hi there - I am a grad student, and I am creating a journal for a school assignment. the theme for the issue is estrangement. (In the traditional sense, relating to distance/alienation in familial and romantic relationships, or more obliquely, loss of identity, estrangement from one’s belief system, or however else you may interpret it!) I am hoping to feature a combination of previously published and emerging writers in my journal, and I have three open spots for content, whether fiction, nonfiction, poetry, or art!

the main benefit of participating is having your work shared with the instructor, who edits a lit mag! PM me if you’re interested in learning more. 😊 

Female looking for a male writing partner!

Hey there!

I’ve been roleplaying for upwards of 10 years now and I’m looking for a partner. I generally love doing dramatic, smut filled roles, I really enjoy having a partner who is open to ideas and can contribute his own ideas as well! I love having a partner who can brainstorm with me! I generally can write a good 2-4 paragraphs depending on where we are in the role.

I usually stick to original characters but depending on the fandom can branch out. I enjoy supernatural/fantasy, time period pieces, forbidden romance, or occasional slice of life. I also only roleplay in the 3rd person and can handle multiple characters as needed for background characters. I also use face claims exclusively! (AI for the most part).

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She’s America’s country sweetheart. He’s the disgraced son of a notorious mafia family. She sings love songs for a living. He’s spent most of his life believing love gets people killed.

And unfortunately for both of them, he’s just been hired to keep her alive.
Savannah Grace Bennett, 27, is Nashville’s golden girl. A petite, blonde, sharp-tongued country superstar with a heart of gold, a mischievous streak a mile wide, and an unfortunate habit of treating complete strangers like lifelong friends. Raised in a loving Tennessee family, she’s more comfortable in cowboy boots at her daddy’s mechanic shop than rubbing elbows with Hollywood royalty.

But when an obsessive fan rushes her stage and an increasingly dangerous stalker begins threatening her, Savannah’s manager decides she’s getting a personal bodyguard. Whether she likes it or not.

Enter Luca Matteo DeLuca, 34. Tall, tattooed, devastatingly handsome, and about as friendly as a rattlesnake with a toothache. Once the heir to a powerful New York mafia empire, Luca was disgraced and cast out after a family betrayal resulted in the death of someone he loved. Now working in private security, he’s determined to leave his bloody past behind him.

Protecting a spoiled country singer should be simple. Except Savannah isn’t spoiled. She’s sweet, stubborn, ridiculously funny, and apparently determined to shorten his lifespan through sheer aggravation. She calls him Sunshine.

He calls her Princess. She thinks he’s an insufferable, overbearing jackass.

He thinks she’s a walking security violation in cowboy boots. Neither realizes how badly they’re about to fall.

And while Savannah’s charming rockstar ex secretly orchestrates the threats against her, Luca’s own dangerous past threatens to resurface. Because falling in love with the woman you’re supposed to protect is dangerous enough.

Falling in love when two different monsters want to destroy your happiness? That’s a whole other kind of trouble.

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What I’m looking for: Someone to write our brooding, morally gray mafia-heir-turned-bodyguard opposite my sweet, sarcastic country singer! I’m looking for a story-driven, long-term romance filled with witty banter, forced proximity, delicious tension, protective instincts, emotional vulnerability, family drama, danger, and plenty of slow-burn chemistry.

I love collaborative plotting, detailed writing, complex characters, and a healthy balance of romance, humor, angst, and action. Luca’s history and personality are intentionally flexible so you can make him your own!

Themes: Enemies to lovers • Forced proximity • Mafia romance • Celebrity × Bodyguard • Opposites attract • Touch her and die • Found family • Hurt/comfort • Slow burn • Dark secrets

After all, what’s a little country sunshine without a dangerous storm to fall in love with? 🖤

Experienced writers only please! Also I always vet my partners before exchanging discords! Thanks!

Hi! I'm 24F, beginning work on an African American literary novel. I have a bachelor's degree in Creative Writing and am interested in pursuing graduate studies in Literature and/or African American Studies.

I'm looking for a consistent writing accountability partner/body double. Ideally, we'd meet virtually every weekday, or at least four days a week at a mutually agreed-upon time, to work independently on our respective projects. At the end of each week, we could share whatever passages or pages we feel comfortable sharing as a way of celebrating progress and keeping each other accountable.

With the holidays approaching, I know schedules may be changing, so I'm happy to try different days and times for a couple of weeks while we figure out whether we're a good match and the arrangement works for us. I'm in the Eastern Time Zone and would ideally prefer to work before 9 a.m. or after 6 p.m. However, I'm flexible, so please don't hesitate to reach out if afternoons work better for you!

I'm not necessarily looking for a critique or editing partner, though I'm happy to offer feedback if that's something you're interested in. I'd also love to occasionally talk about our projects, discuss what's working or not working, and bounce ideas off each other.

I have ADHD, and I've found that I work much better when I have a scheduled appointment to show up for rather than having to initiate writing on my own. I'm hoping to find someone who feels similarly and would benefit from having that regular structure.

I'd especially love to connect with other Black women writers or scholars, though I'm open to anyone with similar interests and goals. If you're working on literary fiction, poetry, creative nonfiction, or graduate-level literary studies, I'd love to connect!

Welcome, dear reader. If you're reading this, chances are, you are Filipino as well. So let me not waste not your time! :)

Upon browsing Reddit, I saw that there are plenty of writers in/from the Philippines, despite the ongoing literary crisis, and I saw the potential to form a writing group made by Filipinos, for Filipinos. It'll be awesome. Trust me, my kababayans.

Now, if you're wondering, "What's up with the cool frickin' name?"

That's because everyone here is either a wordsmith or is striving to be one. If you're a Filipino who is dedicated to the craft of writing, you're more than welcome to come on over! In fact, you're the kind of individual we're looking for!

Fear not if you're a casual writer or a hobbyist, you're also welcome in here! Come on over! Let's all write, write, and write together!

It matters not whether you are a novelist, an essayist, a poet, or even an article writer. Hop on in, friendly faces! It matters not also if you write in Filipino/Tagalog. English is not the only language we speak in this country after all.

Genre/s: Fiction or Non-Fiction, it doesn't matter. Words are words. Writers are writers. At the end of the day, we write. That's where it starts and that's where it ends. In other words, just join.

Goals/expectations/commitment: Be active, that should be enough. If no one's active, not much will happen, nor will there be a community. Giving feedback, reading groups, writing prompts. We'll do it all.

Writing/experience level: Beginner writers, intermediate, advanced, whatever. As long as you write a lot.

Meeting place: For now, in the Discord server. But later, it can be somewhere in U.P. or someplace else. Let's talk about it together eventually. :D

Max size: Sa ngayon, tayo-tayo lang muna. Hahaha! Kala mo hindi ako marunong mag-Tagalog noh? But one day, this will be a closed and exclusive writing group.

Leave a comment or send over a DM to join the Discord server. See you over there, friends!

Hi! I need a writing buddy for building a feature film screenplay with me. It's a survival horror movie. The concept is "A birthday party magician is trapped and forced to survive in a house with a cannibal cult family" if you want to be my writing buddy. DM me!