🌈 Welcome to The Writing Rainbow, Queerolina's brand new writing critique group! Local writers and poets across all genres can join us for lively discussions, creative feedback, and a community that encourages you to shine your brightest! ✍️✨

Registration is now open for January.

When registering, you’ll be prompted to submit a brief (<2,100 words) essay, story, poem, excerpt, or other written work on this month’s theme: new beginnings. On December 29th, you’ll receive all other writers’ submissions and have two weeks to read, critique, and prepare feedback for each work.

Every meeting starts with a warm-up free write, followed by a lecture or discussion on the topic of the month. In January, we’ll be talking about the qualities of constructive critique and how to provide and deliver helpful feedback. After the discussion, we’ll then share the feedback we’ve prepared.

Our goal is to create a engaging community of queer and queer-friendly writers to support one another’s work, lift each other’s voices, and help each of us grow as writers. Allies and questioning are welcome here - there is no “queer enough” test to belong!