Fireside
Structure, community and inspiration for people who want to write.
Welcome to our living room.
Here’s what we know: Even when we love to write, it’s really hard to sit down and do it. It doesn’t matter how inspired and hardworking we are, without structure, community and inspiration, we all get distracted, wander away, and forget how good it feels.
Fireside is a membership program for anyone who wants to get cozy with their writing flow. That might look like:
“It’s been so long I can’t remember what writing even feels like anymore.”
“I took a writing class and want to keep the momentum going.”
“I’m half way through a writing project and stuck.”
“I just like being around other people who love language and stories.”
Every month we’ll provide a steady supply of resources, gatherings and points of connection for people who love to write, want to write, and struggle at times to actually get around to writing. You’re in good company here.
This feeds our joy, too.
Truth is, we love making new things together. We’re full of ideas for events, challenges, downloads, themes and resources. This program will be in our creative sandbox.
We’re dreaming of writing pyjamma parties and marathon days, author evenings with Firefly community members who have gone on to do big things. We want to try “lab times” where give us writing activity ideas and we figure out how to implement them. We can’t wait to get busy sharing all this creative energy with you.
And — for those who want to — we’re excited to get you at the creative decision-making table. These decisions are so fun! We can’t tell you the number of times we’ve wanted to ask you what to call a new class, or which new workshop we should work on first. This is where we can finally ask, and share the behind-the-scenes creative playfulness of this.
Find your connection point:
Community Level
$27/month or $295/year
This level is intended for anyone in our world who wants to dive in and write together.
A live “Fireside Session” online every month. This is your writing reset button. We’ll clock our wins, set intentions for the month ahead, and write, write, write.
At least one special event every month like an author evening, discussion about how to get our work into the world or themed workshop night.
A resource library full of goodies like journaling templates, guided meditations, and recordings of all membership events. New resources will drop monthly.
Regular letters from “Hello Writer” archives, delivered digitally, with an update from us to deepen their resonance today.
Annual writing marathon days in the fall.
A community notice board to access our generous and diverse community of writers. Looking for pen pals, beta readers, or writing group buddies? Welcome.
A chance to weigh in on Firefly decisions, like which new classes to create, what to call them, what free community events to run, etc.
Extra-early bird access to all our small group workshops with a discount.
“Rush seats” in our small group workshops at half-price when a workshop isn’t full 10 days before it begins.
Anything else we get inspired by! We’ll be regularly adding new live sessions and resources. This is our playground!
Benefactor Level
$77/month or $825/year
This is intended for folks who have more income than they immediately require — who might own property or a car, have access to savings and disposable income — and want to support our accessibility goals, while getting some extra personalized support on writing.
Everything from the community level
And — a one-hour coaching session with a Firefly writing coach of your choice, every season (four times a year)
And — knowing you’re helping out our team and community. 10% of all benefactor fees go directly to supporting our bursary program.
A no-pressure invite annually to join us and hear about our Firefly year, and have your say in what next year might include.
Need an extra reason to sign up?
We go you. Here are three.
Everyone who signs up in January will get our first ever Push Weekend, a new take on our ever-popular Push Week (normally priced from $95–$180) for free.
$7 from everyone’s January fees will fund creative expression grants for indigenous youths through our fundraising partnership with Indigenous Youth Roots.
We’ll put these prices at some point in 2-26. But once you’re signed up, you’re locked in, your price won’t ever increase.
Sign up will be open from January 5-15.
We’ll open reg three times a year, followed by a big welcome orientation session to get eberyone settled (taped of course.) If you decide not to join us in January, our next opening will be in May.
If you’re eager, or you want to give this as a gift, we’ve opened gift card sales now.
You can purchase a gift card for the first 4 months, or the full first year.