Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville is a growing community for writers in Jacksonville and North Florida. Established in 2014 by Jennifer Wolfe, we are here to nurture and celebrate individual voices by facilitating supportive writing circles and encouraging people to craft more conscious lives through the art of writing and the practices of community.

We offer regular writing circles, art exhibits featuring women artists, and an annual anthology of women writers and artists who have participated in our circles over the years. We also host special events highlighting women writers, artists, and community leaders. 

We are a radically inclusive community that strives to create safer spaces for women’s voices. We believe, as Pat Schneider wrote, that “everyone is a writer” and that everyone’s story has value. While we focus primarily on those who identify as women, we aim to create a supportive, non-threatening environment for all participants. We encourage everyone in our community to help foster an atmosphere where others feel safe and validated.

Our vision is to build healthy, conscious communities where the words and creative expressions of women, girls, and individuals—from all cultural backgrounds and life circumstances—are nurtured, developed, and celebrated. We believe this work contributes to positive cultural transformation and a more just and equitable society.

We are guided by the values of confidentiality, consent, choice, and consideration of others in the community. We seek to be a feminist organization that is intersectional, antiracist, climate-conscious, and radically inclusive. We align with the Conscious Feminine values listed below and recognize that our work toward a just and equitable society is an ongoing journey. We are actively committed to moving in this direction.

Women Writing for (a) Change Jacksonville is an affiliate site of Women Writing for (a) Change in Cincinnati. Since 1991, WWf(a)C has evolved into a powerful and empowering community of women and girls telling our stories. We are a radically inclusive community of women creating change in ourselves and in the world—one truth, one voice at a time.

“[We are] participating in the transformation of culture by creating, naming, and supporting leaders in the practice of conscious feminine values: truth-telling, empowerment, nurture-with-rigor, transparency, vulnerability, conscious collaboration, depth-orientation, hospitality, [and] the capacity to hold paradox, especially the paradox of fostering individual gifts alongside fostering planetary and community well-being.”
—Mary Pierce Brosmer, Founder, Women Writing for (a) Change