Physical Entities—Writers' Centers and Commercial Writing Schools

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An alternative reference is the Association of Writing Programs Writers' Centers and Conferences Index. It lists members by region and provides links to the Web sites. The list is limited to member organizations

1. Amherst Writers & Artists (Amherst, MA) For twenty-three years it has offered creative writing workshops and retreats for both established and beginning writers in affiliated workshops across the U.S. Now they are also offered in Ireland, Mexico, Peru, and on the Isle of Iona.
   
   
2. The Attic - (Portland, OR) Offers writer's workshops for small groups.
   
   
3. Asian American Writers' Workshop - (NYC) Provides information about workshops and writer development and advancement events.
   
   
4. Bay Area Fiction Workshop - (San Francisco, CA) Michelle Richmond offers fiction writing workshops that cover characterization, dialogue, and point of view.
   
   
5. Boston Screenwriting Workshop - (Boston, MA) Offers classes for beginning to professional screenwriters in the New England area.
   
   
6. Boston West Writing and Photography - (Wayland, MA) Lists of workshops and services in writing, photography, and publishing offered in the Boston area.
   
   
7. Brand New Writers - Information on London (England) area workshops, a writing guide, a feedback forum for submitted work and other features.
   
   
8. Cave Canem - (NYC and Minneapolis -St. Paul, MN) Committed to the discovery and cultivation of new voices in African American poetry, Cave Canem's program includes an annual summer workshop/retreat, regional workshops, a first book prize, annual anthologies, and readings and events in major cities around the United States.
   
   
9. Centauri Arts - (Kawarthas, Canada) Residential Creative Writing or Fine Arts Courses. Each course includes structured daily workshops as well as one-on-one.
   
   
10. Children's Authors Bootcamp - (Denver, CO and Ft. Lauderdale, FL) Traveling two-day workshops for children's book writers presented by children's writing experts Laura Backes and Linda Arms White.
    
    
11. Clarity Works Writing Classes and Coaching - (Asheville, NC) Writing teacher helps each student free her or his writing voice. In this container — whether it's a class, workshop, retreat or individual session — each person feels nurtured and safe, allowing her to risk revealing the complexity and fullness of her experience—her story. Held in Asheville, North Carolina plus online.
    
    
12. *The Complete Creative Writing Course* - (London, England - GB) A series of creative writing courses offered in ten two-hour sessions at London's Groucho Club.
    
    
13. Create a Kids' Book - (Melbourne, AU) Delightful website for writers of children's books. Holds regular monthly workshops in Victoria, Australia. Also offers manuscript assessment service for children's books.
    
    
14. Creative Journal Writing and Journaling - (Santa Fe, NM) Offers creative journaling courses and one-on-one sessions.
    
    
15. Creative Journeys - Writing Workshops for Women - (Nehalem, OR) Writers' retreats and resources women writers in a small group setting. Techniques and exercises designed to bring your stories to life.
    
    
16. *Creative Writing Courses in France* - (Europe) Offers creative Writing courses at the Hotel Victor Hugo in St. Cere, France. 
    
    
17. Creativity Workshop - (NY City; Crete; Florence, IT; Provence, FR; Barcelona, SP; Prague,CK; Paris, FR; Dublin, IE; Venice; IT) Helps develop the creative process through memoir, creative writing, visual arts and storytelling exercises. Helps to expand perception and find ways of looking at one's life and work as exciting and transformative.
    
    
18. Elizabeth Ayers Center for Creative Writing - (Montauk, NY, Abiquiu, NM and on-line) Offers writing workshops, writing retreats, fiction workshops, and poetry workshops.
    
    
19. *Fire in the Head creative writing programme* - (UK - Dartmoor in Devon, Cornwall, Scotland and the Isle of Iona, Spain) Creative writing courses based on the idea of 'whole person' writing, with emphasis on the imagination and creative expression.
    
    
20. *Gemini Ink* - (San Antonio, TX) An independent, nonprofit literary center offering three components: University Without Walls, Dramatic Reader's Theater, and Writers in Communities.
    
    
21. Grub Street, Inc. - (Boston, MA) Founded by writers for writers, Grub Street is Boston's only independent writing center. Our goal is to help writers with all aspects of the writing life, from finding inspiration to marketing a finished work. Grub Street offers high-quality workshops, events and professional development opportunities for writers of all levels.
    
    
22. *Idyllwild Arts* - ( Idyllwild, CA) A private arts high school & summer camp. Offers music, dance, theatre, visual arts, filmmaking & creative writing.
    
    
23. Information for Writers and Authors - (GB) Extracts and details of creative writing courses in GB, an online writer's workshop and other features.
    
    
24. Inkberry - (North Adams, MA) Offers writing workshops, a reading series and writing resources. Inkberry is an independent nonprofit organization dedicated to fostering the literary arts in and around Berkshire County. Massachusetts.
    
    
25. Inprint Inc. - (Houston, TX) NPO that works to support the writers of the Houston literary community through grants, workshops, and readings.
    
