What Cheer Writers Club

With so many local creatives in financial straits, What Cheer Writers Club is holding a practicum on financial relief available to writers, illustrators and podcasters negatively impacted by Covid or otherwise in need of funding for creative projects. Register now for Writer Relief: Funds & Fellowships for RI Creatives with RISCA’s Mollie Flanagan, online on […]

YOU’RE INVITED to What Fear! A Virtual Masquerade, a fundraising event for What Cheer Writers Club on Friday, October 30 at 7pm. Throughout the evening in-the-moment donations unlock tricks, readings and other amusements as we celebrate two years of serving a thriving literary arts community in Rhode Island.   What: What Fear! A Virtual Masquerade is […]

Celebrate the end of NaNoWriMo and your word count accomplishments with fellow Rhode Island writers who took the National Novel Writing Month challenge at a virtual cocktail party with What Cheer Writers Club. On Fri, Dec 4 at 5pm, we'll share triumphs and challenges and look ahead to what's next, all while celebrating your writing.

Not since 1918 has the nation and state experienced a pandemic, with its enormous loss of lives, daily life and for many, livelihoods. With much of the culture on hold, reading books has become perhaps more important than ever. Join us at 7 p.m. Thurs, Dec 10, for a discussion with five Rhode Island authors […]

2020 was a year of chaos and crisis, pandemic and protest, anxiety and loss. Despite many barriers, Rhode Island writers continued to create out of the solitude and stress. On Fri, Jan 15 at 5pm Club Members gather online to read work reflective of the events of 2020. Join us for a cathartic virtual showcase […]

Rhode Island writers, illustrators and podcasters of color are invited to What Cheer Writers Club’s BIPOC/POC Creatives Happy Hour online Fri, Feb 19 from 5-6pm. Come share about your creative projects, and how you are facing the unique challenges of creating and finding community as an artist of color in the age of Covid. The […]

Support for writing projects can feel scarce, but a strong grant proposal can open new opportunities, expanding your creative practice in the process. Join What Cheer Writers Club for Grantwriting for Writers, a conversation with Assets for Artists’ Molly Rideout online Thurs, March 4 at 7pm. Learn how to think innovatively about funding opportunities, place […]

Rhode Island writers, illustrators and podcasters of color are invited to What Cheer Writers Club’s B/I/POC Creatives Happy Hour online Fri, April 9 from 5-6pm. Come share about your creative projects, and how you are facing the unique challenges of creating and finding community as an artist of color in the age of Covid. The […]