This group is for those wanting to express themselves through writing. This group will help you learn the art of writing, how to find your voice, and receive encouragement as you hone your craft. Together, we’ll learn to improve our craft. We’ll share what we have written, get ideas on how to change from writing in a writer’s perspective to writing in a reader’s perspective, and grow as a group. This writer’s circle will also educate you through workshops and speakers. You’ll be able to exchange …

A group to facilitate connections between members of the Red Lemonade online community.

It is with great pride and enthusiasm that the Kiwanis Club of Oceanside announces our 5th annual Summer Gazebo Readings. Each Monday night in June, July and August we feature four eclectic readers including poets, and published fiction and non-fiction writers.  Our readers have included Pulitzer-prize nominees, poets laureate, screen writers-- a wide array of the Tri-state area's best writing talent. The event is held outdoors on a village green in Oceanside, NY and is free--including free co …

Playsmiths Presents is the public arm of our workshop. We develop and produce new plays, hold workshops and seminars, and generally try to further the future of American theater. We tell stories. Since its inception in May 2009, Playsmiths has helped develop more than 30 full-length plays and scores of short pieces.  We have produced nine public concert reading events, starting off 2012 with ST. VALENTINE’S MASSACRE 2: SUNDAY BLOODY SUNDAY, a now annual, again sold out evening of short plays at …

Ernest Hemingway and other writers of the World War I era and its aftermath had a profound impact on Modern Literature. Gertrude Stein called them the "Lost Generation." Each month we meet in the East Village to talk about these authors' works. January: "By-Line: Ernest Hemingway-Selected Articles and Dispatches of Four Decades" by Ernest Hemingway February: "Three Lives" by Gertrude Stein March: "Winesburg, Ohio" by Sherwood Anderson April: "The Nick Adams Stories" by Ernest Hemingway May: …

Meet local writers, publishers, editors, booksellers, readers, marketers, publicists, and agents to network! Our focus is the business of publishing, and how independent writers can get their work into the marketplace without necessarily going through the traditional routes if they so choose. The technology is certainly there to create a straight-to-customer high-quality product!

Are you doing something cool and innovative with Tarot? Want to? This Meetup is all about taking your Tarot living to the next level. With art classes, workshops, improv, mixers, dances, and more, each month will be a new real-life adventure in Tarot. Classes will include Tarot instruction, some reading practice, and full-on, out-in-the-world activities. The best way to know is to do. Not limited to readers, this group is for anyone-- writers, painters, actors, innovators of all kinds-- looking …

This is a social meetup group for blog writers, readers and wannabes. We meet on the first Tuesday of every month to talk and drink! If you write or read a blog (or if you just want to meet those who do), join us!

Meet readers and followers of The Artist's Way,and other books by Julia Cameron. Explore your creativity by playing with exercises and completing tasks that will encourage you. Making time for yourself can be remarkably difficult to achieve living in such a hectic city. This group is a fantastic positive resource. This meetup is designed for all types of artists, writers, actors, poets, sculptors. Regardless of your past creative experience, or the amount of success you had with the book, th …

This is a group for authors (established, new, and aspiring) and agents (including new agents looking for new writers and books). We will meet once per month for an exchange of ideas, insights, intelligence, and information about getting published.    Those who are already published and who have an agent are encouraged to invite their agent to join with us.    Authors: Please ask your agents to get involved. Agents: Please consider all of your authors for involvement.   Thank you for reading.

Kindred Spirits is an African American Literary Salon & Social Club for avid readers who have an interest in literature that chronicles the black experience throughout the diaspora. Kindred Spirits will also serve as a social club that will host activities that are closely aligned to our literary choices. Most meetings and activities will be in the Northern, NJ area.  Please note that this is a group for active participants.  This is not a group for lurkers.  Please only join if you are really i …

Technology and the web have changed how fiction, poetry, essays, and memoirs are being distributed, and have begun to alter the process of writing, reading, sharing, and consuming texts.  Words are finding new modalities, and innovators across disciplines have begun to experiment with how technology might improve their creation, curation, and consumption. Code Meet Print is the community at the intersection of texts + technology that will contemplate, define, and help build better interfaces for …