Book Buddies

How it works:

Book Buddies is a subscription-based curated virtual community for writers that supports all aspects of the writers’ life. Membership provides opportunities for generating work and brainstorming project ideas in community, regular feedback on your work from intimate groups, craft instruction, occasional community-wide challenges, along with fun and meaningful fellowship with other writers. A Book Buddy membership will keep you writing by holding you accountable, giving you the tools to level up your technique, and being the very best, most sincere hype squad/cheerleaders you’ll ever encounter. It’s like a gym membership but for writers!

How to Engage:

There are three tiers of Book Buddy membership:

Book Buddies Basic (Tier 1) Includes:

• Access to generative writing sessions (affectionately called “Gen Writing”) twice a week on Tuesdays at 6:30-8:30pm EST and Saturdays from 10am -noon EST. In a google doc all BBs have access to, Kate posts two prompts every week. One is in support of generating a new piece of writing, and the other is in support of revising a work in progress. We check in and unpack the prompts at the start of class, then everyone writes independently for a 60 minute block, after which we take a 5 minute break before reconvening. Writers have the opportunity to read hot off the press work out loud for on the spot encouraging feedback, and to share about how the writing went during the hour or how their writing practice is feeling generally. Book Buddies are not obligated to come to every Gen writing session, but can if they want to!

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• A seat in a small feedback group (capped at 6 writers) that meets for 90 minutes bi-weekly. One week ahead of each meeting 1-2 writers submit between 10-15 double spaced pages via email to their group who will read in preparation for discussion on the meeting date. No written feedback is required. Writers get eyes on their pages every 3-6 meetings, and discussions skew in the direction of supportive brainstorming, specific craft centric praise, and collective problem solving based on the writers’ needs and desires for their own work. Discussions also sometimes feature intensive craft lessons.  REGISTER HERE

Book Buddies Standard (Tier 2) Includes:

• Access To Tuesday/Saturday Gen Writing

• A seat in a small feedback group (capped at 6 writers) that meets for 90 minutes bi-weekly. One week ahead of each meeting 1-2 writers submit between 10-15 double spaced pages via email to their group who will read in preparation for discussion on the meeting date. No written feedback is required. Writers get eyes on their pages every 3-6 meetings, and discussions skew in the direction of supportive brainstorming, specific craft centric praise, and collective problem solving based on the writers’ needs and desires for their own work. Discussions also sometimes feature intensive craft lessons.

• Access to our monthly Read Like a Writers Book Club: A Craft Masterclass every third Monday of the month (with the exception of holidays) from 7pm - 8:30pm EST

• Frequent community-wide challenges

• Guest speakers

• a 10% discount on non-Book Buddy Offerings

• Ability to opt into “Process Pals” a service that pairs you with a rotating buddy each month for accountability, connection, and work sharing.

• REGISTER HERE

Book Buddies Do-it-Yourself MFA (Tier 3) Includes:

• All elements of Tier 2

• One 60 minute coaching sessions a month

• Written Feedback on 25-40 double spaced pages of your work

• Personalized craft instruction and assignments

• REGISTER HERE