WELCOME TO OUR CLUB We provide writers four basic needs: FELLOWSHIP - Hang around other authors and writers who love to write. OPPORTUNITY TO WRITE - You may choose what you would like to write or select one of our subjects for a 1000 word practice exercise. AVAILABILITY OF CRITIQUE - You will have the opportunity to receive critical analysis of your work - if you wish. NEW LEARNING EXPERIENCE - We will have four major learning experiences each year with several smaller presentations during our …

If you're interested in music and you live in S.A. (or you're willing to get down here somehow) you're welcome to join. We'll try to be a "big tent" and accommodate diverse styles, all ability levels and whatever instrument you've got. Let's get together and enjoy singing and playing some live music! We have a great new location for pickin' parties and jam sessions. We're also open to suggestions and different options, so feel free to give us your input. In addition to pickin' parties/jam …

Do you have a story to tell, a script to write, or poetry begging to be heard? Developing a web site? Writing a documentary? Journalist or journal-er? Do you need help getting it out of your head and down on paper or through your keyboard? Then come join us! All writing is welcome - novels, nonfiction, screenplays, stage plays, short stories, poetry, anything you can imagine. Film, print, web, audio? Welcome! National Novel Writing Month? Script Frenzy? Come right along! More info about the Roun …

In December of 2008 Photojournalist Kevin Vandivier founded TGOP and late 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist Skeeter Hagler joined Vandivier to help carry out the goals and vision that brought TGOP into existence. Both photographers bring years of incredible success in the field of photography to TGOP. Hagler began his career professionally in the early 1970's and over the years has won mutiple awards and has been published in many of the top magazines including National Geographi …

Welcome To Alamo Arts Photography Group.  We are a diverse group of artistic people with a common passion - photography.  AAPG offers programs and activities in the photographic arts for amateur and professional photographers alike.  Our members have a wide range of photographic experience and abilities.   New members are always welcome, regardless of photographic experience. Alamo Arts Photography Group not only gives you access to experienced photographers for advice, but also to make new fr …

We are a committed group of writers that meet on Thrusday for 4-5 hours. We meet at a local coffee shop, share our work and do gut wrenching critiques. Primarily the group will be focused on creative writing (fiction). The main quality we seek - honest (no kiss ass) in depth critiques. Bring up to five pages (12 pt double spaced) and enough copies for everyone attending. New members can't submit the first time, but have to give critiques. Yes, it's a test. New members can only come to the Thrusd …

This is a business owner Mastermind group. We are looking for a few select business owners for a pilot program to meet on a regular basis to critique, enlighten, support, and mentor each other in growing our businesses online - Please RSVP at the Meetups tab up top for our monthly Austin, TX meeting. Our websites have become the most valuable marketing tool for our businesses - period. Internet Marketing has turned traditional marketing and advertising on its ear. It is the 10,000 pound elephant …

Having trouble finishing your manuscript? Starting a term paper? Writing a long overdue love letter? Then this is the group for you! The Sit Down, Shut Up, and Write! Meetup is exactly what it sounds like: a venue for writers to start, continue, or finish written works. The Format: The "Sit Down" part: The first thirty minutes is reserved for introductions, chit-chat, purchasing food and drink, skimming writing books, exchanging ideas, yoga postures, Gregorian chants, or whatever gets you psyche …

In December of 2008 Photojournalist Kevin Vandivier founded TGOP and late 2010 Pulitzer Prize winning Photojournalist Skeeter Hagler joined Vandivier to help carry out the goals and vision that brought TGOP into existence. Both photographers bring years of incredible success in the field of photography to TGOP. Hagler began his career professionally in the early 1970's and over the years has won mutiple awards and has been published in many of the top magazines including National Geogr …

If you seek feedback on your writing from people other than adoring family and polite friends, and if you're willing to read and help other writers with constructive feedback, then this group is for you. At our meeting, member submissions are workshopped using the Milford model. - Manuscripts are distributed at least 2 weeks prior to the workshop. - Members provide editorial comments and general writing issues in the margins of the document and write a separate typewritten review. - Members mus …

Don't let the name fool you, we're a diverse group of writers who offer incredible critiques, workshops, monthly meetings, and advice on the craft of writing.

