01 · Newsletters
Ethan Brooks
How to make millions with newsletters
Wrote for The Hustle and built the research behind Trends and Hampton. He came to talk about the part nobody publishes: what a seven-figure newsletter actually earns, and on what.
Events
A hundred and fifty events a year. Ten ways in.
Seven to nine events a month, every one of them in person. Some are twelve people around one table for eight weeks; some are two hundred writers in a bar on a Saturday. All of them are in Austin.
Every event type
10 formats · 7–9 per month
The marks
Speakers
Meet your instructors
Almost everyone who teaches here joined as a member first. Somebody in the club has already done the thing you are trying to do, and the session is them showing the rest of us how. Most of them stayed after.
02 · Publishing
Leila Sales
How to get your non-fiction book published · How to query agents
Author of eight novels including This Song Will Save Your Life, and an editor on the other side of the desk — Kar-Ben, the Book Engineer, and years at Penguin Random House. She reads queries for a living, which is why hers is the session on writing one.
03 · Fiction
Eli Ryder, MFA
The 12-week novel course · The 8-week feedback group
Associate Professor of Creative Writing at Austin Community College, MFA in fiction from UC Riverside. Published in The Coachella Review and Typehouse. He runs both of our longest programmes, which is most of the books this club finishes.
04 · Debut fiction
Lucas Schaefer
Fireside conversation
His debut novel The Slip won the 2025 Kirkus Prize for Fiction, made the Washington Post top ten and the New York Times 100 Notable Books. Twenty people in the room, and he walked the whole arc — draft, agent, sale, reception.
05 · Debut fiction
Andrew Forrester, PhD
Fireside conversation
Austin novelist, former English teacher, PhD in nineteenth-century British literature, published in McSweeney’s. His debut How The Story Goes came out from Avon / William Morrow. He took questions on revision, agents and what actually happens after.
06 · Close reading
Theodore Yurevitch, MFA
Read like a professor: Crime and Punishment
Associate Professor at Austin Community College, MA from Vanderbilt and an MFA from Florida State. Four Mondays on one Dostoevsky novel, on the argument that deep reading is the cheapest way to become a better writer.
07 · Epistemology
Bradley Mankoff, PhD
The Art of Knowing
PhD in Political Science from UCLA, now writing on digital censorship. He adapted a university course into a room-sized one: what is true, what is false, and why consensus is a worse instrument than it feels like.
08 · Self-publishing
David Kadavy
The Indie Path: self-publishing
Author and podcaster, and the writer of the weekly Love Mondays newsletter. Craft talk crossed with office hours: production, distribution, marketing yourself, and finding the readers who were always going to be yours.
Want to teach one?
We book people who have actually done the thing, not people with a deck about it.
01
Members Only Writing Sessions
Have you ever noticed how, as adults, we don't really have deadlines for our creative projects anymore?
Once per week
30–40 writers
02
Writers Book Club
Finally, a book club for writers.
Once per month
10–20 writers
03
Free Writing Club
One free, open-to-the-public writing event each season.
4 times per year
160–200 writers
04
8-Week Feedback Group
Writing alone only gets you so far.
Once per season
8–12 writers
05
A Moveable Feast
Can you actually make a living from your art?
Every six weeks
10–16 writers
06
The Business of Writers
You've spent years on the page—don't lose it all to a bad deal.
Every six weeks
8–12 writers
07
Author and Speaker Events
We buy the blocks of tickets. You get them for free.
Once per season
30–55 writers
08
12 Week Novel Writing Course
From concept to complete first draft.
Twice per year
8–15 writers
09
Show Your Work Reading Night
Reading your work aloud changes how you hear it.
Once per season
18–20 writers
10
Getting Published Industry Session
Publishing can feel opaque from the outside.
Once per season
10–20 writers
Where
All across Austin, rotating week to week.
Some of our favorite neighborhoods include Cherrywood, Rosedale, South Congress, and South Lamar. We choose venues that are inspiring, comfortable, and conducive to great work and conversation.
ATX Writing Club is fully in-person. We believe real communities are built face to face, not through screens. Every event happens live, here in Austin.
