Welcome to the Space Coast Writers' Guild, dedicated to encouraging, instructing and developing writers of all genres. We're all about writers and writing, transforming wishes into reality, ideas into words. We offer a variety of programs and speakers at our monthly meetings, along with an opportunity to meet others who are dealing with deadlines, characters who won't cooperate, rejections, re-writes, contract dilemmas, unresponsive editors, and agent searches. Whether you have published for years and in several different languages, or are pre-published and hoping, the Guild has something for you. If this is your first visit, please take a moment to explore all we have to offer from the menus above.

Upcoming Events

The Main Meetings of the Guild are held the third Saturday of each month at 1 pm. at the West Melbourne Public Library* at 2755 Wingate Boulevard (directions). Meetings begin with a brief business meeting with announcements, welcome of new members, introduction of the Board members and treasurer's report, followed by a presentation of some aspect of writing by our monthly speaker. Following the speaker, there is a time for socializing and book signings.

Writing Past Blocks

SCWG Vice President, Kit Adams, speaks at our June General meeting on "Writing Past Blocks."

"Julia Cameron (The Artist's Way) believes our creative blockages come from baggage sitting in the brain, sort of like an over-furnished room. I will be demonstrating, and we will be writing, about...nothing...everything. We will be looking at the baggage which sits in the way of our writing progress. I will have tables set up so that we can experience what Ms. Cameron describes.

"Donald Murray (Crafting a Life) and Ray Bradbury (Zen in the Art of Writing) speak to these ideas of blockage from a different point of view: are we blocked because of baggage or are we blocked because we are not interested in our topic? We must learn to discern these differences so that our success comes from the deepest parts of our being and not from societal pressures or expectations. We must, as in Julia Cameron’s work, be prepared for uncharted territory."

*According to requirements of the American Disability Act (ADA), organizations using library meeting rooms may be required to provide special accommodations for those citizens requesting assistance within 48 hours of the scheduled meeting time. Organizations are required to provide hearing devices and/or make special arrangements at the citizen’s request.