We're so happy to share our winter-spring 2024 offerings, which include:

Read on for more information and frequently asked questions. Or, join our optional informal information session Jan 2 at 5pm PT/ 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET (register for the Zoom  link). 

 

We can't wait to write with you.

 

In love and solidarity,

 

Naima Lowe, Coordinator

Steffani Jemison, Founder and Coordinator

Quincy Flowers, Founder and Coordinator

Organized and facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages (or other project materials) for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to share feedback later in the month. 

 

Writers use Project Exchange to share every kind of work: short stories, essays, dissertation chapters, scripts and screenplays, artworks, proposals—anything and everything that is ready for a witness. 

 

Project Exchange is for writers/artists who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions, as well as those who can't commit to weekly sessions. Or, use Project Exchange as an internal deadline to help you finish your work. Project Exchange is also an opportunity to expand your network and meet other writers in the community. 

🪢 Weekly and biweekly small group cohorts 
Trajectories are smallish groups (4-10 people) of ALP writers who meet together for feedback, discussion, and other forms of peer support and camaraderie. These groups epitomize our horizontal, peer learning structure. The groups flourish when we understand that everyone has something to offer, and that we don't have to be beholden to whatever institutional boundaries or hierarchies might have shaped our previous workshop experiences. 

 

Some Trajectories are supported by our team of Community Liaisons—stewards who help anchor Trajectory groups and keep them running smoothly. Current groups include: 

 

📚 Non-Fiction Fever (workshopping non-fiction projects)

🔭 Close Encounters (renewing our relationship to creative practice)

🎭 Weird Scripts (interdisciplinary experiments in performance)

⚡️Hybrid Forms (working across visual and textual modes.) 

🫁 Breathing Room (interdisciplinary workshop for writers of color)

🔥 Writing As Resourcing (somatic and generative writing together) 

🧞‍♀️ Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)

✍🏾 Quiet daily co-writing
Think of daily writing as a date with yourself and your writing practice. Some daily writers—including those who join the Daily writing room as well as those who write on their own—share their writing intentions in our online hub.

 

This winter-spring season, our daily writing times are:

8-9 am & 2-3 pm ET 

7-8 am & 1-2 pm CT 

5-6 am & 11-12 pm PT 

2-3 pm and 8-9 pm CET

The Daily writing room ✍🏾 is open all day, lovingly hosted by Community Liaison Jessica Harvey. This seasons all of our retreats will take place on the 4th Friday of the month. Join us January 26, February 23, March 22, April 26 and May 24. 

Need gentle support reaching your independent writing goals? We host monthly challenges designed to help writers and artists who seek peer cheerleading as they work towards their target. 

🙌🏾 Black Feminist Pedagogy FTW: A popular education style reading and discussion group dedicated to improving our collective knowledge, skills and capacities teaching within the arts. Our core reading material will be bell hooks' Teaching To Transgress. We will also pool our collective knowledge and share additional readings and resources to learn from together. In addition to reading and discussion, participants will have a chance to workshop syllabi, assignments and lesson plans with peers.

Naima Lowe will be your facilitator, bringing 20+ years of teaching in adult education and higher education settings. This group will operate with a popular education model, meaning that Naima will offer support, guidance and infrastructure, but the expertise and knowledge will be generated from participants. Together we have everything that we need!

🪩 Launch Party: Launch Party is for anyone who is launching a big project and working on the marketing ramp-up. Together we work on things like drafting newsletters, scheduling social media, and maybe even cracking SEO. We're here to share resources, talk content, brainstorm, and keep each other lifted as we face the thing that is self-branding.

💩 Shooting The Shit: Informal, peer led sessions on topics ranging from applying to residencies, digital content management tools, the voice and vocal strategies, somatic approaches to creative practice, time management, finding an agent, pitching articles to publications, and more. Winter-spring topics will include “Hot Tips on Applying to Creative Capital," How and When to Lawyer Up: Legal Issues for Artists and Creatives" and “Popular Education Saved My Life."

🎂 Special Guest Workshops: Our generative writing workshops prioritize visionary, interdisciplinary thinkers from across the country. This winter-spring season, we will be joined by writers as well as, for the first time in a while, publishing professionals. Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Quincy Flowers, Sharon Bridgforth, Tisa Bryant, Daniel Alexander Jones, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Lara Mimosa Montes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Johanna Hedva and others.

🪶 Library of writing prompts, reflections and archive of past workshops and special events. 
From readings and proposals that surface in the community—hundreds so far, including follow-along video prompts created by Community Coordinator Naima Lowe.

We invite all writers interested in joining us to sign up at this link. (If you're already on the waitlist, you do not need to sign up again; you are already at the front of the line.)

 

When you register, you'll be asked to provide your name, time zone, and some information about yourself. Registration is simple, but important to us. We review your responses carefully to ensure that you understand our community values, and so that we can answer any questions you may have about writing with us.

 

Please know that we prioritize black and brown writers, writers with disabilities, writers without a university degree, non-metropolitan writers, Spanish-speaking writers in the Americas, and writers over 50. Most invitations have been reserved for writers from these groups, which are less visible in writing communities. Spots are also available for other writers; we will extend invitations for these in the order that they are received, beginning with folks who are already on the waitlist.

 

After you submit, give us time to read your materials; we’ll send you a personal response with your next steps.

 

Step 3: Check out. 

You will receive personalized checkout instructions via email. You have full control of your plan and can cancel at any time. You must check out to complete your registration. You'll need to turn this around quickly—no later than January 6—in order to enter the community in time for orientation. 

Step 4: Join us.

On January 7 you’ll receive an email with a special link to access together.atlouisplace.com.

