Long Project Check-in Each Long Project check-in opens with a quick writing exercise to help you frame, or re-frame your project; or to articulate roadblocks. Most of the session consists of a round-robin style discussion in which participants may talk about thier process, ask for, and recieve feedback from the group. At the end of […]

Write Now: Community Supported Writing Group PorchLight's Write Now Writer's Group provides community, and learning opportunities for beginning to intermediate writers. At our monthly meeting, we share short craft lessons, generate writing from prompts, and, on occasion, provide responses to participants' work in progress. Writers working in any genre are welcome. This is a great group for […]

Free Gen February with Megan Lederman Co-sponsored by PorchLight and Iowa City Poetry, the Free Generative Writing Workshops provide a space for career writers, curious beginners, writers of all income levels and stages of life. Our goal is to make it easy to meet and learn from some of the most talented writer/teachers living in […]

Queer Writers' Check In Similar to our Long Project Check In, this group is for queer writers looking to build literary community together. Each session will include free writing, discussion of works in progress, and general literary support. Occasionally, there will be guests and opportunities for trading work.

Poetry Exchange Porchlight's low-pressure poetry workshop group! Participants should send one poem for workshop at least one week in advance of the gathering. Every participant should read each submission before the meeting and come prepared to share their thoughts during the meeting. Someone other than the writer will read the poem first, then the writer.   […]

Flash Forward is PorchLight's new monthly studio session for writers interested in flash fiction (stories between 5 and 1,500 words.) Group members may volunteer to lead the first half of each session, sharing works of flash they admire, and offering generative prompts or insights drawn from those pieces. All sessions will include generative writing time […]