading US professional organisation for published writers, with member community and legal muscle.

Minneapolis's home for writers — classes, community and a building that takes literature personally.

Britain's national poetry organisation, with local stanzas that function as real writing groups.

A long-standing Bethesda workshop home serving the Washington, D.C. writing community.

The national union for book-length authors, with regional networks and professional community.

Oregon's large writers' organization — craft, community and a well-known conference.

A professional association for writers of women's fiction, with forums and a supportive conference.

Melbourne's writers' centre — studios, studios of people, and a dense events calendar.

A refreshingly unmystical UK community of courses, sprints and 'get the draft done'.

A statewide community with Austin at its heart — classes, agents, and member critique culture.

The New South Wales writers' centre — courses, groups and a statewide community.