Step 5: Once you've entered the community, you'll have access to all of our programming and content, including our orientation programs January 9-11. (Don't worry if you can't make these; orientation sessions are recorded). 
 

Note: We'll stop accepting registrations for this cohort on January 3, 2024.

Some of our writers love daily writing; others join it rarely. There are plenty of other reasons to connect with our community: for example, if you're interested in joining a group for exchanging or generating ideas; if you're interested in our guest workshops; or if you're interested in inspiring and being inspired by a network of like-minded writers.

 

The community of writers at Louis Place currently includes all of the above. Some of us write (or make things) professionally (or want to), and need strategies for staying connected to the magic of our creative work. Others work in industries that are connected to writing (editors, literary agents, translators, grant writers, technical writers) and need practical support. at Louis Place is a space where you can refresh, clarify, or reconnect with your writing practice, whatever that looks like for you. It's also a place for experimentation and play. 

 

That said, if you don't currently have or want a relationship to writing or creative practice, at Louis Place is not a good fit.

 

Keeping the community afloat costs time, resources, and money. When you check out, we offer guidance regarding finding a contribution that aligns with the actual cost of providing the services you need. 

 

The choose-your-price model honors our labor while supporting the most diverse possible group of participants. We came up participating in (mostly oppressive) academic and institutional structures, (excessively bureaucratic and government-involved) non-profit organizations and (often exploitative) commercial businesses that do not align with our values. Our extended community is committed to finding new ways to support each other, and this project is one step toward that goal. You can change your contribution amount at any time; folks often reduce their contributions when times are tough and increase when things are going well.

 

Our paid community liaison positions and barter opportunities are creative ways for us to support writers with a wide range of gifts. If you have a barter proposal or non-financial offering you'd like to suggest, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming every single person who wants to be a part. 

 

The online hub is screen reader compatible—currently best on iPhone, okay on Android, and so-so on the web. The iOS app works well with VoiceOver. Android devices typically have a built-in Text-to-speech (TTS) engine that reads the text that it can find on the screen. Although we do not currently offer a native web screen reader, it’s on the product roadmap to add in the future, and we’re also working to improve compatibility with 3rd-party web screen readers and enhance overall keyboard navigability.

 

Auto-generated captions are available for zoom sessions organized through the community, including one-on-one meetings and workshops. 

 

Detailed access notes about our offerings are shared in the registration form (if you have access needs that aren't met by the form, send us an email). 

 

We welcome your feedback about accessibility needs and look forward to working with you to solve any challenges.

 

Yes, you are still welcome! 

 

If you applied but didn't join, please reach out to quincy@atlouisplace.com for a checkout link. 

 

If you joined and would like to re-join, you can use your old checkout link to reactivate your plan (or email us for help).

 

We continue to slow our pace to focus on current writers and our own creative projects. We have not determined when we will accept new writers again.
 

Email us! Or join our upcoming information session. We look forward to hearing from you.

Dear friends,

 

Three years in, at Louis Place is thriving. Our network of thinkers, dreamers, and lifelong learners is launching projects, reading more, drawing more, taking more walks, winning things, plugging away, finally getting started, finally finishing up, trying something different, sharing something new, late blooming, helping each other out, even a bit of hanging out in person. 

 

Are you ready to join our community for writers—artists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, and others who write for pleasure and liberation? We're so ready to welcome you! 👐🏾

 

at Louis Place is accepting new writers through Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Our winter-spring season begins the week of Monday, January 8, 2024.

We're so happy to share our winter-spring 2024 offerings, which include:

Read on for more information and frequently asked questions. Or, join our optional informal information session Jan 2 at 5pm PT/ 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET (register for the Zoom  link). 

 

We can't wait to write with you.

 

In love and solidarity,

 

Naima Lowe, Coordinator

Steffani Jemison, Founder and Coordinator

Quincy Flowers, Founder and Coordinator

Organized and facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages (or other project materials) for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to share feedback later in the month. 

 

Writers use Project Exchange to share every kind of work: short stories, essays, dissertation chapters, scripts and screenplays, artworks, proposals—anything and everything that is ready for a witness. 

 

Project Exchange is for writers/artists who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions, as well as those who can't commit to weekly sessions. Or, use Project Exchange as an internal deadline to help you finish your work. Project Exchange is also an opportunity to expand your network and meet other writers in the community. 

🪢 Weekly and biweekly small group cohorts 
Trajectories are smallish groups (4-10 people) of ALP writers who meet together for feedback, discussion, and other forms of peer support and camaraderie. These groups epitomize our horizontal, peer learning structure. The groups flourish when we understand that everyone has something to offer, and that we don't have to be beholden to whatever institutional boundaries or hierarchies might have shaped our previous workshop experiences. 

 

Some Trajectories are supported by our team of Community Liaisons—stewards who help anchor Trajectory groups and keep them running smoothly. Current groups include: 

 

📚 Non-Fiction Fever (workshopping non-fiction projects)

🔭 Close Encounters (renewing our relationship to creative practice)

🎭 Weird Scripts (interdisciplinary experiments in performance)

⚡️Hybrid Forms (working across visual and textual modes.) 

🫁 Breathing Room (interdisciplinary workshop for writers of color)

🔥 Writing As Resourcing (somatic and generative writing together) 

🧞‍♀️ Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)

✍🏾 Quiet daily co-writing
Think of daily writing as a date with yourself and your writing practice. Some daily writers—including those who join the Daily writing room as well as those who write on their own—share their writing intentions in our online hub.

