What Do You Call A Gathering of Writers?

Tomorrow night I’m having a group of local writers (and possibly some spouses) over for a little Christmas party. Other than being slightly panicked by the state of my house, I’m looking forward to it. (I have two small boys. It never stays clean for long. I know no one will care, but…I care. You know?)

But having them over got me to thinking, there isn’t (to my knowledge) a word for a gathering of writers. I mean, we have a murder of crows, a gaggle of geese, and so on and so forth. It seems to me that writers are odd enough ducks that we ought to have our own term for a gathering.

So I’ll throw out to you my suggestion for a gathering of writers: anthology (or possibly compendium. Cause compendium is a good word.)