

Community & Learning Opportunities

Core elements to the Casa de la Rosa Writer-In-Residence experience is growing your community and challenging yourself to improve and enhance your writing and speaking skills. Engaging others and active learning are catalysts to your own creative processes. Writing is both an inward and outward process.
We strive to build community within the Casa da la Rosa membership while acknowledging we are only one small spec in the Universe. In Valley of the Sun, we are blessed to have access to many other social groups, literary events and learning opportunities. We encourage you to explore new areas for yourself. Each writers's experience is unique unto themselves and will not look like anyone else's.
No need to be overwhelmed by the wealth of options. Keep it simple and start by selecting one new social experience and one new learning experience.
Local Writer Clubs & Groups
Tempe Writers Club
Phoenix Writers Club
Scottsdale Society of Women Writers



Local Writer Events
ASU Virginia Piper Creative Writing Center Annual Conference "Desert Nights, Rising Stars" (Tempe)
Changing Hands Bookstore (Tempe)
Casa Libre en la Solana (Tucson)



Local Writer Classes & Workshops
Changing Hands Books (Tempe)
Virginia G Piper Center for Creative Writing (Tempe)
The Writers Studio (Tucson)



Online Writers Classes
(sponsored by U of Iowa)
Massachusetts Institute of Technology - OpenCourseWare
University of Washington Extension



Local
Library Events
Tempe Public Library
Mesa Public Library
Scottsdale Public Library
Chandler Public Library



Local Schools & Universities
Arizona State University
University of Arizona
Maricopa County
Mesa Community College
Scottsdale Community College
Rio Salado Community College
Gateway Community College
Scottsdale Community College



National Writer Organizations
Association of Writers & Writers Programs
Writers Guild of America
Authors Guild



Local
Bookstores
Changing Hands (Tempe)
ASU Bookstore (Tempe)
Barnes & Noble (Tempe & Chandler)
Book Gallery (Phoenix)
Half Priced Books (Phx)
Alcuin Books (Scottsdale)
Poisoned Pen (Scottsdale)
Booksman (Mesa & Scottsdale)
Guidon Books (Scottsdale)
Old Town Books (Tempe)
Palabras Libreria (Phoenix)



Local Book Festivals & Fairs
Tucson Book Festival



Community Centers
ASU Virginia Piper Creative Writing Center
Changing Hands Bookstore



International Retreats
Himalayan Writers Workshop


