Atlanta Writers Club

Monthly meetings with 2 speakers and interactions by genre type. Attendance averages over 125. These meetings were hosted online from March 2020 until February 2022. The organization began meeting in person again in March 2022.

Workshops during the year covering topics of interest to writers. These included character and plot development, getting your work published and how to manage your social media. Attendance averages 50 writers per workshop.

Spring and Fall Writers Conferences providing workshops, manuscript and query letter critiques, editor and agent interactions and pitch opportunities. Approximately 250 writers, editors, agents and others attend each conference. The Atlanta Self-Publishing Conference is held in the Spring and teaches writers how to publish and promote their own work. This conference attracts 130 attendees.

The Annual AWC Writers Contest makes awards in three categories: Fiction, Non-Fiction and Poetry. Three independent judges are paid to review submitted manuscripts. No entrance fee is charged. Approximately 80 writers enter this contest each year.

Atlanta Writers Club supports Book Festivals in Atlanta and Decatur

The Townsend Award celebrates the best new author in Georgia and is held every other ear.