Mission Statement

The PopFic Collective is a writers' community that helps each member pursue their writing and publishing goals. We provide opportunities for writers to connect, share their knowledge, and strengthen the varied skills necessary to succeed as a modern creative.

Code of Conduct

This Code of Conduct serves our mission and ensures a supportive, kind, and helpful environment

Section 1: Events and Meetings:

Each attendee and/or PopFic Collective member will make reasonable efforts to be respectful toward other members and attendees, and will avoid language, topics, descriptions, and details that are inappropriate to any PopFic Collective event they attend. 

Should an event attendee state their desire to avoid a topic that they find psychologically harmful, their wishes will be treated seriously. 

In the event that such a request is made, it will be up to the event host to decide whether the event supports free discussion of said topic under the assumption that attendees will not speak to cause harm; whether the discussion should be curtailed; or, if the request is made in apparent reference to the behavior of another attendee or other attendee(s), whether the tone, language, or in-event presence of that individual or individual(s) should be curtailed. 

Regardless of the host’s decision, all attendees are to support and respect the right of each attendee to state their boundaries. 

Any PopFic Collective event host has the right to stop any event they host for the PopFic Collective at any time should they feel unsafe, or should they feel that an attendee or attendees is/are acting in a cruel or unsafe manner toward others. 

Should the host choose to end an event due to such a disturbance, they will follow up with an email to Sarah, the Exec. Director, and the Equity & Belonging Manager to outline what happened and request a follow-up meeting at their preference.

Section 2: Workshops

Please see the linked document for the PopFic Collective Workshop Guidelines. 

Section 3: Anthology Submissions

All anthology submissions are to be handled with confidentiality, care, and sensitivity. We ask that, while discussing submitted work within the Collective, you refrain from judgement related to personal taste and judgements of the writer based on their work, and recognize the efforts of the writer in order to maintain a kind and supportive environment. We ask that all discussions of submitted work remain within the Collective, and that submitted work is not sent, circulated, or shared outside the Collective without the author’s permission.