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About the Geneva Writers' Group   Founded in 1993, the Geneva Writers’ Group brings together over 100 English-language writers from 26 countries. Its objective is to encourage all forms of creative writing in English. The GWG is a non-profit group with links to International PEN, the International Writers’ Residence at the Château de Lavigny, the Paris Writers Workshop, and the International Women’s Writing Guild. Membership is open to anyone interested in developing creative writing skills in English. To be eligible, writers must attend three workshops each year. Support and encouragement are given to both beginning and published writers. Meetings are held monthly at the Geneva Press Club from September to June with a program of writing workshops, critiquing sessions, master classes, and readings. Since 1998 the group has held the biennial Geneva Writers’ Conference, at Webster University, Bellevue/Geneva, welcoming 180 writers from around the world. Poets & Writers Magazine published a feature on the 2004 Conference in its March /April issue. The 7th Geneva Writers’ Conference will beheld on February 5-7, 2010. See here for more details and booking information. The GWG also hosted the first conference in Europe for the International Women’s Writers’ Guild, October 1-2, 2005. The group publishes Offshoots, Writing from Geneva and beyond, a biennial review of prose and poetry, distributed in Europe and the USA. Volume 10 was launched in September 2009 and copies can be obtained here. Other activities include critiquing of members' works, assistance with establishing small, independent critiquing groups for specific genres, public readings anda mentoring service for GWG members with instructors in Europe and the USA.