Writing Club Name Generator

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Generate writing club names for critique groups, school and campus writers' societies, NaNoWriMo sprint groups, poetry circles, screenwriting rooms and online Discord communities, from clean and literary (The Inkwell, Palimpsest) to punny (Prose and Cons, Comma Chameleons, Kill Your Darlings).

About writing club names

Good writing club names usually come from the tools and rituals of writing itself: ink, quills, pens, drafts, margins, deadlines, word counts and the red pen of revision. That is why The Inkwell, Rough Drafts, Red Pen Society and Word Count Warriors are the kind of names that actually end up on a library noticeboard or a Discord server. Punctuation puns are the second big vein (Comma Chameleons, The Semicolon Club, Em Dash Enthusiasts, Oxford Comma Collective), followed by craft-advice jokes like Kill Your Darlings and Show Don't Tell that only writers will get.

Literary history gives a more grown-up option. Famous real writing groups, the Inklings, the Bloomsbury Set and the Algonquin Round Table, are endlessly riffed on, and a nod to a shared favourite author (Brontë Bunch, Poe Folks, Hemingway's Six Words) tells new members what the group reads. Genre clubs do best with a name that signals the genre: Spellcheck Coven for fantasy, Red Herring Society for mystery, Slow Burn Society for romance, Fade In for screenwriters.

Finally, consider when and where you meet. Tuesday Typists, Coffee and Commas, Porch Light Poets and The Kitchen Table Writers are plain, warm and easy to remember, which matters more than cleverness once you are printing it on a flyer or naming a shared folder.

How to choose writing club names

Say the name out loud and picture it on a flyer or Discord server: Ink Slingers and Write Club survive that test, a three-line pun often does not.
Match the name to the group's seriousness. Critique-heavy workshops suit sober names (The Writing Lab, Palimpsest, Critique Circle); social groups can be sillier (Prose Before Bros, Wine and Words, Writers in Pajamas).
If your club is genre-specific, put the genre in the name so the right people find you: Spellcheck Coven, Whodunit Writers, Starship Scribes, Slow Burn Society.
For school or campus clubs, a short pun with the word 'write' or 'ink' (Write On, Inky Fingers, The Write Stuff) is easy for advisers to approve and for students to remember.
Check the name is not already used by a local group, a publisher or a well-known podcast before you print anything; a quick search saves an awkward rename later.

Frequently asked questions

What should I name a school or college writing club?

Short, upbeat names work best for student groups: Write On, Inky Fingers, The Write Stuff, Young Quills, Campus Writers or Student Scribes. A literary reference like Inklings of Our Own or Brontë Bunch adds a bit of class if the club is attached to an English department.

What is a good name for a critique group or writing workshop?

Critique groups usually pick something calm and craft-focused so new members know feedback is the point: Critique Circle, The Writing Lab, Red Pen Society, Track Changes, Honest Ink or Workshop Wednesdays. Kill Your Darlings is the classic in-joke name for a group that edits hard.

Do you have names for a NaNoWriMo or writing-sprint group?

Yes: November Novelists, NaNo Nomads, Fifty Thousand Words, Word Count Warriors, Word Sprinters, Thirty Days of Words and Thousand Words a Day all describe a group built around word-count goals and timed sprints, whether you meet in person or in a Discord voice channel.

Can I use one of these names for a real club, newsletter or Discord server?

Yes. The names here are original or based on common phrases and public-domain literary references, so you can use them freely for a club, server, newsletter or anthology. Just search the name first to make sure a nearby group or a publisher is not already using it.

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A: 15 names

Above the Fold
Act One
Act Three Problems
Active Voices
Adverbs Anonymous
After Hours Authors
Algonquin Round Table Revival
Alias Authors
Alliteration Alliance
Aspiring Authors
Austen Ink
Austentatious Writers
Author Hour
Authoring Authority
Authors in Progress

B: 23 names

Bagels and Ballads
Ballpoint Brigade
Bardolaters
Beer and Verse
Beta Readers Club
Between the Stacks
Bird and Baby Club
Blank Page Brigade
Blank Verse Brigade
Blocked and Loaded
Blog Cabin
Bloggers' Bloc
Blood Ink
Bloomsbury Bunch
Bloomsbury Set Two
Bookmark and Pen
Bourbon and Bylines
Broke Writers Club
Brontë Bunch
Brunch Writers
Brutal Feedback Friends
Bury the Lede
Byline Club

C: 23 names

Caffeine and Chapters
Campus Writers
Chapter and Verse
Chapter Chasers
Chapter One
Chapter Twelve Regrets
Clue Club
Cocktails and Characters
Coffee and Commas
Cold Open
Comma Chameleons
Composition Book Club
Content and Discontent
Control Z
Copy That
Couch Novelists
Courier Collective
Cozy Mystery Circle
Critical Mass
Critique Circle
Crypt Writers
Ctrl+S
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D: 27 names

