Last Tuesdays with Joseph!

Join Joseph Lee Meads every last Tuesday of the month as he leads a new writing group with intentions of helping folks critique and fine tune their work. This event is open to all skill levels and all writing genres. It is also held in a space that is not a bar as enough literary events take place in bars, and other options are needed for many reasons.

Joseph, as well as many others, finds himself wanting a writing group that will critique and work together on each other's writing. Everyone benefits from workshopping their pieces with peers. The goal being to help uplift each other's work and skills.

Please feel free to email your work ahead of time to: [email protected], as well as look out for other's work being sent to you to review ahead of time to bring your notes on the 29th.

Joseph Lee Meads (he/him/theirs) is a writer in Philadelphia by way of Nashville via Chicago. He holds his MA in English from The Program for Writers at the University of Illinois at Chicago. His work attempts to process the awkwardness made manifest by trauma that is otherwise inexpressible on the macro level through the micro mechanics of creativity. Influences range from the filmmakers Lizzie Borden and Jean Rollin to the writings of Herman Melville, Samuel R. Delaney, Aimé Césaire, Kathy Acker, andBenedictus de Spinoza through to the music of Alban Berg, The Gun Club, Aphex Twin, and Death Grips while congealed with the poetics of Richard Pryor. He has been published in numerous journals and zines and co-created a free writing and critique group for all genres and for all who are interested in the Philadelphia writing community, which can be reached at [email protected]. He is the proud caretaker of a jewel orchid, her name is February…she’s goddamn lovely. For more information on him or to hear bizarrely erratic raves with a twinge of paranoia, please reach out through Instagram: @j.lee.meads
You can also check out his substack @josephleemeads

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Here are some helpful tips when giving critique of other's work:

What Worked: it's just as important that the writer know what to keep doing as what to improve. So be generous with praise and kudos here, and note everything they did well.

What to Work On: share what didn't work, but make sure you avoid critiquing anything that's based on your personal reading preferences. Point out issues like continuity errors, for example, but not the writer's genre choice.

Suggested Resources: if you know of any great resources that might help the writer, share them.

Host or Publisher Krystle Griffin