Nevada Resources for Writers
Here you’ll find a collection of resources for writers in Nevada, from conferences to local critique groups to literary magazines. If you’re looking for writing groups near you, writing workshops near you, creative writing classes near you, or simply a place to hang out with writers or submit your work, these are some Nevada writing organizations you might want to check out:
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An international literary center dedicated to promoting discourse on today’s most pressing issues. It provides an environment where creative writers and scholars can fight against entrenched perspectives, whatever their political or cultural source.
Brushfire is Nevada’s oldest literary and arts journal, based at the University of Nevada, Reno.
Interim is a biannual creative writing publication that features poetry, translation, belles lettres, short fiction and book reviews.
A litmag accepting fiction, poetry, nonfiction, and black-and-white comics. Published out of Reno’s Truckee Meadows Community College.
A nonprofit biannual journal dedicated to publishing quality writing. Red Rock Review invites submissions of fiction, creative nonfiction and poetry from both established and emerging writers.
An annual literary magazine published in May featuring poetry and short fiction.
Southern Nevada Writing Project
Committed to designing and delivering the highest quality professional experiences in an effort to improve and transform the teaching of writing.
Every summer for over 40 years, the Community of Writers at Squaw Valley has brought together poets, prose writers and screenwriters for weeks of writing workshops, individual conferences, lectures, panels, readings and discussions of the craft and the business of writing.
Help us add to this list, Nevadans! Do you know of writing groups near you, writing workshops near you, creative writing classes near you, or a Nevada literary journal we should be aware of? Let us know here