Events & Writing Group Info

Each session, MTSU Write hosts events that nurture the writing community and celebrate literary life.  We also have facilitated writing groups, which meet on zoom. Check here for updates as events and writing groups will change from season to season.

Throughout the year, MTSU co-sponsors Poetry in the Boro, a monthly reading and open mic event.  Follow the schedule and learn more about featured writers here:  https://www.facebook.com/PoetryInTheBoro/

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Writing Groups

MTSU Write is pleased to offer writing groups for writers who want community and accountability. These writing groups are facilitated by one of our mentors, who acts as an organizer and co-participant, sharing their work alongside other members of the group. Most groups are offered via zoom, so writers can join from anywhere in the country. Please verify space is available before making a payment.

The registration fee is $100 per semester, which aligns with our mentorship session schedule.

If you’d like to join one of the groups, email [email protected]. Please share your genre of choice, a short description of the project you’re working on, and a 1-2 page writing sample. Upon acceptance to the group, you will be given a link to pay the registration fee.

Spring Saturday Sessions 2026

EVENTS

March 7 – 1pm – 3pm “Innovative Structures: Creating the (New) Shapes of Stories” with Catherine Berresheim, MFA. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

Register here!

In this workshop, we will first look at the classic or traditional structures used in prose, poetry, stage, and film like Aristotle’s unified three act structure, the Freytag Pyramid, and Blake Snyder’s Save the Cat format. Then we will explore how writers can put their work into a borrowed scaffolding to discover how form can dictate the shape, and even the intention, of the work.

This workshop combines generative creative writing with lecture, small group discussions, and playful visual art projects providing attendees with opportunities to combine their chosen genre with guided writing prompts to practice borrowed forms of epistolary and journal writing, ekphrastic poetry, collage writing, and other Hermit Crab structures.

April 18 – 1pm – 3pm “A Guide to Multilingual, Multigenre, and Multidisciplinary Writing” with Taffeta Chime. FREE AND OPEN TO THE PUBLIC

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Creative Writing Workshop focused on helping participants develop multilingual, multigenre, and multidisciplinary pieces. This includes a discussion of “niching down” vs. doing what you want, then looking at examples of multilingual
writing, writing that genre-bends, and multidisciplinary writing and why they work. Finally, there will be time to write and workshop pieces.

JULY EVENTS

TBD

AUGUST EVENTS

TBD

Information coming soon for Fall 2026!