Built-in accountability
Regular writing sessions that help you build momentum, and a dedicated time to show up even when life gets busy.
Austin, Texas — Est. 2024
Six months from now, you'll wish you started today.
Show up, write, meet cool people. That's it.
The members
200 members and counting
A supportive community
Meet fifteen to twenty new writers in your first month.
That is the number members report, and it is the whole point. You get line-by-line feedback from people who have read your last four drafts, and a standing reason to finish the thing you keep not finishing.
What you get
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A real local community
A real community of local writers to meet, learn from, and stay accountable to. Fully in person. Every event happens live, here in Austin.
Craft, seriously taken
Book clubs, author talks, workshops, and member-only events — plus discounts on feedback groups, courses, and seminars.
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Show up.
A table, not a course.
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.
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Meet good people.
Novelists, essayists, screenwriters, poets.
Our members include novelists, essayists, screenwriters, poets, playwrights, journalists, and people who are finally finishing something they started ten years ago.
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Leave with something new to think about.
Seven to nine events a month, all across Austin.
Monthly book clubs, weekly writing sessions, salon-style dinners, and creative sprints that attract writers from every corner of the city.
The ledger
What last year actually produced.
A writing club should be able to count. These are the numbers behind the year, not the feeling of it.
42
First drafts finished
Two 12-week novel courses a year, twenty writers in each, every one of them walking out with a complete draft.
53
Manuscripts workshopped
One 8-week feedback cohort every season, eight to twelve writers apiece, led by a working Professor of Creative Writing.
158+
Events
Seven to nine events every month across Cherrywood, Rosedale, South Congress and South Lamar. None of them online.
1,900+
Hours at the table
Fifty-two Saturday sessions, twelve salon dinners, and the four-to-five hours each of those dinners actually runs.
12
Salon dinners
Sixteen members, one topic, one table. The conversations members still quote back to us a year later.
Numbers are for the 2025-26 club year. We publish them because a club that cannot count what it produced probably did not produce much.
The shelf
18 of them, so far
Work that left the table.
Members choose whether their name goes on this list. The work goes on it either way.
Literary novel, first draft
12-Week Course - Spring 2026
Essay collection, complete
8-Week Feedback - Winter 2026
Feature screenplay, second pass
8-Week Feedback - Winter 2026
Speculative novel, first draft
12-Week Course - Fall 2025
Memoir, first draft
12-Week Course - Spring 2026
Substack, weekly, one year unbroken
Members Only Sessions
Short story cycle, complete
8-Week Feedback - Summer 2025
Non-fiction proposal, out to agents
Getting Published
Crime novel, first draft
12-Week Course - Fall 2025
Poetry chapbook, complete
Members Only Sessions
Historical novel, second draft
12-Week Course - Fall 2025
Pilot script, table read
Members Only Sessions
Travel essay, published
8-Week Feedback - Summer 2025
Novella, complete
12-Week Course - Spring 2026
Children's picture book, out to agents
Getting Published
Horror novel, first draft
12-Week Course - Fall 2025
Newsletter, one hundred issues
Members Only Sessions
Poetry collection, out on submission
8-Week Feedback - Winter 2026
Finished something here? Tell us and we will put it on the shelf.
Events
Seven to nine events a month. Not one of them on Zoom.
Nobody gets up front with slides. You take a seat, you work for two hours, and somewhere in the back half of it the person across the table asks what you are writing. That is the whole format.
Every format has a mark. You will learn them.
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Members Only Writing Sessions
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Writers Book Club
03
Free Writing Club
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8-Week Feedback Group
05
A Moveable Feast
06
The Business of Writers
See the full calendar
Featured writers
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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
Natalia Loya
- From
- Tucson, Arizona
- Project
- Long-form Fiction
- Favorite Book
- A Tree Grows in Brooklyn
- Inspired by
- Flamenco Guitar, Distance Running, Stoic Philosophy, St. Augustine's Confessions.
Zac Solomon
- From
- Orlando, Florida
- Project
- Building ATX Writing Club, + writing a short non-fiction book.
- Favorite Book
- East of Eden, or A Farewell to Arms
- Inspired by
- Noma, Japan, Brunello Cucinelli, The “Before” Trilogy, 1920's Paris
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.
Field Guide 001
ROAM Ranch
Fredericksburg, Texas. A bison harvest on nine hundred acres of land that was written off as unsalvageable. Five writers went. These are their pieces.
ROAM Ranch, Fredericksburg — five members, one bison harvest, five pieces.
