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Journal Club is an open table, freestyle visual art group for journaling, sketching, designing, writing and creating memories through the artistic process. Filling the pages of an empty journal can be intimidating to anyone. By showing others my current journal full of drawings, poems, collected items, coffee stains and more, I can encourage others to record their experiences in their own way and with their own voice. During journal club we will explore the ideas of what could be included in a journal and how to structure each page and other creative strategies will be discussed. 

This ongoing monthly meeting of writers of SciFi/Fantasy/Horror & Paranormal is free and open to the public. Meetings include a variety of activities decided upon by the members. If you are interested in joining this group please contact us. 

Looking for a community of writers or just want to get some writing done? This is the writers' group for you! Join us on the FIRST and THIRD Saturday of each month. Bring your laptop or your notebook or your stone and chisel and be ready to write! 

Nebraska Writers Collective Presents a monthly Poetry Slam in Lincoln! 

 A P.E.E.R.group is four or to six writers who, bi-weekly, meet to:

 Present - a selection of three or four pages of their work that they would like the others to review for a specific purpose like character development, typos, flow, description, spelling, forward movement, arc of the story, etc.

Edit – with red ink as suggestions, on the presenter’s distributed copies. Once done the copies are returned to the original writer for private consideration, off site. Review should not be made while still in the working group, to avoid hurt feelings and conflict.

Encourage – each writer whose work was just edited. Compliment one another. Nobody likes criticism, and we all have feelings that can be hurt, so use gentle questions and suggestions to elicit improvement in your peer’s writing.

Review – of your edited pages should be done later, in private. For participation in this group to be worth your time, seriously consider your peer’s edits. Not all of their suggestions will feel right. But, sleep on their ideas, adapt what makes sense, and move on to write another three or four pages.