 

This winter-spring season, our daily writing times are:

8-9 am & 2-3 pm ET 

7-8 am & 1-2 pm CT 

5-6 am & 11-12 pm PT 

2-3 pm and 8-9 pm CET

The Daily writing room ✍🏾 is open all day, lovingly hosted by Community Liaison Jessica Harvey. This seasons all of our retreats will take place on the 4th Friday of the month. Join us January 26, February 23, March 22, April 26 and May 24. 

Need gentle support reaching your independent writing goals? We host monthly challenges designed to help writers and artists who seek peer cheerleading as they work towards their target. 

🙌🏾 Black Feminist Pedagogy FTW: A popular education style reading and discussion group dedicated to improving our collective knowledge, skills and capacities teaching within the arts. Our core reading material will be bell hooks' Teaching To Transgress. We will also pool our collective knowledge and share additional readings and resources to learn from together. In addition to reading and discussion, participants will have a chance to workshop syllabi, assignments and lesson plans with peers.

Naima Lowe will be your facilitator, bringing 20+ years of teaching in adult education and higher education settings. This group will operate with a popular education model, meaning that Naima will offer support, guidance and infrastructure, but the expertise and knowledge will be generated from participants. Together we have everything that we need!

🪩 Launch Party: Launch Party is for anyone who is launching a big project and working on the marketing ramp-up. Together we work on things like drafting newsletters, scheduling social media, and maybe even cracking SEO. We're here to share resources, talk content, brainstorm, and keep each other lifted as we face the thing that is self-branding.

💩 Shooting The Shit: Informal, peer led sessions on topics ranging from applying to residencies, digital content management tools, the voice and vocal strategies, somatic approaches to creative practice, time management, finding an agent, pitching articles to publications, and more. Winter-spring topics will include “Hot Tips on Applying to Creative Capital," How and When to Lawyer Up: Legal Issues for Artists and Creatives" and “Popular Education Saved My Life."

🎂 Special Guest Workshops: Our generative writing workshops prioritize visionary, interdisciplinary thinkers from across the country. This winter-spring season, we will be joined by writers as well as, for the first time in a while, publishing professionals. Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Quincy Flowers, Sharon Bridgforth, Tisa Bryant, Daniel Alexander Jones, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Lara Mimosa Montes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Johanna Hedva and others.

🪶 Library of writing prompts, reflections and archive of past workshops and special events. 
From readings and proposals that surface in the community—hundreds so far, including follow-along video prompts created by Community Coordinator Naima Lowe.

We invite all writers interested in joining us to sign up at this link. (If you're already on the waitlist, you do not need to sign up again; you are already at the front of the line.)

 

When you register, you'll be asked to provide your name, time zone, and some information about yourself. Registration is simple, but important to us. We review your responses carefully to ensure that you understand our community values, and so that we can answer any questions you may have about writing with us.

 

Please know that we prioritize black and brown writers, writers with disabilities, writers without a university degree, non-metropolitan writers, Spanish-speaking writers in the Americas, and writers over 50. Most invitations have been reserved for writers from these groups, which are less visible in writing communities. Spots are also available for other writers; we will extend invitations for these in the order that they are received, beginning with folks who are already on the waitlist.

 

After you submit, give us time to read your materials; we’ll send you a personal response with your next steps.

 

Step 3: Check out. 

You will receive personalized checkout instructions via email. You have full control of your plan and can cancel at any time. You must check out to complete your registration. You'll need to turn this around quickly—no later than January 6—in order to enter the community in time for orientation. 

Step 4: Join us.

On January 7 you’ll receive an email with a special link to access together.atlouisplace.com.

Step 5: Once you've entered the community, you'll have access to all of our programming and content, including our orientation programs January 9-11. (Don't worry if you can't make these; orientation sessions are recorded). 
 

Note: We'll stop accepting registrations for this cohort on January 3, 2024.

Some of our writers love daily writing; others join it rarely. There are plenty of other reasons to connect with our community: for example, if you're interested in joining a group for exchanging or generating ideas; if you're interested in our guest workshops; or if you're interested in inspiring and being inspired by a network of like-minded writers.

 

The community of writers at Louis Place currently includes all of the above. Some of us write (or make things) professionally (or want to), and need strategies for staying connected to the magic of our creative work. Others work in industries that are connected to writing (editors, literary agents, translators, grant writers, technical writers) and need practical support. at Louis Place is a space where you can refresh, clarify, or reconnect with your writing practice, whatever that looks like for you. It's also a place for experimentation and play. 

 

That said, if you don't currently have or want a relationship to writing or creative practice, at Louis Place is not a good fit.

 

Keeping the community afloat costs time, resources, and money. When you check out, we offer guidance regarding finding a contribution that aligns with the actual cost of providing the services you need. 

 

The choose-your-price model honors our labor while supporting the most diverse possible group of participants. We came up participating in (mostly oppressive) academic and institutional structures, (excessively bureaucratic and government-involved) non-profit organizations and (often exploitative) commercial businesses that do not align with our values. Our extended community is committed to finding new ways to support each other, and this project is one step toward that goal. You can change your contribution amount at any time; folks often reduce their contributions when times are tough and increase when things are going well.

 

Our paid community liaison positions and barter opportunities are creative ways for us to support writers with a wide range of gifts. If you have a barter proposal or non-financial offering you'd like to suggest, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming every single person who wants to be a part. 

 

The online hub is screen reader compatible—currently best on iPhone, okay on Android, and so-so on the web. The iOS app works well with VoiceOver. Android devices typically have a built-in Text-to-speech (TTS) engine that reads the text that it can find on the screen. Although we do not currently offer a native web screen reader, it’s on the product roadmap to add in the future, and we’re also working to improve compatibility with 3rd-party web screen readers and enhance overall keyboard navigability.

