Welcome to your writing community!

Willamette Writers is an in-person and online writing community of over 6,000 writers. Near or far, wherever you are, if you’re looking for critique partners, professional workshops, networking opportunities or new writing friends, we’re here to help as we have been since 1965.

FilmLab Writer’s Room, photo by Kate Ristau

Find Your Community

Whether you are online or in-person, you will connect to your community at Willamette Writers. Check out our events calendar for more information on craft workshops, networking events, and critique meetups.

Photo by Kate Ristau
Niyyah Ruscher-Haqq, photo by Kate Ristau

Develop Your Craft

Need help refining that draft? Reviewing that poem? Editing that script? Willamette Writers invites you to our free and open to the public writing workshops and drop-in critiques to develop your craft.

Agent and Kim
Kim Johnson with her literary agent, Jennifer March Soloway. Photo by Gail Pasternack

Expand Your Career

From first words to book twelve, we are a community of writers and industry professionals supporting each other’s writing lives. Get the help you need to advance your career this year with WW.



What’s coming up at Willamette Writers

“Willamette Writers is a great bunch of supportive and engaging people.”

Tom Witherspoon
Milwaukie, OR

“I love this community!”

Phoenix Bourgeois
Portland, OR
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