Events › Valencia Writing Group

This writing group meets weekly on Tuesdays from 5:30pm to 7:00pm at the Valencia Library, July 8 through August 12. 

Writing can be a lonely experience––but a positive creative community can make all the difference. This writing group, facilitated by writer-in-residence Logan Phillips, is for writers of all genres & experience levels. We’ll have space to share our works-in-progress, offer feedback, discuss readings and explore writing prompts. Flexible enough to be applicable to a wide variety of interests and projects, the generative activities will also help us get out of our creative comfort zones. The intention is to improve our own writing and motivation by helping other writers improve their own.

Before applying, please check that you can commit to: attending a minimum 4 of the 6 sessions (space is limited!), completing the readings between sessions (max 10 pages, copies provided), and doing your best to offer constructive feedback to your peers (guidance provided). The Valencia Library is at 202 W. Valencia Rd, the group starts promptly at 5:30pm.

Registration procedure: Check the upper right of this page to see if the group is full. To apply to join the writing group, send an email about yourself and your interest to literaryarts@pima.gov , and include your phone number. Space is limited.

Read more about the Writer in Residence program. 

Logan Phillips works in poetry and culture. Holding collaboration as a core creative practice, he has contributed to a wide range of performance, music and community-centered education projects in the US, Mexico, Colombia and beyond.

Phillips is a volunteer organizer with TBOSC - Tucson Birthplace Open Space Coalition, an intercultural effort to strengthen Indigenous sovereignty at the base of Chuk Shon / Sentinel Peak / 'A' Mountain. His second full-length book of poetry and creative nonfiction, Reckon, is forthcoming from The University of Arizona Press in 2026.

The Writer in Residence Program is made possible by the Arizona State Library, Archives, and Public Records, a division of the Secretary of State, with federal funds from the Institute of Museum and Library Services.