As dozens of people reading my LJ are writers of one kind or another, I've set up a comm,
new_lemniskate, to see if we can get some kind of writers' circle going. (The old
Lemniskate was a Yahoo! group.)
I won't be able to read everybody's stuff and give feedback - you'll need to do that for each other - but I will be able to answer questions. We'll give it a go, anyway - if it doesn't really take off, I can always delete it later.