Winter 2026 · $199 every three months
Autumn membership Season full

A writing practice that lasts when motivation disappears.

Join over 200 writers in Austin for regularly scheduled three-hour Saturday writing sessions, book club, author talks, and salon dinners. Optional feedback courses and workshops have separate enrollment and member prices. Membership is $199 every three months.

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What’s included

What’s included

ATX Writing Club members writing side by side at a long table Writing sessionsRegularly scheduled Saturdays · Three focused hours each Writers gathered for an ATX Writing Club salon dinner Member eventsUp to 27 events · Over 200 Austin writers

Inside your membership

Five ways membership keeps you writing.

Time to write, people who notice, lower prices on optional courses, and the flexibility to choose the events that suit you.

  1. A brass key, tied notebook, note card, pencil, and flowers on a green table
    Writing sessionsThree focused hoursRegularly scheduled Saturdays in Austin
  2. A stack of worn books with reading glasses, coffee, and a dried flower
    Member eventsWriting rooms, book club, talks, and dinnersDozens of events each season
  3. A hand-bound journal with bookbinding tools, thread, scissors, and a dark cover
    Your communityPeople who want you to finishOver 200 writers
  4. A finished submission packet tied with rust-colored thread
    Save on coursesLower prices on optional courses and paid sessionsPotential savings over $900 compared with public prices
  5. A blue door set into an Austin limestone wall in afternoon light
    Flexible participationChoose what fits your project and scheduleNo need to attend every event

Inside the season

Inside the season

ATX Writing Club members gathered around a table with their projects
Autumn membership Season full

Make steady progress on the project you want to finish.

Members meet for three focused hours and work on their own projects. Draft, revise, outline, or pick up where you left off. Nobody lectures; the time is yours to write.

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In person Austin, Texas

There’s more to membership than writing sessions.

Share your work in feedback groups, read with the book club, meet guest authors, take workshops, and come to salon dinners.

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Who you’ll learn from

Coats, scarves, and writing bags hang inside a shared Austin room

Learn from people who know writing firsthand.

Guest lecturers cover craft, fiction, newsletters, traditional publishing, and self-publishing. You can ask the practical questions that rarely fit inside a book.

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Ways to take part

Ways to take part

A room full of ATX Writing Club members writing together Write together On scheduled Saturdays Writers discussing work around a table during a feedback session Feedback groups Eight weeks ATX Writing Club members gathered for book club Writers’ book club Once a month ATX Writing Club members attending an author event Author events Seasonal Writers gathered for an ATX Writing Club salon dinner A Moveable Feast Every six weeks Writers learning about the professional side of a writing life The business of writers Every six weeks Novel writers working together during an ATX Writing Club course Novel writing course Twelve weeks ATX Writing Club members sharing work at reading night Reading night Once per season Writers learning about publishing at an ATX Writing Club session Getting published Once per season

Next season

Current season is full. The next season waitlist is open.

Every member joined on an ordinary week, on a day that felt like a bad time to start. Six months later they had proof they could keep going.

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