Dangling Modifiers
Dark Ink
Day Job Writers
Deadline Dodgers
Deadline Drifters
Deadline Poets Society
Dear Diary
Debut Dreamers
Desk Drawer Novelists
Desk Jockeys
Detectives' Desk
Diarists United
Dickens Devotees
Dickensians
Dispatches from the Desk
Dog-Eared Drafts
Dorm Room Drafts
Drabble Club
Drabblers
Draft Dodgers
Draft Horses
Draft Punks
Dragon Ink
Dragons and Drafts
Drawer Full of Drafts
Dreamers and Drafters
Due Yesterday

E: 7 names

Eagle and Child Writers
Edit Happens
Elevator Pitch
Em Dash Enthusiasts
Enemies to Lovers Club
Eraser Heads
Espresso Prose

F: 24 names

Fablemakers
Fabulists
Fade In
Fade to Black
Fairy Tale Forge
Falling Action
Fantasy Fiction Forum
Feedback Loop
Fiction Factory
Fifty Thousand Words
Final Draft Forever
First Folio Fellowship
First Person Plural
Flash Fiction Friday
Flash Forward
Flash Mob Writers
Font of Knowledge
Fountain of Prose
Fountain Pen Friends
Fourth Estate
Free Verse Freaks
Friday Fictioneers
Friendly Ghosts
Future Tense

G: 10 names

Garamond Gang
Garret Dwellers
Garret Gang
Gazette Gang
Gin and Prosody
Gothic Quills
Grammar Gremlins
Grammar Police Academy
Graphite Guild
Graveyard Shift Writers

H: 14 names

Haiku Harbor
Haiku Hive
Happily Ever Drafters
Hardboiled Writers
Headline Hunters
Heart and Ink
Helvetica Haters
Hemingway's Six Words
Hold the Front Page
Honest Ink
Horror Writers' Lodge
Hot Metal Type
Hundred Word Heroes
Hyperbole Heroes

I: 21 names

Iambic Pentameter Club
Idea Farm
Idea Orchard
Illuminated Manuscripts
Inciting Incident
Ink and Feather
Ink Before Dawn
Ink Drinkers
Ink Heart
Ink on Paper
Ink Slingers
Ink Stained Wretches
Ink Witches
Inkblots
Inklings of Our Own
Inklings Revisited
Inkwell Irregulars
Inky Fingers
Inspiration Station
Invisible Ink
Ivory Tower Dropouts

J: 4 names

Journal Junkies
Journaling Circle
Junior Scribes
Just One More Chapter

K: 3 names

Kill Your Darlings
Kind Critics
Kiss and Tell Writers

L: 20 names

Latte Literati
Lead and Ink
Legend Builders
Letter Writers Guild
Lexiconartists
Library Card Club
Library Lurkers
Licensed to Quill
Limerick League
Line Editors
Lit Society
Literary Fiction Forum
LitFic Lounge
Logline Legends
Long Form Lovers
Long Story Short
Loose Leaf
Lost Generation Revisited
Love Letters Club
Lunch Break Writers

M: 22 names

Magic and Manuscripts
Mapmakers and Mythmakers
Margin Callers
Marginalia
Meet Cute Collective
Metaphor Mixers
Micro Fiction Collective
Midnight Horror Writers
Midnight Ink
Midnight Manuscripts
Mixed Metaphors
Morning Pages
Movable Feast
Moveable Type
Muffins and Metaphors
Muse Bait
Muse Chasers
Muse Wranglers
Museum of Unfinished Novels
Mystery Ink
Myth Makers
Mythmakers' Guild

N: 22 names

NaNo Nomads
Narrative Arc
Narrative Drive
Nevermore Writers
Newbie Novelists
Newsletter Nerds
Next Chapter
Night Owls Writing Circle
Nine to Five to Novel
No Adjectives Allowed
Noir Nights
Nom de Plume Club
Noms de Plume
Notebook Nation
Notebook Nomads
Novel Approach
Novel Attempts
Novel Gazers
Novel Ideas
Novel Tea
Novelists Anonymous
November Novelists

O: 4 names

Olivetti Collective
Once Upon a Time Club
Open Mic Poets
Oxford Comma Collective

P: 48 names

Page and Stage
Page Break
Page One
Page Turners
Pajama Prose
Palimpsest
Pamphleteers
Paper Cuts
Paper Tigers
Paper Trail
Paperback Writers
Papyrus Press
Parchment Press
Passive Voices
Past Deadline
Past Tense
Pen Names
Pencil Pushers
Permanent Ink
Phantom Pens
Pints and Poems
Pitch Perfect Pages
Playwrights' Pub
Plot Bunnies

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Plot Device
Plot Holes
Plot Twisters
Poe Folks
Poetic License
Poetry in Motion
Poetry Posse
Poets and Pints
Poets' Corner
Point of View
Pomodoro Prose
Porch Light Poets
Postcard Poets
Present Tense
Press Pass
Procrastination Station
Prologue Club
Prose and Cons
Prose Before Bros
Prose Garden
Prose Lab
Prose Wizards
Pulp Fictioneers
Pulp Friction