    
26. In the Company of Poets - (Philadelphia, PA) Offers Poetry classes and workshops.
    
    
27. Liberato - (Gibberd, Polsted, Leiston, UK; Greece ) Writing courses and editing services. Courses, critiques and workshops offered through a postal critique, a Polstead weekend, a Greek week (or two), a Leiston week or a day spent in the unique surroundings of the Gibberd Garden.
    
    
28. The Loft Literary Center - (Minneapolis -St. Paul, MN) The Loft Literary Center is the nation\'s largest independent literary center, offering classes, grants, programs, and publications for readers and writers at every stage of their career and development.
    
    
29. Log Cabin Literary Center - (Boise, ID) - A nonprofit membership organization. The mission of the Log Cabin Literary Center is to inspire and celebrate a love of reading, writing and discourse. Our existence strives to encompass the entire writing process, from developing students’ reading and writing proficiency to honing seasoned writers’ technical and creative expertise.
    
    
30. Manitoba Writers' Guild - (Winnepeg, MB, Canada) A nonprofit organization that offers a number of services and programs for writers.
    
    
31. Midwest Writers Workshop - (Muncie, IN) Scheduled workshops and summer workshop for aspiring and accomplished writers features sessions on mystery, romance, children's, poetry, fiction, non-fiction.
    
    
32. Monte Sol Workshop - (Santa Fe, NM) Summer writing workshop for high school students.
    
    
33. Mountain Writers Series - (Portland, OR) Readings, lectures, discussions, workshops.
    
    
34. New Zealand Book Council - Offers information on Book News, Writers in Schools, Trans-Tasman Exchange, Book Group Resources, Words on Wheels, Book Events, Events, Calendar, Literary Tourism, Book Awards, Writing Courses, 'How To' Pages, and Book Links.
    
    
35. *Nuestra Palabra* - Nuestra Palabra's Master of Fine Arts Initiative is a 5 year program designed to groom 20 Latino Applicants per year for creative writing programs across the country.
    
    
36. Providence Writing Parlour - (Providence, RI) The Providence Writing Parlour addresses writers at all skill levels. Structure, guidance and deadlines provided by a writing class motivate each writer's development.
    
    
37. *St. David's Christian Writers Conference* - (Beaver Falls, PA) St. David's is a 44-year-old educational retreat for writers who are serious about their craft.
    
    
38. San Diego Writers Cooperative - (San Diego, CA) Writer support group that provides info on classes, events, and workshops of interest to writers of fiction, non-fiction, and poetry.
    
    
39. *South Australian Writers Centre*  - (Adelaide, Australia) Provides a list of writers groups in southern Australia.
    
    
40. Wordharvest Writers Workshops (Santa Fe, NM) We offers day-long writing workshops in poetry, fiction and non-fiction, the annual Tony Hillerman Writers Conference: Focus on Mystery, and an annual short story contest. All our faculty are published authors who like to teach; most are New Mexicans.
    
    
41. WorldCrafters Guild School of Professional Fiction Writing - (Seattle, WA) Offers free professional writing school and paid workshops.
    
    
42. Writer's Center - ( Bethesda, MD) designed to encourage the creation and distribution of contemporary literature. Activities include workshops, exhibits, publications, readings and conferences.
    
    
43. The Writing Center at Colorado State University - (Fort Collins, CO) Creative writing courses and workshops.
    
    
44. Writers' Center of Indiana - (Indianapolis, IN) A community-based literary arts organization aiming to develop an appreciative audience in Indiana.
    
    
45. Writers' League of Texas - (Austin, TX) Provides educational and technical assistance to writers from beginning to professional, and, as the Texas Commission on the Arts' Statewide Service Organization, the primary agency to handle literary grants on TCA's behalf.
    
    
46. Writers in the Mountains - (Roxbury, NY) A writer's group in the Western Catskills (Delaware County, NY) offering workshops and classes in journaling, playwriting, poetry, and more.
    
    
47. Writers Retreats - (Colorado and Mexico) Offers a range of coursework and literary services and short residency workshops.
    
    
48. The Writers Studio - (NY City) Offers continuous 10-week beginning and advanced workshops in fiction and poetry, online classes, and private tutorials.
    
    
49. The Writers Workshop - (Seattle, WA) Online and oncampus writing program specializing in creative nonfiction, narrative nonfiction, literary journalism, nonfiction books, memoir and short stories.
    
    
50. The Writers' Workshop - (Asheville NC) The Writers' Workshop offers year-round classes in fiction, poetry, nonfiction, journalism, and screenwriting.
    
    
51. WritingClasses.com - (NYC) Gotham Writers Workshop. Writing classes and other services.
    
    
52. The Writing Salon - (San Francisco, CA) Year-round school of creative writing classes. Fiction, poetry, personal essays, memoirs, screenwriting, playwriting, and magazine writing. Nine and five-week courses; also one-day workshops.
    
    
53. Young Writers Workshop - (Gt. Barrington, MA) Workshop on using informal, playful expressive writing as a way to strengthen skills of language and thinking.