Thinking about starting a blog? Already blogging and interested in learning more? And most importantly, are you generous with your knowledge, kind to your fellow Portlandians, and willing to share your sense of humor? This group is for anyone who has a positive attitude and wants to write online, whether it's for fun, business, self-discovery or just self-indulgence. It's easy to start a blog -- and it can even be done for free -- but if we wait until our ideas are perfect and the stars are alig …

This is inteded to be a group for mutual encouragment and inspiration. We will be doing writing exercises to get the blood flowing to the dusty corners of our brain, as well as accessing that illusive subconcious. This is not a critque group. We will primarily be sharing work that is created in our time together. The philosophy is generous listening and a "more is more" approach to creative expression. We will meet in Taborspace, which is a lovely church-turned-community center. They have …

Tired of being chained to the desk? Need a little jolt of inspiration? The Northwest Independent Writers Association (NIWA) invites you to network with your fellow local authors! Published or unpublished, fiction or nonfiction, genre or literary, traditional or indie...drop in and share a drink and a conversation with other creative types. Talk shop, find critique partners, learn about local writing groups, and get your voice heard as NIWA develops its roster of author services. We'll see you th …

Welcome to the Coffeehouse Writers Group - PDX The Coffee House Writer's Group is a wildly successful and popular critique group that started just outside of Los Angeles. With over 500 members, it regularly holds meetings where we writers can find support and camaraderie in the otherwise lonely pursuit of our craft. After three years, the group is beginning to expand, with Portland as its first official satellite chapter. The group operates a little differently than many critique groups - member …

This group is a resource for the Portland region of National Novel Writing Month Participants. November is National Novel Writing Month, when a bunch of crazy people attempt to write a 50,000 word novel in 30 days, but more about that at http://nanowrimo.org.* We offer regularly scheduled write-ins around Portland and environs year-round. This group is also the planning headquarters for Portland's own regional fundraiser, the Soiree of Furious Typing (our hack version of the more official Night …

Working and playing with writing prompts is a great way to think out of the box, exercise your writing muscles, give birth to a new piece and/or enrich a work in progress.  My intention is for this group to be a place and space that provides encouragement and safety for new writing.  Writers of all levels of experience are welcome in this group.  It's not about creating a finished product -- it's about developing a practice, getting words onto the page, taking risks, and enjoying the company of …

Calling all women writers in the Portland area, come join us for mingling, writing games and community. Help strengthen our local writing community! Connect with other women writers, have a glass of tea or wine, and play some fun writing games. Invite your friends! The more the merrier.

This group is for cultural creatives, integrative arts practitioners, earth lovers, rhythm-makers, the somatically inspired, and meditators of all stripes. We regularly host happenings that are dedicated to creating beauty and a deeper love for the self, the body, the other, & the mystery. Happenings are offered 'open bowl' style at Be Space in SE Portland.

Hello! We are a unique group of individuals with one general common interest . . . learning how, and actually making our own movies and video productions. To that end, our Members often help one-another with various "Film" Production tasks.  We each learn and grow our personal experience, abilities and understanding through practical "on the job" exposure to "real film production".  This is just one way of many we encourage and support our members efforts to learn the Art of Producing Digital Vi …

While we started out as a freelance writers group, we are now an inclusive creative community, who count amongst our midst a teacher, dancers, graphic artists, tech writers, actors and various hypenations, including writers with contract jobs. Our group meets approximately every three week for happy hour and dinner/munchies. Discussions range from chatting about what we're working on or not, new freelance opportunities (local or otherwise), our oh-so-crazy working life tales, to just spending ti …

Are you looking for your true purpose in life? Do you feel that you've lost that passion you used to have, and want to rediscover? You always have this yarning to share your creative gifts/talent, but does your mind/thought somehow get in the way? Combining dance/movements, vocal expressions, sound healing, drama therapy, shamanic journey/guided imagery, and creative expressions with her a long time teacher Camille Maurine's Moving Theater (http://www.camillemaurine.com/page5/page5.html), Star G …

Swords for Scribes provides martial arts experience and reliable information to writers through hands-on workshops and coaching. If you are a writer--novels, short stories, scripts--and your characters might need to use a sword, join us to find out exactly what your character will need to know and do to make your swordfighting scenes accurate and real. Visit our website for more details: http://swordsforscribes.com

This is a group of poetry lovers that meets monthly to share poems. Some of us are poets, and some are not. We started with an emphasis on mystical poetry, and then yielded to the suggestion that poetry is inherently mystical. The format is informal: We each bring a few poems, by ourselves or others, and take turns reading to the group. Sometimes we choose seasonal themes, but all poems are welcome and appreciated. When we can, we bring copies to distribute to the group (usually not more than 5 …

The goal of Writers Who Read is to assemble a group of passionately committed writers interested in coming together to investigate craft in a friendly setting. One evening per month we will meet up to discuss a book voted on by the group. We will began by identifying the aspects of craft readers found to be most successful in the book and then turn our attention to those decisions people felt detracted from the story. Along the way members will be encouraged to explore how the author's choices r …

Poetry. Prose. Words like secret doors to other worlds. We want to hear and experience what you've written. The Service Bay Bar provides a comfortable atmosphere to grab a drink, get on the mic, and let go...share your poetry with us, whether you're a newcomer to the spoken word scene or if you really know how to heat up the mic. Give us what you've got and be eager to hear from others who have their own poems and words to put forth.

Mystical Adventure to Explore and Empower Shamanic Sounds was created to offer assistances in your awakening, healing, and empowerment to embrace, empower, and celebrate your own authenticity and creativity together in a safe and supportive environment. Through the use of sounds, music, movements, writing, creative expressions, drumming/shamanic journeys, and ceremonies, we discover and develop our inner gifts and awareness to share with the world. Each month on (or about) a full moon night, we …

The purpose of the group is education, support and networking for those are real estate investors or want to be one. We have nothing to sell or promote. Some of the topics we will talk about include: Getting Started Foreclosures "Nothing Down" Purchases "Flipping" Properties Refurbishing & Rehabbing Lease/Options Finding Bargain Properties Writing Contract Offers Building profitable partnerships Marketing to Find Motivated Sellers Buying Discounted Notes & Mortgages Mobile Homes & Mobile Home …