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.

For a $50 fee, participants may submit the first 10 pages of a Word document (double-spaced, 12pt Times New Roman) of fiction, non-fiction, memoir, short story, novella, or children's book.* This does NOT include General Admission. General Admission must be purchased separately or ticket is void.

OWA will hold a writers conference on May 4, 2024, at the Fawcett Center at The Ohio State University. Presentations to include topics like using an AI assistant in your writing, author marketing, social media tips and tricks, editing your work for publication, and many more.

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 Grandview Heights Library or via zoom, for our monthly peer-critique workshop. Submit works up to 7000 words. Please notice that this month it will start at 6pm.

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

Join us via zoom, for our monthly peer-critique workshop. Submit works up to 7000 words.

Join us via zoom, for our monthly peer-critique workshop. Submit works up to 7000 words.

Join us for a casual, fun networking event as well as a celebration of OWA's accomplishments, including our newest anthology, House of Secrets. This is a free event, but tickets are required due to limited space.