Redbud Writer’s Guild

About Us

Redbud Writers Guild is a diverse community of Christian women writers passionate about using words to encourage, challenge, and transform culture. We do this through books, articles, blogs, and speaking engagements. We engage our faith in Jesus while using our creativity to spark meaningful conversations in a world that needs hope.

Our members write across all genres—fiction and nonfiction, poetry and prose, devotionals and journalism—bringing diverse voices and perspectives to the table. As a collective, we support and encourage one another—mentoring, sharpening our craft, and amplifying voices that might otherwise go unheard.

1. Connect with Community

Once inside Redbud Writer’s Guild, you’ll get access to our active community of beautiful, diverse women. It’s a place to ask all your questions about writing, publishing, or even to network. We encourage you to participate and give more than you take to ensure we’re all growing together. 

2. Grow in Your Craft

Redbud Writer’s Guild offers multiple opportunities to learn about your craft, the publishing industry, and soul care. We provide training through webinars while also hosting a variety of workshops and co-working sessions to help keep you writing toward your goals. 

3. Receive Mentorship

We offer mentorship through our buddy program. Get connected with a former Redbud to learn the ropes, connect through prayer, and gain friendship in the writing community.

4. Engage Culture with Writing

It may not need to be stated, but Redbud encourages its members to write and engage the culture. The world needs your voice and your story. We have opportunities to publish your work through our own Redbud Hyphen while also encouraging you to write on your own platform.

5. Celebrate Your Impact

Sadly, it’s not common for women to celebrate women. But inside Redbud, we have a spirit of celebration. We encourage you to support other writers in their book launches and to comment when you see others have written articles you can share and support. We are a group of women who celebrate each other’s wins with a glad heart. 

The Heart of Redbud

To gather, cultivate, and empower a vibrant and diverse movement of Christian women writers who—in community—create and influence culture and faith.

Redbud nurtures a network and community of women who create rather than merely consume. We are a group of writers, communicators, and storytellers, who write, speak and collaborate to empower women to use their voices to be world-changers. We are committed to fostering community by meeting regularly, connecting through social media outlets, and networking through our various channels of influence. Redbud provides women with space, needed support, and tools to be effective writers and communicators in today’s world.

Apostles Creed
I believe in God, the Father almighty,
creator of heaven and earth.
I believe in Jesus Christ, his only Son, our Lord,
who was conceived by the Holy Spirit,
born of the Virgin Mary,
suffered under Pontius Pilate,
was crucified, died, and was buried;
he descended to the dead.
On the third day he rose again;
he ascended into heaven,
he is seated at the right hand of the Father,
and he will come to judge the living and the dead.
I believe in the Holy Spirit,
the holy catholic Church,
the communion of saints,
the forgiveness of sins,
the resurrection of the body,
and the life everlasting.

Faith
As a community of Christ-following women, we recognize the wide diversity of theological convictions existing today and throughout history. We believe by creating in community our faith journeys will continue to develop. We encourage all Redbud Writers Guild members to uphold their individual faith traditions and honor one another. Through simple spiritual offerings, our guild is committed to helping our members commune with God and nurture a life of creative authentic flow rather than working from a place of pressure and hustle.
Women
We value the feminine perspective too often silenced or dismissed in our world. Redbud offers an environment of mutual support and mentoring that empowers women to use their voices and steward their influence. 
Collective
We celebrate and respect our unity amidst our diversity. We believe being part of a collective voice helps to amplify our individual voices. In our diversity, we work to foster community and interact in public friendship around deep thought. We work to empower, elevate, and give space for the voices, stories, and words of women to show up in their full expression and identity. Redbud offers a safe space for women of color to come, join, contribute  and help grow our shared influence. 
Respect 
Understanding we are all people in process, we covenant with one another to respect each other’s differences and to approach any tensions with a spirit of faith, hope, and love. We never represent Redbud in a way that might be harmful to another member. We covenant to always speak well of one another, especially in public circles. We are committed to promoting each other’s work. As a covenant group, we see ourselves as a fellowship, a close-knit community. We take our mission and vision seriously, and we strive to present Redbud and its members in this light.
Diversity
Redbud Writers Guild values the voices of all Christian women. We, therefore, acknowledge and lament the existence of systemic racism in our world, in our country, and many of our Christian spaces. We are committed to the flourishing of all women, including Women of Color, who have been underrepresented in Christian writing and publishing. We celebrate our diversity while making every effort towards unity. We believe being part of a collective voice helps to amplify our voices. We create space for Women of Color to show up, support one another’s stories, and find belonging and mentorship for discerning their writing path.

Join us as we write and impact the world—one story at a time.

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