A sanctuary for real people writing real stories.
What is it?
The Inkwell is a place to come to dip your proverbial pen anytime you need some creative fuel. Maybe that’s some clarity or direction, a craft question answered, fresh ideas or recommendations, companionship with like-hearted people, or perhaps just a breath of beauty and joy.
The Inkwell is also a gathering place for people who are writing (or wish to be writing!) memoir, people who wish to finish what they started.
The Inkwell is an ‘AI-free refuge,’ a place for people who value true, authentic, human creativity, communication, and connection. This is a home for genuine writing and the wildly imperfect beauty of the human heart. ❤️
The Inkwell is a place to come whenever you need energy, nourishment, community, or simply a reminder that your voice is a unique and vital part of the human choir, and your writing matters.
In short, The Inkwell is the space I've been dreaming of creating since the first group of writers finished Memoir Writing Ink in 2020 and said, “That was great, but how can I stay connected, keep writing, and finish what I’ve started?”
It's taken me a few years to figure out the specifics. ;)
Part of that meant figuring out how to create a space that would allow me to be one of the people writing! So, I look forward to having this become a collective creative endeavour and to joining you as a writer in this community.
What You’ll Find
Inspiring Creative Fuel
Monthly literary inspiration and resources that will widen your horizons, fill your heart, uplift and inspire, and replenish your creative well.
Like-Hearted Community
Connect with people who are asking many of the same questions, encountering and overcoming similar obstacles, and able to offer the generosity that memoir invites.
Writing may be a solitary endeavour, but stories are communal, and (almost?) everything is easier and more enjoyable when it is shared. 💕
Interactive Feedback
The chance to have your work read and engaged with, have readers in the room offering their experience and helping you prepare your writing to go out into the world where it belongs. :)
Support for Your Writing
Resources on everything from structure to voice to the big questions surrounding memoir and the rich enquiry that writing facilitates. We are always becoming better writers -- and people! As we learn, we grow.
Live Learning
Guided writing sessions, craft workshops, interviews, ‘hot seat’ coaching, opportunities to connect with other writers, deep dives into great books, revision sessions, and even a monthly dance party. :)
Uplifting Beauty
This is not only a 'AI-free refuge' in a literary sense; it is also a place to celebrate simple beauty and sacred human joy. A place to be nourished, uplifted, and accompanied.
Become a Founding Member.
Help Shape this Space.
At the moment, we are only opening The Inkwell to a limited number of Memoir Writing Ink alumni.
We are looking for people who are interested in being part of the development of the space in the form of a 3-month ‘beta test’.
There is a lot of ‘creative fuel’ already there for you to enjoy, but we are also interested in your thoughts, your ideas and suggestions for how we might create the kind of space and experience you would like to see and continue to be part of.
If you’d like to join me on this new literary adventure, please keep reading! You’ll find all the details below.
What Being a Founding Member Means
A rate you keep for life.
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A voice in how it develops.
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This is a ‘beta test’ of The Inkwell, rather than a formal launch. Which means your feedback is actually going to shape what The Inkwell becomes. What's working (or not). What you wish existed. The idea is to create this space with you.
First access, before anyone else.
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Joining The Inkwell now, in its infancy, means you pay a discounted ‘Founding Member’ rate that will never go up — even as The Inkwell grows, adds more resources, and (inevitably) costs more for everyone who joins after you.
You'll be inside before the doors officially open to the public — testing, exploring, telling us what to fix before it's live for everyone. Sort of like being invited into the carnival grounds before the doors open. :)
A special standing in the community.
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We are invited Founding Members to explore and test what we have so far — peer into cupboards, bang on the walls, test the taps — but you are also an important part of the origin story. The people who believed in it before it was in full flower.
Feed your creativity.
Be part of a beautiful community.
Blossom into the writer you wish to become.
Support This Project.
I am very excited about the potential for The Inkwell to become the kind of collective creative space that nourishes us all. And I would love to be one of the writers in this collective.
I’ve enjoyed envisioning and designing this space. I look forward to offering my ideas and skills and passions and live events and dance parties! But I also look forward, once the space is ‘off the ground’ to allowing other writers to step in and offer their talents and joys. And to return to the love that pulses behind it all: my own writing!
Behind the scenes, this space takes real people—other writers, editors, moderators, humans doing beautiful human work—to make The Inkwell the kind of place I’d love it to be: responsive, thoughtful, alive.
Every dollar that comes in beyond membership goes toward paying those people fairly for the work they do to hold this space open for you.
So if you are interested in supporting this project and you are in a position to make a donation toward its development, I would be extremely, extremely grateful.
Creativity ~ Authenticity ~ Beauty ~ Joy ~
Creativity ~ Authenticity ~ Beauty ~ Joy ~
Driven by curiosity and built on purpose, this is where bold thinking meets thoughtful execution. Let’s create something meaningful together.