Our writing groups offer a supportive community of writers to come together to share ideas and give and receive feedback. Through regular interaction, the groups foster creativity, accountability, and growth, helping each member refine their voice and craft.
We now have SEVEN groups and continue to get requests for more! Are you interested in joining a writing group? Please read the information below and then fill out the short form at the bottom of this page.
Looking for our group for youth? You can find it here.
Morning Glories
With increasing interest for writing groups, a new group started in spring 2025. The group meets at the Writing Center on the second and fourth Thursday of each month. Members of this group write in all categories of prose and poetry.
Night Writers
The Night Writers writing group was started in 2023 to meet growing demand for a new group that met exclusively in the evening after traditional 9-5 work hours. It meets Wednesday evenings at the Writing Center, located at 1914 14th Ave. in Vero Beach.
Pen Points
Pen Points Writers invites writers of all genres to share their work with a workshop focus on writings shared with the group. Questions and ideas on publishing and marketing issues are part of discussion, as needed. Pen Points meets the second and fourth Tuesdays of the month at the North County Library in Sebastian from October through May. June through September meetings take place both in person and on Zoom.
Poet’s Corner
Looking for a more intensive poetry workshopping group? Poet’s Corner is for you. Workshop times are in the early evening on the first and third Thursday of each month at the Writing Center.
Porch Poets
The Porch Poets comprised our very first writing group! A dedicated community of local poets, they originally gathered together on the porch of Laura’s house. They meet on the second Saturday morning and fourth Thursday evening of every month at the Writing Center.
Tuesday Writers
Tuesday Writers is an adult writing group that meets every Tuesday afternoon. Our writers come prepared to workshop ongoing projects in order to gain valuable feedback on content, style, and mechanics. We welcome all skill levels, from novice beginners to published writers, as well as a variety of genres: poems, essays, memoirs, and creative nonfiction.
Writers Den
This new group has just been started in fall 2025 to meet continuing demand for groups that meet in the evening. Its goal is to be a safe space and catalyst for the writer within all of us, sharing our interests and experiences. We are using the National Writing Project foundation for our meetings, where we focus a portion of each meeting on a genre or skill of interest to the group, writing time, and reading time controlled entirely by the writer.
And a new resource for writing group members:
The Writing Life
The Writing Life is a bimonthly virtual get together that meets on the 2nd and 4th Wednesday of each month from 1:30-3:30 via Google Meet. Any LRJF member can attend in addition to another writing group they regularly participate in OR exclusively to this experience.
The first meeting of each month offers a Listening Lab, an opportunity for writers to come together, read their work aloud, and receive feedback from other writers. The second meeting of each month offers a Learning Lab, an opportunity for writers to come together and examine a shared topic of interest.
So You Want to Join a Writing Group!
Please complete the form so we can match you to one of our existing groups. We will follow up with you immediately to get you started!
Please note: ongoing participation in our writing groups requires membership in LRJF. Find out about membership options here.