Celebrate the launch of RESISTANCE with an unforgettable evening of fearless storytelling, live readings, and community at Ohio Writers’ Association’s anthology event at Little Professor Book Center on June 14.

Interested in joining DraftMates? Attend this introductory Zoom session with DraftMates President Joe Graves to learn how the program works and how writing partners can help you stay accountable, improve your craft, and reach your writing goals.

The Columbus Book Festival is a free, two-day literary event in downtown Columbus featuring author talks, panels, book signings, and a vibrant marketplace celebrating readers and writers of all kinds.

A supportive monthly session where writers share their work, exchange constructive feedback, and grow together in a collaborative community.

The Grove City Book Festival is a free, family-friendly literary event featuring local authors, workshops, book vendors, and interactive programming celebrating reading and writing.

A supportive monthly session where writers share their work, exchange constructive feedback, and grow together in a collaborative community.

In this session, participants will learn how one word, or a few, can be a pivotal moment in a scene and in your main character's journey. Transitions, layering, and the fundamental story elements are all created with WORDS. Words are powerful. Learning how to master them is a skill in itself.

A supportive monthly session where writers share their work, exchange constructive feedback, and grow together in a collaborative community.

Please join Chaz O’Neil from the Ohio Arts Council to learn about individual artist grant programs and resources.  This informative session will address best practices, application requirements, and review processes. 

In this one-hour workshop, crime novelist Andrew Welsh-Huggins will offer extensive tips and techniques for digging into the revision process once a first draft of a Work In Progress (WIP) is completed.

OWA will host an interest meeting on Saturday, January 31st at 11:00 a.m. for poets who would like to help start—or simply participate in—a group focused on reading, discussing, and offering thoughtful feedback on poetry.

Bring your best 1,000 words and workshop them with fellow writers at our next 1K Club meeting.

How to maintain an authentic autistic identity while allowing room for development, tension, and transformation.

To keep readers reading, historical fiction has to get the characters, the story, and the history right. Chris Farrar will discuss his experience meeting these challenges.

Join us for networking, live music, and presentations from our authors.

Join us for a chance to meet the authors of our newest anthology and hear brief excerpts from the anthology.

Join us at the Columbus Main Library or via zoom, for our monthly peer-critique workshop. Submit works up to 7000 words.

Join us at the Columbus Main Library or via zoom, for our monthly peer-critique workshop. Submit works up to 7000 words.