Hi Friends!
It’s June and there’s plenty to be happy about ☀️ It’s Pride Month, summer’s coming, and if you like connecting with other writers, we’re announcing a brand new way to get social…
✨Public✨ Friday Happy Hours w/ AFB
Meet and mingle with other writers in these casual weekly hangouts. Talk shop, share work, or chitchat and make friends. Cameras on recommended. Hosted by Waxwing editor and multigenre writer Allison Field Bell. Nonmembers welcome! Starting June 12, 7-9PM ET
Want more ways to connect with other writers and grow? We got you.
✨Public✨ MFA-Style Writing Workshops: 4 Sundays in July
Hate staying silent while your work gets critiqued? We take the MFA model and make it collaborative: share your work and concerns to get the roundtable feedback that matters to you. Led by editors. Enrolling through June 21✨Public✨Chat + Q&A with Nina McConigley
Join us to discuss writing and publishing from collection to novel.
So come hang out! Your beautiful presence and membership help us build this community and if you haven’t officially joined yet it’s easier than ever with…
✨ LMC Summer Sale✨
60% off ALL membership plans for up to 3 months
Just use checkout code LMC-SUMMER-26
Valid through Aug 31
Basic for $6 a month! And Fancy for $50, which is a pretty wild deal for monthly 1-on-1 editor consultations. That’s like… 2 gallons of gas and 1 banana.
Whatever the tier, it’s a great time to…
Programming is hosted in our Discord. All times US Eastern.
save for easy reference!
✨PUBLIC EVENTS✨
“From Collection to Novel: Writing and Publishing Across Scales” A Chat + Q&A w/ Nina McConigley
…in the #lounge channel of our Discord
What changes when a writer moves from the tight architecture of short stories to the expansive terrain of a novel? Join Nina McConigley — award-winning author of the short story collection Cowboys and East Indians, the novel How to Commit a Postcolonial Murder, and a forthcoming essay collection — for a conversation on writing and publishing across forms. We’ll discuss the creative and practical adjustments involved in shifting between short fiction, novels, and essays, as well as her experiences with large and small presses and the lessons learned from both.
June 9, 7pm ET in the #lounge channel of Our Discord.
✨Public✨Guided Writing Studio
Fun generative sessions led by Editor Autumn Watts to shake off the mental cobwebs and start some new pieces. Invite your friends! All levels of writer welcome.
✨ Open to the public!✨
Morning session: Wed, June 10 @ 9-10AM ET
Evening session: Wed, June 10 @ 8-9PM ET
✨Public✨ Firelight Readaround
In the #public-events channel of our Discord
Grow your confidence and stagecraft through our online community readings! Or just drop in for the mingle and cozy vibes. Monthly, every last Sunday 8-9PM ET.
OUR CORE PROGRAMMING
✨Public✨ Friday Happy Hours w/ Allison Field Bell
Fridays. In the #public-events channel of our Discord
Talk shop, share work, or just make friends!
Starting Friday June 12, Waxwing fiction editor and multigenre writer Allison Field Bell will be hosting casual weekly drop-in hangouts for writers to meet, chat, and mingle.
Pop in and out anytime between 7-9PM ET. Nonmembers welcome!
✨Basic✨Accountability Sessions
Write with other members online! No excuses. No distractions.
✨Basic✨Mentored Milestones Check-in
Let’s transform those sprawling abstract goals into actionable items!
• Map out goals in our Milestones Journals.
• Leave with scheduled items in your Action Steps Tracker.
• For weekly check-ins, Sassy and Fancy members can attend Progress Studios.
• Or work asynchronously at your own pace.
Monday, June 1: 7-8 PM ET
✨Sassy✨Progress Studios
Mondays: 1-2 PM ET
✨Fancy✨Drop-in Coaching
Fridays: 1-2 PM ET
Sundays: 6-7PM ET
COMMUNITY NEWS
Editor Steve will be in residency at Ragdale as a Waud Fellow!
Samantha Borek will be attending the Ollscoil na Gaillimhe for Irish Studies!
Karen Karason and her daughter have begun researching their family history to fuel their work!
James Stobie was awarded a sticky pocket-dollar by a student for being “such a good teacher!”
Aaaand… it’s our quarterly call for Pen Pal Swap!
Members, check the pinned message in #work-swap-n-share to register for new feedback partners.
PRECAP
And looking ahead… rumor has it that we might be chatting with the author of the novels I Leave It Up to You and Flux. a New York Times Editor’s Choice and a finalist for the PEN/Hemingway Award for Debut Novel… who could it be?👀
Okeydoke and that’s it! See you around.