 

Auto-generated captions are available for zoom sessions organized through the community, including one-on-one meetings and workshops. 

 

Detailed access notes about our offerings are shared in the registration form (if you have access needs that aren't met by the form, send us an email). 

 

We welcome your feedback about accessibility needs and look forward to working with you to solve any challenges.

 

Yes, you are still welcome! 

 

If you applied but didn't join, please reach out to quincy@atlouisplace.com for a checkout link. 

 

If you joined and would like to re-join, you can use your old checkout link to reactivate your plan (or email us for help).

 

We continue to slow our pace to focus on current writers and our own creative projects. We have not determined when we will accept new writers again.
 

Email us! Or join our upcoming information session. We look forward to hearing from you.

Dear friends,

 

Three years in, at Louis Place is thriving. Our network of thinkers, dreamers, and lifelong learners is launching projects, reading more, drawing more, taking more walks, winning things, plugging away, finally getting started, finally finishing up, trying something different, sharing something new, late blooming, helping each other out, even a bit of hanging out in person. 

 

Are you ready to join our community for writers—artists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, and others who write for pleasure and liberation? We're so ready to welcome you! 👐🏾

 

at Louis Place is accepting new writers through Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Our winter-spring season begins the week of Monday, January 8, 2024.

We're so happy to share our winter-spring 2024 offerings, which include:

Read on for more information and frequently asked questions. Or, join our optional informal information session Jan 2 at 5pm PT/ 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET (register for the Zoom  link). 

 

We can't wait to write with you.

 

In love and solidarity,

 

Naima Lowe, Coordinator

Steffani Jemison, Founder and Coordinator

Quincy Flowers, Founder and Coordinator

Organized and facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages (or other project materials) for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to share feedback later in the month. 

 

Writers use Project Exchange to share every kind of work: short stories, essays, dissertation chapters, scripts and screenplays, artworks, proposals—anything and everything that is ready for a witness. 

 

Project Exchange is for writers/artists who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions, as well as those who can't commit to weekly sessions. Or, use Project Exchange as an internal deadline to help you finish your work. Project Exchange is also an opportunity to expand your network and meet other writers in the community. 

🪢 Weekly and biweekly small group cohorts 
Trajectories are smallish groups (4-10 people) of ALP writers who meet together for feedback, discussion, and other forms of peer support and camaraderie. These groups epitomize our horizontal, peer learning structure. The groups flourish when we understand that everyone has something to offer, and that we don't have to be beholden to whatever institutional boundaries or hierarchies might have shaped our previous workshop experiences. 

 

Some Trajectories are supported by our team of Community Liaisons—stewards who help anchor Trajectory groups and keep them running smoothly. Current groups include: 

 

📚 Non-Fiction Fever (workshopping non-fiction projects)

🔭 Close Encounters (renewing our relationship to creative practice)

🎭 Weird Scripts (interdisciplinary experiments in performance)

⚡️Hybrid Forms (working across visual and textual modes.) 

🫁 Breathing Room (interdisciplinary workshop for writers of color)

🔥 Writing As Resourcing (somatic and generative writing together) 

🧞‍♀️ Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)

✍🏾 Quiet daily co-writing
Think of daily writing as a date with yourself and your writing practice. Some daily writers—including those who join the Daily writing room as well as those who write on their own—share their writing intentions in our online hub.

 

This winter-spring season, our daily writing times are:

8-9 am & 2-3 pm ET 

7-8 am & 1-2 pm CT 

5-6 am & 11-12 pm PT 

2-3 pm and 8-9 pm CET

The Daily writing room ✍🏾 is open all day, lovingly hosted by Community Liaison Jessica Harvey. This seasons all of our retreats will take place on the 4th Friday of the month. Join us January 26, February 23, March 22, April 26 and May 24. 

Need gentle support reaching your independent writing goals? We host monthly challenges designed to help writers and artists who seek peer cheerleading as they work towards their target. 

🙌🏾 Black Feminist Pedagogy FTW: A popular education style reading and discussion group dedicated to improving our collective knowledge, skills and capacities teaching within the arts. Our core reading material will be bell hooks' Teaching To Transgress. We will also pool our collective knowledge and share additional readings and resources to learn from together. In addition to reading and discussion, participants will have a chance to workshop syllabi, assignments and lesson plans with peers.

Naima Lowe will be your facilitator, bringing 20+ years of teaching in adult education and higher education settings. This group will operate with a popular education model, meaning that Naima will offer support, guidance and infrastructure, but the expertise and knowledge will be generated from participants. Together we have everything that we need!

🪩 Launch Party: Launch Party is for anyone who is launching a big project and working on the marketing ramp-up. Together we work on things like drafting newsletters, scheduling social media, and maybe even cracking SEO. We're here to share resources, talk content, brainstorm, and keep each other lifted as we face the thing that is self-branding.

💩 Shooting The Shit: Informal, peer led sessions on topics ranging from applying to residencies, digital content management tools, the voice and vocal strategies, somatic approaches to creative practice, time management, finding an agent, pitching articles to publications, and more. Winter-spring topics will include “Hot Tips on Applying to Creative Capital," How and When to Lawyer Up: Legal Issues for Artists and Creatives" and “Popular Education Saved My Life."

🎂 Special Guest Workshops: Our generative writing workshops prioritize visionary, interdisciplinary thinkers from across the country. This winter-spring season, we will be joined by writers as well as, for the first time in a while, publishing professionals. Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Quincy Flowers, Sharon Bridgforth, Tisa Bryant, Daniel Alexander Jones, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Lara Mimosa Montes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Johanna Hedva and others.

