DFW Writers' Workshop Competitors

The Writer's Center supports writers and people who want to write. Founded in 1976, The Writer’s Center (TWC) strives to inspire an ever-widening local community to explore the power of language. We serve the public—all ages and backgrounds, both inexperienced and master writers--through a wide variety of workshops, readings and theater productions, reaching more than 3,000 community members each year.

Vision: ACA enriches lives through the joy and power of the arts. Mission: ACA inspires and nurtures creativity through interdisciplinary artist residencies, dynamic artist collaborations, community engagement, and self-discovery within the experience of nature. Values: We believe in the values that our founder Doris Leeper embraced: • The creative spirit must be nurtured. • There is a powerful connection between the arts and the natural environment. • Supporting artists creates innovation and capacity, both locally and globally. These are the values that Atlantic Center for the Arts continues to preserve and protect. ___________________________ Since 1982, Atlantic Center's residency program has provided artists from all artistic disciplines with spaces to live, work, and collaborate during three-week residencies. Located just four miles from the east coast beaches of Florida, the environment contains award-winning studios that include a resource library, painting studio, sculpture studio, music studio, dance studio, black box theater, writers' studio, and digital computer lab. Each residency session includes three master artists of different disciplines. The master artists personally select a group of associates - talented, emerging and midcareer artists - through applications administered by ACA. Atlantic Center for the Arts provides housing (private room/bath with work desk), weekday meals (provided by ACA chef) and 24-hour access to shared studio space. www.atlanticcenterforthearts.org, program@atlanticcenterforthearts.org or telephone ACA at (386) 427-6975 or (800) 393-6975 (domestic US only).

For more than three decades, the purpose and mission of the Writers’ League of Texas has been to provide a forum for information, support, and sharing among writers; to help writers improve on their craft and market their skills; to promote the interests of writers and the writing community at large; and to elevate the art and enterprise of writing. With over 1,300 members statewide and growing, the Writers’ League of Texas is a vibrant community that serves to educate and uplift Texas writers, whatever stage they may be at in their writing careers. In addition, the WLT offers valuable service to communities across the state with free programming in libraries and local schools. From the WLT’s earliest projects to today, programming has been designed and implemented to meet identified needs of writers, both WLT members and non-members alike. The WLT’s core programming currently includes: year-round classes (both in-classroom and online) taught by learned instructors (both published writers and other professionals with an expertise to share); Third Thursday – a monthly panel discussion in Austin that is free and open to the public and covers both the craft and business of writing (available as a podcast); the Summer Writing Workshop – a week long intensive writing workshop focused on craft; the Agents & Editors Conference in Austin, TX – a weekend long conference, one of the premier literary conferences in the country, bringing together publishing industry professionals with writers at all stages of development; Project WISE – a program that brings writers into AISD public schools; Texas Writes – a program that sends writers to rural libraries across the state for half day workshops; and regular contests, including manuscript contests and annual book awards.