Writers’ Collaborative Learning Center

The Writers’ Collaborative Learning Center in Reading is a writing center and community for writers at every stage. Membership includes a dedicated writing coach, access to a writing workspace, every facilitated writing group and weekly programming. Groups include fiction and nonfiction critique groups, poetry and creative writing groups, readings and Writing and Revision Circles, with daytime and evening options to fit different schedules.

The center uses a collaborative learning approach in which group leads encourage each writer to share a perspective rather than lecturing. Members begin with Base Camp, a strategy session where they map out a roadmap with their coach, followed by scheduled check-ins and on-demand help through the Writers’ Clinic. Writing intensives and multi-week courses cover fiction, nonfiction, poetry, creative writing, screenwriting and the business of writing, and members receive a discount on them.

What to Know

• Members get daily workspace access across two suites with a personal entry code.
• Amenities include private offices, meeting rooms, a resource library, a kitchen, a printer and Wi-Fi.
• Coaching sessions run in person or over Zoom.
• Membership is month to month with no long-term contract.
• Nonmembers can book one-on-one coaching sessions.