🪶 Library of writing prompts, reflections and archive of past workshops and special events. 
From readings and proposals that surface in the community—hundreds so far, including follow-along video prompts created by Community Coordinator Naima Lowe.

We invite all writers interested in joining us to sign up at this link. (If you're already on the waitlist, you do not need to sign up again; you are already at the front of the line.)

 

When you register, you'll be asked to provide your name, time zone, and some information about yourself. Registration is simple, but important to us. We review your responses carefully to ensure that you understand our community values, and so that we can answer any questions you may have about writing with us.

 

Please know that we prioritize black and brown writers, writers with disabilities, writers without a university degree, non-metropolitan writers, Spanish-speaking writers in the Americas, and writers over 50. Most invitations have been reserved for writers from these groups, which are less visible in writing communities. Spots are also available for other writers; we will extend invitations for these in the order that they are received, beginning with folks who are already on the waitlist.

 

After you submit, give us time to read your materials; we’ll send you a personal response with your next steps.

 

Step 3: Check out. 

You will receive personalized checkout instructions via email. You have full control of your plan and can cancel at any time. You must check out to complete your registration. You'll need to turn this around quickly—no later than January 6—in order to enter the community in time for orientation. 

Step 4: Join us.

On January 7 you’ll receive an email with a special link to access together.atlouisplace.com.

Step 5: Once you've entered the community, you'll have access to all of our programming and content, including our orientation programs January 9-11. (Don't worry if you can't make these; orientation sessions are recorded). 
 

Note: We'll stop accepting registrations for this cohort on January 3, 2024.

Some of our writers love daily writing; others join it rarely. There are plenty of other reasons to connect with our community: for example, if you're interested in joining a group for exchanging or generating ideas; if you're interested in our guest workshops; or if you're interested in inspiring and being inspired by a network of like-minded writers.

 

The community of writers at Louis Place currently includes all of the above. Some of us write (or make things) professionally (or want to), and need strategies for staying connected to the magic of our creative work. Others work in industries that are connected to writing (editors, literary agents, translators, grant writers, technical writers) and need practical support. at Louis Place is a space where you can refresh, clarify, or reconnect with your writing practice, whatever that looks like for you. It's also a place for experimentation and play. 

 

That said, if you don't currently have or want a relationship to writing or creative practice, at Louis Place is not a good fit.

 

Keeping the community afloat costs time, resources, and money. When you check out, we offer guidance regarding finding a contribution that aligns with the actual cost of providing the services you need. 

 

The choose-your-price model honors our labor while supporting the most diverse possible group of participants. We came up participating in (mostly oppressive) academic and institutional structures, (excessively bureaucratic and government-involved) non-profit organizations and (often exploitative) commercial businesses that do not align with our values. Our extended community is committed to finding new ways to support each other, and this project is one step toward that goal. You can change your contribution amount at any time; folks often reduce their contributions when times are tough and increase when things are going well.

 

Our paid community liaison positions and barter opportunities are creative ways for us to support writers with a wide range of gifts. If you have a barter proposal or non-financial offering you'd like to suggest, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming every single person who wants to be a part. 

 

The online hub is screen reader compatible—currently best on iPhone, okay on Android, and so-so on the web. The iOS app works well with VoiceOver. Android devices typically have a built-in Text-to-speech (TTS) engine that reads the text that it can find on the screen. Although we do not currently offer a native web screen reader, it’s on the product roadmap to add in the future, and we’re also working to improve compatibility with 3rd-party web screen readers and enhance overall keyboard navigability.

 

Auto-generated captions are available for zoom sessions organized through the community, including one-on-one meetings and workshops. 

 

Detailed access notes about our offerings are shared in the registration form (if you have access needs that aren't met by the form, send us an email). 

 

We welcome your feedback about accessibility needs and look forward to working with you to solve any challenges.

 

Yes, you are still welcome! 

 

If you applied but didn't join, please reach out to quincy@atlouisplace.com for a checkout link. 

 

If you joined and would like to re-join, you can use your old checkout link to reactivate your plan (or email us for help).

 

We continue to slow our pace to focus on current writers and our own creative projects. We have not determined when we will accept new writers again.
 

Email us! Or join our upcoming information session. We look forward to hearing from you.

Dear friends,

 

Three years in, at Louis Place is thriving. Our network of thinkers, dreamers, and lifelong learners is launching projects, reading more, drawing more, taking more walks, winning things, plugging away, finally getting started, finally finishing up, trying something different, sharing something new, late blooming, helping each other out, even a bit of hanging out in person. 

 

Are you ready to join our community for writers—artists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, and others who write for pleasure and liberation? We're so ready to welcome you! 👐🏾

 

at Louis Place is accepting new writers through Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Our winter-spring season begins the week of Monday, January 8, 2024.

We're so happy to share our winter-spring 2024 offerings, which include:

Read on for more information and frequently asked questions. Or, join our optional informal information session Jan 2 at 5pm PT/ 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET (register for the Zoom  link). 

 

We can't wait to write with you.

 

In love and solidarity,

 

Naima Lowe, Coordinator

Steffani Jemison, Founder and Coordinator

Quincy Flowers, Founder and Coordinator

Organized and facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages (or other project materials) for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to share feedback later in the month. 

 

Writers use Project Exchange to share every kind of work: short stories, essays, dissertation chapters, scripts and screenplays, artworks, proposals—anything and everything that is ready for a witness. 

 

Project Exchange is for writers/artists who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions, as well as those who can't commit to weekly sessions. Or, use Project Exchange as an internal deadline to help you finish your work. Project Exchange is also an opportunity to expand your network and meet other writers in the community. 

