What’s on—

at Louis Place is a community for writers. All activities are open to every writer in our community. For more details about fall 2024 programs, read on (or check out our December 24, 2023 letter to the community).

We write together for an hour, twice every day (8-9am and 2-3pm ET, Monday through Sunday). Not everyone can join us every day. Some of our writers don’t participate in daily writing at all. For others, quiet daily cowriting is an important anchor. During monthly writing retreats, the Daily writing room is open all day, with somatic sessions led by a special guest. In Spring 2024, writing retreats are lovingly hosted by Jessica Harvey.

Need a reader? Facilitated by Naima Lowe, Page Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to share feedback later in the month. For writers who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions, or writers who can't commit to weekly sessions.

We shoot the shit occasionally...strategizing about software, residency applications, chitchatting about articles we've recently read, just hanging out. This winter-spring 2024 season, we’ll be shooting the shit about popular education, when to lawyer up 😳, application strategies, and much more. In a similar mode, a group of us meets monthly to share updates about launching public projects (updating our public profiles, starting that newsletter, and so on).

About half of us link up with small groups—we call these Trajectory—for “workshop,” for accountability, or a little bit of each. All groups are interdisciplinary and include a mix of writers from different backgrounds.

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

Large-Scale Writing Projects (for writers working on books, chapbooks, and scripts)
Poetry Club (writing poems)
Close Encounters (renewing our connection to creative work through generative writing and discussion)
Weird Scripts (for experiments in performance)
Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)

We create roundups of prompts and reflections from writers, articles, and events discussed in the community. We’ve got hundreds so far, including new follow-along video prompts.

Workshops at Louis Place are generative and horizontal—thinking/writing aloud and alongside our mentors and guides. This spring 2024, we’ll host four. Writers in our community have access to all guest workshops as well as our growing archive, which includes recordings and notes from sessions led by Gabrielle Civil, Sharon Bridgforth, Sahra Motalebi, Quincy Flowers, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and many others.

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The Weeds

(some needles we found in the haystacks, on the shelves, in the mess, in the crates, in the shoeboxes, in the empty lots, on the sidewalks, in the weeds)