House, Divided
 La Tempestad
 The Ballad of John Wesley Reed
 Girl Science
 The Allure of Oriental Wisdom
 Memorial Day (formerly Varia)
 Pride of the Lion
 The Dostoyevsky Man


 Monica for Chanukah
 Angie and Arnie Sanguine
 Edward and Ellie Supine
 The Lion Eats His Lunch
 The Lion in His Lair
 The Lion Leaves His Mark
 Prayers


 But Who's Counting?
 Emma Goldman Imagines the Millenium


 Just Before the War Between the Plates
 I Can Handle That


 Talking  with Lee Blessing

...with Tom Coash
...with Mary Fengar Gail
...with Richard Kalinowsky
...with Jamie Pachino
...with David Rambo
...with Jason Sherman
...with Naomi Wallace
...with Tom Gibbons
...with Dick Goldberg

Working Writers Group is a Philadelphia-area writers workshop.

Working Writers Group (WWG) was formed in late 1985. The original members met as strangers at a gathering sponsored by the Philadelphia Writers Organization in a rambling old house in Germantown. The thirty or so people who attended broke into groups around declared interests, poets in one room, fiction writers and screen writers in others. Those of us who formed Working Writers Group were less genre conscious but there was general agreement on one principle: that the people who joined not be looking for a group to motivate them to write. We wanted working writers.

In the fall of 2005 the group is 20 years old. From the beginning we have kept thing simple. We meet about once a month for three hours or so. We consider no more than two pieces of work in an evening, always sent at least two weeks in advance. We look at a work as often as the writer needs us to, in any form from first draft to final polish. We rotate where we meet, taking over each other's living rooms, and banishing significant others, pets, and children. We don't serve elaborate food, just cofee, tea, some cookies or coffee cake. Eating and socializing are secondary. We meet to talk about our writing.

Over the years we have been meeting we have seen each other's work published in newspapers, magazines, and books, and produced on stage projected on screen, and broadcast on radio and television. The group has thrived, in part, because each meeting offers a chance to explore the new world of a work-in-progress, and to feel provoked, surprised, or delighted by what we find there. We are no longer strangers. We have become indispensable to each other, the most skeptical and supportive readers, the toughest and kindest critics.

Working Writers Group adds members occasionally on an application basis if we fall below our ideal number, which is nine members. An invitation to submit work for consideration may be initiated by any group members but final admission to the group is by group consensus. The process is as follows. We require a submission to the group, which may be followed by an invitation to visit the group, which will be followed by at least a one meeting delay while membership is considered. In other words, we will want to review your writing, and see you interact in the group as a critic of someone else's writing before we consider membership. An other significant issue for membership is location: We are centered in the Philadelphia Area and members must be willing to travel to each others homes for meetings and must be able to host meetings at a location convenient for all members.

Please query about membership openings to larry@loebell.com

A HUNDRED AND ONE NIGHTS
An Anthology by the members of Working Writers Group

Published 1996,
90 pages, Working Writers Group
Cost to Order: $5.00 plus shipping
Contact larry@loebell.com for ordering information.