This meetup is about Spirituality NOT Religion! I promise you this... If you become wholly committed to awakening from the dream you have dreamt since the stars first began to appear in the heavens and if your one desire is to be only what God created, then lay at the altar of your heart with every breath, everything you think you know, everything you think you need, and look lovingly upon every place that fear has made a home in your mind, and allow correction to come. It will come. Regardless …

Love the works of Zora Neale Hurston, Frantz Fanon, Toni Morrison, Richard Wright, James Baldwin, Edwidge Danticat and countless other celebrated Black authors? If so, join other Black women who love to read fiction and nonfiction books written by the most notable writers of African descent. We will read classic works of the past and present, and will help each other identify talented new writers of the future. Book discussions will take place in our homes, restaurants, cafes, book stores, a …

Transmedia. For everyone involved in the transmedia space. A Place to gather, incubate & share ideas, collaborate on projects, network, fill in teams, speak, socialize, create/display work, and overall dive into the transmedia space with likeminded individuals. The entertainment industry is booming in Atlanta & The Southeast, and Transmedia is at the forefront of how content is being created and distributed across platforms. If you are: An artist writer speaker author game developer digital cont …

GA Self-Publishers is a group for writers and self-publishing authors interested in learning more about writing and publishing, and opportunities for authors. We started this group to help writers learn from experts in the publishing business, to network with each other, and to share information about their experiences. GA Self-Publishers is sponsored by BookLogix, who helps authors and independent publishers to publish their books, with the full range of publishing services. BookLogix offers e …

INTP Atlanta is a mishmash of individuals who want to have honest, direct, discussions. No topic is off limits. For people of the NT temperament, this is a place where you can relate to others and gain insight by sharing experiences. Non-NTs are more than welcome as well, whether the motivation is to learn about NTs, or wanting to engage in conversation. In response to several inquiries, an INTP is one of the sixteen MBTI personality types. INTPs make up, according to the latest stats, approxima …

Cigital, a leading consulting firm specializing in software security, has created a forum for people to share their ideas on the importance of designing, building, and maintaining secure software. Cigital Atlanta is open to information security professionals, software developers, architects, code reviewers, test personnel, or anyone interested in software security awareness. To learn more about Cigital, please visit: http://www.cigital.com/about-us/ Who is Gary McGraw?  And why is he a Software …

By day we're teachers, doctors, assistants, entrepreneurs and stay-at-home moms. By night we devour romance novels and dream of writing our own. From the sweet and innocent to the hot and spicy, we love our romances, our authors, and the worlds they create. We inhale romance novels like others inhale ice cream. Sometimes we do both. At the same time. We're writers and aspiring writers. We write short stories, blog posts, novels and letters. We're published, indie-published, self-published and n …

What if we treated depression as a rite of passage instead of a disease? There may not be a lot of support for this notion in our current mental health system, but there's a long history of well-documented cases—even within Christian mysticism—of deep, dark depressions, and “dark night of the soul" experiences leading up to profound and life-changing transformations. Depression is often regarded as a stigma is our culture, something that you should be ashamed of and hide from friends, family …

Are you tired of plain steamed broccoli and baby carrots? Do you want to eat more veggies? We all know that we are what we eat. Healthy eating habits can not only help us achieve optimum control over our weight but they can also keep us away from many of today’s major health concerns. When looking around in the vegetable section of your supermarket, do you feel like you wouldn't know what to do with at least 60% of what is available? Nevertheless, you are aware of the importance of eating …

ATTENTION ALL POTENTIAL MEMBERS!! PLEASE READ OUR MEMBERSHIP REQUIREMENTS AND THIS ENTIRE PAGE BEFORE ATTEMPTING TO JOIN ONYX!!!! TOO MANY PEOPLE ARE ATTEMPTING TO JOIN THAT DO NOT MEET THE REQUIREMENTS AND DO NOT CORRECTLY COMPLETE THEIR PROFILE AND/OR PROFILE PICTURE REQUIREMENTS!! ALL REQUESTS THAT DO NOT MEET OUR GROUP REQUIREMENTS WILL BE AUTOMATICALLY DECLINED!! Its All About The Swirl! If you are a single heterosexual Black female or White/Latino/Asian/Indian male and are interested in f …

Abraham-Hicks Law of Attraction ATLANTA Video & Discussion Group Meets Every Wed. Eve. 7:30 - 9:30 PM EST Free To the Public  (Suggested Donation $10) CHANGE YOUR LIFE IN 1 HOUR Our meetup group is based solely on the teachings of Abraham-Hicks and the Law of Attraction, Art of Allowing and Deliberate Co-Creating. This is Leading Edge material.  Each week, we watch a 15 minute video of Esther Hicks, as she brings forth Abraham, in discussing real life questions from attendees, at their past wor …

Hello! My name is Regina and I'm ready to meet other DIVA'S who love to read fiction books. A good story is even better when you've got friends to share it with. We will meet once a month to discuss the book over drinks and dinner at a local restaurant. There will be a $10.00 yearly fee to be apart of this bookclub. If you have any thoughts, questions or suggestions to help make our book club a success please send me a message! A Diva is woman who is as beautiful on the inside as she is on the o …

We are a group of women in our mid-late 20's and 30's who live in or around the north Atlanta area, who love to read from a variety of genres and who are looking for a great excuse to socialize. We'll be meeting once a month on a Sunday afternoon to discuss the latest book selection (often suggested by a member of the group).  Most of the time we'll meet in a member's home but sometimes we'll meet in a cafe/restaurant in the north Atlanta area. We also try to coordinate outings (such as author c …

The Midtown Review book club is meets monthly in the Sandy Springs area.  For great book reviews, author interviews and more, check out our website at http://MidtownReview.com or visit us on Facebook at http://facebook.com/MidtownReview.

