- Babel Poetry Collective (poets affiliated with Temple)
- Backyard Writers (fiction & nonfiction)
- Brandywine Valley Writers Group
- Since 2003, the Brandywine Valley Writers Group (BVWG) has been helping professional and amateur writers improve their craft and achieve their goals. We strive to inspire writers through our various programs and to offer friendship within our extensive membership. BVWG meetings take place on the third Tuesday of each month at 7 pm on the second floor of Ryan’s Pub at 124 Gay Street in West Chester, PA. You’ll find a description of our upcoming meetings on the BVWG website and you can join our mailing list for more information. Visitors and new members are always welcome, so come on out!
- Dead Bards of Philadelphia (poetry)
- Deadname Arts (trans & nonbinary artists and poets, email deadname.arts@gmail.com)
- The Excelano Project (spoken word artists affiliated with UPenn)
- Green Street Poetry (poetry) bi-weekly workshop held in Fairmount
- Keepers of the Culture (Philadelphia’s Afrocentric storytelling group)
- Kelly Writers House reading & writing groups
- Landsdowne Writing Workshop (all genres)
- Mad Poets Society (poetry)
- Metropolarity (QTBIPOC sci-fi & spec fic)
- The Mission Statement (black writers of all genres)
- The Philly Liars Club (a Philly-based group of authors)
- Reading Queerly (reading group highlighting queer authors @ Giovanni’s Room)
- Ridge Avenue Writers Circle (multi-genre critique group)
- Rittenhouse Writers Group (quarterly fiction workshops for intermediate & advanced writers)
- Rogue Poetry Workshop (poetry)
Sit & Write (all genres, Saturdays 12-3pm at Kelly Writers House time organized by Julian Shendelman) - Sonku Writers Collective (writers of color, all genres)
- Transcribez (trans & gender nonconforming youth writers all genres)
- Woke & Well Read (reading group highlighting women authors of color @ Big Blue Marble)
- Working Writers Group (WWG) (writers of prose working on book-length works)