The Writer's Workout
Be a better writer.
Mission
The Writer's Workout seeks to motivate and encourage self-growth and development of creative writers around the world through accessible education. We can help you be a better writer.
Ruling year
2020
Executive Director
Theresa Green
Main address
1410 Lonas Dr
Maryville, TN 37803 USA
EIN
82-2397025
NTEE code
Printing, Publishing (A33)
Programs and results
What we aim to solve
Writers around the world struggle with low publication rates and difficulty finding publication opportunities for their writing. We provide educational services to help writers understand the industry and improve their success rates.
Our programs
What are the organization's current programs, how do they measure success, and who do the programs serve?
Writer's Games
The Writer's Games is a six-week competition where writers around the world create short stories from surprise challenges with a quick deadline. Entries are evaluated and critiqued by a team and winners are published in an anthology.
WayWords Literary Journal
This quarterly literary journal inspires fresh ideas from writers around the world in all stages of their writing career. We welcome everyone using words as a way forward.
Where we work
External reviews
Our results
How does this organization measure their results? It's a hard question but an important one.
Number of students who demonstrate writing ability
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Related Program
Writer's Games
Type of Metric
Context - describing the issue we work on
Direction of Success
Holding steady
Context Notes
This metric measures the physical number of annual registrants for our competition. Registration limitations fluctuate so we measure by available percentage instead. We hold steady at 120%.
Number of students registered for online courses
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Output - describing our activities and reach
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric describes the number of people registered to receive updates on our website content. This metric does not chart organic reach via social media.
Number of students who feel their program structure provides opportunities to engage in interdisciplinary work
This metric is no longer tracked.Totals By Year
Population(s) Served
Adults
Type of Metric
Outcome - describing the effects on people or issues
Direction of Success
Increasing
Context Notes
This metric describes the number of individual writers we published in each year listed. Our organization has been publishing writers since 2016.
Goals & Strategy
Learn about the organization's key goals, strategies, capabilities, and progress.
Charting impact
Four powerful questions that require reflection about what really matters - results.
What is the organization aiming to accomplish?
The Writer's Workout seeks to help creative writers around the world take responsibility for their own improvement. We help writers publish their work, improve the quality of published fiction, and ensure the future of the literary community.
What are the organization's key strategies for making this happen?
The Writer's Workout provides the award-winning annual competition, The Writer's Games, as well as an internship program to help the future of the literary industry learn more about the writers they will serve. We provide weekly micro prompts to help community members develop a stronger understanding of the month's focus topic, a monthly mini-course centered on the foundations of writing, critiques for subscribers, and six publications opportunities each year. Our organization helps writers develop their author voice and improve their writing quickly.
What are the organization's capabilities for doing this?
The Writer's Workout works remotely with writers around the world to identify and fill problem areas and gaps in education. We address the problems non-native English speakers face when trying to break into the English publishing market. Our volunteers and members live on six continents, providing ample opportunities for writers from all cultures to find and perfect their author voice.
What have they accomplished so far and what's next?
The Writer's Workout publishes six books a year, featuring the creative fiction and poetry of a hundred new authors annually. We provide a monthly mini-course with room to submit for the challenge and recently launched an educational YouTube channel to provide other options for neurodiverse writers to participate. We're working toward providing longer (and more frequent) courses, more workshops, a writing retreat, and a convention.
How we listen
Seeking feedback from people served makes programs more responsive and effective. Here’s how this organization is listening.
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How is your organization using feedback from the people you serve?
To identify and remedy poor client service experiences, To identify bright spots and enhance positive service experiences, To make fundamental changes to our programs and/or operations, To inform the development of new programs/projects, To identify where we are less inclusive or equitable across demographic groups, To strengthen relationships with the people we serve, To understand people's needs and how we can help them achieve their goals
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Which of the following feedback practices does your organization routinely carry out?
We collect feedback from the people we serve at least annually, We take steps to ensure people feel comfortable being honest with us, We engage the people who provide feedback in looking for ways we can improve in response, We act on the feedback we receive
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What challenges does the organization face when collecting feedback?
It is difficult to get the people we serve to respond to requests for feedback, We never collect demographic data but it seems that's the only data donors want.
Financials
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Operations
The people, governance practices, and partners that make the organization tick.
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The Writer's Workout
Board of directorsas of 06/07/2023
Theresa Green
Cindy McWilliams
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