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Bakersfield Writer’s Cult
We don’t write to fit in. We write to conjure.
A place for Bakersfield writers to make the page, pressure the draft, find honest readers, gather around the work, and finish something worth sending into the world.
Find your way in
Write
Begin
Gather
Read
Writers + artists
Enter visual challenges, propose a group exhibition, or find the artist or writer your next cover, comic, zine, or impossible project has been waiting for.
The reading room
Zine · Fiction
The University of St. Brielle Library closed at midnight, but the building didn’t sleep. Iris learned this on her third overnight shift, seated at the circulation desk with a…
By Michael ClaytonThe live circle
Gatherings
The next gathering has not been called yet.
Workshops
The Writing Lab
Draw an individual warm-up or choose something for the whole room: games, collaboration, unusual formats, and poetry exercises.
Resource library
What holds the room together
“We celebrate inspiration. But we worship revision.”
The work can be strange, unfinished, difficult, or wrong. The room must still be honest, generous, and safe enough to risk the next draft.
Already inside?
Return to the private Writer Studio for drafts, goals, sprints, critique, messages, and submissions.