Celebrating the Written Word

Winter Is Coming!

Write with us. What better way to spend the chilly season?

Our winter workshop session has classes for aspiring through advanced writers. For beginners, try our new Beginning Your Mystery 4-week virtual workshop with three-time Agatha Award nominee, Mally Becker. Or join us for Beginning Memoir in Madison, NJ with Liz Alterman and in Verona, NJ, with Jean Edelstein

If you’ve got works-in-progress in any genre, our Adult Writers Circles are the perfect place to get constructive feedback and the support you need. Writing poetry, short stories, books for children or YA? We’ve got those workshops, too

And our Youth Workshops inspire young writers (and non-writers!) from grades 3 to 12 in person and online. 

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Winter Solstice Candlelight WriteSPECIAL EVENT: Winter Solstice Candlelight Write

Sunday, December 21, 4:30 PM

Join The Writers Circle for an evening of creative writing prompts, inspiring readings, sharing, and community lit by (electric) candlelight to celebrate the longest night of the year.

Our last special event of 2025!

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2025 Winter Retreat The Co-CoWinter Mini-Retreat: January 11

Get cozy with your writing in our one-day winter retreat.

Write in the casual comfort of The Co-Co in convenient, downtown Summit, NJ.

Join us for creativity-sparking prompts & craft sessions, writing project planning & goal-setting, and plenty of time to write throughout the day.

Tuition includes breakfast and lunch.

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Writing is a Gift

The Writers Circle’s gift cards are the perfect choice for the writer in your life. Good for our workshops, events, even private book coaching and editing.

What better way to make a writer smile? 

 


On the Blog

What Every Writer Can Steal From Crime Fiction

What Every Writer Can Steal From Crime Fiction

Mally Becker is the award-winning author of the Revolutionary War mysteries, including The Turncoat’s Widow, The Counterfeit Wife, and The Paris Mistress. She was an attorney until happily trading in her law license to become a full-time writer. Here she talks about secrets, suspense, stakes,…

Writers Let Creativity Take Flight at Autumn Retreat

Writers Let Creativity Take Flight at Autumn Retreat

Almost 30 writers from around New Jersey gathered at Lord Stirling Park in Basking Ridge, on Sunday, Oct. 26, for The Writers Circle annual Autumn Mini-Retreat.  The day opened with a welcome and words of inspiration from TWC Co-Directors Judith Lindbergh and Michelle Cameron.  “If…

Liz Alterman: How One Memoir Class Changed Everything

Liz Alterman: How One Memoir Class Changed Everything

Liz Alterman is the author of the award-winning memoir, Sad Sacked, the young adult thriller, He’ll Be Waiting, the suspense novels The Perfect Neighborhood, The House on Cold Creek Lane, and You Shouldn’t Have Done That, as well as the romcom Claire Casey’s Had Enough. Here,…

Mike Allegra: KidLit ‘Gives My Imagination Permission to Run Wild’

Mike Allegra: KidLit ‘Gives My Imagination Permission to Run Wild’

Mike Allegra is the author of 18 books for children and has taught at The Writers Circle for over six years. As a teacher, Mike helps kids, teens, and adults fall in love with creative writing, and express their voices on the page. Here, he…

Instructor Wisdom from April Darcy

Instructor Wisdom from April Darcy

Prize-winning writer April Darcy brings joy and wisdom to her writing students, even when pushing them through the super-intensive NaNoWriMo (National Novel Writing Month) each November.    Her latest fiction can be found in Water~Stone Review and in Shenandoah, where she received the Shenandoah River Fiction Prize. Her…