Sarah interviewed Jenna Goldsmith recently, you can see their conversation here: youtu.be/9FGZ1AgJC-8?...
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Sarah interviewed Jenna Goldsmith recently, you can see their conversation here: youtu.be/9FGZ1AgJC-8?...
We are SO EXCITED to co-host Jenna Goldsmith and @stevehalle.bsky.social at The Atlas Collective in ONE WEEK!
Come see some of the best poets Illinois has to offer for FREE
Friday, March 13 / 5:30 - 7:30pm
1801 5th Ave, Moline
#Writing #WritingContest #WriteMore #WritingCommunity
#IronPen is TONIGHT! We are ONE HOUR AWAY from the prompt reveal (here, on facebook and instagram, on our website...)
Feb. 27 from 5pm CT until Feb. 28 at 5pm CT
mwcqc.org/contests/iron-pen/
24 hour #WritingContest this weekend!
$10 to enter
www.mwcqc.org/contests/iro...
MWC's #ChapbookSubmissions close on Sunday!
We take chapbooks of any genre, so long as the writer is living in the Midwest!
Full details: www.mwcqc.org/foster-stahl...
We're accepting #chapbook #submissions by Midwest writers of any genre through March 1!
www.mwcqc.org/foster-stahl...
Our annual not-so-sweet Valentine treat, #LocalLovers #OpenMic, is coming home to Rozz-Tox on Thu 2/12!
Limited spots available so sign up for the Open Mic right when you get there. Performers will have up to 5 min to perform one poem/song/story/dance/bit/ (
Free & public.
Our first episode of #WriteMoreLight of 2026 is live!
Check out Sarah's conversation with poet Jenna Goldsmith and feel a little better about the world with their insights on being working artists.
https://youtu.be/9FGZ1AgJC-8
We are so excited to see that two of our Literary Lights 2025 books, @nancykric.bsky.social's The Burning Heart of the World and Patricia Ononiwu Kaishian's Forest Euphoria, have made @miznaarabart.bsky.social's "Favorite SWANA Books of 2025" list! 📚 🌟
Check it out: bit.ly/3Z327at
MWC's director Ryan Collins is leading a poetry book club at The Atlas Collective!
The group will meet on 2/19 from 5:30-7:30pm at TAC to discuss #IDoKnowSomeThings by #RichardSiken, a #NationalBookAward finalist
Find the book at TAC; register on their website: atlascollectiveqc.com/events
The Great River Writer's Retreat is a fully funded opportunity for 1 Midwest writer to spend a week working on a project in progress.
Retreat takes place 8/24–30
Apply by: May 1
Full information is available on our website: https://ow.ly/HXoz50XWlHt
#writersretreat #writingretreat #writersofbsky
This group uses a modified version of the Critical Response Process, so writers are encouraged to engage in the discussion of their work.
To register, email mwc[@]mwcqc[.]org
For more information: www.mwcqc.org/events/what-...
#WhatAPoemWants is offered on a pay-what-you-can basis and will meet on January 21 from 5:30-7:30pm at MWC (ground floor, Rock Island Public Library, downtown). Advance registration is required because space is limited and we need to allow time for writers to review one another's work.
MWC's new poetry critique group will be meeting next Wednesday to support poets working toward polishing and publication of their poems!
Winners in each category receive a cash prize, medals, and an offer for publication.
Full information and registration is on our website: www.mwcqc.org/contests/iro...
#IronPen offers a prompt at 5pm on Friday and requires participants to submit their writing by 5pm on Saturday.
For $10 per entry, writers can compete in as many categories and as many times as they like AND each registration is an entry to win FREE tuition to the #CollinsWritersConference.
The fastest writing contest in the Midwest returns on February 27!
an excellent list to consult for your next book purchase. #supportsmallpresses #indiepress #universitypress
Work selected for publication will receive $100 and several opportunities to present your work to the public.
Subs should be emailed to MWC (details in link below) as an attachment with "Adaptation Submission" as the subject. Writers should live in the general Quad City region.
LAST CALL
It's totally free to submit to MWC's #Adaptation anthology and our call is as open-ended as you want it to be!
Send us your short work (500 words prose, 30 lines poetry) in which you consider adaptations, transformations, how we respond to changes by TONIGHT (Dec. 1) at 11:59pm!
Poetry should be 30 lines or fewer, prose should be 500 words or fewer.
Submissions are open through December 1.
Questions? Drop us a comment.
Full guidelines here: www.mwcqc.org/adaptation-p...
We invite area writers to create new work that interrogates the idea of adaptation, its catalysts and consequences, both good and bad.
Contributors will be paid $100 and given further opportunities to share their work and receive additional pay.
image of the inside of a conch shell reads: ADAPTATION: a new anthology for Midwest Writing Center and Galvin Fine Arts. Submissions close Dec. 1, 2025. midwestwritingcenter@gmail.com
MWC is currently accepting submissions for our next mixed-genre anthology on #Adaptation.
This is our third year collaborating with Galvin Fine Arts Center at St. Ambrose University to create a publication centering local writers with attention to the Ambrose College of Arts & Science's theme.
Check out IALA member Jen Siraganian’s poem “The Night of Her Funeral,” featured in @poetrydaily.bsky.social!🕯️
With striking language, Siraganian invites readers into an intimate moment of farewell through the eyes of a child.
📖 Read here: bit.ly/45lmpjM
black and white photo of author Brett Biebel with text that reads DAVID R COLLINS WRITERS' CONFERENCE PRESENTS "writing place: geography in short fiction with Brett Biebel" and an image of his book Gridlock
Whether it’s the name of the most popular local grocery chain or the physical features of the land, geography deeply impacts all of us. Everything from the way we speak to the foods we eat to the things we do for is influenced by where we were born and where we live. And all fiction is set somewhere. This workshop will feature readings and prompts about the role of geography in short stories and offer ideas about how to better make the words on the page represent a layered and authentic reality, whether it be outer space or Jupiter, Florida.
Brett Biebel is the author of 48 Blitz (Split/Lip Press, 2020), A Companion to Thomas Pynchon’s Mason & Dixon (University of Georgia Press, 2023-2024), and Gridlock (Cornerstone Press, 2024). His short fiction has been anthologized in Best Small Fictions and Best Microfiction and featured in Wigleaf’s Top 50 Very Short Stories (2021). He writes and teaches in Illinois at Augustana College.
For more info on the Conference or to register, visit www.mwcqc.org/events-oppor...
...but keep reading for more info on Biebel...
LOVED spending time with @brettbbl.bsky.social to learn about his upcoming workshop with us at the #CollinsWritersConference!
youtu.be/PzwydV_jHco?...
We will continue to offer 1-on-1 critiques with instructors, manuscript pitches, and more. Stay tuned for further announcements and to get to know our faculty and their work a little better.
#midwestwritingcenter #writemore #writemorelight #writing #writingconference #midwestwriters #writenow
