Detroit Working Writers

Detroit Working Writers On June 5, 1900, 13 professional women journalists and literary writers established the Detroit Press Club, the first organization of its kind in the city.

We welcome new members and seek to invigorate the contemporary Michigan writing community, propelling the organization forward in the tradition of professional excellence. From 1914 to 1966, the group was known as the Detroit Women Writer's Club, and from 1966 to 2004, as Detroit Women Writers. Today known as Detroit Working Writers, members are both men and women writing and publishing in a variety of genres and through traditional and non-traditional media. Past and current members include Joyce Carol Oates, Judith Guest, Gloria Whelan, Ellyce Field, J. Alicia Elster, Margaret Hillert, Ruth Ryan Langan and more.

10/10/2026
DWW members Terry Hojnacki and Kristin Bartley Lenz will be presenting sessions on elevating and editing your writing at...
10/09/2026

DWW members Terry Hojnacki and Kristin Bartley Lenz will be presenting sessions on elevating and editing your writing at the Rochester Writers' Conference on October 17.
Register today!

Overview of the 18th Annual Rochester Writers’ Conference to be held at Oakland University on October 18, 2025. A list of presentations and speakers.

DWW member Kristin Bartley Lenz is presenting on a Y.A. Author panel on Saturday Oct. 24th at Book Beat in Oak Park.http...
10/08/2026

DWW member Kristin Bartley Lenz is presenting on a Y.A. Author panel on Saturday Oct. 24th at Book Beat in Oak Park.

https://www.thebookbeat.com/backroom/
2026/09/30/oct-24-prose-poetry-six-local-ya-authors/

DWW member John Jeffire’s short story “So This Guy is Selling Rolexes” appears in The Good Life Review. You can read it ...
10/08/2026

DWW member John Jeffire’s short story “So This Guy is Selling Rolexes” appears in The Good Life Review. You can read it and also listen to the story:

The Good Life Review presents "So This Guy Is Selling Rolexes" by John Jeffire, in Issue #25 ~ Autumn 2026. Accompanying artwork by Ann Calandro

DWW Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s essay “Why I Filled my Novel With Unlikely Friendships and Eccentric Characters” appears in W...
10/07/2026

DWW Linda K. Sienkiewicz’s essay “Why I Filled my Novel With Unlikely Friendships and Eccentric Characters” appears in Women Writers, Women’s Books

You Can Be a Disaster and Still Get Invited to the Fish Fry: At the beginning of Love and Other Incurable Ailments, Serenity Tomczyk doesn’t emerge from loss with newfound wisdom or enviable resilience. She nurses a cat. She attends group therapy. She catastrophizes every headache with a late-nigh...

DWW member Diana Dinverno’s poem “On the Grassy Embankment of the Bridge in a Buffalo Bayou Park appears in Mocking Hea...
10/05/2026

DWW member Diana Dinverno’s poem “On the Grassy Embankment of the Bridge in a Buffalo Bayou Park appears in Mocking Heart Review!

“Just before sunset, we wait
with couples, kids on bikes, entire families
with toddlers in wagons.

We gather for the bats—250,000 tiny mammals in all—
asleep in crevices beneath this bridge by day,
coming out to feed at night.

Above, two hawks
circle and glide,
reflected in high-rise glass…”

Read the entire poem:

ON THE GRASSY EMBANKMENT BY THE BRIDGE IN BUFFALO BAYOU PARK Just before sunset, we wait with couples, kids on bikes, entire families with toddlers in wagons. We gather for the bats—250,000 tiny m…

The pink poetry bus is rolling—and there’s room for your poems. The 2026 River Heron Review Editors’ Prize is open, with...
10/04/2026

The pink poetry bus is rolling—and there’s room for your poems. The 2026 River Heron Review Editors’ Prize is open, with $500 for the winning poem and $100 for each of four finalists. Send us up to three poems—the ones you’re excited about, the ones you believe in, the ones that feel like your best work. Submissions are open through November 15. Come along for the ride.

Here’s a list of upcoming events in October and November featuring DWW Member Wendy Byard, author of DEVIL IN THE DUNES,...
10/03/2026

Here’s a list of upcoming events in October and November featuring DWW Member Wendy Byard, author of DEVIL IN THE DUNES, a thriller set in Michigan!

DWW member Dawn Levitt has a poem in Issue 139 of Rogue Agent. Congrats, Dawn.
10/02/2026

DWW member Dawn Levitt has a poem in Issue 139 of Rogue Agent.

Congrats, Dawn.

Welcome!

Doubleback Books is accepting submissions until October 15. Authors of works that have gone out of print due to the clos...
09/30/2026

Doubleback Books is accepting submissions until October 15. Authors of works that have gone out of print due to the closure of the original press may submit full-length or short books, including novels, creative nonfiction, novellas, chapbooks, short story collections, poetry collections, and essay collections. Editors may also submit out-of-print manuscripts their presses published before closing.

Accepted manuscripts will be turned into downloadable ebooks available for free. For more information, to submit, and to download our previous titles, visit them at doublebackbooks.com

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