Welcome to No Time to Write Club!
A writing accountability community.
Our goal at No Time To Write Club is to keep you coming back to your work in progress despite the zillion other demands on your time.
From novelists, academics, memoirists, poets, essayists—pretty much every shape and flavor of writer—from people who don’t yet even call themselves writers to published professionals—we hear the same lament: There’s no time!
At No Time To Write Club, we believe you can’t make time to write—you must claim time to write. And it’s a lot easier to claim time to write when you can tell your partner/kids/laundry/cats/doom-scrolling tendencies that there’s a thing happening, and sorry, but you have to be there.
For paid subscribers:
Real-time writing sprints twice a week when we gather on Zoom and quietly write together, with scheduled breaks to chat and share our progress. For a lot of people, writing sprints are immensely productive. If you haven’t tried it, why not give it a go?
Weekly synchronous sprint days on the chat.
Ask-Me-Anything sessions with Sara & Tes.
Substack chats moderated by the NTTWC hosts, with questions to prompt conversation loosely organized around a theme.
Additional events such as critique-partner and beta-reader matchups, live Q&A, special guest interviews and chats, and other things we might not have thought of yet!
An ongoing moderated chat for community members.
All for $8/month.
And for paid AND free subscribers:
A weekly newsletter with items of interest to writers of all kinds, as well as information on when and how to access the sprints, chats, and other NTTWC offerings.
A monthly podcast on a broad range of topics around our organizing question: “How do I get this writing thing done when I never have enough time???”
Stay up to date
Posts are sent directly to your email inbox. Each week, we will send dates and times for sprints, chats, and other events, along with applicable links.
Who We Are
Tes Slominski, PhD—freelance editor, coach, musician, and music scholar. Owner of The Feral Freelancer. Author of Trad Nation: Gender, Sexuality, and Race in Irish Traditional Music (2020, Wesleyan University Press). Former professor, now recovering academic.
Sara Read—novelist. Author of Johanna Porter is Not Sorry (2023) and Principles of (E)motion (2024, both on Graydon House/HarperCollins). Represented by Laura Bradford, Bradford Literary Agency. Registered nurse, fiddle player, wrangler of teens and pets.
Join us and put your butt in the chair!
