A NEW local face-to-face group where writers meet to critique, encourage, and inspire each other to continue and improve their craft. The main focus of this group is prose writing, including creative fiction and non-fiction, including short stories, flash fiction, novels, novellas, essays, biographies, and other works.

Champaign/Urbana Creative Writers (CUCW) is for anyone who likes to write, for any reason whatsoever. We welcome all poets, sci-fi'ers, history buffs, horror addicts, sultry erotics, fiction lovers, non-fiction lovers and everything in between! The goal of this group will be to develop and grow our writing talents though readings, self critiques and the like. This group is about growth, sharing and openness. But if you aren't comfortable sharing your writing yet, come on out and see how we do th …