at Louis Place is a community for writers. All activities are open to every writer in our community. We usually accept new writers three times each year. This season, we will accept new writers through May 31, 2025.

If you know you’re ready to sign up to write with us, you can head directly to the registration form. If you know you want to attend the information session May 28, you can sign up for that here. Otherwise, read on for more information about our Summer 2025 offerings. 

✌🏾 You seek nonhierarchical, interdisciplinary, intergenerational intellectual exchange

✌🏾 You write or think meaningfully about writing in relation to your creative work

✌🏾 You want to be in comfortable, private, and drama-free conversation with ambitious writers (editors, playwrights, scholars, performers, artists, curators, activists) from around the world. We are in the cities currently known as Lima, Austin, Chicago, Mexico City, Oklahoma City, Brooklyn, New Haven, Washington DC, Cincinnati, Harlem, New Jersey, Atlanta, and more.  

✌🏾 You prioritize Black voices & revolutionary dreams.

✌🏾 You want to share ideas and feedback and frustrations with other writers. 

✌🏾 You are willing to give as much as you receive from a community.

Here’s what we’re up to in summer 2025:

Special offering: Led by award-winning playwright, novelist, and oracle Sharon Bridgforth, we will spend six sessions focusing on creative process, the art of being present, and deep listening, along with opportunities to share work and ask questions.  

“I believe that through the act of sharing our stories: of opening, of being present while being vulnerable, of revealing who we are/where we come from/what we dream...of  trusting ourselves enough to push beyond limits of what we think we know, of following the roads that the right questions can take us on—strengthens our capacity to hear and see one another, to hold space for each other, to connect more authentically, be better artists, to create the lives we most want to live. Ultimately, sharing our stories is an act of generosity, and compassion. These are things we do to be of greater service.  To be ourselves more fully. To Heal. We do this even if it scares us.”  
—Sharon Bridgforth

We will gather Wednesdays, July 2-August 13, at 9:30am PT / 12:30 ET / 6:30 CET. Attend as many or as few sessions as you are able. A portion of each session will be recorded and shared for those wishing to participate asynchronously. Read more here

Daily writing: We write together for an hour, twice every day (8-9am and 12-1pm 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. In Summer 2025, writing retreats—with prompts and encouragement—are lovingly hosted by Jessica Harvey.

Need a reader? Facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is a monthly opportunity to exchange pages, ideas, or creative work for feedback with writers in the community. Submit pages for exchange mid-month; meet with your partner to discuss later in the month. Project Exchange is designed for writers who need more or different feedback than they can find in weekly Trajectory sessions (e.g. a second reader on that grant application or fiction submission), as well as for 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. In recent sessions, we’ve talked about popular education, when to lawyer up, application strategies, and much more. 

Looking for a creative group for feedback / feed forward / accountability? About half of us link up with small groups—we call these Trajectory. 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)
• Nonfiction Workshop (for short- and long-form nonfiction writers)
  

We share prompts and reflections from writers, articles, and events discussed in the community. We’ve got hundreds so far, including new follow-along video prompts. In Summer 2025, new prompts are shared every other Wednesday evening in a write-along session facilitated by community liaisons.

We gather with guests for generative and horizontal workshops—thinking/writing aloud and alongside our mentors and guides. 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, Morgan Bassichis, Sahra Motalebi, Quincy Flowers, Anjuli Raza Kolb, Cori Olinghouse, Tisa Bryant, Ashon Crawley, Mayra Rodríguez Castro, Sharifa Rhodes-Pitts, and many others. In June 2025, we welcome Carolyn Lazard. In July and August 2025, we welcome Sharon Bridgforth. In fall 2025, we look forward to workshops by Lisa Harris, Shirley Bruno, and Ariel Goldberg.