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The Writers' Guild in Houston, Texas

The Spectrum Writers' Guild was designed and is directed by writing teacher Max Regan, founder of Hollowdeck Press in Boulder, Colorado, and Rosa Glenn-Reilly, founder of the Spectrum Center in Houston, Texas. The Guild has been offering writing classes and workshops to the Houston community for over eight years. The foundation of this writing community is our belief that writing is a practice as well as a craft. Our intent is to awaken the curiosity, fearlessness and passion of those who love to write.

We offer classes, workshops, seminars and private coaching sessions to writers working in any genre, from memoirs to stories, from novels to experimental texts, from performance projects to the single, well-crafted poem. We welcome individuals who want to close the distance between their desire to write and writing itself.

For beginning writers, we offer ideas to get you started and chances to laugh, remember, imagine, notice, experiment and possibly surprise yourself. For working writers we offer skills and techniques to help improve and expand your work. In classes we investigate inspiration, expansion, revision and look at some of the ways in which our work can be released into the world. Together we write, discuss our work and offer constructive feedback that will be genuinely useful to the author. In classes we learn how to merge our art with the knowledge and discipline that allows us to get out of our own way. As writers we are called, both to write, and to create intentional lives in which our writing is always welcome. In other words, we believe that life is way too short to not write what wants and needs to be written.

We believe in creating an honest, skillful and non-competitive community where writers support one another in bringing their own work to life. We encourage each individual to find the work that honors their own voice and bears witness to their own experience and imagination.

Most classes are offered over weekends, and at least one class is offered each month, unless otherwise indicated on the current class flyer. All classes will be held at the Spectrum Center in downtown Houston. Directions to the Spectrum Center are available on their website.

See our latest flyer (PDF) for more information. To register for any of the Spectrum Guild classes, please contact Rosa Glenn-Reilly by phone: 713-840-8957 ext. 1 or e-mail: Rosa235@earthlink.net.