🪢 Weekly and biweekly small group cohorts 
Trajectories are smallish groups (4-10 people) of ALP writers who meet together for feedback, discussion, and other forms of peer support and camaraderie. These groups epitomize our horizontal, peer learning structure. The groups flourish when we understand that everyone has something to offer, and that we don't have to be beholden to whatever institutional boundaries or hierarchies might have shaped our previous workshop experiences. 

 

Some Trajectories are supported by our team of Community Liaisons—stewards who help anchor Trajectory groups and keep them running smoothly. Current groups include: 

 

📚 Non-Fiction Fever (workshopping non-fiction projects)

🔭 Close Encounters (renewing our relationship to creative practice)

🎭 Weird Scripts (interdisciplinary experiments in performance)

⚡️Hybrid Forms (working across visual and textual modes.) 

🫁 Breathing Room (interdisciplinary workshop for writers of color)

🔥 Writing As Resourcing (somatic and generative writing together) 

🧞‍♀️ Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)

✍🏾 Quiet daily co-writing
Think of daily writing as a date with yourself and your writing practice. Some daily writers—including those who join the Daily writing room as well as those who write on their own—share their writing intentions in our online hub.

 

This winter-spring season, our daily writing times are:

8-9 am & 2-3 pm ET 

7-8 am & 1-2 pm CT 

5-6 am & 11-12 pm PT 

2-3 pm and 8-9 pm CET

The Daily writing room ✍🏾 is open all day, lovingly hosted by Community Liaison Jessica Harvey. This seasons all of our retreats will take place on the 4th Friday of the month. Join us January 26, February 23, March 22, April 26 and May 24. 

Need gentle support reaching your independent writing goals? We host monthly challenges designed to help writers and artists who seek peer cheerleading as they work towards their target. 

🙌🏾 Black Feminist Pedagogy FTW: A popular education style reading and discussion group dedicated to improving our collective knowledge, skills and capacities teaching within the arts. Our core reading material will be bell hooks' Teaching To Transgress. We will also pool our collective knowledge and share additional readings and resources to learn from together. In addition to reading and discussion, participants will have a chance to workshop syllabi, assignments and lesson plans with peers.

Naima Lowe will be your facilitator, bringing 20+ years of teaching in adult education and higher education settings. This group will operate with a popular education model, meaning that Naima will offer support, guidance and infrastructure, but the expertise and knowledge will be generated from participants. Together we have everything that we need!

🪩 Launch Party: Launch Party is for anyone who is launching a big project and working on the marketing ramp-up. Together we work on things like drafting newsletters, scheduling social media, and maybe even cracking SEO. We're here to share resources, talk content, brainstorm, and keep each other lifted as we face the thing that is self-branding.

💩 Shooting The Shit: Informal, peer led sessions on topics ranging from applying to residencies, digital content management tools, the voice and vocal strategies, somatic approaches to creative practice, time management, finding an agent, pitching articles to publications, and more. Winter-spring topics will include “Hot Tips on Applying to Creative Capital," How and When to Lawyer Up: Legal Issues for Artists and Creatives" and “Popular Education Saved My Life."

🎂 Special Guest Workshops: Our generative writing workshops prioritize visionary, interdisciplinary thinkers from across the country. This winter-spring season, we will be joined by writers as well as, for the first time in a while, publishing professionals. Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Quincy Flowers, Sharon Bridgforth, Tisa Bryant, Daniel Alexander Jones, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Lara Mimosa Montes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Johanna Hedva and others.

🪶 Library of writing prompts, reflections and archive of past workshops and special events. 
From readings and proposals that surface in the community—hundreds so far, including follow-along video prompts created by Community Coordinator Naima Lowe.

We invite all writers interested in joining us to sign up at this link. (If you're already on the waitlist, you do not need to sign up again; you are already at the front of the line.)

 

When you register, you'll be asked to provide your name, time zone, and some information about yourself. Registration is simple, but important to us. We review your responses carefully to ensure that you understand our community values, and so that we can answer any questions you may have about writing with us.

 

Please know that we prioritize black and brown writers, writers with disabilities, writers without a university degree, non-metropolitan writers, Spanish-speaking writers in the Americas, and writers over 50. Most invitations have been reserved for writers from these groups, which are less visible in writing communities. Spots are also available for other writers; we will extend invitations for these in the order that they are received, beginning with folks who are already on the waitlist.

 

After you submit, give us time to read your materials; we’ll send you a personal response with your next steps.

 

Step 3: Check out. 

You will receive personalized checkout instructions via email. You have full control of your plan and can cancel at any time. You must check out to complete your registration. You'll need to turn this around quickly—no later than January 6—in order to enter the community in time for orientation. 

Step 4: Join us.

On January 7 you’ll receive an email with a special link to access together.atlouisplace.com.

Step 5: Once you've entered the community, you'll have access to all of our programming and content, including our orientation programs January 9-11. (Don't worry if you can't make these; orientation sessions are recorded). 
 

Note: We'll stop accepting registrations for this cohort on January 3, 2024.

Some of our writers love daily writing; others join it rarely. There are plenty of other reasons to connect with our community: for example, if you're interested in joining a group for exchanging or generating ideas; if you're interested in our guest workshops; or if you're interested in inspiring and being inspired by a network of like-minded writers.

 

The community of writers at Louis Place currently includes all of the above. Some of us write (or make things) professionally (or want to), and need strategies for staying connected to the magic of our creative work. Others work in industries that are connected to writing (editors, literary agents, translators, grant writers, technical writers) and need practical support. at Louis Place is a space where you can refresh, clarify, or reconnect with your writing practice, whatever that looks like for you. It's also a place for experimentation and play. 

