who are we

About our community

We are writers, artists, activists, and dreamers who hold each other accountable through shared writing practice. We are a community of generous readers and writers sharing ideas, listening to each other, studying together, learning from one another, and taking each other seriously. We are writing glossaries, short stories, screenplays, guides, essays, ghost stories, poems, morning pages, memoirs, syllabi, haiku, artist statements, journals, notes, fellowship applications, plays, sorrow songs, proposals.

Our creative community offers opportunities for personal and creative growth, as well as connection to peers from across the continent and the world. Offerings include daily co-writing, monthly project exchange, weekly groups for feedback or inspiration, guest workshops, and more. Through an online platform and mix of synchronous and asynchronous offerings, we support writers who are parents, caregivers, disabled writers and writers with chronic illness, rural writers, and others whose access to in-person creative communities is limited.

Our biweekly open letter—free to all thinkers and readers—activates intellectual and creative networks across traditional intellectual silos.

Leadership and support

at Louis Place is an artist-led organization with cooperative values; we prioritize knowledge sharing, peer learning, and horizontal leadership. We are accountable first to the artists and writers in our community. Founded in 2020 by Steffani Jemison and Quincy Flowers, at Louis Place has been coordinated by Naima Lowe in collaboration with Steffani and Quincy since 2022.

at Louis Place is a black-led project. We center historically-marginalized voices. Access and disability justice are core commitments of our work.

Programs at Louis Place in 2024-2025 are made possible in part through the sponsorship of The Field, with funding from the Wagner Foundation.