The Key West Writers Guild provides a friendly forum for authors to share their writings and receive encouraging and helpful feedback. The Guild obtains information about finding agents, the current publishing industry and markets for writing.
Our many activities include:
• An annual short story contest.
• Our second anthology, Voices from Key West, was just published and is available through members and at many locations throughout Key West. (The first, Key West and Beyond, was published in 2003.)
• A double-disc CD book consisting of members reading their own short stories is in the formation stage.
• In collaboration with the Florida Keys Council on the Arts, the Guild presents an annual award to a writer with a book in progress.
• Social events include a party to announce the short story contest winners and an annual Christmas dinner.
The Key West Writers Guild meets on the second and fourth Saturday of every month at Kelly's Caribbean Bar and Brewery at 303 Whitehead Street, in Key West, Florida from 10:00am to 12:00 noon. Writers of essays, poetry, fiction, and nonfiction, published and unpublished, are welcome.
Formed on September 5, 1995, the Guild is proud of having supported Key West writers for over thirteen years. The Key West Writers Guild is a 501(c)3 not-for-profit organization. All donations are tax-deductible.
