Chats and Forums

Literary Escape - Member based literary community where users can create clubs, writing galleries, blogs and personal websites to get exposure and critique.
http://www.lulu.com/devrie

Pagan Poet - Celebrating pagan poets, authors, artists, and musicians.
http://paganpoet.com/

WritersWall - Place for writers to exchange creative ideas, share their stories. Includes a monthly ezine, chat forum, and other resource links.
http://www.writerswall.com/forum/

Freefall Expression Creativity Forum - Writing forum featuring fiction, fanfiction, artwork, discussions, and debates.
http://ffe.hyperboards.com/

Talk about Journalism - Journalism discussion forums with topics like reporting, newspapers, jobs, research, and even gonzo writing.
http://www.talkaboutjournalism.com

RhymeZone Forum - An online community for writers, poets, songwriters, and language enthusiasts to share and critique work and discuss issues related to the English language.
http://www.poemzone.com/

WritingForums.com - Provides a place for writers to meet and chat about the writing craft, post stories, and meet other writers. Also provides tips, contests, markets and original works.
http://www.writingforums.com

White Paper Source - User based forum dedicated to writing and marketing white papers.
http://www.whitepapersource.com/forum/

Write Here Write Now - Forum offering weekly prompts, newsletters, critiquing, and writing over a variety of genres.
http://writeherewritenow.yuku.com

Irony Waves - A group of poets, artists and musicians influenced by the Beat Generation.
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/ironywaves

Looking Land - Writing community forum where users can submit their thoughts, debate, and argue.
http://www.lookingland.com/board/

Elite Skills: Online Writing - Uniquely managed user-based free writing forum where users can submit poetry, stories, or anything text based.
http://www.eliteskills.com/

Bag End Poetry & Message Board - A member based community which features a discussion forum, a monthly competition and various friendly challenges.
http://pris2000.proboards18.com/

Mosaic Musings, LLC - Poetry and prose forum with creative titles and well organized genre subdivisions for critique.
http://forums.mosaicmusings.net

The Writer Community - Discussion boards, polls, contests, events calendar.
http://www.writermag.com/wrt/community/forum/

Necrotania - Fantasy and science fiction forum offering submission and chat services to writers.
http://www.necrotania.com

Writerforum.co.uk - Forum of contributed poetry, short stories, diaries, and reviews.
http://www.writerforum.co.uk