Join us in sharing your stories, your knowledge, and your humanity.
Tell your story
Storytelling is at the heart of UMGC’s Military Community Writers’ (MCW) mission to promote, nurture, and advocate for a community of writers who will share their stories, their knowledge, and their humanity. Generations of war veterans have used fiction, poetry, and memoir to tell their stories, transforming traumatic memories and war experiences into fictionally truthful renderings or into memoirs that simultaneously preserve and narrate factual accounts. Today’s Global War on Terrorism veterans are following this tradition.
Join Our Community
UMGC’s Military Community Writers
- Focus on creative writing as a means of sharing experiences
- Advocate for writing practice and publication
- Use writing to strengthen bonds across the UMGC military community
We support members who seek creative, professional, and personal writing support as well as publication outlets. It is also our hope that bonds formed through shared writing practice and publication opportunities will lead to new writing skills as well as to newfound personal resources.
We welcome students who are
- Active-duty military
- Military veterans
- Military family members
Enter Our Gateway
These pages serve as a gateway through which face-to-face groups from Europe may connect with each other and with outside resource groups for writing support. It is our hope that you will join us as we share our stories, our poems, and our experiences.
For More Information
Contact: Judith.McNeely@UMGC.edu