W&A Community
The W&A Community contains a host of brilliant features: take part in discussions, join or start groups with like-minded writers, and share extracts of your work to receive objective feedback.
Community engagement also means reward points added to your profile, so expect us to be in regular contact to make you aware of exclusive discounts across W&A events, editing services, and more.
Finally, our free Writing Calendar gives you the chance to make all W&A Community members aware of a writing or publishing event you’re involved in.
Connect with other users and benefit from the following:
- Receive objective feedback on extracts of your work
- Ask questions, offer insight and help others
- Build a network of writers and/or illustrators you can call on
- Earn discounts on events and services for regular Community interaction
Form and join groups on W&A and benefit from the following:
- Search for others at a similar stage of the writing process
- Base groups around fiction/non-fiction genres you love
- Find others inspired by particular writers, artists or creative movements
- Start your own writing group with other members of the W&A community
Popular discussions
A cooperative novel? (Writing game for any number of participants)
The default setting in Q&As is "Recent". However, by clicking on "Popular", I came across this (the most popular thread ever on this forum, with 88 replies):
Writing Calendar Competitions

Saveas Writers' International Writing Competition 2022 - MYTH
Deadline -
This years competition theme is 'Myth'

City Academy Short Story Writing Competition
Win £1,500 for the best original short story! Devise a piece of short fiction that will be read by an expert panel of judges.

The Letter Review Prize for Short Stories
$1000 USD prizes ($650 1st) in a competition for stories between 400-3000 words. Winners published. Twenty entries longlisted, who may discuss publication. All genres.

Oxford Poetry Prize
Oxford Poetry is pleased to announce the inaugural Oxford Poetry Prize, to be awarded for a single poem in the English language.