Welcome! This is writing/critique group dedicated strictly to novelists (sorry, other genres are great but our focus is on novels) serious about becoming professional writers. If you have a finished novel or a work in progress and you'd like to engage in constructive feedback in a non-threatening environment, then this is your group. We're open to all genres of fiction, but I personally would love to have more writer's of women's fiction join as this is my main focus. Whatever genre you …

A place for writing professionals to connect, find and give encouragement, support each other's goals and set new ones.  Walter Wellesley "Red" Smith said "there's nothing to writing. All you do is sit down at a typewriter and open a vein." Perhaps true. As happy many of us are to 'go it alone,' however, support and camaraderie of others who speak a similar language can't hurt. WPLA caters to novelists, journalists, bloggers, poets and other writers who take their craft and career in writing ser …

… Our membership is as varied as our guest speaker list, which includes movie screenwriters and directors, television writers, video game & comic book writers, novelists, agents, managers, professors, career experts, accountants, and more.