Hi everyone!
What are you doing in August? Do you want to work on your book with me?
What’s the idea?
August is the Sunday of summer. Sunday is the August of the week. It’s too hot. Time is dead. And you don’t feel like going to any more barbecues.
Let’s figure out what’s going on with your book.
This club is for people who:
Have been working on the same project for a while but don’t really know where they’re going with all this.
Feel overwhelmed by their word count.
Want to figure out a structure that can transform their google doc into a manuscript.
Feel underwhelmed by their word count... but have a lot of ideas.
Want to join a space where their whole identity is just ‘writer’ for two hours a week.
What kind of ~book can I bring?
Non-fiction, literary fiction, poetry, experimental/genreless work. Novels, short stories, essays, poems... etc.
Before we meet:
I’ll send you a reading zine (pdf) featuring interview clips from writers and editors talking about how they put their books together to give you some ideas and inspiration.
You will prepare a brief description of what you’re trying to do, and three excerpts to share with the group throughout August. (The length of the excerpts depends on you and your book.)
The idea is not that you will be able to finish your book within the one month we spend together, but that you’ll be read and listened to and given new perspectives on the work to take with you into the autumn.
Anyway, there’s way more information here.
Excited for this! :)
Last Thursday we travelled to Baltimore, Maryland to launch Log Off by Kristen Felicetti and The Island by Oscar d’Artois at Hidden Palace.




See you tonight Easthampton, MA!!
Tell me more about that August Editing Club thing.
Lucy <3