The North Texas Speculative Fiction Workshop is a monthly live writing workshop for speculative fiction writers. See our main website at http://www.ntsfw.com

Love to read?  Love to spend time in a book store? Are books practically a line item in the family budget? If your answer is "yes," come meet your people. Two years ago, we began with three readers as the McKinney Fiction Book Club with our first book - Cutting for Stone, a novel by Abraham Verghese. We loved it with a great and fiery passion and have been on a quest to find contemporary literature just as good ever since. Along the way we started a Classics series.  Then we added some book-and …

Learn how to get an agent, editor, publisher, ghost writer, and other writing industry persons. Meet other local Science Fiction Fantasy Writers! Gather to network, exchange ideas, and socialize with others who are interested in sci-fi fantasy writing!

This group was created to provide TSFA members, ConDFW fans, and attendees more times to meet outside of the convention, to sustain the community that has been built up during the convention over the years. What would you like to see, attend, do? Please let me know!

Meet kindred book lovers in a local Meetup Book Club! If you have a addiction for books you are more than welcome to feed it here. Fiction or non-fiction, paperback or hardcover, it doesn't matter as long as you love to read. Come to laugh, share stories and make new friends! Very relaxed casual atmosphere.

Read a good book lately and want to share it with others? Do you prefer poetry, plays, or classical literature? Are you frustrated by the current political atmosphere and would like to discuss various political commentaries? Or are you a sucker for reading science, computer technology, or other research articles? How about autobiographies, biographies, or historical nonfiction/fiction? I believe there is something to learn in everything; I love to read and to discuss stories, philosophies, and i …

This book club is for people who like to read science fiction. We meet once a month (every fourth Wednesday at 7:00 pm) at the Half Price Books on the southeast corner of 75 and Northwest Highway. We meet at the tables at the back of Black Forest Coffee in Half Price Books. Look for the red and white Meetup sign. The succeeding science fiction book selection is chosen by popular vote by the attending members of each meetup. Please keep your RSVP up-to-date. If this is your first visit to a meeti …

This group explores writing opportunities in the Dallas/Fort Worth area; forms critique circles; and shares writing resources and talents for personal improvement and the greater good.  We welcome writers of all skill levels, including beginners, and our work spans a wide variety of genres, including poetry, fiction, journaling, grant-writing, business-writing, news writing, creative nonfiction, ekphrastic writing, and other types of composition.  Our meetings are nonjudgemental events in which …

A group for romance, mystery, science fiction/fantasy readers and authors in the Dallas Fort Worth metroplex. We do a monthly tea at a tearoom around the metroplex, alternating east and west sides, as well as trips to Denton and Duncanville, plus our fabulous Holiday Tea. If you read and love to discuss your books and authors, this is a great group with lively on-line discussion as well as the opportunity to meet in person. We also meet on the first Tuesday in Fort Worth and the third Wednesday …

This is a group for women to meet and discuss best-selling fiction (with a little chick-lit from time to time) while socializing with new and old friends in the Uptown area. We'll be meeting one evening a month to drink wine, eat a nice dinner (if you wish) and enjoy some laughs while we discuss our latest book. So take a break from your jobs, leave the family at home, and come join a great group of women once a month for some (hopefully intellectual) conversation and fun!

Good books, good food, good conversations! We're a small group of readers that likes to explore new things. Each month we choose a book and a restaurant to try, and we like to keep it diverse. Recent reads include The Etched City, Wild: From Lost to Found on the Pacific Crest Trail, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, and Anna Dressed in Blood. Our topics range wildly, sometimes related to the book, sometimes not. Think we're a good fit? Give us a try.

Chapter Chix is a reading group comprised of Christian ladies gathering monthly for fellowship and the discussion of books. The genre of our monthly book selections consists of fiction (mostly historical fiction) and non-fiction biographies. Chapter Chix is open to new members by invitation only.

The North Texas Writers Network is dedicated to improving the writing skills of members. Our active members write both fiction and non-fiction, at all levels of expertise. Please check our calendar for meeting details. During our meetings, we will discuss a topic dedicated to the craft of writing. Following the discussion, we offer peer critique sessions.

Meetup together on tv/movie events and conventions. Organize special events. Play Sci-fi games together: regarding Star Trek and Sci-fi..

Come join us for a fun field night of SciFi Movies and Games. We chat and talk in the forums at http://www.scififx.com and we get together and talk once a month about everything SciFi, and apparently we also have a few more weird members that like the Muppets!

