The Madrid Review Creative Writing Group is open to writers living and working in Madrid, Spain, and from all over the world.
If you like the magazine, or like writing, join us here to share works in progress, finished poems and prose or ideas. To have your work considered for the group, or to comment or participate in the group, you must be a subscriber to The Madrid Review. You can subscribe on the front page of this website. When corresponding with us, make sure you use the same email you use to subscribe. Subscribing is FREE and we will not give your details to any third parties.
In the current issue of The Madrid Review you can read our first 'Craft of Writing' column from Jayne Marshall (see her bio, right), which includes this month's prompt which you should respond to. We'll publish any submitted work here.
Writers are also invited to send their works - marked clearly CREATIVE WRITING GROUP WIPS in the email subject line, to differentiate them from normal submissions - to themadridreview@hotmail.com . Works in Progress sent this way will be 'open' to public scrutiny and feedback, with the aim being of bringing the said work closer to a state ready for publication. We're interested in reading poems, fiction, non-fiction, screenplays and novels in progress. Jayne and The Madrid Review editor James Hartley will be offering feedback and constructive criticism to selected pieces. Works published and worked on in the group will be considered for publication in The Madrid Review.
Link up with us on Instagram, Blue Sky, X, Threads, LinkedIN and Facebook and let's have some fun and get people published here in the group!
Jayne is a fiction and creative nonfiction writer. She holds the Master's in Creative Writing, with distinction, from the University of Oxford. Her work has been published in English and Spanish - in magazines and anthologies around the world. She has also been nominated for the Aesthetica Creative Writing Award. A collection of her stories and essays about Madrid will be published in summer 2025 by Modern Odyssey Books. She is from the UK, but lives in Madrid, where she works as a development editor at an indie press. You can connect with her at her website here and read her Substack here.