Chicago Writing Conferences, Retreats and Writing Groups

Chicago Writing Conferences

Let’s Just Write! An Uncommon Writers Conference

 

Northwestern Summer Writers’ Conference

 

 

Writing Groups

Chicago Dramatists

Chicago-North Chapter of Romance Writers of America

https://chicagonorthrwa.org/

Chicago Screenwriters Network

https://www.chicagoscreenwriters.org/

Chicago Women in Publishing

https://www.cwip.org/

Chicago Writers Association

https://www.chicagowrites.org/resources

DuPage Writing Group

https://dupagewriters.wordpress.com/

Evanston Writers Workshop

http://www.evanstonwritersworkshop.org/

For Love of Writing (FLOW)

https://flowauthors.com/

Horror Writers Association Chicago Chapter (a.k.a. Chicago Horror Writers)

http://www.hwachicago.org/

Illinois State Poetry Society

http://www.illinoispoets.org/

Independent Writers of Chicago

https://iwoc.wildapricot.org/

Meetup (Community building platform that lists writing groups among others.)

https://www.meetup.com/cities/us/il/chicago/writing/

Midwest Writers Association

http://www.midwestwriters.com/

Naperville Writers Group

https://napervillewritersgroup.org/

Off Campus Writers Workshop

https://ocwwinfo7333.wildapricot.org/

Poets and Patrons

https://www.poetsandpatrons.net/

Sisters in Crime Chicago Chapter

https://www.sincchicago.com/index.html

Teen Writers and Artists Project

https://www.twaap.org/

The Chicago Poetry Center

https://www.poetrycenter.org/

The Illinois Woman’s Press Association

https://www.iwpa.org/

The Society of Midland Authors

https://midlandauthors.com/

The Writers’ Loft

http://www.thewritersloft.com/

Windy City Chapter of Romance Writers of America

http://www.windycityrwa.org/

Write by Night

https://www.writebynight.net/illinois/

Writer’s Studio at the University of Chicago

https://grahamschool.uchicago.edu/academic-programs/liberal-arts/writers-studio

Young Chicago Authors

https://youngchicagoauthors.org/