The following events in April are FREE TO ALL WRITERS
in Connecticut and Westchester, and will take place on Zoom.
To attend, you must have a meeting number and password for the specific event.
Register below by using the contact form.
First Page First Friday April 3, Noon to 1:30 p.m. Getting ready to pitch an agent, editor or publication? Or just want to hear yourself read your piece? Bring the first page of your chapter, query, story, etc. Read it aloud and get feedback from other writers.
Monday Morning Mixers Mondays in April 8-9 a.m. Bring your coffee. Share your writing goals for the day or the week. Try to reach them later on.
Writing to Prompts/Fiction Tuesdays, 2-3 p.m. We write together, apart. We give a prompt. You write like mad for 15 minutes. And then we do it again and again. Or, you ignore the prompt and just take part in the creativity frenzy!
Fourth Friday Happy Hour April 24, 5-6 p.m. Mix your favorite beverage and meet some new writer friends. It's a great way to connect while social distancing!
Writing Me(moir) Wednesday, April 8, 12:30-2 p.m. Memoirists, personal essayists and more share your work, your ideas, your challenges and your lunch in this informal, writer-led gathering.
What's Cooking? Writing Moms/Dads meet up. Thursday, April 9, 5-6 p.m. Writing parents: Share your challenges and your goals. Yes, while you're making dinner.
Weekly Write-Ins Wednesdays, 9-10:30 a.m.; Sundays, 3-4:30 p.m. Introduce yourself in one sentence without a lot of punctuation, state your writing goal in one sentence without a lot of punctuation, and then write!
Plotters Tuesday, April 14, noon to 1:30. Fiction writers: Bring your ideas, your work, your challenges and your lunch and gather with your brethren to discuss your pieces.
Midnight Madness Sundays, 10:15 p.m. to midnight. Introduce yourself in a sentence or two. State your writing goal. And then get to work!
Freelancer Fridays, 8-9 a.m. Want to swap contacts? Complain about your editors? Share best strategies? Solve a problem? This is the place to do it.
Literary Game Night, Thursday, April 16. 7-9 p.m. A Lab favorite.Your host, writer and Lab member Evan Pagano, presents a rousing evening of trivia, charades and more -- all centered around books and authors and all things books, from classics to contemporary. You'll laugh so hard your face will hurt.