Free monthly meetings at Portishead Library: writers’ group and Bring Your Own Book. View meeting times
WritersGroup community

Writing is easier when you’re not doing it entirely alone.

The WritersGroup community is growing through daily prompts, online Writing Rooms, Saturday retreats, Portishead meetings, reading conversations, and occasional updates for writers who want to keep going.

What it’s for

A place to keep writing and reading from becoming too solitary.

The community side of WritersGroup.co.uk is there to help you stay connected to the work: writing, reading, sharing progress, asking useful questions, and finding a way back in when you’ve drifted.

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Writing alongside others

Online Writing Rooms and Saturday retreats give you structured time, light accountability, and the useful sense that other people are also getting on with their work.

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Reading and discussion

Bring Your Own Book and future reading resources give you a way to talk about books without being handed homework or forced through a set text.

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Prompts, tools, and updates

Daily prompts, writing tools, resources, and occasional updates help you start, restart, or return to a piece of work without making the whole thing overcomplicated.

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What kind of community?

Useful, friendly, and realistic.

The community should help writers and readers make steady progress in their own work.

Good questions
Questions about writing, reading, process, structure, research, feedback, sessions, and useful next steps.
Small progress
Updates, prompts, short extracts by agreement, and the ordinary business of just getting down to it.
Respectful discussion
No spamming, no pressure to read huge extracts, and no pretending everyone has limitless time.
Join in

Start with the list, a prompt, or a session.

Join the WritersGroup list for updates as new Writing Rooms, prompts, tools, resources, events, and ways to take part are added.