Your people are out there.

We know because they’re already here.

“The Writing community that’s quietly reshaping Austin’s creative scene.”

Tolkien and C.S. Lewis had the Inklings; Virginia Woolf had The Bloomsbury Group; Hemingway had smoky Paris cafés; the Beats had midnight rendezvous.

Great writers need great people.

We started in January 2024 with a simple goal: build the writing community we couldn’t find.

Austin was full of talented people, but nowhere to gather. The online writing groups felt like ghost towns. The workshops were either too precious or too pretentious. We didn’t want a course. We didn’t want a guru. We wanted a table. A place where writers could show up, sit down, and get to work together.

So we made one.

What began as a few meetups in coffee shops has turned into a full-fledged creative community. We now host monthly book clubs, weekly writing sessions, salon-style dinners, and creative sprints that attract writers from every corner of the city.

Our members include novelists, essayists, screenwriters, poets, playwrights, journalists, and people who are finally finishing something they started ten years ago.

If you've been writing alone, you're not the only one.

That’s why we exist.

To write. To finish. To find your people.

Curious?

If you’re ready to dive deeper, become a member and join us for more intimate gatherings, tailored especially for those looking about elevating their craft.


Featured Writers

Featured Writers

Name: Anuradha Pandey

From: Gainesville, Florida

Project: Radically Pragmatic on Substack

Favorite Books: Anything by Brandon Sanderson, Meditations, and The Bhagavad Gita

Inspired By: Dance, Philosophy, Classical Music, Indian Aesthetics

Name: Nicole Loya

From: El Paso, Texas

Project: Long-form Fiction

Favorite Book: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn

Inspired By: Flamenco Guitar, Distance Running, Stoic Philosophy, St. Augustine’s Confessions.

Name: Jeremy Striffler

From: New York, New York

Project: Quick Quick Slow, Long-form fiction

Favorite Book: The Swimmers

Inspired By: Martin McDonagh plays, Modern Art, Honky-Tonks, hikes, travel.

Name: Zac Solomon

From: Orlando, Florida

Project: Building ATX Writing Club, and writing a short non-fiction book. 

Favorite Book: East of Eden, or A Farewell to Arms

Inspired By: Noma, Japan, Bunello Cucinelli, The “Before” Trilogy, 1920’s Paris