🌈 Welcome to The Writing Rainbow, Queerolina's 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 for February is now open.

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: Groundhog Day. On January 26th, 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 (the romance genre, amatonormativity, and found family). 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!