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Writing Workshops and Seminars

Join UMGC Europe's Military Community Writers (MCW) for creative writing support, including no-cost interactive writing seminars, feedback workshops, and weekly meetings.

UMGC Europe’s Military Community Writers invites you to join us for no-cost interactive seminars and writing workshops throughout the year.  We host special events during the months of November (National Novel Writing Month) and April (National Poetry Month).  Meetings, presentations, and activities are designed not just to correspond to these annual writing events, but they also aim to support writers working in other genres.  Our goal is to encourage and support people looking for inspiration and support with the writing life.

UMGC Europe’s Military Community Writers Welcomes You

UMGC Europe’s Military Community Writers (MCW) welcomes writers of all genres and levels of experience; we welcome members of the UMGC student community along with members of the American military community in Europe. Our goal is to encourage each of you to be at home in the world of words and to infuse that world with your own stories, whether those stories be organized as prose or poetry, fiction or memoir, essay or lyric.

 

Please email Judith.McNeely@UMGC.edu for more information.

Fall 2025 Schedule


Do you have a story to tell and wonder where to begin? Do you start writing only to stop and wonder how to get back to the page? This autumn, stop wondering and take action by joining the UMGC in Europe Military Community Writers (MCW) program, which offers draft feedback sessions, workshops, and meetings that include discussions and writing exercises from prompts.

MONDAY MEETINGS AND WORKSHOPS

All times 1830-2030 CET via ZOOM  

  • 29 September      Open: Prompts and Discussion
  • 6 October              Feedback Workshop*
  • 20 October           Open: Prompts and Discussion
  • 27 October           Writing Workshop with Ron Crouch
  • 3 November         Feedback Workshop*
  • 10 November       Open: Prompts and Discussion
  • 17 November        Feedback Workshop*
  • 1 December          Open: Prompts and Discussion
  • 8 December         Open: Prompts and Discussion 

*Feedback Workshops: In these Zoom workshops, we will exchange drafts and feedback through a shared folder. All genres of writing are welcome. Registration required.

FRIDAY WORKSHOPS

All times 1830-2030 CET Hybrid

  • 17 October  Writing Workshop
  • 27 October  Writing Workshop with Judith McNeely
  • 7 November  Writing Workshop with Nicole Malyj Daone
  • 14 November Writing Workshop with Dr. Malia McCarrick

Hybrid Workshops: Hybrid workshops will be held in Room 100, Building 2104, Ramstein Air Base, with a Zoom attendance option. Zoom links available on request.

Thursday Write Together: Starting October 16, we'll continue the Thursday tradition of gathering on Zoom at 1300-1400 (CET) for discussion of writing processes, projects, and goals.

UMGC Europe MCW workshops are open to members of the U.S. military community in Europe. Affiliation with UMGC is not required. Writers of all genres are welcome to all meetings and workshops.


Email Judith.McNeely@UMGC.edu for more information and to request Zoom links.

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