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 September 10, 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, you can sign up for that here. Otherwise, read on for more information about our Fall 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 Fall 2025:

Guest workshops: Our generative writing workshops prioritize visionary, interdisciplinary thinkers from across the country. This fall, we're joined by:

• poet, photographer, and activist Ariel Goldberg (September)
• filmmaker Shirley Bruno (October)
• composer and songwriter Lisa E. Harris (November)

Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Quincy Flowers, Morgan Bassichis, 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.

Daily writing: We write together for an hour, twice every day (8-9am and 12-1pm ET, Monday through Sunday).  This fall, we are also offering evening sessions Sunday-Thursday at 9pm ET. 

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 Fall 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, navigating boycotts and solidarity strategies, sharing our successful fellowship applications, and much more. This fall, we're planning Shooting the Shit sessions about: crafting your artist monograph; digital research and note-taking strategies; and facilitating as creative research. Most sessions are recorded, although for privacy reasons, some are only available live.

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: 

• 📚 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.) 
  
• ❤️ Reading and Writing in Community (read together/write together) 
  
• 🧞‍♀️ Fiction Workshop (for novelists and short story writers)   
  
🫁 Breathing Room (workshop for writers of color)

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

In Fall 2025, new prompts are offered on Thursdays at noon in special write-along Daily writing sessions facilitated by community liaisons Jessica and Kristen.

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. 

We're excited to welcome some of our favorite interdisciplinary writers and artists to connect with us in the coming months, including Carolyn Lazard (June) as well as Ariel Goldberg, Shirley Bruno, and Lisa Harris (all Fall 2025).