Welcome to Critique Circle.
Improve your writing skills in one of the largest and longest-running writing communities on the web.
Improve your writing skills in one of the largest and longest-running writing communities on the web.
Thousands of writers working together to improve their writing.
Critique the stories of others and in turn they will crit your stories.
Discussion groups on nearly any topic under any sun.
Continuously improve your writing by critting the works of others and building relationships with other authors who will help you with your own manuscript.
Crit a couple of stories to gain enough credits.
Use your credits to submit your own story for review.
Use the crits to improve your manuscript.
We don't like to brag, but we don't mind letting our members do it for us. Here are a few nice things folks have said about our platform over the years.
The Critique Circle blog is written by our members and is filled with interesting articles about writing.
Covers sell books. Your cover and title are the first thing that a browsing reader will see. It needs to inspire them to click through online, or pick up the book in a store. Only then can your blurb and first chapter finalise the sale. This is my journey to find the right cover art for my urban fa...
Membership is free and always has been. There is also a premium subscription that you can buy which unlocks additional features and perks.
Critique Circle first came online in October 2003 and has been running continuously ever since. It is one of the oldest writing websites out there.
We have thousands of members that are actively using the site and are closing in on one million served critiques.
Stories submitted to CC are not considered 'published online' and cannot be found on search engines. You can manage your story accessibility yourself and delete them at any time.