 

That said, if you don't currently have or want a relationship to writing or creative practice, at Louis Place is not a good fit.

 

Keeping the community afloat costs time, resources, and money. When you check out, we offer guidance regarding finding a contribution that aligns with the actual cost of providing the services you need. 

 

The choose-your-price model honors our labor while supporting the most diverse possible group of participants. We came up participating in (mostly oppressive) academic and institutional structures, (excessively bureaucratic and government-involved) non-profit organizations and (often exploitative) commercial businesses that do not align with our values. Our extended community is committed to finding new ways to support each other, and this project is one step toward that goal. You can change your contribution amount at any time; folks often reduce their contributions when times are tough and increase when things are going well.

 

Our paid community liaison positions and barter opportunities are creative ways for us to support writers with a wide range of gifts. If you have a barter proposal or non-financial offering you'd like to suggest, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming every single person who wants to be a part. 

 

The online hub is screen reader compatible—currently best on iPhone, okay on Android, and so-so on the web. The iOS app works well with VoiceOver. Android devices typically have a built-in Text-to-speech (TTS) engine that reads the text that it can find on the screen. Although we do not currently offer a native web screen reader, it’s on the product roadmap to add in the future, and we’re also working to improve compatibility with 3rd-party web screen readers and enhance overall keyboard navigability.

 

Auto-generated captions are available for zoom sessions organized through the community, including one-on-one meetings and workshops. 

 

Detailed access notes about our offerings are shared in the registration form (if you have access needs that aren't met by the form, send us an email). 

 

We welcome your feedback about accessibility needs and look forward to working with you to solve any challenges.

 

Yes, you are still welcome! 

 

If you applied but didn't join, please reach out to quincy@atlouisplace.com for a checkout link. 

 

If you joined and would like to re-join, you can use your old checkout link to reactivate your plan (or email us for help).

 

We continue to slow our pace to focus on current writers and our own creative projects. We have not determined when we will accept new writers again.
 

Email us! Or join our upcoming information session. We look forward to hearing from you.

Dear friends,

 

Three years in, at Louis Place is thriving. Our network of thinkers, dreamers, and lifelong learners is launching projects, reading more, drawing more, taking more walks, winning things, plugging away, finally getting started, finally finishing up, trying something different, sharing something new, late blooming, helping each other out, even a bit of hanging out in person. 

 

Are you ready to join our community for writers—artists, musicians, filmmakers, activists, and others who write for pleasure and liberation? We're so ready to welcome you! 👐🏾

 

at Louis Place is accepting new writers through Wednesday, January 3, 2024. Our winter-spring season begins the week of Monday, January 8, 2024.

We're so happy to share our winter-spring 2024 offerings, which include:

Read on for more information and frequently asked questions. Or, join our optional informal information session Jan 2 at 5pm PT/ 6pm MT / 7pm CT / 8pm ET (register for the Zoom  link). 

 

We can't wait to write with you.

 

In love and solidarity,

 

Naima Lowe, Coordinator

Steffani Jemison, Founder and Coordinator

Quincy Flowers, Founder and Coordinator

Organized and facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages (or other project materials) for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to share feedback later in the month. 

 

Writers use Project Exchange to share every kind of work: short stories, essays, dissertation chapters, scripts and screenplays, artworks, proposals—anything and everything that is ready for a witness. 

 

Project Exchange is for writers/artists who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions, as well as those who can't commit to weekly sessions. Or, use Project Exchange as an internal deadline to help you finish your work. Project Exchange is also an opportunity to expand your network and meet other writers in the community. 

🪢 Weekly and biweekly small group cohorts 
Trajectories are smallish groups (4-10 people) of ALP writers who meet together for feedback, discussion, and other forms of peer support and camaraderie. These groups epitomize our horizontal, peer learning structure. The groups flourish when we understand that everyone has something to offer, and that we don't have to be beholden to whatever institutional boundaries or hierarchies might have shaped our previous workshop experiences. 

 

Some Trajectories are supported by our team of Community Liaisons—stewards who help anchor Trajectory groups and keep them running smoothly. Current groups include: 

 

📚 Non-Fiction Fever (workshopping non-fiction projects)

🔭 Close Encounters (renewing our relationship to creative practice)

🎭 Weird Scripts (interdisciplinary experiments in performance)

⚡️Hybrid Forms (working across visual and textual modes.) 

🫁 Breathing Room (interdisciplinary workshop for writers of color)

🔥 Writing As Resourcing (somatic and generative writing together) 

🧞‍♀️ Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)

✍🏾 Quiet daily co-writing
Think of daily writing as a date with yourself and your writing practice. Some daily writers—including those who join the Daily writing room as well as those who write on their own—share their writing intentions in our online hub.

 

This winter-spring season, our daily writing times are:

8-9 am & 2-3 pm ET 

7-8 am & 1-2 pm CT 

5-6 am & 11-12 pm PT 

2-3 pm and 8-9 pm CET

The Daily writing room ✍🏾 is open all day, lovingly hosted by Community Liaison Jessica Harvey. This seasons all of our retreats will take place on the 4th Friday of the month. Join us January 26, February 23, March 22, April 26 and May 24. 

Need gentle support reaching your independent writing goals? We host monthly challenges designed to help writers and artists who seek peer cheerleading as they work towards their target. 

🙌🏾 Black Feminist Pedagogy FTW: A popular education style reading and discussion group dedicated to improving our collective knowledge, skills and capacities teaching within the arts. Our core reading material will be bell hooks' Teaching To Transgress. We will also pool our collective knowledge and share additional readings and resources to learn from together. In addition to reading and discussion, participants will have a chance to workshop syllabi, assignments and lesson plans with peers.

