A 2-Hour Lunch & Workshop · New York City
The Summer I Started Writing
You've been meaning to get serious about this for years.
May 29th is the day you actually do something about it.
Date: Friday, May 29
Time: 11:30 a.m. – 1:30 p.m. ET
Location: 15 West 38th St, New York, NY
Seats: Limited
Get Your Ticket → Early bird $49 · Regular $69
The Situation
You have the stories. You've been carrying them for years.
You're good at your work, you think in stories, and somewhere in you there's a writer who keeps getting bumped to next quarter. Not because you don't care — you do — but because you've never had a room full of serious people, a concrete plan, and two hours with nowhere else to be.
This is that room.
What happens in the room
Two hours of work you'll actually leave with.
This isn't a panel. It's not a talk you'll forget on the subway home. It's a working lunch designed to get mid-career professionals who are serious about writing from "I've been meaning to" to "here's my actual next step."
A real writing plan
Walk out knowing exactly what you're working on and how to make time for it in your actual life.
Submission strategy
Where to send your work, how to pitch it, and what the publishing world actually looks like from the inside.
Peer energy
A room full of people who are done waiting. That changes something. Every time.
Craft, not theory
Taught by two writers who publish. The advice you'll get here is specific, practical, and earned.
Writing Coach & Author
Two decades of professional writing. One viral essay that reached a million people and landed in a Senate floor speech. Now she helps other writers finally finish their work.
Paulette Perhach
New York Times, Elle, Cosmo, Slate
Author, Welcome to the Writer's Life
2x 2024 Solas Travel Writing Award winner
Coached 100+ writers to publication
Writer, Artist & Hybrid Professional
She's published in The New Yorker and McSweeney's, won a Moth StorySLAM, has a novel on submission with Sterling Lord Literistic, and has advised C-suite executives at Microsoft and National Geographic.
Kristina Libby
The New Yorker, McSweeney's, Elle, Salon
Moth StorySLAM winner
Award-winning public art, TV & podcast creator
Co-founder, The Cohort
Is this for you?
This lunch is for you if:
You've been in your career long enough to have stories worth telling — and you know it
You want to write essays, a memoir, or personal narrative work, not just better emails
You're tired of treating your writing like a hobby you keep deprioritizing
You want a plan, not just inspiration
You'd like to be in a room with people who take this as seriously as you do
Tickets
Seats are limited to keep it a real working session.
Early Bird
Available for a limited time
$49
General Admission
Two weeks before the event
$69
May 29 · NYC
This summer could be different.
Two hours. A real plan. The first step you've been putting off.
Come have lunch with us.
