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Maryland Writers Groups
The Maryland Writers’ Association is aimed at writers from a variety of disciplines. This not-for-profit group has chapters in a variety of places including Annapolis, Baltimore, and Howard County.
The Society of Children’s Book Writers and Illustrators has a Maryland branch, located in Westminster.
The Eastern Shore Writers’ Association welcomes writers of all kinds, but the journalist set is well represented here. Members past and current have been published in Time, Newsweek, People, Parade and many others.
The City Lit Project is a Baltimore-based operation that organizes literary events, workshops for writers and features a poets and authors bureau.
Creative Alliance is a Baltimore group showcasing talent of all kinds including writers. The group offers seminars and workshops for writers, but focuses on performing arts such as writing for the stage, songwriting and related disciplines.
Fire & Ink has a very specific focus and demographic–this Maryland writers group concentrates on supporting gay, lesbian, bisexual and transgender writers of African descent or heritage. Fire & Ink supports writers through a variety of activities including publishing.
Gunpowder Pen Women is the Harford County, MD branch of the National League of Pen Women.
The Harford Poetry and Literary Society calls itself an informal group, meeting weekly to read, critique and discuss writing, literature and poetry.
