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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 summer, we will accept new writers through September 26, 2026.
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 2026 offerings.
Here’s what we’re up to in Fall 2026:
This summer, writers at Louis Place have the opportunity to:
- learn and study in workhsops led by guests An Duplan, Jenn Jackson, and more;
- join an ongoing weekly Trajectory writing group for support and feedback;
- synchronous and asynchronous opportunities to exchange pages or accountability with peers in the updated Project Exchange facilitated by Naima Lowe; and
- casually shoot the shit about website strategies, Substack, pedagogy, software stacks, and artist talks.
In the community at Louis Place, we welcome artists of all kinds who are ready to think, grow, and write in community.
We're publishing novels and newsletters and nonfiction and articles; we're teaching and learning; we're incubating and revising, speaking and listening, publishing and plotting, and we're doing it better, together 💕
Bring your morning pages, your newsletters, your song lyrics, your novel in progress, your flash fiction, your dream diary, your script, your score, your play, your memoir, your jokes, your essays, your talks, your teaching, your journal, your biggest and smallest ideas.
Welcome in—or welcome back.
Read on for more information about our Fall 2026 plans:
Guest workshops: We're excited to welcome An Duplan and Jenn Jackson as our first two fall 2026 workshops. An Duplan is a Whiting Award winner and the author of three books, including Blackspace: On the Poetics of an Afrofuture; he is also the founder of the Center for Afrofuturist Studies, which he directed for ten years. Jenn Jackson is a black, queer, disabled academic whose trade book, Black Women Taught Us: An Intimate History of Black Feminism sold over 10,000 copies.
Writers in our community also have access to recordings and notes from past sessions by Jonathan Gonzelez, Benedict Nguyen, Leila Abdelrazaq, Nat Raha, Annelise Chen, 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 Summer 2026, writing retreats—with prompts and encouragement—are lovingly hosted by Jessica Harvey.
Need a reader? Facilitated by Naima Lowe, Project Exchange is back for Fall 2026! 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. This fall, Project Exchange integrates new asynchronous opportunities for writers seeking an asynchronous critique partner or accountability partner.
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'll be shooting the shit about:
- Navigating Archives as an Artist
- Radical Pedagogies
- Revision Strategies, Otherwisdom & Counterintuition
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:
- Hybrid Forms
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Non-Fiction-Ish
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Book Length Projects
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Poetic Forms
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Prompt Romp(t)
- Close Encounters
In addition, we share prompts and reflections from writers, articles, and events discussed in the community. In Summer 2026, new prompts are offered on Thursdays at noon in special write-along Daily writing sessions facilitated by community liaisons Jessica and Kristen. Writers in the community also have access to our library of hundreds of writing prompts, including follow-along video prompts.
How much does it cost? at Louis Place uses a choose-your-price model that honors our labor while supporting the most diverse possible group of participants. You can change your contribution amount at any time; folks often reduce their contributions when times are tough and increase when things are going well. Our community liaison positions and barter opportunities are creative ways for us to support writers with a wide range of gifts. If you have a barter proposal or non-financial offering you'd like to suggest, please feel free to reach out. We look forward to welcoming every single person who wants to be a part.
Yes, at Louis Place is right for you if:
✌🏾 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.
Still curious? Check out the frequently asked questions, join the information sesssion, or email us.
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at Louis Place will welcome new writers in September 2026. Register by September 26, 2026. Orientation begins October 5, 2026 (all orientation events are recorded).
Step 1: Complete a short registration form that collects information about your access needs, your current time zone, and your writing goals. The form also describes our sliding scale contribution philosophy and our community compass. Don’t worry, no writing sample required.
Step 2: After you submit, give us time to read your materials; we’ll send you a personal response with your next steps. If you apply during a period when registrations aren’t open, you’ll automatically be added to our waiting list; we’ll review your application for the next available cycle.
Step 3: Check out. You will receive your checkout instructions via email.
Step 4: You’ll receive an email with a special link to access together.atlouisplace.com.
During each application season, we host information sessions for writers who are curious about whether we’re a good fit. Our next information session will be September 21, 2026. Use the button above to register.
If you still have questions or want to speak with someone directly, we’re happy to chat with you via Zoom or email to figure out whether at Louis Place is right for you. Start the process by registering your interest (follow the ‘sign up’ link above) or sending us a note.
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