Q: 5 names

Query Letter Club
Quests and Quills
Quill Power
Quill Seekers
Quills and Thrills

R: 14 names

Ravens and Writers
Read Write Repeat
Readers Who Write
Red Ink
Red Pen Society
Rejected and Dejected
Rejection Collection
Remington Writers
Revision Quest
Rewrite Club
Rhyme and Reason
Rhyme Scheme
Rising Action
Romance Writers' Circle

S: 54 names

Sans Serif
Saturday Scribblers
Scene and Heard
Scene Stealers
Sci-Fi Scribes
Screen Scribes
Screenwriters' Block
Scribblers Anonymous
Scribes and Scribblers
Script Doctors
Script Surgeons
Scriptorium
Second Draft
Second Person Singular
Seed Ideas
Serif Society
Short Stack Stories
Short Story Society
Show Don't Tell
Shower Thought Writers
Side Hustle Scribes
Six Word Stories
Slant Rhyme
Slow Burn Society
Slush Puppies
Smash Cut
Snacks and Syntax

S, continued

Sonnet Squad
Space Opera Society
Speculative Circle
Spellbinders
Spellcheck Coven
Spinning Yarns
Split Infinitives
Spoken Word Society
Stacks and Stories
Stanza Club
Starship Scribes
Starving Artists Writing Club
Stop the Presses
Story Forge
Story Garden
Story Lab
Story Seeds
Storycraft
Storytellers Guild
Stratford Scribes
Stream of Consciousness
Strong Verbs
Student Scribes
Sunday Scribes
Sweatpants and Sentences
Swords and Semicolons
Syntax Error

T: 87 names

Table Read
Tall Tales Society
Tea and Typewriters
Teen Ink Collective
Tense Situations
The 5 AM Writers
The Attic Writers
The Author Table
The Back Room Writers
The Bard's Apprentices
The Basement Press
The Broadsheet
The Bulletin
The Bylines
The Codex
The Crit Group
The Darlings
The Dispatch
The Editors' Table
The Epilogue Society
The Epistolary Society
The Fabulist Club
The Feather and Ink
The Footnotes
The Garret
The Ghost Writers
The Inkpot
The Inkwell
The Kitchen Table Writers

T, continued

The Literati
The Manuscripts
The Margin Notes
The Next Page
The Novelties
The Pen Pals
The Pitch Room
The Playwrights
The Plot Thickens
The Poetry Pit
The Press Gang
The Procrastinators
The Quill and Candle
The Quillers
The Red Herring Society
The Redrafters
The Revisionists
The Rough Drafts
The Round Table
The Run-On Sentence
The Script Room
The Scriptorium Club
The Scriveners
The Semicolon Club
The Slush Pile
The Sonneteers
The Speculators
The Spellcheckers
The Subplotters

T, continued

The Tell-Tale Hearts
The Treehouse Writers
The Typewriter Club
The WIPs
The Word Factory
The Workshop
The Writers' Bench
The Writers' Den
The Writers' Table
The Writing Lab
The Writing Room
The Writing Shed
Things That Go Write in the Night
Third Person Limited
Thirty Days of Words
Thousand Words a Day
Thriller Mill
Thursday Thinkers
Time Travelers Writing Club
Times New Romance
Tomorrow's Chapter
Track Changes
Train of Thought
Trunk Novels
Tuesday Typists
Turn the Page
Typewriter Orchestra
Typo Negative
Typos and Tea

U: 4 names

Underwood Union
Unreliable Narrators
Untitled Document
Untitled Draft 47

V: 5 names

Verse Chorus Verse
Verse Vice Versa
Vicious Circle
Villanelle Village
Vocab Rehab

W: 39 names

We'll Write Tomorrow
Weekend Wordsmiths
Weird Fiction Wednesday
Whodunit Writers
Wine and Words
Wine Dark Prose
WIP It Good
WIP Lash
Word Count Warriors
Word Count Wednesday
Word Herd
Word Mill
Word Nerds
Word of Mouth
Word Play
Word Sprinters
Word Witches
Wordhoard
Wordplay Collective
Words Worth Reading
Wordsmiths
Wordsworth Less
Works in Progress
Workshop Wednesdays
Worldbuilders Anonymous
Worldbuilding Workshop
Write Club
Writer's Block
Writer's Refuge
Writer's Retreat
Writers in Pajamas
Writers Who Read
Writers Without Borders
Writers' Block Party
Writers' Circle
Writers' Guild of Nowhere
Writers' Nest
Writers' Nook
Writers' Union Local 1

Y: 3 names

Yarn Spinners
Young Quills
Young Writers' Circle

Z: 2 names

Zine Machine
Zine Scene