Naima Lowe will be your facilitator, bringing 20+ years of teaching in adult education and higher education settings. This group will operate with a popular education model, meaning that Naima will offer support, guidance and infrastructure, but the expertise and knowledge will be generated from participants. Together we have everything that we need!

🪩 Launch Party: Launch Party is for anyone who is launching a big project and working on the marketing ramp-up. Together we work on things like drafting newsletters, scheduling social media, and maybe even cracking SEO. We're here to share resources, talk content, brainstorm, and keep each other lifted as we face the thing that is self-branding.

💩 Shooting The Shit: Informal, peer led sessions on topics ranging from applying to residencies, digital content management tools, the voice and vocal strategies, somatic approaches to creative practice, time management, finding an agent, pitching articles to publications, and more. Winter-spring topics will include “Hot Tips on Applying to Creative Capital," How and When to Lawyer Up: Legal Issues for Artists and Creatives" and “Popular Education Saved My Life."

🎂 Special Guest Workshops: Our generative writing workshops prioritize visionary, interdisciplinary thinkers from across the country. This winter-spring season, we will be joined by writers as well as, for the first time in a while, publishing professionals. Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Quincy Flowers, Sharon Bridgforth, Tisa Bryant, Daniel Alexander Jones, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, Lara Mimosa Montes, Leah Lakshmi Piepzna-Samarasinha, Johanna Hedva and others.

🪶 Library of writing prompts, reflections and archive of past workshops and special events. 
From readings and proposals that surface in the community—hundreds so far, including follow-along video prompts created by Community Coordinator Naima Lowe.

We invite all writers interested in joining us to sign up at this link. (If you're already on the waitlist, you do not need to sign up again; you are already at the front of the line.)

 

When you register, you'll be asked to provide your name, time zone, and some information about yourself. Registration is simple, but important to us. We review your responses carefully to ensure that you understand our community values, and so that we can answer any questions you may have about writing with us.

 

Please know that we prioritize black and brown writers, writers with disabilities, writers without a university degree, non-metropolitan writers, Spanish-speaking writers in the Americas, and writers over 50. Most invitations have been reserved for writers from these groups, which are less visible in writing communities. Spots are also available for other writers; we will extend invitations for these in the order that they are received, beginning with folks who are already on the waitlist.

 

After you submit, give us time to read your materials; we’ll send you a personal response with your next steps.

 

Step 3: Check out. 

You will receive personalized checkout instructions via email. You have full control of your plan and can cancel at any time. You must check out to complete your registration. You'll need to turn this around quickly—no later than January 6—in order to enter the community in time for orientation. 

Step 4: Join us.

On January 7 you’ll receive an email with a special link to access together.atlouisplace.com.

Step 5: Once you've entered the community, you'll have access to all of our programming and content, including our orientation programs January 9-11. (Don't worry if you can't make these; orientation sessions are recorded). 
 

Note: We'll stop accepting registrations for this cohort on January 3, 2024.

Some of our writers love daily writing; others join it rarely. There are plenty of other reasons to connect with our community: for example, if you're interested in joining a group for exchanging or generating ideas; if you're interested in our guest workshops; or if you're interested in inspiring and being inspired by a network of like-minded writers.

 

The community of writers at Louis Place currently includes all of the above. Some of us write (or make things) professionally (or want to), and need strategies for staying connected to the magic of our creative work. Others work in industries that are connected to writing (editors, literary agents, translators, grant writers, technical writers) and need practical support. at Louis Place is a space where you can refresh, clarify, or reconnect with your writing practice, whatever that looks like for you. It's also a place for experimentation and play. 

 

That said, if you don't currently have or want a relationship to writing or creative practice, at Louis Place is not a good fit.

 

How does the sliding scale contribution model work? What if I can't afford it?

Keeping the community afloat costs time, resources, and money. When you check out, we offer guidance regarding finding a contribution that aligns with the actual cost of providing the services you need. 

 

The choose-your-price model honors our labor while supporting the most diverse possible group of participants. We came up participating in (mostly oppressive) academic and institutional structures, (excessively bureaucratic and government-involved) non-profit organizations and (often exploitative) commercial businesses that do not align with our values. Our extended community is committed to finding new ways to support each other, and this project is one step toward that goal. You can change your contribution amount at any time; folks often reduce their contributions when times are tough and increase when things are going well.

 

Our paid community liaison positions and barter opportunities are creative ways for us to support writers with a wide range of gifts. If you have a barter proposal or non-financial offering you'd like to suggest, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming every single person who wants to be a part. 

 

The online hub is screen reader compatible—currently best on iPhone, okay on Android, and so-so on the web. The iOS app works well with VoiceOver. Android devices typically have a built-in Text-to-speech (TTS) engine that reads the text that it can find on the screen. Although we do not currently offer a native web screen reader, it’s on the product roadmap to add in the future, and we’re also working to improve compatibility with 3rd-party web screen readers and enhance overall keyboard navigability.

 

Auto-generated captions are available for zoom sessions organized through the community, including one-on-one meetings and workshops. 

 

Detailed access notes about our offerings are shared in the registration form (if you have access needs that aren't met by the form, send us an email). 

 

We welcome your feedback about accessibility needs and look forward to working with you to solve any challenges.

 

Yes, you are still welcome! 

 

If you applied but didn't join, please reach out to quincy@atlouisplace.com for a checkout link. 

 

If you joined and would like to re-join, you can use your old checkout link to reactivate your plan (or email us for help).

 

We continue to slow our pace to focus on current writers and our own creative projects. We have not determined when we will accept new writers again.
 

Email us! Or join our upcoming information session. We look forward to hearing from you.