Are you looking for a writers group? Welcome to writersvoices.com! Explore the groups we’ve already started, or start your own group. This is an ideal online meeting place to keep in touch with your writing friends from around the country, or around the world! It can also be helpful to have an online writers group to facilitate more frequent exchanges with members of a local writers group that meets in person. It’s important to have a support system in any creative process. A timely word of encouragement can make all the difference. In our busy lives, a central on line place for your friends to look at your work at their convenience can be the key to making it happen. We’ve created this website to facilitate this need.

We’d love to hear from you! Take a look around our site and let us know what you think. You can also explore our library of live radio interviews with authors, publishers, agents, editors, and others connected with the world of writing. On our home page you will find information on self-publishing, articles on writing, book reviews, and more!

While you’re on our home page, check out Carol Bodensteiner’s article, “On the Road Again” about the benefits she feels from having a writers group or even one writing buddy. To get to know her better, you can find her interview in our podcast library. Carol is a native Iowan and a professional writer and memoirist who enjoys a long-term small writing group with her friend Mary Gottschalk, who has also been a guest on our show. The connections just keep growing as you explore and get to know our community. We’d love for you to be a part of it.

In our community area, you can create a profile, explore our members, check out our blogs, and leave comments. Sign up and say hi! I’ll write you back.

Chamaigne Montana, Writers’ Voices Producer

Blogging has created another dimension to traditional journaling. Some bloggers say that writing for an audience enhances the therapeutic value of journaling. Writing is a great way to untangle our thoughts and have the satisfaction of naming precisely how we feel. Adding the element of an audience creates the satisfaction of feeling heard and understood. In truth, the internet has made it easier to find pockets of like-minded thinkers who can help us to feel heard and understood, no matter how eccentric our life perspectives!

Some people are shy about blogging. They’re not used to the idea of sharing their personal thoughts and feelings with the world. The beauty of it is that when you do share openly and find yourself embraced and rewarded for doing so, it opens up a whole new sense of joy in being who you are. From that place it’s easy to step into being even more of who you are.

Journaling has always been a profound spiritual or healing practice. Now, with blogging, we’re transforming the way we communicate. We’re re-drawing the boundaries and making a deeply personal inquiry on a collective level about who we are and how we want to re-invent ourselves.

Writers’ Voices welcomes you to create a free profile and use our blogging platform as a free journal.

We’d love to hear from you! Take a look around our site and let us know what you think. You can also explore our podcast library of live radio interviews with authors, agents, publishers, editors, and others connected with the world of writing.  Our home page features information on self-publishing, articles on writing, book reviews, and more!

While you’re on our home page, check out the article, “On the Road Again” by local professional writer and memoirist, Carol Bodensteiner. She writes beautifully about the benefits she feels from having a writers group or even one writing buddy.  If you like her style, you can find her interview in our podcast library to hear more. If this is your thing, you can check out a member of her personal writing community, Mary Gottschalk, another memoirist and professional writer, who has also been a guest on our show. The connections just keep growing as you explore and get to know our community.  We’d love for you to be a part of it.

Writers’ Voices with Monica and Caroline began in 2006 and is hosted by a mother and daughter team.  Our hour-long interviews focus on the writing process, from inspiration to publication. Guests range from local authors-in-training to world-famous writers and editors.  Writersvoices.com launched in 2009, as a writing site where you can listen to all of our past interviews and find a number of other writing related  resources. We aim to become your favorite writing site, with inspiration, instruction, social networking, support and encouragement, so tell us what you’d like to see! Do you want help navigating the path of self-publishing? Check out Chamaigne’s Self Publishing Blog. Better yet, start a blog of your own to tell us step by step what you did or are doing.  Want to hear about upcoming shows? Look at Chamaigne’s Upcoming Podcast Blog, or go to the Contact Us page and send us an email to sign up for our newsletter. Get a heads-up on who will be on the show.

Do you have questions you’d like us to ask our upcoming authors? You can email us at show@writersvoices.com or create a profile and post your comments on Chamaigne’s Upcoming Podcast Blog to suggest questions. We’d love for you to get involved and make Writers’ Voices your writing community. Many of our members are also our “real world” friends, and we’d love for you to get acquainted with our community.

At Writers’ Voices, we bring you a weekly in-depth hour-long interview with a writer, editor, agent or publisher. We’ve been broadcasting live on KRUU 100.1 FM, www.kruufm.com, the voice of Fairfield, Iowa, for over three years. The hosts of Writers’ Voices are mother-daughter team Caroline Kilbourn and Monica Hadley, and co-host Chamaigne Montana. To get the inside scoop on the show and our guests, check out Monica and Chamaigne’s personal blogs here:

Monica’s Blog

Chamaigne’s Blog

Or you can check out any of our other Members’ Blogs

Join the Writers’ Voices community and you can start your very own blog – or multiple blogs if you prefer!    Sign up

Regular membership in the Writing Community allows you to set up your profile,  network with other writers, readers, agents and publishers, join writers’ groups and participate in forums, and start your own blog.

With Premium membership you also get:

• Free access to all parts of the Writers’ Voices website
• Unlimited podcast downloads
• Free link to your personal writing-related web site

Plus discounts on products and services still to come, including:

• Free postings on the Writers’ Voices Research Assistant – help with any information you need for your writing project
• Discounts on Writers’ Voices Instructional Webcasts and On-line Workshops
• Free attendance at live on-line Writers’ Voices Author Events
• First Author Event for your book – free!

As the Writers’ Voices Writing Community grows, we will be adding features for our Premium Members.  Please join us now and reserve your lifetime free Premium Membership.

• Network with other writers and readers, agents and publishers
• Join on-line writing groups
• Participate in writing-related forums
• Recommend your favorite books
• Start your own blog
• Link to your favorite Writers’ Voices interviews
• Share your writing with your friends
• List your writing-related events on the Writers’ Voices calendar
• Help shape the Writers’ Voices Writing Community

We’d love to have you with us – let’s Get The Words Out!