About
MWG Chapters
The Missouri Writers’ Guild has chapters throughout the state. Chapters meet regularly for members to share writing tips and ideas, listen to presentations by successful authors, learn about various genres of writing, and network with other writers and editors. Some chapters also offer readings and critique groups. In addition, many chapters offer special programs, such as writing workshops, public readings, contests, and anthologies. Find your region, and feel free to email the contact person OR check out their website. If you have any issues or questions, please email the MWG Board at president@missouriwritersguild.org
St. Louis Publishers Association
St. Louis Publishers Association: Empowering authors to publish, promote, and sell more books.
Founded in 1997, the St. Louis Publishers Association (SLPA) is a non-profit organization dedicated to empowering Midwestern authors, publishers, and industry professionals through networking, education, and marketing resources. It operates as an affiliate of the Independent Book Publishers Association (IBPA) and serves a diverse membership.
Columbia Writers Guild Missouri
The Columbia Chapter of the Missouri Writers’ Guild has served the writers of Central Missouri since 1959. We sponsor a variety of activities throughout the year to provide writers both the encouragement to keep writing and the opportunity to perfect their craft. This includes writing contests, challenges, open mic, critique sessions, intensive critique sessions for novelists, and genre round tables. Not the least of these is our annual anthology, Well Versed which has taken 1st and 2nd place in recent contests for Missouri-born anthologies.https://ccmwg.org/
We invite anyone who writes or wants to write to join in our efforts by becoming a member of the CCMWG. Our membership is diverse, representing many literary genres and levels of both ambition and accomplishment. Writers who want merely to write for their own enjoyment and self-expression are as welcome as those who regularly find publishers for their work.
Come and visit some of the activities detailed on these pages and join us in the promotion of the craft of writing in Central Missouri.
Information about our next meetings will be found on the Meetings page, as well as our upcoming Conference in partnership with Mizzou Publishing called Show Me Writers: Masterclass.
Rubidoux Writers Society Waynesville, Missouri
We are a group of local writers, authors, editors, and publishers interested in encouraging, sharing, and learning about the writing industry.
Boonville
Boonslick Creative Writers Group
Cape Girardeau
Southeast Missouri Writers’ Guild (SMWG) is now in its ninth year as a chapter of Missouri Writers Guild. Holding monthly meetings from January-September, they bring in speakers from all facets of the writing and publishing world. Members are writers in all genres and include already published and aspiring authors. Everyone age high-school to adult is welcome to join.
This year, SMWG is joining forces with Heartland Writers Guild to plan their first-ever combined anthology.
Hannibal
Hannibal Writers Guild: Ryan Patrick Freeman, President.
Website: More information available on their Facebook page.
Joplin
Joplin Writers Guild: Chanin Bissinger, President. Email for more info: Larry Wood at lewood_46@hotmail.com
Website: https://missouriwritersguild.org/joplin-writers-guild/
Marshall
Marshall Writers’ Guild: Sidney West Sullivan, President. Email for more information: s1dney@sullivansfarms.net
Maryville
Maryville Chapter: Amy Houts, contact person. Email for more information: amysase@gmail.com
Springfield
Website: https://springfieldwritersguild.org/
St. Louis Writers’ Guild
Founded in 1920 St. Louis Writers Guild was founded by members of Missouri Writers Guild who wanted to meet more than twice a year. Sam Hellman, a newspaper columnist and screenwriter, hosted the first meeting as president. About thirty people attended a presentation about novels at the home of SLWG’s 2nd President, Shirley Seifert.
By the end of the decade, St. Louis Writers Guild was one of the preeminent writers organizations in the Midwest. In 1935, a young Tennessee Williams won the short story contest with Stella for Star, he won $10. In the 1940’s and 1950’s SLWG held a great yearly writers conference. Each year the Mayor would be the keynote speaker.
Since the mid-2000s SLWG has grown to its largest membership ever, and has expanded programing, benefits, and opportunities for its members. SLWG still holds on to that core belief that we are an organization of writers sitting back in those living rooms trying to help one another.
Website: http://www.stlwritersguild.org/
St. Peters
Saturday Writers: 100+ members strong. Jeffrey Czuchna, President. Email for more information: info@saturdaywriters.org