If you have a Nook or Kindle and love to read, this is the group for you! We will be going beyond the traditional book reading and turning the books into multi-character podcasts at an authors request. The work we do will be FREE and for exposure only but im working on other incentives as well. You can be a regular for multiple books or stop at one. The choice is yours! So join us as lets spin a twist on some already great literature. You must be open to read from any genre (fiction, sci fi, fan …

This Meetup group was founded in New York City by Amy Goldman. When Amy moved from the Big Apple to Big D, she decided to give it a go here. The Dallas Fab Females was founded May 19, 2011. Two short years later, we are 356 members strong and growing every day. We typically have 2 Meetups a month at great new restaurants as well as tried-and-true favorites. We choose a book each month as well, but reading it is never mandatory to attend one of our events. If you like meeting other fabulous women …

We meet the 3rd Tuesday of every month at 8 p.m. in the cafe at Central Market (at Lovers & Greenville) to talk about the articles that piqued each of our interests in the New Yorker magazine issues delivered during the 4 weeks before the meeting week. And you don't have to be a New Yorker to love "The New Yorker." This is a very diverse group that has had about 125 members since its founding 5 years ago, some lifelong Texans and others from all parts. Very informal and informative; everyone …

Interested in being published? Come to the Motorcycle High book event at Barnes & Noble, Creekwalk, Plano, on Feb. 9, 2013 from 3-5. Author Dave Harrold will discuss how he wrote his novel based on his real-life world motorcycle riding adventures. Viveca Smith of Viveca Smith Publishing will answer questions from the publisher's point of view. Topics include what does a publisher look for in a novel, how to approach a publisher with your manuscript if you don't have an agent, and any other quest …

Laid-back group, meeting once a month to discuss all things writing, publishing, and writing-related. Writing can be a solitary profession and obsession, and it helps to know others who love the written word just as much as you do.

This group is designed to create social events for Dallas/Fort Worth area fans of Doctor Who (and its spinoff series like Torchwood and The Sarah Jane Adventures). This is for fans of the old series as well as the new series, recent discoverers and long-term devotees. Activities may include program viewings, potluck dinners/get-togethers, theme parties, trivia nights, etc., all designed to encourage positive interaction between local Whovians. The possibilities are as endless as our imaginations …

***WEEKLY GROUP*** is successful only if those attending participate. PLEASE RSVP EVERY WEEK. If you have a story to tell, a poem to recite, some spoken word to be heard, this is the group for you.  This weekly show is about the art of the written and spoken word.  It allows you to find your voice and let your creative freak flag fly. No experience necessary.  All welcome. Each week you will hear a new story, a poem or spoken word piece from various people like yourself who are writers, poets, a …

This is a group of twenty and thirty-somethings in the Dallas area that love to read! We read and discuss all types of books - fiction, nonfiction, new and old... Books are chosen by the group members every few months so there is always something interesting to look forward to!  We meet the first Monday of every month at various hot spots around Dallas, usually a wine bar or coffee shop. Hope you can join us! **If you have any questions, please check out the Frequently Asked Questions section of …

Hello everyone! Welcome to the Cult Film Fanatics, a home in the Dallas/Forth Worth area for Movie Addicts to celebrate their love for the unconventional! You may be asking yourself how do I know if I'm a cult film fanatic, well let me ask you these questions: Do you watch the Rocky Horror Picture Show and find yourself doing the audience participation stuff at home and not realize you are doing it until others stare at you? Do you want to own a Fushigi only because it reminds you of Labyrinth …

We're a local writers group based in Keller, TX that provides critiques, support, education, and networking to both published and aspiring authors in all genres of writing. We meet the SECOND and LAST Sunday of the month at 2pm at the Keller Public Library on Johnson Rd. Annual dues are $35 (via check or cash in person, mailing address provided upon request). Dues include: °Free admission to our meetings (2nd and last Sunday of every month). °Online critique, as well as in person critique sessi …

The Dallas Atheist Book Club is a place for freethinkers (atheists, agnostics, skeptics, secularists, etc.) to read and to engage in lively discussion about books relating to atheism, freethought, science, history, governance, biography, psychology, philosophy, and some fiction. We try to meet on the second Wednesday of each month at 7:00 PM for the book review. This is usually followed up with a social gathering at a local restaurant or bar for dinner and drinks at 9:00 PM. We also occasional …

Do you ever read (or listen to) a book and just want to tell someone about it so you can laugh/cry/get emotional over it too? Me too. I love to read. And listen to books. And watch the movies of books that I can't get through. I really enjoying discussing what I liked and didn't like about books with some awesome people! And yeah, occasionally it's fun to talk about the themes and tone and antagonist, but sometimes it's just fun to talk about which actor would play which character in the movie. …

We live in a very promising time. It is also a very challenging time. At least that’s how it looks like to us humans. It’s a time when the human spirit is triumphing and books are being rewritten. Love, sharing & the healing of our fellow man is becoming what is normal. The other side of this coin is a reality full of people who are hurting - who are hurting other people who are hurting. It is causing a great disturbance that is rooted in the spiritual and that manifests physically as war, …