****Please Read**** Membership requires that you participate.  That means you attend meetups on a semi-regular basis (approx. 50% of the time).  There is no point to signing up and then never attending which happens about 75% of the time.  We are a great group and have amazing discussions. We love to meet new people - but to meet you, you have to attend!!  If you are too busy, know you won't make attending a priority, or just prefer a group to follow along online with - we are not for you!!! We …

Welcome to the Hindi Bindi book club! The focus will be reading books written by South  Asian authors or books about south asia. The books will either be written in English or be translated in English. This is a great opportunity to connect to other South East Asians and learn more about that part of the world. You by no means have to be from South East Asia, just willing to learn. Please email me if you have any questions or concerns. Looking forward to meeting you!! Bhavna

I am carrying this group over from New York, where up to 6 people submit. Welcome writers, one and all! ATTENTION: I AM MODIFYING THE NATURE OF THIS GROUP. IT WILL CONTINUE TO RUN EVERY MONTH FOR NOVELS BUT IT WILL ALSO RUN CONCURRENTLY ONCE A MONTH AS A SCREENWRITING MEETING. SCREENWRITER MEETUP GUIDELINES; Unlike other Screenwriter/Script groups I've attended, I will run this like I ran it in NY. Each month, you will submit an act of your script. So, if you have a finished script, you will s …

My name is Evelyn T. King - Author of the Live Believe Dream Book Series. As I wrote my last two books I realized I had a responsibility to share my experience and to help others to start and finish their writing projects.

This group is meant to help people learn about the new bitcoin digital currency, and how it can be used for consumers and businesses. What is bitcoin? Bitcoin is a new digital currency. It's different from all other currencies in that there is no central authority. For beginners, watch this video http://weusecoins.com

Atlanta Pitch Dish is a grassroots grant-funding community meal for small to medium sized creative projects. Here's how it works: A group of imaginative people come together to share a meal, hear ideas and fund the one we believe in most. There's a $10 charge for dinner with $7 of each meal awarded to the grant winner while the remaining $3 goes to fund the CHOZEN AWARDS Scholarship. Everyone who purchases the meal gets one vote to determine who will receive the grant. The are no real rules. The …

The Board Game USA Today Calls "Monopoly on Steroids". It's Time to Get Out of the Rat Race. What's your dream? Freedom of time? Unlimited resources to travel the world? Whatever it may be, CASHFLOW 101 teaches you how to get out of the Rat Race and onto the Fast Track, how to make your money work for you and not the other way around. CASHFLOW 101 is an educational board game that simulates real life financial strategies and situations. As a simulation, you learn valuable lessons and gain pricel …

If you have a passion for writing, then this group is for you. No matter what your skill level, this group offers something for everyone looking to move forward and perfect their craft. Come write with us, learn with us and grow with us. We are, above all things, a community of writers supporting one another.

The ASFW3 Mission Statement Our purpose at ASFW3 (the Atlanta Speculative Fiction Worldbuilding and Writing Workshop) is to provide a relaxed and safe atmosphere for writers within the speculative fiction genres to meet and discuss their various projects. Whether you're writing a novel, RPG, comic book, television show, play, movie, video game, or developing a fictional world in some other medium, as long as it's speculative fiction, it's OK with us. Our primary goal is to share techniques and f …

Welcome to the Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group! Home of the largest baby chick giveaway in the world! The Atlanta Backyard Poultry Meetup Group is for people who have, or are interested in having a small backyard flock of chickens for pets, eggs, composting, fertilizer, insect control, and meat, as well as for people interested in learning more about living a self-sustaining lifestyle. You just might be suprised at how many people living in your neighborhood have pet chickens! There is no …

“Find your words, write to the end.” “The End” PenPaperWrite provides writers with the tools that they need to write those two simple, yet powerful words: Writing tips and tools are available to our two combined Meetup groups of over 800 writers through our website at www.penpaperwrite.com. Meetups on the first and third Monday of every month provide a dynamic and respectful environment for you to share you work and gather feedback from other writers. If you’re not quite ready to share your wor …

A group for discussion of English history topics of the Tudor, Elizabethan, Jacobean, or Renaissance periods, including Shakespeare and other writers of the time. Typically meetings are in library or restaurant venues, with speakers invited from local Atlanta universities, or authors in these subjects who live in the Atlanta area.

This group's purpose is to support the Indie Artist Movement by exposing a larger audience to the Arts. We encourage you to join if you are an artist or a art lover.

Welcome to our community of Conscious Creators! This Meetup started in February '08, reading A New Earth, by Eckhart Tolle, and have since gone on to study many of today's spiritual teachings. This group was started by Laina Orlando the author of The Power of Awareness program. I primarily schedules my events in Atlanta, and my message is beginning to spread throughout the Southeastern US.  I just go with the flow.... This community is interested in the expansion of consciousness, and continue …