Structure
The Circle's workshops are neither instructor-led nor formally arranged. Although the group does follow a set routine (modelled on the Milford Method, where each person who has read the story gives their comments before the author’s final "right of reply" at the end of the session), the meetings are democratic in nature. The Circle does not engage in creative writing exercises: each meeting focuses specifically on the constructive criticism of an individual work, be it a short story, novella, or even novel that has previously been distributed by email or via the Circle's newsgroup. This said, many members of the Circle do also regularly socialize with each other outside of these official meetings.
Some members of the Circle have recently established a spoken word performance group called Word Dogs.
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