Writers
Organizations
AUSTIN
INTERNATIONAL POETRY FESTIVAL (AIPF),
from academic poets in Anchorage to folk poets in Zambia,
AIPF draws poets from every continent for its April
festivities, and is the largest non-juried poetry festival
in the world. Live poetry for three days, make friends
with a poet in Sri Lanka and submit your poetry to the
AIPF anthology, di-verse-city, for a chance to win the
Christina Sergeyevna Award.
ASSOCIATED
WRITING PROGRAMS (AWP) -- Membership organization
offers job listings, conference listings, and The Writer's
Chronicle newsletter.
AUTHORS
GUILD -- Membership organization for published
writers offers a contract-review service, bulletin,
and legal advice.
BAY
AREA WRITERS LEAGUE -- The Bay Area Writers
League is an organization, founded in 1987, of writers
in the Galveston Bay area near Johnson Space Center.
COWTOWN CRIME SOLVERS
-- PO Box 100223, Fort Worth, TX 76185, For information
email info@countrydaytravel.com
DALLAS
AREA ROMANCE AUTHORS
(Dallas) -- AngiPlatt@aol.com
DALLAS FORT WORTH
AREA SCREENWRITERS WORKSHOP -- DFWW_Workshop@comcast.net
DALLAS
SCREENWRITERS ASSOCIATION , 10455 N. Central
Expwy #109 PMB 295, Dallas, TX 75231, 214-922-7829,
dallasscreenwriters@yahoo.com
DFW
WRITERS' WORKSHOP (Euless) offers a friendly,
supportive environment for experienced and beginning
writers in all genres and types of writing. Meets Wednesday
nights at 7 PM.
EDITORIAL
FREELANCERS SERVICE
FORT
BEND WRITERS GUILD -- an active Houston writers
group with weekly meetings are held every Monday
FORT WORTH FREELANCE WRITERS NETWORK -- an organization
located in Fort Worth, Texas, dedicated to the creation,
support, and development of professional writers.
GEMINI
INK (San Antonio) -- a regional organization
that nurtures writers and readers and builds community
through literature and the related arts. Gemini's programs
include four components: University
Without Walls, Writers
in Communities, Dramatic
Reader's Theater, and The
Autograph Series, free readings by internationally
respected authors produced each spring and fall.
INTERNATIONAL
WOMEN'S WRITING GUILD -- a network for
the empowerment of women through writing.
IRVING
WRITERS CONNECTION (Irving) meets for a critique session
the second Monday of every month, at 7 PM at Barnes & Noble, 3634 Irving Mall
MYSTERY
WRITERS OF AMERICA (NATIONAL GROUP),
MYSTERY
WRITERS OF AMERICA/ SOUTHWEST REGION meets
the third Saturday of most months, with the exception
of July, August and December at noon at the Doubletree
Guest Suites Hotel, 5353 Westheimer, in the Galleria
area of Houston. The meeting includes a luncheon, followed
by a speaker from law enforcement, forensics, editing,
publishing, or a successful author.. For information
on the current speaker and to make reservations, call
713.797.8464. MWA/SW members also meet monthly in Dallas
and New Orleans.
NATIONAL
LEAGUE OF AMERICAN PEN WOMEN -- made up
of women who have demonstrated creative talents in art,
letters, and music composition. There are Pen Women
branches throughout the United States. In some states,
there are state associations of affiliated branches.
NATIONAL
WRITERS UNION, -- a union that advocates for
writers.
NORTH
EAST/NORTH CENTRAL TEXAS CHAPTER OF SCBWI (Society
of Children's Book Writers and Illustrators) -- The
North Central/Northeast Texas Chapter of SCBWI is an
affiliate of the Society of Children's Book Writers
& Illustrators
NORTH
TEXAS (BEDFORD) PROFESSIONAL WRITERS ASSOCIATION, PO
Box 563, Bedford, TX 76095-0563, Contacts trich@flash.net
and EKurecka@aol.com
NORTH
TEXAS ROMANCE WRITERS (Denton), 2009 Emmerson
Ln., Denton, TX 76201-1315
NORTH
TEXAS SPECULATIVE FICTION WORSKHOP (North Richland
Hills) Meets every second at the North Richland
Hills Barnes & Noble at 4 PM, free & open to
all SF/F/H writers, including beginning and experienced
writers.
POETRY
IN THE ARTS (Austin) -- Poetry in the Arts produces
a monthly poetry reading at the Austin History Center,
and engages in manifold promotional and support activities
for the literary arts, including a commitment to development
of its Poet
& Writer Resources pages: extensive,
freely accessible meta indexes of publishers, literary
competitions, literary archives and other poet and writer
resources. We also welcome submissions of poetry, prose,
art and music for our online journal, Ardent!
POETRY
SOCIETY OF AMERICA, -- Membership organization
that offers seminars, readings, awards, and a newesletter.
Sponsors Poetry in Motion.
ROMANCE
WRITERS OF AMERICA (NATIONAL GROUP)
SISTERS
IN CRIME -- (NATIONAL GROUP)
SISTERS IN CRIME (INTERNET
CHAPTER)
SMALL
PUBLISHERS ASSOCIATION OF NORTH AMERICA --
SOCIETY FOR TECHNICAL COMMUNICATION (DALLAS
CHAPTER)
PO Box 515065, Dallas, TX, 75251-5065
TEXAS
COUNCIL OF TEACHERS OF ENGLISH,
TEXAS
INSTITUTE OF LETTERS
TEXAS
LIBRARY ASSOCIATION
TEXAS
NON-FICTION WRITERS - An interactive online community
committed to encouraging interest and excellence in
Texas non-fiction. Their online articles, forums, contests,
member contributions and other features make an entirely
new kind of writers' group-one that lets you hear from
(and talk to) other writers when and how you want.
TEXAS
STATE READING ASSOCIATION,
THE
WRITER'S GARRET
PO Box 140530, Dallas, TX 75214-0530
214-828-1715
TRINITY
WRITERS WORKSHOP
7520 Brockwood Ct., North Richland Hills, TX 76180
Contact: Arlene Pineo, 282-8172
WOODLANDS
WRITERS GUILD
WORDSPACE
(DALLAS), Contact info and our programming
season are all available on the organization'swebsite
WRITER'S GUILD OF AMERICA -- Offers a
writers registry for the protection of ideas, at http://www.wgaeast.org
or http://www.wga.org | 
