Active and Growing in MetroWest Mass and Far Beyond!
Sometimes we write over Zoom together. Sometimes we meet up at libraries. We’ve been known to stay at haunted mansions, throw a mean potluck, sell our books at local author fairs, and post funny memes in our private community! Now matter how you like to engage, we’ve got a program for that!
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Private Discord Server and Circle.So Community
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Monthly Newsletter
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In-Person and Digital Write-ins
Classes taught by professional authors
Award-Winners, Bestsellers, authors recognized in Best of anthologies… Our instructors span genres and experience, delivering interesting and useful craft lessons for writers at every level!
Seasonal Programs to Keep You Iterating
While we’re best known for our 30-day November writing challenge, MetroGameO, we encourage revision and finishing work in the winter, journaling in the summer, quarterly cohort support groups that meet weekly, and even a book-in-a-year program for ambitious novelists.
Growing Publishing Authors
We’re the proud home of authors who are publishing books, getting short stories into paying markets, earning spots at local readings, and more! We also publish work by our authors through our own small press, Puddingstone Press.
Longform thoughts from the guild
Community Blog
Want to know more about what we’re up to? Read on!
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This Summer: Journal with the Guild!
Kyra Wilson Cook is the Founding Director of the MetroWest Writers’ Guild. (She’s still really busy, but finding her way back to blogging for the Guild.) To know New England in the summer time is to know seasonal, regional mass migration. The students leave–back to their hometowns in various states and countries, some already looking…
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We’re Still Here! (You’re in the right place!)
Kyra Wilson Cook is the Founding Director of the MetroWest Writers’ Guild. She’s also… really busy. And… maybe not as good with the tech as she thought she was. You can reach her at Kyra@metrowestwriters.org. Once upon a time, there was a woman who had two young kids who answered the call to head up…
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Actively Showing Up for Our Art
By L.M. Guiled How are you doing? Who else is finding that question harder and harder to answer? There is so much right now in our world that is heart wrenching, blatantly illegal or fueled by hate and cruelty. We are watching it, raising our voices protesting against it, and voting with our dollars. One…
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“One of the hardest things about writing is getting to the end knowing what I write will not be perfect. Even though ignoring my inner is challenging, the MetroWest Writers’ Guild surrounds me with community that encourages, motivates, and lifts me up as a writer, even when I don’t feel like one.”
Guild Writer
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