This group will bring YOU together with sports writers, team executives and players in a monthly Meetup hosted in venues across the City.  Each month, we'll feature a new guest, or set of guests, to talk about the burning topics of the day.   Hear their stories, get the inside scoop, ask those burning questions, put a face (and a handshake) to the name, and make some friends while you're at it. We welcome all fans. Be it Knicks, Nets, Yankees, Mets, Giants, Jets, Rangers, Islanders, Devils or an …

I'm interested in forming a group of serious, non-fiction writers for Bergen County. We can meet up once a month and discuss outlines or read selections of drafts. Anybody who is currently working on a non-fiction article, essay or book should join. If we get enough members, then we can arrange various sub-genre groups -- academic writing, blogging, news, sports, feature writing. Don't write alone! Write with us.

This is a group for writers who want to master powerful strategies to write better. The organizer, Charles Euchner, is a former teacher and administrator at Yale and Harvard and the author of a number of acclaimed works on politics, sports, civil rights, and more. The approach: Euchner has developed what he called a "brain-based system" for writing well. What's that mean?  It means that if you understand how the brain works -- how the brain gets engaged or confused, what makes it excited or bore …