I was human after all reading and writing club
This substack hosts two monthly zoom meetings for paid subscribers!
The writing club happens on the second Sunday of the month at 1pm EST. The club consists of me teaching about writing, writing prompts, time for writing, and the opportunity to share your writing. This is a non-critical, supportive space for developing your writing practice and your voice as a writer. We will also be learning about zine making and eventually there will an opportunity for people to collect their writing into a zine and trade their zines in the mail with other members of the writing club.
The book club happens on the last Sunday of the month at 1pm EST. We discuss a mix of memoirs and weird fiction (and maybe sometimes other stuff). It is an excellent, curated reading list. The book club is an opportunity to talk about books with other readers, stay motivated about reading, develop your analysis, and expand your thinking, in a supportive, non-judgemental space. The conversations are really fun and generative.
There is also a telegram group where you can chat with other participants, discuss books, and share writing. All the groups are drop in / optional. You can come to just the book club, just the writing club, or a mix of both. Meeting aren’t recorded because I want people to feel free to share openly.
Since I don’t want to clog your feed by posting every time there is a meeting, I am asking that you add the dates to your calendar, and come to this page to find the zoom links. I will post reminders of the dates when I publish essays. The links to the zoom meetings and the telegram chat are below. If you have any questions the best place to ask is the telegram group (link to join is at the bottom of this page).
Books we have read so far:
How to Be Unmothered by Camille U. Adams
I Who Have Never Known Men by Jacqueline Harpman
Pieces You’ll Never Get Back by Samina Ali
Drive Your Plow Over the Bones of the Dead by Olga Tokarczuk
The Chronology of Water by Lidia Yuknavitch
Wild Seed by Octavia Butler