Hi there.  Welcome to Weird Austin Writers.  If you’re a writer but your goal is to be an author...this is your place.  Whatever a writer writes is art from the mind.  We're a talented group who like getting and giving feedback for manuscripts. This group is all about helping writers write better and get published. This Group will be doing: 2 Read, Workshop, and Chat meetups per month 1 Brainstorming session to get feedback on pre-manuscript ideas 1 Book Review session, where you talk about b …

If you are a woman who wants to write, who does write, who did write and wants to again, who has only wished you could write, you now have a group of like-minded ladies. You will be ready to give and get feedback with the feminine viewpoint from women who understand the issues important to women, who can give encouragement and support and who empathize with the practice of writing by and for women. Whatever your reasons for writing--for publication, for memoir writing, for self discovery, to lea …

If you write website copy, articles for newspapers or magazines, nonfiction ebooks, or any other form of creative nonfiction, the Austin Roundtable is your group for networking and critique. We’ve all felt the stress of wanting to impress a new client, wanting to kick off a new column with a bang, or wanting to launch an eyeball-grabbing website. You’re welcome to bring along printed copies of your nonfiction work to share for instant critique or spend the networking with other writers so you ca …

A writing group for the early birds or wannabe early birds who aspire to get some writing done in the early hours before the day everything. This is not an evaluation or critique meetup (necessarily), but just a shared commitment to starting the day with coffee, camaraderie and keystrokes. May it serve as a building block for your morning writing practice no matter what kind of writing you're doing. At this time there is one weekly meeting, Sunday morning. Saturdays and weekdays have been discus …

Looking for a community for others on the adventurous road of self-publishing fiction? This group will be whatever you need it to be, looking for beta readers? Please be willing to be one if asked. Need critique (personally this makes me cringe and I won't be asking) then bring your work and get feedback. Having problems with the technical side and need input hopefully all of that can be addressed. Want to have sessions of sit down, shut up and write? Done. I am also hoping to have an active mes …

Are you an aspiring writer, poet, novelist or other creative wordsmith seeking to find a group of like minded people to come together and encourage and help you feed and keep your muse? Have you been a writer for a long time now, and felt as though you've lost touch with that creative spark? Are you all too familiar with that dreaded literary monster known as "Writer's Block?" Or do you simply feel that you need more true friends, and people who are living the writer's life just as yourself and …

Want to start writing YA or love writing YA? North Austin YA Writers is a place for you! Our members get together to write and discuss our love of YA. We accept any type of YA writing ( non-fiction, fiction, sci-fi, supernatural, romance, mystery...etc...) We have meetings the 1st and 3rd Sundays of the month for our YA Focus Theme. Here we critique, discuss, and write YA! On the 2nd and 4th Sundays of the month we have a Pure Write meetings for our members where they can have a set time to writ …

The ECWG is a group dedicated to experimental methods of collective writing, with more productivity as our great goal. This is not a group for writing critiques, nor is it a discussion group. We will be dedicating our energies to writing production. Some writers may collaborate together on their own project, many others will write individually yet within the group. Are you in the midst of a writer's block, seeking methods to break free? Are you a writer who is also a social individual? Methods m …

From travel, landscapes, floral, lifestyle, and portrait images from around the world to your community, the professional World Photographic Training Team is now forming a College Station Meet Up photography opportunity. Your educational experience will be developed by leading instructors in the professional photographic industry. Doug Box and Randy Kerr have taught around the world in Professional Schools and conventions, and now offers special training programs regarding what the world enjoys …

This group is for artists working in painting - oil and acrylic (watercolor welcome). We will meet to share ideas, constructively critique one another's works, and to paint! We'll scout locations to organize plein air sessions, cityscape and landscape, and organize studio sessions for still life. I believe that you make the most progress as an artist when you share the creative experience with other skilled artists. See ya soon!

This is a group for people who would like to attend free workshops and critique groups for their creative writing. We will meet weekly to review and critique up to ten pages of your short story, flash fiction, novel chapter, poem, memoir, or essay. All you need to do is show up with 10 copies of your work, double-spaced. You or someone you select will read your work, and the other attendees will provide suggestions. We meet at a restaurant in Northeast San Antonio. You do not have to purchase a …